January 30

Today in History
• 1349 - Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
• 1487 - Bell chimes invented
• 1647 - After negotiations, Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English
• 1649 - England's King Charles I was beheaded
• 1797 - US Congress refuses to accept 1st petition from African American
• 1815 - Burned US Library of Congress re-established
• 1847 - The town of Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco
• 1862 - The U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", was launched


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Martyrs' Day
• National Bible Day
• National Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
• National Croissant Day
• National Draw A Dinosaur Day
• Nelson Anniversary Day
• School Day of Non-violence and Peace
• Yodel For Your Neighbors Day

Birthdays
• 58BC - Livia Drusilla, Wife and adviser of Roman Emperor Augustus
• 133 - Didius Julianus [Marcus Severus Didius Julianus], Roman Emperor
• 1615 - Thomas Rolfe, only child of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
• 1617 - William Sancroft, 79th Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1771 - George Bass, English explorer of Australia
• 1841 - Félix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (1895-99)
• 1844 - Richard T. Greener, African-American who was Harvard's 1st Black graduate
• 1882 - Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd US President