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Politics
Birth of Livia Drusilla
Livia Drusilla was born, setting the stage for her future role as Empress.
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30January
27 indexed achievements across recorded history.
1836
Science
Death of Betsy Ross in Philadelphia
Betsy Ross died in Philadelphia at age 84, later reinterred at the Betsy Ross House as a site of public commemoration.
View details1887
Sports
Birth of Beatrice Kerr
Beatrice Kerr was born on January 30, 1887, in Melbourne, Australia.
View details1888
Science
Death of Asa Gray
Gray died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 30, 1888, ending a career that reshaped American botany and Darwinian debate.
View details1912
1913
Science
Born in Budapest, Hungary
Amrita Sher-Gil was born in Budapest to a Sikh aristocrat father and a Hungarian-Jewish opera singer mother.
View details1913
Politics
Founds Alpha Suffrage Club
On January 30, 1913, Wells-Barnett founded Chicago's first Black women’s suffrage club.
View details1919
1920
Science
Birth of Machiko Hasegawa in Saga, Japan
Machiko Hasegawa was born on 30 January 1920 in Saga Prefecture, Japan, the manga artist who would create Sazae-san.
View details1923
Science
Birth of Marianne Ferber
Marianne Ferber was born on January 30, 1923, in Vienna, Austria.
View details1926
1930
1936
Science
Among the first burlesque striptease stars featured in a Ziegfeld production
In the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, she became one of the earliest burlesque striptease performers featured in a major Ziegfeld production.
View details1936
Science
First Broadway billing as 'Gypsy Rose Lee' in Ziegfeld Follies
She was billed on Broadway for the first time as Gypsy Rose Lee in the 'Ziegfeld Follies of 1936'.
View details1937
Exploration
First woman to step on Antarctic mainland
Ingrid Christensen was the first woman to step on the Antarctic mainland at Scullin Monolith.
View details1937
Arts
Performs at Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New York birthday celebration
Around age 15, Millo Castro Zaldarriaga plays bongos at a New York birthday celebration for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, earning enthusiastic applause from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
View details1939
Science
Submission of first formal floristic catalog of Grand Canyon river corridor
Clover and Jotter's paper "Floristic Studies of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River" was received by the American Midland Naturalist, the first complete plant catalog of the region.
View details1944
Politics
Birth of Sharon Pratt in Washington, D.C.
Birth of Sharon Pratt, future mayor of Washington, D.C., in Washington, D.C.
View details1951
Politics
Birth of Sally Gail Fox (politician)
Birth of Vermont lawyer and legislator Sally Gail Fox in Omaha, Nebraska, to Delores and Philip Fox.
View details1954
Medicine
Death of Dorothy Stopford Price
Dorothy Stopford Price passed away, leaving a legacy in public health.
View details1959
Science
Organises first indoor Caribbean Carnival in London, precursor to Notting Hill Carnival
On 30 January 1959, Claudia Jones staged the first indoor Caribbean Carnival at St Pancras Town Hall, a direct precursor to Notting Hill Carnival.
View details1971
Science
Death of Winifred Goldring
Winifred Goldring died on January 30, 1971, in Slingerlands, New York, at the age of 82.
View details1974
Science
Television premiere of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
CBS aired the television movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, with Tyson in the title role of a 110-year-old former slave.
View details1981
Sports
First professional race (finishes second)
Julie Krone finished second in her first official race as a jockey at Tampa Bay Downs in Florida, marking her debut as a professional rider.
View details1992
Science
Completion of STS-42 mission and IML-1 experiments
STS-42 mission with Roberta Bondar landed, after conducting 40 experiments.
View details1993
Sports
Completes three consecutive Australian Open singles titles
Seles achieved three consecutive Australian Open titles, a historic feat.
View details2006
Activism
Death of Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King dies at age 78 in Rosarito, Mexico, after complications related to ovarian cancer.
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