History for January 30

History for January 30 - On-This-Day.com

Dick Cheney 1941 - U.S. Vice President for George W. Bush

• 1798 - The first brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives took place. Congressmen Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold fought on the House floor.
• 1862 - The U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", was launched.
• 1894 - C.B. King received a patent for the pneumatic hammer.
• 1933 - "The Lone Ranger" was heard on radio for the first time. The program ran for 2,956 episodes and ended in 1955.
• 1933 - Adolf Hitler was named the German Chancellor.
• 1948 - Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist.
• 1962 - Two members of the "Flying Wallendas" high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, MI.
• 1979 - The civilian government of Iran announced it had decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to return. He had been living in exile in France.