This day in History - January 30

445 Historic Events for January 30
1649 Death Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded for treason
1667 Event Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia and Poland sign peace treaty
1687 Birth [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, baptized
1694 Birth Joseph Joachim Benedict Munster, composer
1697 Birth Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist/composer
1708 Birth Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist
1710 Birth Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer
1713 Event England and Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty
1719 Birth Magnus G Lichtwer, German writer (Žsopischer Fabeln)
1724 Birth Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer
1730 Death Peter II Alekseyevitch, emperor of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14
1752 Birth Joseph Matthias Kracher, composer
1756 Birth Josef Preindl, composer
1760 Birth Franz Xaver Partsch, composer
1774 Event Capt Cook reaches 71ø 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record)
1774 Death Jean-Pierre Guignon, composer, dies at 71
1774 Death Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer, dies at 69
1775 Birth Walter Savage Landor, Warwick, critic/writer (Imaginary Conversation)
1781 Birth A v Chamisso, writer
1781 Event Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland
1789 Birth George Augustus Kollmann, composer
1790 Event Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor
1797 Death Johann Abraham Sixt, composer, dies at 40
1797 Birth Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1797 Event Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks