This day in History - January 30

445 Historic Events for January 30
1892 Birth Grigore Gafencu, Roman minister of Foreign affairs (1938-39)
1894 Birth Boris III, czar of Bulgaria (1918-43)
1894 Birth Marcel Canneel, Flemish painter (Reuzenstoet)
1894 Event US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham
1894 Event Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
1895 Event Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years
1895 Event SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed
1895 Event C J Eady (Tas) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (v Vic)
1897 Death John Cottam, cricket (Test for Aust 1897, no Sheffield matches), dies
1898 Birth Alfred Schl„ppi, Switzerland, 4 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1924)
1899 Birth Max Theiler, English/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951)
1900 Birth Sandy Powell, Rotherham England, costume designer (Rob Roy)
1900 Birth Martita Hunt, Argentina, actress (Man in Grey, Becket)
1900 Birth Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, composer
1900 Death Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright, dies at 71
1901 Birth Earl of Huntingdon, mural painter
1901 Birth H E Nossak, writer
1902 Birth Elise Cavanna, actress (Pharmacist, Dentist, Barber Shop)
1902 Birth Nikolaus Pevsner, Engl, art historian (The Buildings of England)
1903 Birth G Evelyn Hutchinson, British zoologist (Treatise on Limnology)
1906 Birth Greta Nissen, actress (Ambassador Bill)
1909 Birth Mihaly Hajou, composer
1909 Birth Richard Hearne, Norwich England, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower)
1909 Birth Saul David Alinsky, Chic Ill, radical writer (John L Lewis)
1910 Birth Frans Dohmen, union leader (Dutch Catholic Mineworker's Union)