2025: January 30 (30 Rajab 1446 AH)

January 30

Events

  • 1925 - The Government of Turkey expelled Patriarch Constantine VI. 
  • 1942 - World War II: Battle of Ambon.  Japanese forces invaded the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.  Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield.  Three-fourths of the remaining POWs did not have survive, including 250 men who were shipped to Hainan Island in the South China Sea and never returned.
  • 1959 - The forces of the Sultanate of Muscat occupied the last strongholds of the Imamate of Oman, Saiq and Shuraijah, marking the end of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman.
  • 1960 - The African National Party was founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties. 
  • 1972 - Pakistan left the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh.  
  • 1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan was closed.


Births

  • 1938 - Islam Karimov, Uzbek politician, 1st President of Uzbekistan (d. 2016)
  • 1962 - Abdullah II of Jordan
  • 1987 - Arda Turan, Turkish footballer
  • 2005 - Prince Hashem, second son of King Abdullah II of Jordan


Deaths

  • 2010 - Fadil Ferati, Kosovar accountant and politician (b. 1960)
  • 2013 - Gamal al-Banna, Egyptian author and scholar (b. 1920)


Holidays and Observances

  • Martyr's Day (India)

Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948, in the compound of Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti), a large mansion in New Delhi. His assassin was Nathuram Godse, an advocate of Hindu nationalism, a member of the political party the Hindu Mahasabha and a member of the Hindu nationalist volunteer organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).  Godse considered Gandhi to have been too accommodating to Muslims during the Partition of India of the previous year.


Sometime after 5 p.m., according to witnesses, Gandhi had reached the top of the steps leading to the raised lawn behind Birla House where he had been conducting multi-faith prayer meetings every evening. As Gandhi began to walk toward the dais, Godse stepped out from the crowd flanking Gandhi's path, and fired three bullets into Gandhi's chest and abdomen at point-blank range. Gandhi fell to the ground. He was carried back to his room in Birla House from which a representative emerged sometime later to announce his death.


Godse was captured by members of the crowd and handed over to the police. The Gandhi murder trial opened in May 1948 in Delhi's historic Red Fort, with Godse the main defendant, and his collaborator Narayan Apte and six others as the co-defendants. Godse and Apte were sentenced to death on November 8, 1949. They were hanged in the Ambala jail on November 15, 1949.


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