January 30
1820 British explorer Edward Bransfield becomes the first man to sigh the Antarctic mainland.
1867 Japanese Emperor Komei dies and succeed by his son Meiji.
1875 After the fall of Napoleon III, France adopts the Third Republic.
1889 Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria commits suicide.
1902 Britain and Japan sign treaty providing for independence of China and Korea.
1928 First radio telephone connection between the Netherlands and US.
1933 Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
1943 Soviets destroy German army southwest of Stalingrad in Second World War.
1948 Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated in New Delhi.
1958 French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, aged 22, held his first major show in Paris.
1962 UN General Assembly adopts Asian-African resolution calling on Portugal to halt repressive measures against Angola.
1964 South Vietnamese General Nguyen Khanh seizes power in coup.
1970 Two students are killed and more than 200 wounded as demonstrators storm presidential palace in Philippine capital of Manila.
1972 Thirteen Catholic civil-rights marchers are shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland.
1979 Rhodesia agrees new constitution to eventually give blacks control of the nation.
1984 Egypt reactivates its membership in Organisation of the Islamic Conference.
1985 US ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick resigns her post and said she would return to private life.
1989 US closes embassy in Afghanistan.
1990 Communist Party loses majority in Czech parliament, which it dominated for four decades.
1992 Britain and Russia sign a declaration to the peaceful settlement of disputes, control of weapons of mass destruction and nuclear non-proliferation.
1995 Israel withdraws from most of the Jordanian land it occupied for 27 years.
2000 Kenya Airways flight 431 crashes near Ivory Coast, killing 170 people.
2001 A member of Turkish True Path Party dies after brawl in the parliament.
2005 A general election is held in Iraq to elect a National Assembly, the first general election since the 2003 invasion and the first free election for 50 years.
2006 Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights leader the Rev Martin Luther King Jr, dies.
2013 South Korea successfully launches a satellite into space after third attempt.
2016 German Angelique Kerber wins the Australian Open women’s singles crown.
HIGHLIGHT
2003
Thai-Cambodia ties sour
Thailand closed its border with Cambodia, downgraded diplomatic ties and evacuated its nationals after unprecedented anti-Thai rioting saw its embassy torched and businesses vandalised. Thai military planes made seven emergency flights from Bangkok to evacuate 703 Thais who had huddled at the airport after fleeing from the riots. The violence was sparked by media reports in Phnom Penh that a Thai actress had slighted Cambodia, allegedly by questioning the country’s sovereignty over its famed Angkor Wat temple. One Thai man may have died in a hotel that was set on fire. Thai Ambassador Chatchawed Chartsuwan said he escaped by climbing over an embassy wall before Cambodian security forces fired shots in the air to disperse a mob of up to 1,000. Nine other embassy staff also fled. “We have stopped all activities with Cambodia. No Cambodian will be allowed to come to Thailand and we will bring out all Thai people out from Cambodia,” Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said in Bangkok.
