🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning — it’s Friday, January 30. Today we're diving into the burned Library of Congress, Mayerling incident, Mazda's birth, Bloody Sunday, and Mahatma Gandhi's murder, and much more—quick, sharp, and loaded with intriguing insights!
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🚀 Time Machine
-1661
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, was ritually executed after dying two years.
-1815
The burned US Library of Congress was reopened with Thomas Jefferson's 6,500 volumes.
-1889
Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, are found dead in Mayerling in an apparent suicide pact.
-1902
The British and Japanese Empires sign a treaty pledging support for an independent China and Korea while recognizing Japan's 'special interest' in Korea.
-1920
Jujiro Matsuda founded Toyo Cork Kogyo in Hiroshima, Japan, which later produced its first automobile and changed its name to Mazda.
-1931
"City Lights", directed by Charlie Chaplin and starring Virginia Cherrill, premiered at the Los Angeles Theatre.
-1933
Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor of Germany by Paul von Hindenburg, who formed a government with Franz von Papen.
-1948
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in his New Delhi home's garden by Hindu extremist Nathuram Godse.
-1965
Winston Churchill's state funeral at St Paul's Cathedral in London; at the time, the world's biggest state funeral.
-1972
The British Army shoots (14 kills) 27 unarmed civilians during a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland, on Bloody Sunday, the highest death toll during 'The Troubles'.
📸 Snapshot
London's double-decker bus tilt testing proves aren't a tipping hazard, 1933
🗨️ Last Words
“Doctor, you have science, I have faith.”