* Astronomy

The Varig cargo Boeing 707-323C went missing over the Pacific Ocean some 30 minutes (200 km ENE) from Tokyo on 30 January 1979. Read more

The Menai Suspension Bridge (Welsh: Pont Grog y Borth) is a suspension bridge between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. The bridge was opened to much fanfare on 30 January 1826 and reduced the journey time from London to Holyhead from 36 to 27 hours, a saving of 9 hours. Read more[spoi...

The Battle of Cisterna took place during World War II, on 30 January-2 February 1944, near Cisterna, Italy, as part of the battle of Anzio that followed Operation Shingle. Read moreSpoiler

The MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a former German cruise liner which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea while evacuating German civilian, military personnel, and officials from Gdynia, Poland, as the Red Army advanced. Read more

MS Hans Hedtoft was a Danish liner that struck an iceberg and sank on 30 January 1959 on her maiden voyage off the coast of Western Greenland. Like the RMS Titanic, Hans Hedtoft was said to be the safest ship afloat, being described as "unsinkable" by some. Read more

The USS Monitor, designed by the Swedish-born engineer and inventor John Ericsson, was the first ironclad warship. Monitor's hull was built at the Continental Iron Works in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, New York, and the ship was launched there on 30 January 1862. Read more

The path of the total solar eclipse crossed New Zealand January 30, 1862. See more

Orbital elements: 2007 ML6 Earth MOID = 0.2126 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 193.26639 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29559479 Peri. 220.60646 +0.85882719 +0.47721117 a 2.2318836 Node 109.96355 -0.40355659 +0.85421045 e 0.4663385 Incl. 11.42860 -0.31552802 +0.20638317 P 3.33 H 18....

Orbital elements: 2013 BT18 Earth MOID = 0.0154 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 76.17614 (2000.0) P Q n 1.45553926 Peri. 116.46638 +0.16533585 +0.98619314 a 0.7711167 Node 163.04260 -0.91587006 +0.15704352 e 0.5722980 Incl. 1.83412 -0.36584982 +0.05253964 P 0.68 H 23.5...

Ranger 6 was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact. Read more

Significant number of unknown bugs living above the clouds Scientists have discovered a significant number of bugs living in the middle and upper troposphere, the airy layer eight to 15 kilometres above the Earth's surface. The microbes could have a previously unrecognised impact on cloud forma...

The first boat specialised as a lifeboat was tested on the River Tyne in England on January 29, 1790. Read more

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Mantra-Rock Dance was a musical countercultural event held on January 29, 1967, at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. Read more

Tony Blackburn (born 29 January 1943) is an English disc jockey, who broadcast on the "pirate" stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s and was the first disc jockey to broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1967. Read more