A typical day: it has been raining all day today. The football game last night was great! An intereing article from digtriad.com.
- In 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.
- In 1972, 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as “Bloody Sunday.”.
- In 1979, the civilian government of Iran announced it had decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who’d been living in exile in France, to return.
- Ten years ago: Elian Gonzalez’s grandmothers returned home to a hero’s welcome in Cuba, vowing to continue the struggle to wrest the six-year-old shipwreck survivor from relatives in Miami.
- President Barack Obama signed a series of executive orders that he said should “level the playing field” for labor unions in their struggles with management.
- Ingemar Johansson, who stunned the boxing world by knocking out Floyd Patterson to win the heavyweight title in 1959, died in Kungsbacka, Sweden at age 76.
Full Story: Today In History January 30
