30 JAN TODAY IN HISTORY DINVISHESH GHADAMODI

Today in Indian History
Events for January 30

30-January-1528	Rana Sanga of Mewar, who had built up an extensive and powerful kingdom over the central and western regions of Northern India, passed away. Mughal Emperor Babur captured Chanderi Fort from Medini Rai, Rana Sangram Singh one of the Lieutenants. (29 or 30).
30-January-1785	Sir Charles Metkaff, governor general of East India Company, was born.
30-January-1882	Franklin Delano Roosevelt, great leader and social reformer, was born at Hyde Park, New York.
30-January-1903	Lord Curzon opened the Imperial Library in in Metcalfe Hall at Calcutta.
30-January-1905	Pitamber Das, social reformer and politician, was born at Mowana, U.P.
30-January-1908	Gandhiji was summoned to see General Smuts at Pretoria and released on reaching a compromise.
30-January-1911	Gajananrao Joshi, famous violin player and singer of ""Gwalior Gharana"", was b
30-January-1947	Gandhiji leaves Patna for Delhi. Mountbatten, new Viceroy, arrives in Delhi.
30-January-1948	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the spiritual leader of Indian independence, was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist. The 78-year-old Gandhi was shot at point-blank range as he was walking through a garden to a pergola, where he was to deliver his daily prayer meeting.
30-January-1949	Night Airmail Services was inaugurated.
30-January-1959	Uranium Metal Project started producing Uranium at Trombay, Mumbai.
30-January-1968	Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous Hindi poet, writer and President of All India, passed away.
30-January-1971	Indian Airline's Fokker Friendship aircraft in India was hijacked to Lahore.
30-January-1988	Sheshrao Wankhede, barrister, passed away.
30-January-1991	Union Government dismisses Karunanidhi government. President's rule imposed in Tamil Nadu.
30-January-1993	Congress (I) MLA in Andhra Pradesh P. Balaraju and eight officials kidnapped by the outlawed People's War Group in Visakhapatnam district.
30-January-1993	Dr. Syvatoslav Roerich, 89, renowned painter and husband of film actress Devika Rani, passed away.
30-January-1994	Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets.
30-January-1996	The new (reconstituted) Scientific Advisory Board of the ICMR met on January 30-31, 1996.
30-January-1996	Maharashtra govt. decides to make school education free up to 10th standard.
30-January-1996	Mob ransacks Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Bangalore.
30-January-1996	Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe.
30-January-1997	Fifth Pay Commission submits proposals; minimum salary Rs. 2440 pm and maximum 26,000. Cabinet Secretary 30,000; six-day week; retirement at 60, etc. proposed.
30-January-1997	Mahatma Gandhi's ashes immersed in Sangam.
30-January-1999	Paes-Bhupathi stumbled in the doubles final losing to Patrick Rafter-Jonas Bjorkman in the Australian Open Tennis tournament.
30-January-1999	Pandit Ravi Shankar, sitar maestro, and the noted freedom fighter from Assam, late Gopinath Bordoloi, are chosen for Bharat Ratna.