On This Day:
Thursday January 30, 2014 This is the 30th day of the year, with 335 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: angle An angle is defined as the indefinite space between two touching lines or planes, the shape of which depends on the degree of inclination of the two lines to each other or of one line to a horizontal or vertical baseline. Angles are important in geometry and trigonometry. To measure an angle, a circle centered at the vertex is drawn. The 'radian measure' of the angle is the length of the arc cut out by the angle, divided by the circle's radius. The 'degree measure' of the angle is the length of the arc divided by the circumference of the circle and multiplied by 360. A right angle has a measure of 90° and a straight angle has a measure of 180°. An acute angle measures less than 90°, while an obtuse angle has a measure between 90° and 180°.
Holidays Feast day of St. Martina, St. Bathildis, St. Adelelmus or Aleaume, St. Aldegundis, St. Barsimaeus, and St. Hyacintha Mariscotti.
Greece: Holiday of the Three Hierarchs.
Events 1781 - Maryland became the last of the 13 original states to adopt the Articles of Confederation.
1835 - President Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, survived the first attempt against the life of a U.S. President, when shots were fired in the U.S. House of Representatives.
1862 - The USS Monitor was launched at Greenpoint, Long Island.
1933 - Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.
1933 - The first episode of the "Lone Ranger" radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit.
1968 - The Vietcong launched the Tet offensive against South Vietnamese cities.
1969 - The Beatles made their last public appearance together, on the roof of their Apple Studios in London.
1972 - In Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 13 unarmed civil rights demonstrators were shot dead by British Army paratroopers, a day later known as "Bloody Sunday."
1996 - Gino Gallagher, the reputed leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, was shot and killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
2003 - Richard Reid, also known as the "shoe bomber," was found guilty on terrorism charges in a federal court in Boston.
2005 - Iraqis voted in their country's first free election in a half-century.
Births 1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States of America (1933-1945).
1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, English actress.
1941 - Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States.
1951 - Phil Collins, English rock and pop musician.
Deaths 1649 - King Charles I, beheaded for treason. The Commonwealth of England was established.
1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu fanatic.
1948 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer.
1995 - Gerald Durrell, English zoologist, traveller, writer, and broadcaster, born in Jamshedpur, India.
1999 - Huntz Hall, radio, theatrical, and motion picture performer perhaps best known for his acting roll in the "Dead End Kids" movies.
2006 - Coretta Scott King, wife of the assassinated civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. She was 78.
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