On This Day:
Friday January 30, 2015 This is the 30th day of the year, with 335 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: jazz and blues Jazz is a musical form, often improvisational, developed by African-Americans and influenced by both European harmonic structure and African rhythmic complexity. It also is often characterized by its use of blues and speech intonations. Blues denotes a secular folk music of African-Americans. It has origins in the Mississippi Delta in the early 20th century. As a musical style the blues are characterized by expressive pitch inflections (blue notes), a three-line textual stanza of the form AAB, and a 12-measure form. Typically the first two and a half measures of each line are devoted to singing, the last measure and a half consisting of an instrumental "break" that repeats, answers, or complements the vocal line. Blues and jazz are closely related; such seminal jazzmen as Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong employed blues elements in their music.
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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