30 JAN Today in Military History 1643 Battle of Adwalton Moor: Royalists defeat the Parliamentarians 1647 The Scots agree to sell King Charles I to the English Parliament 1648 Peace of Munster: Spain recognizes the independence of the Netherlands, ending the Eighty Years War and clearing the way for the two countries to become allies against France for the rest of the century 1661 Oliver Cromwell, dead since 1658, is exhumed and ceremonially executed in punishment for the death of Charles I 1781 Articles of Confederation go into effect, establishing a perpetual union of The United States of America 1806 Prussia takes possession of Hanover 1853 Napoleon III weds Eugenie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman 1862 The USS Monitor is launched in Greenpoint, Brooklyn 1897 Theodore Roosevelt gives cousin Franklin Mahans The Influence of Sea Power Upon History for his 15th birthday 1898 Theodore Roosevelt gives cousin Franklin Mahans The Interest of America in Sea Power for his 16th birthday 1902 Anglo-Japanese alliance formed 1913 The Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire denounces the November Armistice of Çatalca and resumes hostilities in the First Balkan War 1915 German submarine attack on Le Havre 1933 President Hindenburg names Adolph Hitler Chancellor of Germany 1935 Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, bores him with passages from the Cantos 1937 Second wave of Stalins purges begins 1941 British troops capture Derna, Libya, from the Italians 1942 Burma: Japanese undertake a surprise attack on Moulmein 1942 Netherlands East Indies: Japanese attack Amboina 1943 British daylight raid on Berlin by 6 Mosquito bombers 1943 Hitler promotes Friedrich Paulus, commanding the Sixth Army, surrounded at Stalingrad, to field marshal, with a hint that he should commit suicide 1944 PB2Y Coronado flying boats based at Midway conduct a night air raid on Japanese-held Wake 1945 Philipppines - Cabanatuan: 126 US & Filipino raiders liberate 500 prisoners from a Japanese P/W camp 1945 Danzig: Soviet sub sinks German ship Wilhelm Gustloff, c 7,700 die -- worst loss of life in a single sinking in history 1957 Congress accepts the Eisenhower Doctrine 1964 Military coup by Gen Nguyen Khanh in South-Vietnam 1968 The Tet Offensive 1972 Bloody Sunday - British troops kill 14 unarmed Catholic demonstrators in Derry 1991 Battle of Khafji, Saudi Arabia, second day 1995 Islamist terror attack in Algiers, 42 die, 296 wounded
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