Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Jan 30
Reuters
1933 - German President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor. On this date in 1937, Hitler told the Reichstag that Germany was withdrawing its signature from the Versailles Treaty.
1948 - Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian nationalist non-violent movement against British rule, was assassinated by a Hindu extremist.
1973 - Gordon Liddy and James McCord were convicted of burglary, wiretapping and attempted bugging of the Democratic Party's headquarters at the Watergate building in Washington.
1979 - White Rhodesians voted in a referendum in favour of a new constitution aimed at black majority rule in what is now Zimbabwe.
2000 - Protester runs onto centre court at men's final of Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne.
2000 - Kenya airways Flight 431 crashes off coast of Ivory Coast.
2003 - Richard Reid, a British-born follower of Osama bin Laden, was sentenced to life in prison for trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives stuffed in his shoes.
2005 - Up to 8 million Iraqis cast ballots in the country's first multi-party election in half a century, braving bombs and mortar attacks by insurgents.
2006 - Coretta Scott King, who came to the forefront of the fight for racial equality in America after her husband Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, died.
2007 - Gordon Macklin, founder and former president of Nasdaq, died. He was 78.
2013 - Actress Lindsay Lohan attends a probation violation hearing in Los Angeles.
