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January 30
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Events on This Day   

1798 - The first brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives was witnessed by legislators. Congressmen Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold duked it out right there on the House floor. The spat occurred when Lyon spit in Griswold’s face.

1894 - C.B. King of Detroit, MI interested in all things pneumatic, earned himself a patent for the pneumatic hammer, the heavy jackhammer that runs on air and makes quite a racket.

1910 - Work began on the first board-track automobile speedway The track was built in lovely Playa del Ray, California.

1911 - The first airplane rescue at sea was made by the destroyer Terry, when downed pilot, James McCurdy, was forced to land in the ocean about 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.

1917 - The Original Dixieland Jass Band recorded a classic for Columbia Records titled, The Darktown Strutters’ Ball. It was one of the first jazz compositions recorded.

1933 - The Lone Ranger was heard for the first time. The famous radio western ran for 2,956 episodes and came to an end in 1955. George Seaton (Stenius) was the first voice of the Lone Ranger. Jack Deeds and Earle Graser followed in the role. However, it was Brace Beemer who is best remembered as former Texas Ranger, John Reid. He played the part of the black-masked ranger, fighting for frontier justice, for thirteen consecutive years. Features Spotlight

1942 - Japanese troops invaded the East Indonesian island of Ambon.

1943 - The British Royal Air Force (RAF) bombed Berlin in a daylight raid timed to coincide with a speech by Joseph Goebbels in honor of Hitler’s 10th year in power.

1946 - The Franklin Delano ‘Roosevelt Dime’ was put into circulation on this day (FDR’s birthday). John Sinnock designed the dime. The reverse bears a bundle of rods with a flaming torch, symbolizing the eternal flame of freedom. On the left of the torch is a sprig of laurel (victory) and on the right a sprig of oak (strength).

1948 - Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Ghandi was murdered by a Hindu extremist in New Delhi. Ghandi had led his nation to independence from British rule through his philosophy of non-violent confrontation.

1950 - NBC-TV debuted the drama series, Robert Montgomery Presents. The show was well received and played for seven seasons on the Peacock Network.

1958 - The first two-way moving sidewalk was put in service at Love Field in Dallas, TX. The length of the walkway through the airport: 1,435 feet.

1960 - The women’s singles U.S. figure skating championship was won by Carol Heiss.

1962 - Two members of the Flying Wallendas high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, MI.

1968 - Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals in what became known as the Tet Offensive (named for the lunar new year).

1969 - The Beatles made their last public appearance -- at a free concert at their Apple corporate headquarters in London. The group recorded Get Back; and were also filmed for the movie Let It Be.

1973 - Gordon Liddy and James McCord, former Nixon aides, were convicted of of breaking into and illegally wiretapping Democratic Party headquarters (at the Watergate building in Washington, DC) the previous year.

1976 - Future U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush became director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

1979 - The Iranian government announced that it would allow exiled Shiite Moslem leader Ayatollah Khomeini to return to Iran. Washington responded to news of the anti-American Khomeini’s imminent return by ordering the evacuation of all U.S. dependents from Iran.

1983 - Super Bowl XVII (at Pasadena): Washington Redskins 27, Miami Dolphins 17. Blowout? No way. Score at the end of three: Miami 17, Washington 13. QB Joe Theismann, RB John Riggins (the game’s MVP) and the Hogs (tackles Joe Jacoby and George Starke, guards Russ Grimm, Mark May, Fred Dean and center Jeff Bostic, tight ends Don Warren and Rick Walker -- RB Riggins became an honorary Hog). Tickets: $40.00.

1992 - Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey announced his resignation -- after eight years in office. Haughey’s retirement was anything but smooth. A series of political, financial and personal scandals tarnished his image and reputation in recent years.

1993 - The Southern California Rapid Transit District (SCRTD) inaugurated the first segment of its Metro Red Line. It was the first rapid transit system for Los Angeles County.

1994 - Super Bowl XXVIII (at Atlanta): Dallas Cowboys 30, Buffalo Bills 13. A tough defense and a running back named Emmit Smith (MVP). It was the Cowboys’ fourth Super Bowl win (against three losses). Bills’ Super Bowl record: 0-4. Tickets: $175.00.

1995 - The Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum abandoned plans for an exhibit on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The Institution yielded to charges that the exhibit would have portrayed the U.S. as the aggressor and Japan as the victim in World War II.

1998 - New movies in the U.S.: Desperate Measures, starring Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Marcia Gay Harden, Brian Cox and Joseph Cross; Deep Rising, with Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald, Kevin J. O’connor, Wes Studi, Derrick O’Connor, Jason Flemyng, Cliff Curtis, Clifton Powell, Trevor Goddard, Djimon Hounsou and Una Damon; and Great Expectations, starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ann Bancroft, Robert De Niro, Chris Cooper, Hank Azaria and Alfonso Cuaron.

2000 - Super Bowl XXXIV (at Atlanta): St. Louis Rams 23, Tennessee Titans 16. Rams’ QB Kurt Warner (MVP) completed 24 of 45 passes for a record 414 yards (breaking Joe Montana's mark of 357 yards). Plays of the game: 1) Warner to Isaac Bruce for a 73-yard touchdown pass in the 4th quarter and 2) St. Louis linebacker Mike Jones stopping Tennessee's Kevin Dyson just short of the goal line as time expired. Tickets: $325.00 to $400.

2002 - The satellite Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer, launched in 1992, broke up in Earth’s atmosphere over Egypt. It had surveyed the entire Milky Way and beyond and transmitted date until Jan 31 2001.

2003 - Richard Reid was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Boston. Reid was the British citizen and al-Qaida follower who had tried to blow up a trans-Atlantic jetliner with explosives hidden in his shoes.

2004 - These motion pictures opened in the U.S.: The Big Bounce, starring Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Sinise, Charlie Sheen, Sara Foster, Vinnie Jones, Bebe Neuwirth, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson and Harry Dean Stanton; The Perfect Score, starring Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Darius Miles, Bryan Greenberg and Leonardo Nam; and You Got Served, with Marques Houston, Omari ‘Omarion’ Grandberry, Jarell ‘J-Boog’ Houston, DeMario ‘Raz-B’ Thornton, Dreux ‘Lil’ Fizz’ Frederic, Lil’ Kim, Steve Harvey.

2004 - A judge in Japan ruled that Shuji Nakamura, inventor of the blue light-emitting diode (LED), should share in the profits of his former employers. He was awarded $190 million in a case against Nichia Corp.

2005 - SBC Communications agreed to acquire AT&T in a $16-billion merger.

2005 - Iraqis elected 275 members of a transitional national assembly, which would then be charged with write a constitution. Security problems in Mosul kept some 15,000 people from voting.

2006 - The High Court in the United Kingdom ordered ten Internet service providers to hand over details of 150 U.K. customers accused of illegally sharing software.

2007 - Under the terms of the the 2006 Northern Ireland Act, the Transitional Northern Ireland Assembly was dissolved on this day -- in preparation for March 7, 2007 elections. British and Irish leaders hoped the election would result in balanced power sharing between Unionists and Sinn Fein.

2007 - Sidney Sheldon, American writer, died at 89 years of age. Sheldon won awards in the Broadway theater, movies and TV. Only after turning 50 did he turned to writing best-selling novels (Master of the Game, The Other Side of Midnight, Rage of Angels, The Doomsday Conspiracy).

2007 - The Windows Vista computer operating system from Microsoft went on sale to the general public.

2009 - DreamWorks Pictures’ The Uninvited opened in the U.S. The horror flick stars Elizabeth Banks, David Strathairn, Arielle Kebbel and Emily Browning.

2009 - The Republican Party chose former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele as the first black national chairman in its history.

2009 - Exxon Mobil Corp. reported a profit of $45.2 billion for 2008, breaking its own record for a U.S. company. This, even as its fourth-quarter earnings fell 33 percent from a year earlier. And Chevron reported a record $23.93 billion annual profit.

2010 - Tuna crisis: The European Union said Italy was stopping its fishing for bluefin tuna, the lucrative but over-exploited species beloved of Japanese sushi fans. The 12-month stoppage was intended to pressure neighbouring Atlantic and Mediterranean fishing giants France and Spain into doing likewise, to allow the world’s remaining stocks of the luxury fish to be replenished.

2011 - Egyptian fighter jets swooped low over Cairo in an attempt by the military to show it had control of a city beset by looting, armed robbery and anti-government protests. Gangs of armed men attacked at least four jails before dawn, helping to free thousands of inmates, including hundreds of Muslim militants. And the Egyptian government closed the Al-Jazeera Cairo news hub.

2012 - California’s Claremont McKenna College acknowledged that it had submitted false SAT scores to publications (since 2005) to inflate the school’s ranking. The school blamed a senior administrator, but would not identify the person who submitted the false information.

2013 - Egypt’s Islamist President Morsi made a one-day visit to Berlin to seek support in rebuilding a crumbling Egyptian economy. Morsi sidestepped repeated criticism of his past comments that had referred to Jews as “the descendants of apes and pigs,” insisting that the remarks had been aimed at Israel, criticizing its attacks on Palestinians.

2014 - Air traffic controllers were on strike in France over plans to combine European air space. The European Union’s plan was intended to streamline air traffic among countries, much the same way European countries had loosened their land borders. But the plan would mean job losses, and workers said authorities were not doing enough to ensure flight security.

2015 - New movies in U.S. theatres included: Project Almanac, starring Amy Landecker, Sofia Black-D’Elia and Virginia Gardner; the documentaries, Above and Beyond and Backstreet Boys: Show ’Em What You’re Made Of; Amira & Sam, with Martin Starr, Dina Shihabi and Paul Wesley; Girlhood, starring Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla and Lindsay Karamoh; The Devil’s Violinist, with David Garrett, Jared Harris and Joely Richardson; Alien Outpost, with Adrian Paul, Reiley McClendon and Douglas Tait; Hard to Be a God, starring Leonid Yarmolnik, Dmitriy Vladimirov and Laura Lauri; Wild Card, with Jason Statham, Michael Angarano and Dominik García-Lorido; and Black or White, starring Kevin Costner, Jennifer Ehle and Gillian Jacobs.

2015 - NATO announced the deployment of small units in six Eastern European nations to help coordinate a spearhead force to counter Russia’s actions in Ukraine. The units in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania were the first of their kind there.

2016 - Thousands of people protested in Rome’s Circus Maximus arena against a civil unions bill for same-sex couples. Italy was the only county in Western Europe that did not recognize same-sex unions. “Without limits, our society will go mad!” organizer Massimo Gandolfini told the Family Day rally, as grandparents, parents and children held up banners reading “Wrong is wrong.”

2017 - POTUS Donald Trump fired top federal government lawyer Sally Yates after she defied the White House and refused to defend new travel restrictions targeting seven Muslim-majority nations.

2017 - Researchers said one in four U.S. children suffers from chronic bullying at school, a problem that may lead to poor academic performance and low confidence over time. If you don’t believe that, you are a big, fat pig!

2018 - William Rayford was executed in Texas for the 1999 slaying of his ex-girlfriend. He killed her while already on parole for killing his estranged wife.

2018 - POTUS Donald Trump gave his first State of the Union address and called on Congress to lift budgetary caps and boost spending on the military.

2019 - A German appeals court in Koblenz rejected the complaint of a Jewish man against a decision by the town of Herxheim am Berg to allow a bell dedicated to Adolf Hitler to continue to hang in a church tower. The court upheld a lower court’s rejection of the complaint from the unidentified relative of Holocaust survivors, who argued the bell was a “mockery and ridicule of the victims of Hitler's terror.”

2019 - A round-the-clock prayer service in the Netherlands to stop an Armenian family being deported was ended -- after 96 days -- when the government agreed to make an exception to immigration rules. Hundreds of supporters of the Tamrazyan family had held rites non-stop at the Bethel church in The Hague for several months to block their deportation. The cabinet of the Netherlands decided to allow the Tamrazyans -- and other families rejected for permanent residence after living for years in the Netherlands -- to stay in the country after all.

2020 - A San Diego judge ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay nearly $344 million in penalties for deceptively marketing pelvic mesh devices for women. The California Department of Justice sued Johnson & Johnson in May 2016 after a years-long multistate investigation revealed the company had neglected to inform both patients and doctors of possible severe complications from the products and misrepresented the frequency and severity of risks the products posed.

2020 - The United Nations said the worst locust outbreak that East Africa had seen in 70 years needed some $76 million to help control and the money was “required by, actually, now.”

2021 - China National Nuclear Corporation said its first nuclear power unit that uses Hualong One, a third-generation nuclear reactor, the Zhangzhou Nuclear Power Plant, had started commercial operations in southeastern Fujian province. The reactor was designed to have a 60-year lifespan.

2021 - Cuba’s government announced that most travelers entering Cuba were to be quarantined for up to a week, and that flights from the U.S. and some other countries would be reduced to no more than one per week per airline. COVID-19 cases had surged in the country since airports began reopening in November. And Iran imposed a mandatory two-week quarantine for travelers from Europe -- after testing negative upon arrival.

2022 - Dozens of trucks and other vehicles blocked downtown Ottawa for a second day to protest against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

2022 - U.S. podcaster Joe Rogan apologized and pledged more balance on his Spotify podcast show amid a backlash against COVID-19 misinformation on the streaming service.

2023 - A suicide bomb blast killed 84 people, and twice that number were injured, at a mosque for police officers in Peshawar, Pakistan. 300-400 police officials were praying in the mosque at the time of the blast.

2023 - Hockey Hall of Fame winger -- and 12-time All-Star -- Bobby Hull died at 84 years of age. His showmanship made him one of the most popular hockey stars ever. Hull was known during his playing years as the Golden Jet for his speed and blond air. He had one of the most devastating slapshots in the NHL, once clocked at 118 miles per hour. He teamed with Stan Mikita to help the Chicago Blackhawks win the 1961 Stanley Cup, snapping a 23-year streak without a title. Hull played 15 seasons for Chicago, scoring 604 goals to become the team’s career leader.

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Jump to Top Birthdays on This Day    January 30

1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President [1933-1945], only President elected 4 times [died 83 days after 4th inauguration], only President to serve more than two terms; died Apr 12, 1945

1911 - (David) Roy ‘Little Jazz’ Eldridge
trumpeter: soloist with Gene Krupa’s Band; Let Me Off Uptown [w/Anita O’Day]; U.S. President Carter’s White House jazz party [1978]; died Feb 26, 1989

1911 - Hugh Marlowe
actor: Another World, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Seven Days in May, Birdman of Alcatraz, Elmer Gantry, The Long Rope, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers; died May 2, 1982

1914 - John Ireland
actor: Gunfight at the OK Corral [1957], Little Big Horn, Spartacus, All the King’s Men, Marilyn: The Untold Story, Messenger of Death; died Mar 21, 1992

1914 - David Wayne (McMeekan)
actor: Adam’s Rib, Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie, The Good Life, The Tender Trap, The Last Angry Man, The Three Faces of Eve, The Adromeda Strain; died Feb 9, 1995

1921 - Bernie Leighton
jazz pianist: LP: Dizzy Fingers; died Sep 16, 1994

1922 - Dick Martin
Emmy Award-winning comedian: Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In [1968, 1969]: “Say good night Dick.” “Good night, Dick!”; died May 24, 2008

1923 - Walt (Walter) ‘Moose’ Dropo
baseball: first baseman: Boston Red Sox [AL Rookie of the Year: 1950/all-star: 1950], Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Redlegs, Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds; died Dec 17, 2010

1925 - Dorothy Malone (Maloney)
actress: Written on the Wind, Beach Party, Basic Instinct, Battle Cry, Man of a Thousand Faces; died Jan 19, 2018

1928 - Harold Prince
producer, director: A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Cabaret, Evita, The Phantom of the Opera; died Jul 31, 2019

1928 - Ruth Brown
R&B and jazz singer: So Long, Teardrops from My Eyes, Hours, Mambo Baby, Lucky Lips, This Little Girl’s Gone Rockin’; died Nov 17, 2006

1930 - Don Brockett
actor, comedian, producer, director from Pittsburgh, PA; Chef Brockett on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood; died May 2, 1995

1930 - Gene Hackman
Academy Award-winning actor: The French Connection [1971], Bonnie and Clyde, Hawaii, Mississippi Burning, The Poseidon Adventure, Postcards from the Edge, Superman, The Firm, Crimson Tide

1931 - Charlie (Charles Lenard) Neal
baseball: Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1956], LA Dodgers [World Series: 1959/all-star: 1960], NY Mets, Cincinnati Reds; died Nov 18, 1996

1933 - Louis Richard Rukeyser
business columnist, economic commentator, newscaster, TV host: Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser, Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street; published financial newsletters: Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street, Louis Rukeyser’s Mutual Funds; died May 2, 2006

1934 - Tammy Grimes
Tony award-winning actress: The Unsinkable Molly Brown [1961], Private Lives [1970]; films: The Runner Stumbles, Backstreet Justice, Slaves of New York, A Modern Affair, Trouble on the Corner, High Art; died Oct 30, 2016

1935 - Richard Brautigan
writer, poet, novelist: Trout Fishing in America, Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion: A Historical Romance, A Confederate General From Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon; died Sep 16, 1984

1936 - Horst Jankowski
pianist: A Walk in the Black Forest; died June 29, 1998

1937 - Vanessa Redgrave
Emmy Award-winning actress: Playing for Time [1981]; Academy Award-winner: Julia [1977]; Mary Queen of Scots, A Man for All Seasons

1937 - Boris Spassky
World Champion chess player [U.S.S.R.] [1969-1971]

1938 - Norma Jean (Beasler)
country singer: LP: Norma Jean, Heaven Help the Working Girl; TV: Ozark Jubilee

1938 - Paul Neumann
basketball: San Francisco Warriors

1941 - (Richard Bruce) Dick Cheney
Vice President of the United States [2001-2009]; White House Chief of Staff to President Ford; U.S. Congressman, Wyoming; U.S. Secretary of Defense; CEO: Halliburton Company

1941 - Joe Terranova
singer: Danny and the Juniors: At the Hop, Rock and Roll is Here to Stay

1942 - Marty Balin (Buchwald)
musician, singer: group: Jefferson Airplane/Starship; solo: Hearts, Atlanta Lady

1943 - Davey (David Allen) Johnson
baseball: Baltimore Orioles [1965-1972: World Series: 1966, 1969-1971; all-star: 1968-1970, 1973]; Atlanta Braves [1973–1975]; Yomiuri Giants [1975–1976]; Philadelphia Phillies [1977–1978]; Chicago Cubs [1978]; manager: New York Mets [1984–1990], Cincinnati Reds [1993–1995], Baltimore Orioles [1996–1997], Los Angeles Dodgers [1999–2000], Washington Nationals [2011–2013]

1947 - Steve Marriott
singer, songwriter, musician: guitar: groups: The Small Faces: Watcha Gonna Do, Hey Girl, All or Nothing, My Mind’s Eye, Swinging London, Itchycoo Park, Tin Soldier, Lazy Sunday, Moments, Humble Pie, Packet of Three; child actor: Oliver!; killed in Essex, England house fire Apr 20, 1991

1949 - William King
musician: trumpet, keyboard: group: The Commodores: Just to be Close to You, Sweet Love, Easy, Sail On, Three Times a Lady, Still, Nightshift

1951 - Phil Collins
singer, musician: drums: group: Genesis; solo: In the Air Tonight, I Missed Again, You Can’t Hurry Love, Sussudio, One More Night, Two Hearts; actor: Oliver, A Hard Day’s Night, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

1951 - Charles Dutton
actor: A Time to Kill, The Piano Lesson, Alien 3, Runaway, Crocodile Dundee 2, Cat’s Eye, Roc; Emmy Award-winning director: The Corner [2000]

1952 - Larry Carriere
hockey: NHL: Buffalo Sabres, Atlanta Flames, Vancouver Canucks, LA Kings, Buffalo Sabres, Toronto Maple Leafs; Assistant to GM: Buffalo Sabres

1952 - Brian Ogilvie
hockey: NHL: Chicago Blackhawks, SL Blues

1955 - Curtis Strange
golf: 17 PGA Tour victories; in the top 30 on golf’s all-time money list

1955 - Mychal Thompson
basketball [forward, center]: NBA: Portland Trail Blazers [1978–1986], San Antonio Spurs [1986–1987], Los Angeles Lakers [1987–1991]: NBA champs 1987, 1988

1957 - Payne Stewart
golf: champ: PGA Championship [1989], U.S. Open [1991, 1999: 13th player to win two U.S. Opens]; trademark knickers and tam-o’-shanter hat; killed in plane malfunction that caused pressurization failure Oct 25, 1999

1958 - Brett Butler
comedian, actress: Grace Under Fire, The Last Guy on Earth, Vampire Bats, Militia, Bruno

1959 - Alex Hyde-White
actor: The Reflecting Pool, Complete Guide to Guys, Catch Me If You Can, Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

1959 - Jody Watley
singer: group: Shalamar; more

1962 - Abdullah Ii of Jordan
King of Jordan: ascended the throne Feb 7, 1999 upon the death of his father, King Hussein

1968 - Felipe VI
Spanish royalty: succeeded his father as the King of Spain in June 2014, became the youngest monarch in all of Europe

1970 - Steve Heinze
hockey: Boston Bruins, Columbus Blue Jackets, Buffalo Sabres, LA Kings

1971 - Chris Slade
football [linebacker]: Univ of Virginia; NFL: New England Patriots, Carolina Panthers

1972 - Jennifer Hale
video game voice: Grandia II, Mass Effect trilogy, Diablo III, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Guild Wars 2, Tales of Symphonia, Metroid Prime trilogy, Metal Gear Solid games, Brütal Legend, Halo 4; Guinness World Record: most prolific videogame voice actor [female]; voice actor: Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, Totally Spies! The Movie, Wreck-It Ralph

1972 - Chris Simon
hockey [left wing]: Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, Washington Capitals, New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks, Calgary Flames, New York Islanders

1973 - Jalen Rose
basketball: Univ of Michigan [member of the "Fab 5"]; NBA: Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, Chicago Bulls, Toronto Raptors; ESPN TV NBA analyst

1974 - Christian Bale
actor: Vice, Shaft [2000], American Psycho, Little Women, Newsies, Empire of the Sun, Heart of the Country

1974 - Olivia Colman
actress: The Night Manager, Grow Your Own, I Could Never Be Your Woman, Hancock and Joan, Consuming Passion, Tyrannosaur, The Iron Lady, Hyde Park on Hudson, The Favourite, Fleabag, The Crown

1980 - Leilani Dowding
model, TV celebrity, actress: Maxim Uncovered!, Perfect 10: Model Boxing

1980 - Wilmer Valderrama
actor: NCIS, That ’70s Show, Yo Momma, Handy Manny, Awake, Raising Hope, From Prada to Nada, Save the Date, Columbus Day, The Girl Is in Trouble

1989 - Khleo Thomas
actor: Holes, Roll Bounce, Walking Tall, Remember the Daze, Dirty, Going to the Mat, Time Out, Friday After Next

1990 - Eiza González
actress: Baby Driver, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, The Three-Body Problem, Love Spreads, Ambulance

1990 - Jake Thomas
actor: Lizzie McGuire, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Cory in the House, Betrayed at 17

1995 - Danielle Campbell
actress: StarStruck, The Originals, Prom, Tell Me a Story, Share

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Jump to Top Hit Music on This Day    January 30

1951My Heart Cries for You (facts) - Guy Mitchell
Tennessee Waltz (facts) - Patti Page
A Bushel and a Peck (facts) - Perry Como & Betty Hutton
The Shot Gun Boogie (facts) - Tennessee Ernie Ford

1960Running Bear (facts) - Johnny Preston
Teen Angel (facts) - Mark Dinning
The Village of St. Bernadette (facts) - Andy Williams
El Paso (facts) - Marty Robbins

1969I Heard It Through the Grapevine (facts) - Marvin Gaye
Crimson and Clover (facts) - Tommy James & The Shondells
Everyday People (facts) - Sly & The Family Stone
Daddy Sang Bass (facts) - Johnny Cash

1978Baby Come Back (facts) - Player
Short People (facts) - Randy Newman
Stayin’ Alive (facts) - Bee Gees
Out of My Head and Back in My Bed (facts) - Loretta Lynn

1987At This Moment (facts) - Billy Vera & The Beaters
Open Your Heart (facts) - Madonna
Land of Confusion (facts) - Genesis
Cry Myself to Sleep (facts) - The Judds

1996One Sweet Day (facts) - Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men
Exhale (Shoop Shoop) (facts) - Whitney Houston
Missing (facts) - Everything But The Girl
It Matters to Me (facts) - Faith Hill

2005Let Me Love You (facts) - Mario
1, 2 Step (facts) - Ciara featuring Missy Elliott
Since U Been Gone (facts) - Kelly Clarkson
Awful, Beautiful Life (facts) - Darryl Worley

2014Timber (facts) - Pitbull featuring Ke$ha
Counting Stars (facts) - OneRepublic
The Monster (facts) - Eminem featuring Rihanna
Drink A Beer (facts) - Luke Bryan

2023Flowers (facts) - Miley Cyrus
Kill Bill (facts) - SZA
Anti-Hero (facts) - Taylor Swift
Something in the Orange (facts) - Zach Bryan

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