Volume 14 , Issue 5

On This Day In History (30 January)

On this day, 30 January 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by Hindu extremist. The 78-year-old Gandhi, who was the one person who held discordant elements together and kept some sort of unity in this turbulent land, was shot down at 5:15 P. M. as he was proceeding through the Biria House gardens to the pergola from which he was to deliver his daily prayer meeting message. The assassin was immediately seized. READ ARTICLE

On Jan. 30, 1882, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, was born. Following his death on April 12, 1945, his obituary appeared in The Times.Go to obituary

On this day 30th January . . .

• 1649 - England's King Charles I was beheaded.
• 1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, was born in Hyde Park, N.Y.
• 1883 - James Ritty and John Birch received a U.S. patent for the first cash register.
• 1933 - The first episode of the "Lone Ranger" was broadcast on radio station WXYZ in Detroit.
• 1948 - Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist.
• 1968 - The Tet offensive began as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals.
• 1969 - The Beatles performed in public for the last time in a 45-minute gig on the roof of their Apple Records headquarters in London.

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