Today is Wednesday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2013. There are 335 days left in the year.
On Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.
On this date:
In 1862, the ironclad USS Monitor was launched from the Continental Iron Works in Greenpoint, N.Y., during the Civil War.
In 1882, the 32nd U.S. president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was born in Hyde Park, N.Y.
In 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
In 1962, Two of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed in Detroit.
In 1968, the Tet Offensive began during the Vietnam War as Communist forces surprised South Vietnamese provincial capitals.
In 1972, 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as “Bloody Sunday.”
In 1993, Los Angeles inaugurated its Metro Red Line, the city's first modern subway.