January 30

On This Day In History
	1649: King Charles I of England executed Charles I, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1625-49), was viewed as an authoritarian ruler by members of Parliament-whose quarrels with him led to the English Civil Wars-and was executed in London this day in 1649.
Portrait of Charles I Hunting, oil painting by Sir Anthony Van Dyck
Biography Of The Day
	Franklin D. Roosevelt Born this day in 1882, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only person to win four terms as U.S. president, introduced the New Deal to address the crisis brought on by the Great Depression and led his country during World War II.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937.
More Events On This Day In History
1995	1995 Flooding forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 people from low-lying areas of The Netherlands.
	1948 Indian nationalist Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by an orthodox Hindu Brahman.
	1933 President Paul von Hindenburg named Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany.
1933	1933 The fictional character the Lone Ranger was introduced on radio station WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan.
	1912 Barbara Tuchman, one of the foremost popular historians in the United States in the second half of the 20th century and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, was born.
1667	1667 The Truce of Andrusovo ended the Thirteen Years' War between Russia and Poland.
	9 The Roman emperor Augustus dedicated the shrine Ara Pacis ("Altar of Peace").