Historical Events In January - 30

1994 Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets

1994 The Buffalo Bills suffer their fourth straight Super Bowl loss, as they are defeated by the The Dallas Cowboys, 30-13, in Super Bowl 28.

1995 22nd American Music Award Boyz II Men &Ace of Base win

1995 Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air

1995 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured

1995 Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show"

1997 Damage from recent floods in California is pushing the billion dollar mark and could climb higher once final figures are in.

1997 Minuteman III launches

1997 The Maine Yankee nuclear station has been placed on a U.S. government watch list of plants needing increased regulatory attention. The plant has experienced more than a year ofsafety and maintenance problems.

1998 Paul Simon's "The Capeman," premieres

1998 The U.S. and Japan sign a pact allowing Americans to fly to Japan and other Asian destinations from more U.S. cities.

1781 US articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland

1815 Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's personal library containing 1500 volumes

1979 Rhodesian whites vote to transfer to majority rule

1882 The birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Former (32nd) American President

1927 The birth of Olof Palme, Swedish prime minister

1931 The birth of Gene Hackman, American stage and 'Oscar' winning screen actor

1937 The birth of Vanessa Redgrave, Stage and screen actress

1937 The birth of Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion

2005 The first free Parliamentary elections in Iraq since 1958 take place.

2005 A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes in Iraq, killing 10 British servicemen. Iraqi insurgents release a video claiming to have shot the aircraft down using a missile.2007 Microsoft releases Windows Vista and Office 2007

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