Today is Friday, January 30, the 30th day of 2009. There are 335 days left in the year.
1077 _ Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV
1647 _ Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament
1931 _ Charlie Chaplin's ``City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater
1933 _ German President von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor, Hitler forms government with Von Papen
1956 _ Martin Luther King Jr.'s home bombed
1965 _ State funeral of Winston Churchill
1968 _ Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on U.S. embassy in Saigon
1969 _ Beatles perform their last gig together, a 42-minute free concert on the roof of Apple HQs
1972 _ Bloody Sunday British soldiers shoot on Catholics in Londonderry, 13 die
1994 _ Super Bowl XXVIII Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta; MVP Emmitt Smith, Dallas, Running Back