Today is Thursday, January 30, the 30th day of 2014. There are 335 days left in the year.
1487 ― Bell chimes invented
1647 ― Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for 400 pounds
1818 ― Keats composes his sonnet, “When I Have Fears”
1917 ― First jazz record recorded (“Dark Town Strutters Ball”)
1931 ― Charlie Chaplin’s “City Lights” premieres at Los Angeles Theater
1935 ― Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of “Cantos”
1939 ― Hitler calls for the extermination of Jews
1956 ― Martin Luther King Jr.’s home bombed
1977 ― Eighth (final) part of “Roots” is most-watched entertainment show ever
1993 ― 100,000 Europeans demonstrate against fascism and racism