THE DAY IN HISTORY · JANUARY 30
January 30 in history
What happened on January 30: 4 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1868, 1933, 1948 and 1968, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Battle of Toba–Fushimi
27–30 Jan 1868 — South of Kyoto, about 5,000 troops from Satsuma and Chōshū fought under the imperial banner against a shogunal army roughly three times their size. They won. The former shogun Yoshinobu escaped by sea to Edo, and the war was politically decided within days.
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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by men who believe they can control him. Within eighteen months, no institution can.
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— Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
30 Jan 1948 — As Gandhi walked to prayer, Nathuram Godse shot him three times. Godse was a Hindu nationalist who judged Gandhi too generous to Pakistan. “The light has gone out of our lives,” Nehru told the country the assassin claimed to defend. Remember him.
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— Tet Offensive
30 Jan 1968 — The NLF attacks 100 cities at once, including the Saigon embassy compound and Hue, which it holds for 26 brutal days. Hanoi suffers a military defeat. On American television, however, the offensive ends the promise of “light at the end of the tunnel.”
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