January 30

People born on this day are Aquarius.

On this day in history01

1974
Pan Am Flight 806 crashes near Pago Pago International Airport in American Samoa, killing 97.
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1975
The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
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1975
Turkish Airlines Flight 345 crashes into the Sea of Marmara near Istanbul Yeşilköy Airport, killing 42.
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1979
A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
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1982
Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
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1989
The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is closed.
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1995
Hydroxycarbamide becomes the first approved preventive treatment for sickle cell disease.
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2000
Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.
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2006
The Goleta postal facility shootings occur, killing seven people before the perpetrator took her own life.
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2007
Microsoft Corporation releases Windows Vista, a major release of the operating system Microsoft Windows and the NT based kernel.
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2013
Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
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2020
The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
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