WHAT HAPPENED ON 30. JANUARY
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Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers open fire on and kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland. (30. January 1972)

Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations. (30. January 1972)

The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary. (30. January 1975)

A Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo. (30. January 1979)

Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner". (30. January 1982)

The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes. (30. January 1989)

Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grandmaster. (30. January 1994)

Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease. (30. January 1995)

Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169. (30. January 2000)