Reuters historical calendar - January 30
London, Jan 29 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on January 30 since 1900: 1933 - German President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor. On this date in 1937, Hitler told the Reichstag that Germany was withdrawing its signature from the Versailles Treaty that followed World War One.
1948 - Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian nationalist non-violent movement against British rule, was assassinated by a Hindu extremist.
1963 - Francis Poulenc, French composer and pianist, died. He had great success with the opera ''Les Biches''.
1967 - Pope Paul VI met Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, the first Soviet head of state to visit the Vatican.
1968 - Viet Cong guerrillas and North Vietnamese soldiers launched the Tet (New Year) offensive, targeting more than 100 towns and cities in South Vietnam.
1972 - British soldiers shot dead 13 people during a banned Roman Catholic civil rights march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in a clash known as ''Bloody Sunday''.
1973 - Gordon Liddy and James McCord were convicted of burglary, wiretapping and attempted bugging of the Democratic Party's headquarters at the Watergate building in Washington.
1979 - White Rhodesians voted in a referendum in favour of a new constitution aimed at black majority rule in what is now Zimbabwe.
2003 - Richard Reid, a British-born follower of Osama bin Laden, was sentenced to life in prison for trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives stuffed in his shoes.
2005 - Up to 8 million Iraqis cast ballots in the country's first multi-party election in half a century, braving bombs and mortar attacks by insurgents.
2006 - Denmark's Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which published satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad sparking Muslim anger, issued an apology.
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