Today in History- 30th January

International Events: 30th January
Year	Event
1649	England's King Charles I beheaded.
1902	The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
1933	Adolf Hitler named as Chancellor of Germany.
1948	Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Nathuram Godse.
1982	Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code called "Elk Cloner".
1994	Kapil Dev equals the record of Richard Hadlee's 431 Test wickets.
2005	First free election held in Iraq after a half-century.
2007	Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system went on sale.