January 30 - this day in history

On January 30, 1703, according to the legend, the revenge of forty-seven samurai — the former vassals of the Ako clan — for their lord occurred in Edo. The story tells how forty-seven ronin prepared and implemented a plan of revenge for Kira Kodzuke no Suke, a court governor of Tokugawa Tsunayeshi, for the death of his master, daimé Asano Takumi no Kami Naganori from Ako.

1853 - in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, the 45-year-old French Emperor Napoleon III married the Spanish Countess Eugenia Montijo.

1915 - Attacking the French port of Le Havre, Germany for the first time uses submarines.

1930 - The world's first radio probe for atmospheric research, invented by Soviet meteorologist Pavel Aleksandrovich Molchanov, was launched.

1934 - the stratostat “Osoaviakhim-1” for the first time in the world reached an altitude of 22 km. During the descent I crashed and all three crew members died.

1945 - the crew of the C-13 submarine under the command of Captain 3rd Rank Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko sank the German passenger superliner "Wilhelm Gustloff" in the Danzig Bay area.

1969 - The Beatles' last improvised concert on the roof of the Apple Corps studio building, on Seville Row in London.

1992 - The first Canadian astronaut of Ukrainian origin, Robert Lynn Bondar, completed the eight-day NASA shuttle mission on Discovery.

2000 - more than 100 thousand cubic meters of heavy metals were released into the Danube at the factory of the Romanian-Australian company Aurul. Then more than 100 tons of dead fish were caught, and the catastrophe was dubbed the “second Chernobyl”.