Interesting - today in history - January 30th - Hitler, Ghandi, FDR, and DICK Cheney
1933 – Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
1948 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known for his non-violent freedom struggle, is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
1956 – American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1959 – MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.
1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyen Khanh overthrows General Duong Van Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.
1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
1971 – Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.
1972 – Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.
1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
Births
1882 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, American politician, 44th Governor of New York & 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
1930 – Gene Hackman, American actor
1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
1937 – Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
1941 – Dick Cheney, American politician, 17th United States Secretary of Defense & 46th Vice President of the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_30
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With that said... Happy Birthday to one of the greatest actors of all time!!!
...but his body came a bit later. In fact, in time for the Vietnam war, in which he refused to serve.
... with that ghoul Dick Cheney. 
Hey! don't think of it as sharing a birthday with his Darkness....thinking of as the day that Ghandi died......ooooh those are sort of the same thing.
