On this day: Bloody Sunday in Londonderry

On this day in 1972  Bloody Sunday  13 protesters will killed by British paratroopers in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Picture: PA

Events, birthdays and anniversaries for 30 January

1647: Scots handed over King Charles I to parliamentary forces.

1790: The first purpose-built lifeboat, named The Original, launched at South Shields on the River Tyne.

1840: Emperor of China forbade all trade with Britain.

1902: Britain signed treaty with Japan providing for independence of China and Korea.

1933: Adolf Hitler was appointed German chancellor by president Paul von Hindenburg.

1943: Soviets destroyed German army southwest of Stalingrad.

1951: Elizabeth Taylor, 19, divorced her first husband, Nicky Hilton.

1965: State funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. Big Ben was silenced and his body was taken for burial in Bladon churchyard in a Battle of Britain Class locomotive 34051, named Winston Churchill.

1968: Vietcong captured the United States embassy in Saigon.

1972: Bloody Sunday in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, when 13 protest marchers were killed by British paratroopers.

1972: Pakistan left the British Commonwealth.

1979: White Rhodesians approved new constitution to give black people eventual control of the nation.