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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_30" title="January 30">January 30</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs%27_Day_(India)" title="Martyrs' Day (India)">Martyrs' Day</a></b> in India (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948" title="1948">1948</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1287" title="1287">1287</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wareru" title="Wareru">Wareru</a></b> created the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanthawaddy_Kingdom" title="Hanthawaddy Kingdom">Hanthawaddy Kingdom</a> in today's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Myanmar" title="Lower Myanmar">Lower Burma</a> and declared himself king following the collapse of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagan_Kingdom" title="Pagan Kingdom">Pagan Empire</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1661" title="1661">1661</a> – Two years after his death, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a>'s remains were exhumed for a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous_execution" title="Posthumous execution">posthumous execution</a> and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell%27s_head" title="Oliver Cromwell's head">his head</a></b> was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_on_a_spike" title="Head on a spike">placed on a spike</a> above <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster#Westminster_Hall" title="Palace of Westminster">Westminster Hall</a> in London, where it remained until 1685.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World <span class="nowrap">War II</span></a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allied</a> forces <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_at_Cabanatuan" title="Raid at Cabanatuan">liberated more than 500 prisoners of war</a></b> from a Japanese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner-of-war_camp" title="Prisoner-of-war camp">POW camp</a> near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabanatuan" title="Cabanatuan">Cabanatuan</a> in the Philippines.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020" title="2020">2020</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization">World Health Organization</a> declared the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a></b> to be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health_emergency_of_international_concern" title="Public health emergency of international concern">public health emergency of international concern</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livia" title="Livia">Livia</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 59 BC); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Pietro_Francesco_Agius_de_Soldanis" title="Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis">Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1770); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Bale" title="Christian Bale">Christian Bale</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1974); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Chu" title="Arthur Chu">Arthur Chu</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1984)</p>