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30 January in

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30 January

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30 January was a day.

Holidays and observances

30 January marked the beginning of the Ultra Bowl, which one source cited as the "biggest and most spectacular sporting event in the entire universe". (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

Events

In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus, AUDIO: Neverland)

In 1969, the Beatles performed an impromptu concert on the roof of the Apple Records building on Abbey Road in London. Ace prevented the killing of John Lennon during this concert. Huitzilin had hoped to feed upon the psychic energy released by the violence. In St John's Wood, Cristián Alvarez met the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield for one of several times in his life. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird) The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones attempted to witness the concert but ended up in 1669 instead. (COMIC: Black Death White Life)

In 2025, the Fourth Doctor and Leela attended an energy activist protest, led by Jack Coulson, against the GlobeSphere Corporation in Trafalgar Square. They then encountered the Daleks in London, who intended to destroy the Earth and all its human inhabitants by boosting the energy transfer to the planet the following day and therefore causing a multitude of natural disasters. Luckily, the Doctor destroyed their Robomen through sonic waves, and re-targeted the energy transfer to the Dalek ship, defeating them too and saving the Earth. (AUDIO: Energy of the Daleks)

Births and deaths

In 1649, Charles I, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland was executed for treason by the Rump Parliament. (PROSE: The Roundheads)

In 1948, Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated. Shot in the heart, his last words were "Hey Rama" — "Oh God". (PROSE: Ghosts of India)

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