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January 30

3 sourced moments from January 30 in history: Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933, not elected; Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated (1948); and The Beatles give their final public performance on a London rooftop (1969).

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3 things happened on January 30

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1969 Culture & Arts · Music

The Beatles give their final public performance on a London rooftop

On a freezing January lunchtime in 1969, the Fab Four climbed onto an office roof and played their last-ever live show.

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1948 History · Modern

Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated

Walking to an evening prayer meeting in New Delhi, India's apostle of nonviolence was shot dead at point-blank range.

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1933 History · Modern

Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933, not elected

Hindenburg handed Hitler power on 30 January 1933, after the Nazi vote had begun to fall, in a cabinet conservatives thought they controlled.

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