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January 30th, 2003	Event	Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage.
January 30th, 2000	Event	Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
January 30th, 1996	Event	Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
January 30th, 1996	Event	Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
January 30th, 1995	Event	Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
January 30th, 1994	Event	Peter Leko becomes the youngest chess grand master.
January 30th, 1989	Event	The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
January 30th, 1982	Event	Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
January 30th, 1979	Event	Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
January 30th, 1976	Event	George H. W. Bush becomes the 11th director of the CIA.

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