On This Day: January 30th

The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.

Microsoft Corporation releases Windows Vista, a major release of the operating system Microsoft Windows and the NT based kernel.

The Goleta postal facility shootings occur, killing seven people before the perpetrator took her own life.

Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.

Hydroxycarbamide becomes the first approved preventive treatment for sickle cell disease.

The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is closed.

Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".

A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.

The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.