Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/January/January 30

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January 30:

• 1165 - Emperor Goshirakawa holds an opening ceremony for the Sanjūsangendō, a temple built by Taira no Kiyomori. (Traditional Japanese Date: Seventeenth Day of the Twelfth Month, 1164)
• 1703 - The famed Forty-seven Samurai avenge their leader, Asano Naganori out of loyalty by attacking and killing Kira Kozuke no Suke Yoshinaka, despite being ordered not to. (Traditional Japanese Date: Fourteenth Day of the Twelfth Month, 1702)
• 1902 - Japan and England sign an alliance in London.
• 1920 - Hasegawa Machiko, author of the well known comic Sazae-san and Granny Mischief is born.
• 1951 - The Pacific League's Clippers and the Central League's Pirates are merged into the Pacific League's Seibu Lions.
• 1957 - William S. Gerard, stationed at a U.S. military base in Gunma Prefecture, shoots and kills a local woman, Sakai Naka, (the Gerard Incident).
• 1974 - Japan and Korea enter into a treaty establishing their borders in the northern part of the Continental Shelf between the 33rd and 36th parallels.