January 30

  • DARBY’S RANGERS SUFFER GRIM END

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 7 minutes

    Cisterna di Lit­toria, Italy • January 30, 1944 The Allied invasion of mainland Italy began in early Septem­ber 1943, nearly 6 weeks after the Fascist Grand Council had deposed Germany’s Axis ally Benito Musso­lini on July 24–25, 1943, and placed the Italian dicta­tor in deten­tion. Ele­ments of British Gen. Ber­nard Law Mont­gom­ery’s multi­national Eighth Army landed at…

  • HITLER NAMED GERMAN CHANCELLOR

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 7 minutes

    Berlin, Germany • January 30, 1933 At noon on this date in 1933 in Berlin, German president and World War I hero Paul von Hinden­burg appointed Adolf Hitler, an Austrian now with German citizen­ship, Reichs­kanzler of the post­war Wei­mar Republic, a par­li­a­mentary repre­sen­ta­tive demo­cracy of 65 mil­lion people that had replaced the im­perial form of govern­ment in 1919…