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January 30: Martyrs' Day in India (1948); Fred Korematsu Day in some states in the United States

Former Cabanatuan POWs in celebration

1287 – Wareru created the Hanthawaddy Kingdom in today's Lower Burma and declared himself king following the collapse of the Pagan Empire.
1661 – Two years after his death, Oliver Cromwell's remains were exhumed for a posthumous execution and his head was placed on a spike above Westminster Hall in London, where it remained until 1685.
1945 – World War II: Allied forces liberated more than 500 prisoners of war (pictured) from a Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan in the Philippines.
2020 – The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic to be a public health emergency of international concern.

Livia (b. 59 BC)
Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis (d. 1770)
Christian Bale (b. 1974)
Arthur Chu (b. 1984)

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