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30 January 2011 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 30 January 2011 was a Sunday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “We R Who We R” by Kesha.
- Top Film of 2011
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2011 was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 30 January is Aquarius.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 30 January 2011 fell in the Year of the Tiger.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for January is Garnet.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 30 January 2011 was Waning Crescent.
On this day: 30 January
- 1989 The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is closed.
- 1995 Hydroxycarbamide becomes the first approved preventive treatment for sickle cell disease.
- 2007 Microsoft Corporation releases Windows Vista, a major release of the operating system Microsoft Windows and the NT based kernel.
- 2013 Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
- 2020 The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
Famous people born on 30 January
- Christian Bale, British actor (born 1974)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and statesman, 32nd President of the United States (1882–1945)
- Amelia Dimoldenberg, English comedian, writer and presenter (born 1994)
- Phil Collins, English drummer, singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (born 1951)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2011 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2011 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 7 January – The film The King's Speech, with Colin Firth playing the role of the stuttering George VI, is released in the UK. It won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, on 27 February.
- 15 January – Three former Church of England bishops are ordained as priests in the new Roman Catholic Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham at Westminster Cathedral.
- 19 March – Operation Unified Protector: British, French and American military initiate air strikes in Libya following United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.
Life in 2011
Prime Minister
David Cameron
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£2.95
Loaf of Bread
£1.30
Average House
£162,083
Weekly Wage
£711.00
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