January 30, 1948Indian leader, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, is shot dead by Nathuram Godse a Hindu hardliner. Gandhi led a peaceful struggle for Indian independence from Great Britain.

January 31, 1929The Soviet Union exiles Marxist thinker and Bolshevik Revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

January 31, 1953Flooding causes the deaths of more than 1,800 people in the Netherlands and 307 people in England. This incident also affected Belgium, Denmark, and Fra