E-Mail This Article to a Friend DEPT. OF BAD OMENS January 30: On this day in history BY DONALD MAHONEY

1933: Adolf Hitler named chancellor of Germany.

1948: Mahatma Gandhi assassinated.

1968: "Tet Offensive" launched in Vietnam.

1972: "Bloody Sunday," when British paramilitaries killed civil-rights marchers on the streets of Derry, Ireland.

2000: Kenyan Airway Airbus crashes off the Ivory Coast, killing 169 people.