1. The Fort Fisher Campaign ended on January 30, 1865, with Union troops capturing the Confederate fortification on the coast of North Carolina. The victory opened the way for the Union army to take Wilmington, the Confederacy's largest port on the Atlantic.

2. On January 30, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd President of the United States. Roosevelt, who hailed from New York, had a close connection to North Carolina, having visited the state many times and considered it his "second home."

3. The North Carolina Museum of Art officially opened its doors on January 30, 1956. The museum began as a small collection of 139 paintings displayed in the State Capitol building and has since grown into a world-class institution with a collection of over 40,000 works of art.

4. Greensboro's Woolworth's store became the site of a historic sit-in on January 30, 1960, when four black college students sat down at the store's whites-only lunch counter and refused to leave. The protest sparked a wave of similar sit-ins throughout the South and helped galvanize the civil rights movement.

5. On January 30, 2007, Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, was extradited from Nigeria to stand trial in The Hague for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Taylor was accused of arming and supporting rebels in Sierra Leone who committed atrocities during the country's civil war.