January 30

Constantine Lascaris's grammar, the Erotemata, was issued at Milan as the first book printed wholly in Greek type, aiding the revival of Greek study in the West.

Francis Schaeffer, the American pastor and apologist who co-founded the L'Abri community in Switzerland, was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

S. N. Goenka, the teacher who brought U Ba Khin's Vipassanā meditation from Burma to India and much of the world, was born to an Indian family in Burma.

Ajahn Maha Bua, a leading master of the Thai Forest Tradition and disciple of Ajahn Mun, died at his monastery in Udon Thani, Thailand.

Orville Wright, who with his brother Wilbur built and flew the first powered, controlled airplane in 1903, died in Dayton, Ohio at the age of 76.