Template:On this day/January 30

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

January 30:

• 1699 – First Spanish period: French ships under Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville left Spanish-occupied Pensacola Bay, going westward to found French Louisiana.
• 1871 – A joint resolution of Congress granted the Pensacola & Barrancas Railroad Company an easement through the Navy Yard reservation.
• 1903 – Five tons of condemned dynamite were detonated near Fort Pickens, about a mile away from the battery. The resulting explosion created a hole "large enough to hide a house" on the beach and was felt across Pensacola Bay in the city, cracking plaster and shattering windows.