December 30

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2017 (Saturday)

2016 (Friday)

2015 (Wednesday)

2014 (Tuesday)

December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; one day remains until the end of the year.

Events

• 1066 – Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.
• 1460 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield.
• 1702 – Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.
• 1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis (1816) between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.
• 1825 – The Treaty of St. Louis (1825) between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.
• 1853 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
• 1896 – Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila, Philippines.
• 1897 – The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
• 1903 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
• 1905 – Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.
• 1906 – The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan.
• 1916 – The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.
• 1919 – Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student.
• 1922 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.
• 1924 – Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.
• 1927 – The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
• 1936 – The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.
• 1943 – Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
• 1944 – King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
• 1947 – King Michael of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
• 1948 – The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate (1,077 performances), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.
• 1965 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: The United States halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
• 1977 – For the second time, Ted Bundy escapes from his cell in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
• 1981 – In the 39th game of his 3rd NHL season Wayne Gretzky scores 5 goals giving him 50 on the year setting a new NHL record previously held by Maurice Richard and Mike Bossy who earlier had each scored 50 goals in 50 games.
• 1993 – Israel and Vatican City establish diplomatic relations.
• 1996 – In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.
• 1996 – Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.
• 1997 – In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.
• 2000 – Rizal Day Bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
• 2004 – A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
• 2005 – Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.
• 2006 – Madrid Barajas International Airport is bombed.
• 2006 – The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths.
• 2009 – A segment of Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha product oil pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000 L (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.
• 2011 – Due to a change of time zone the day is skipped in Samoa and Tokelau.

Births

• 39 – Titus, Roman emperor (d. 81)
• 1204 – Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd ibn Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (d. 1282)
• 1552 – Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611)
• 1642 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (d. 1707)
• 1673 – Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1736)
• 1678 – William Croft, English composer (d. 1727)
• 1722 – Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1770)
• 1724 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (d. 1805)
• 1741 – Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1759)
• 1760 – Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary (d. 1829)
• 1785 – Dorothea Lieven, Russian noblewoman (d. 1857)
• 1792 – Sylvester Jordan, German politician and lawyer (d. 1861)
• 1819 – Theodor Fontane, German writer (d. 1898)
• 1819 – John W. Geary, 1st Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1873)
• 1825 – Samuel Newitt Wood, American Politician (d. 1891)
• 1838 – Émile Loubet, 7th President of France (d. 1929)
• 1849 – John Milne, English seismologist and geologist (d. 1913)
• 1851 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician (d. 1929)
• 1853 – André Messager, French composer (d. 1929)
• 1865 – Rudyard Kipling, English writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
• 1869 – Stephen Butler Leacock, English-born Canadian writer and economist (d. 1944)
• 1869 – Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (d. 1918)
• 1873 – Al Smith, American politician (d. 1944)
• 1878 – William Aberhart, Canadian politician (d. 1943)
• 1879 – Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher (d. 1950)
• 1883 – Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1960)
• 1884 – Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
• 1890 – Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, President of Mexico (d. 1973)
• 1897 – Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (d. 1976)
• 1899 – Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (d. 2001)
• 1904 – Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer (d. 1987)
• 1905 – Daniil Kharms, Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist (d. 1942)
• 1906 – Carol Reed, English film director (d. 1976)
• 1910 – Paul Bowles, American composer and author (d. 1999)
• 1911 – Jeanette Nolan, American actress (d. 1998)
• 1913 – Lucio Agostini, Italian-born Canadian conductor and composer (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002)
• 1914 – Bert Parks, American television host (d. 1992)
• 1914 – Jo Van Fleet, American actress (d. 1996)
• 1917 – Seymour Melman, American industrial engineer (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Jack Lord, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1921 – Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (d. 1987)
• 1927 – Bernard Barrow, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1927 – Robert Hossein, French film actor and director
• 1928 – Bo Diddley, American singer and musician (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Rosalind Hurley, British physician, barrister, ethicist and writer (d. 2004)
• 1929 – Barbara Nichols, American actress (d. 1976)
• 1931 – Skeeter Davis, American singer (d. 2004)
• 1934 – John Norris Bahcall, American physicist (d. 2005)
• 1934 – Joseph Bologna, American actor
• 1934 – Joseph P. Hoar, former US Central Command commander
• 1934 – Del Shannon, American singer (d. 1990)
• 1934 – Russ Tamblyn, American actor, dancer, and singer
• 1935 – Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Sandy Koufax, American baseball player
• 1935 – Jack Riley, American actor
• 1937 – Gordon Banks, English footballer
• 1937 – John Hartford, American musician (d. 2001)
• 1937 – Jim Marshall, American football player
• 1937 – Noel Paul Stookey, American folk singer (Peter, Paul & Mary)
• 1939 – Glenda Adams, Australian author (d. 2007)
• 1939 – Felix Pappalardi, American musician and recording producer (Mountain) (d. 1983)
• 1940 – James Burrows, American television director
• 1941 – Mel Renfro, American football player
• 1942 – Betty Aberlin, American actress
• 1942 – Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and dissident
• 1942 – Guy Edwards, English racing driver
• 1942 – Michael Nesmith, American singer and musician (The Monkees)
• 1942 – Janko Prunk, Slovenian historian
• 1942 – Fred Ward, American actor
• 1944 – William J. Fallon, U.S. Navy Admiral, former U.S. Central Command commander
• 1945 – Davy Jones, English singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Lloyd Kaufman, American film director and producer
• 1945 – Concetta Tomei, American actress
• 1945 – Vernon Wells, Australian actor
• 1946 – Patti Smith, American singer and poet
• 1947 – Michael Burns, American historian
• 1947 – Jeff Lynne, English musician (ELO)
• 1947 – Steve Mix, American basketball player
• 1949 – Jim Flaherty, Canadian politician
• 1950 – Lewis Shiner, American sci-fi/fantasy author
• 1950 – Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist, creator of C++
• 1951 – Doug Allder, English footballer
• 1952 – June Anderson, American soprano
• 1952 – Melissa Fay Greene, American author
• 1953 – Bill Kazmaier, American powerlifter
• 1953 – Daniel Barry, American astronaut
• 1953 – Dana Key, American Christian rock guitarist, singer, and producer (DeGarmo and Key) (d. 2010)
• 1953 – Meredith Vieira, American television journalist and game show host
• 1954 – Barry Greenstein, American poker player
• 1955 – Dindo Yogo, Congolese musician (d. 2000)
• 1956 – Suzy Bogguss, American singer
• 1956 – Claudia Di Girólamo, Chilean actress
• 1956 – Patricia Kalember, American actress
• 1956 – Sheryl Lee Ralph, American actress
• 1957 – Matt Lauer, American newscaster
• 1957 – Rod Harrington, English darts player
• 1958 – Steven L. Smith, American astronaut
• 1959 – Tracey Ullman, English actress and singer
• 1959 – Josée Verner, Canadian politician
• 1961 – Douglas Coupland, Canadian author
• 1961 – Sean Hannity, American talk radio and television host
• 1961 – Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete
• 1962 – Henry Cho, Korean-American comedian
• 1962 – Joshua Clover, American poet
• 1963 – Chandler Burr, American author
• 1963 – Michelle Douglas, Canadian human rights activist
• 1963 – John van 't Schip, Dutch footballer and football coach
• 1963 – Milan Šrejber, Czech tennis player
• 1964 – Sylvie Moreau, French Canadian actress
• 1964 – Duglas T. Stewart, Scottish musician (BMX Bandits)
• 1965 – Heidi Fleiss, American madam
• 1965 – Darrin C. Huss, Canadian singer (Psyche)
• 1966 – Bennett Miller, American film director
• 1967 – Karen Dunne, American track and road cyclist
• 1967 – Carl Ouellet, Canadian professional wrestler
• 1968 – Meredith Monroe, American actress
• 1969 – Dave England, American television personality
• 1969 – Jay Kay, English musician (Jamiroquai)
• 1969 – Jan Wehrmann, German footballer
• 1971 – Daniel Sunjata, American actor
• 1971 – Ricardo López Felipe, Spanish footballer
• 1972 – Kerry Collins, American football player
• 1972 – Paul Keegan, Irish footballer
• 1972 – Steven Wiig, American actor and musician
• 1973 – Frans Bauer, Dutch singer
• 1972 – Dita Indah Sari, Indonesian union activist
• 1973 – Jason Behr, American actor
• 1973 – Ato Boldon, Trinidadian athlete
• 1973 – Nacho Vidal, Spanish porn star
• 1974 – Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (d. 2007)
• 1974 – S. Jithesh, World's Fastest Performing Cartoonist
• 1975 – Scott Chipperfield, Australian soccer player
• 1975 – Tiger Woods, American golfer
• 1976 – Ashley Callie, South African actress (d. 2008)
• 1976 – Patrick Kerney, American football player
• 1976 – A.J. Pierzynski, American baseball player
• 1976 – Kastro, American Rapper (Outlawz)
• 1977 – Laila Ali, American boxer
• 1977 – Saša Ilić, Serbian footballer
• 1977 – Grant Balfour, Australian baseball player
• 1977 – Scott Lucas, Australian rules footballer
• 1977 – Kenyon Martin, American basketball player
• 1977 – Kazuyuki Toda, Japanese footballer
• 1978 – Devin Brown, American basketball player
• 1978 – Tyrese, American singer and actor
• 1978 – Zbigniew Robert Promiński, Polish drummer
• 1978 – Rob Scuderi, American ice hockey player
• 1979 – Flávio, Angolan footballer
• 1980 – Eliza Dushku, American actress
• 1980 – Kenny Kwan, Hong Kong singer
• 1980 – DJ Mbenga, basketball player
• 1980 – Spencer Day, American Singer and Actor
• 1981 – Ali Al-Habsi, Omani footballer
• 1981 – Haley Paige, American porn star (d. 2007)
• 1981 – Michael Rodríguez, Costa Rican footballer
• 1981 – Matt Ulrich, American football player
• 1982 – Robbie Gould, American football player
• 1982 – Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress
• 1982 – Tobias Kurbjuweit, German footballer
• 1982 – Dawan Landry, American football player
• 1982 – Dathan Ritzenhein, American runner
• 1983 – Davide Mandorlini, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Josh Sussman, American actor
• 1984 – Randall Azofeifa, Costa Rican footballer
• 1984 – LeBron James, American basketball player
• 1985 – Lars Boom, Dutch cyclist
• 1985 – Bryson Goodwin, rugby league player
• 1986 – Domenico Criscito, Italian footballer
• 1986 – Ellie Goulding, British singer
• 1986 – Gianni Zuiverloon, Dutch footballer
• 1987 – Jake Cuenca, Filipino actor and commercial model
• 1988 – Leon Jackson, Scottish singer
• 1989 – Ryan Sheckler, American professional skateboarder
• 2000 – Johntae Lipscomb, American actor

Deaths

• 274 – Pope Felix I
• 1218 – Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1162)
• 1460 – Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (killed in battle) (b. 1411)
• 1460 – Edmund, Earl of Rutland, second son of Richard, Duke of York (murdered after battle) (b. 1443)
• 1525 – Jakob Fugger, German banker (b. 1459)
• 1572 – Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (b. 1512)
• 1573 – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer (b. 1504)
• 1591 – Pope Innocent IX (b. 1519)
• 1621 – Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox Saint (b. 1550)
• 1640 – John Francis Regis, French saint (b. 1597)
• 1644 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (b. 1577)
• 1662 – Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria (b. 1628)
• 1691 – Robert Boyle, English scientist (b. 1627)
• 1769 – Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier (b. 1685)
• 1803 – Francis Lewis, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (b. 1713)
• 1879 – Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre, Brazilian Romantic poet, painter and caricaturist (b. 1806)
• 1896 – José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines, (executed) (b. 1861)
• 1908 – Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and senator (b. 1844)
• 1937 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852)
• 1940 – Childe Wills, early associate of Henry Ford, one of the first employees of the Ford Motor Company, and a contributor to the design of the Model T (b. 1878)
• 1941 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (b. 1890)
• 1944 – Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)
• 1945 – Song Jin-woo, Korean politician, educationist, journalist (b. 1889)
• 1947 – Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)
• 1947 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, portraitist and art forger (b. 1889)
• 1954 – Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1863)
• 1955 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (b. 1913)
• 1967 – Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1887)
• 1968 – Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, first United Nations Secretary General (b. 1896)
• 1970 – Angelos Evert, Greek police chief (b. 1894)
• 1970 – Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. 1932)
• 1971 – Melba Rae, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1971 – Jo Cals, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1965 until 1966. (b. 1914)
• 1979 – Richard Rodgers, American composer (b. 1902)
• 1981 – Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (b. 1959)
• 1984 – Massa, oldest gorilla on record (b. 1930)
• 1986 – Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)
• 1988 – Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (b. 1925)
• 1989 – Lenore Lemmon, wife of George Reeves (b. 1923)
• 1992 – Ling-Ling, panda given to the USA by China (b. 1969)
• 1993 – Mack David, American lyricist and songwriter (b. 1912)
• 1993 – Irving "Swifty" Lazar, American Hollywood talent agent (b. 1907)
• 1993 – Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (b. 1907)
• 1994 – Dmitri Ivanenko, Russian physicist (b. 1904)
• 1994 – Maureen Starkey, wife of Ringo Starr (b. 1946)
• 1995 – Ralph Flanagan – American band leader (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Doris Grau, American actress (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908)

• 1996 – Jack Nance, American actor (b. 1943)
• 1997 – Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese novelist (b. 1926)
• 1998 – Johnny Moore, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1934)
• 1998 – Sam Muchnick, American professional wrestling promoter (b. 1905)
• 1998 – George Webb, English actor (b. 1911)
• 1999 – Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (b. 1909)
• 1999 – Sarah Knauss, American, once considered the world's oldest living person (b. 1880)
• 2000 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 2002 – Mary Brian, American actress (b. 1906)
• 2002 – Mary Wesley, English novelist (b. 1912)
• 2003 – David Bale, South African–born activist (b. 1941)
• 2003 – John Gregory Dunne, American writer (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress (b. 1963)
• 2004 – Artie Shaw, American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910)
• 2005 – Eddie Barlow, South African cricketer (b. 1940)
• 2005 – Rona Jaffe, American author (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Terry Peck, Falkland Islander who acted as a scout for 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment in the Falklands War (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
• 2006 – Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi Dictator, (executed for war crimes) (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Themis Cholevas, Greek basketball player (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarist (The Birthday Party) (b. 1959)
• 2009 – Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Bobby Farrell, Aruban singer (Boney M) (b. 1949)
• 2010 – Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (b. 1927)
• 2011 – Ronald Searle, British cartoonist and writer (b. 1920)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Roger of Cannae
  • Anysia of Salonika
  • Ecgwine of Worcester
  • Pope Felix I
  • Liberius of Ravenna
  • Ralph of Vaucelles

• Day of the Declaration of Slovakia as an Independent Ecclesiastic Province (Slovakia)
• Freedom Day (Church of Scientology)
• Rizal Day (Philippines)
• The sixth day of Christmas. (Western Christianity)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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