Notable Historical Events on December 30th
December 30th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
987 |
French King Hugo Capet crowns his son Robert the compassionate king |
1317 |
Pontifical degree "Sancta Romania" against spiritualists |
1460 |
Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield (Northern England), Duke of York killed and his forces soundly defeated by forces for King Henry VI |
1621 |
English king James I cracks Protestation of Parliament |
1665 |
"Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi departs to Constantinople |
1666 |
Abraham Crijnssen departs to Suriname |
1672 |
Baron Karl Rabenhaupt occupies Coevorden Neth |
1685 |
Don Francisco de Agurto installed as land guardian of S Netherlands |
1689 |
Henry Purcell & Tates opera "Dido & Aeneas," premieres in Chesea |
1703 |
Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die |
1731 |
1st US music concert (Peter Pelham's great room in Boston) |
1794 |
French troops conquer Grave Neth |
1809 |
Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston |
1813 |
Danzig surrenders to allied armies |
1816 |
The Treaty of St. Louis is proclaimed. |
1817 |
1st coffee planted in Hawaii (Kona) |
1835 |
After gold discovery in Ga, Cherokees forced to move across Miss R |
1835 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from NZ to Sydney |
1836 |
Lehman-theater in St Petersburg catches fire; 100s die |
1844 |
Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg) |
1853 |
A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon (ornithopod dinosaur) created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London. |
1854 |
Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC |
1861 |
US, banks stops payments in gold |
1869 |
Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms |
1873 |
American Metrological Society forms (NYC) weights, measures & money |
1875 |
Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms |
1877 |
Johnannes Brahms' 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna |
1879 |
Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance," premieres |
1884 |
Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig |
1888 |
Belgium: king Leopold II installs Order of African Star |
1892 |
Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal |
1893 |
Russia signs military accord with France |
1896 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-5 |
1896 |
José Rizal is executed by firing squad in Manila. |
1897 |
Province of Zululand annexed to Natal colony |
1903 |
Electric arc lamp sets fire to Iroquois theater in Chicago leaving 602 dead in one of the deadliest blazes in American history |
1903 |
American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans |
1905 |
Former Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated near his home in Caldwell, Idaho. |
1906 |
Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy |
1906 |
The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan. |
1907 |
Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball |
1908 |
Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers outscore Edmonton, 13-10 in 2 game set |
1911 |
Crickets S F Barnes takes 5-6 in 1st 11 overs v Aust at MCG |
1911 |
Sun Yat-sen elected 1st pres of Republic of China |
1913 |
Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 & 9-103) |
1915 |
Cromarty Harbour, Scot-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die |
1917 |
-32°F (-36°C) in Mountain City, Tennessee (state record) |
1917 |
-37°F (-38°C) in Lewisburg, WV (state record) |
1918 |
John E Hoover decides to be called J. Edgar Hoover |
1919 |
Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student. |
1922 |
Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR |
1922 |
Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre |
1924 |
Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces existence of other galactic systems at meeting of the American Astronomical Society |
1925 |
NSW score 705 against Victoria, go from 8-475 to 9-701 |
1926 |
Paul Eliot Greens "In Abraham's Bosom," premieres in NYC |
1926 |
Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substaniated) |
1927 |
Japan dedicates 1st subway in Orient (route under 2 miles long) |
1929 |
Cole Porter's musical "Wake Up & Dream," premieres in NYC |
1929 |
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates |
1932 |
Bradman out for a duck v England at cricket MCG |
1933 |
-50°F (-46°C) in Bloomfield, Vermont (state record) |
1933 |
Government disallows NSB-membership for civil service |
1933 |
Jack Badcock scores 274 v Victoria, Tasmania's 1st double-ton |
1935 |
Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia |
1936 |
United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant |
1938 |
Electronic television system patented (V K Zworykin) |
1939 |
Bradman scores 267 SA v Vic, world record 34th double cricket century |
1939 |
O'Reilly takes 14-45 (8-23 & 6-22) as NSW crush Qld in 2 days |
1939 |
"Of Mice and Men", starring Burgess Meredith as George Lon Chaney Jr. as Lennie, is released |
1940 |
California's 1st freeway, (Arroyo Seco Parkway), opens |
1941 |
Nazibezetters oblige artsen member to become of Artsenkamer |
1941 |
Nazis require Dutch physicians to join Nazi organization |
1941 |
Winston Churchill addresses Canadian parliament |
1943 |
Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps & cash |
1943 |
Subhash Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair. |
1944 |
King George II of Greece, abdicates his throne |
1947 |
36th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1) |
1947 |
King Michael of Romania, forced by communists abdicates his throne |
1947 |
Romanian republic proclaimed |
1948 |
"Kiss Me, Kate" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 1077 performances |
1949 |
India recognizes People's Republic of China |
1950 |
Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia become Independent states in France Union |
1952 |
Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US |
1953 |
The first ever NTSC color television sets go on sale for about USD at $1,175 each from RCA. |
1954 |
"House of Flowers" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 165 performances |
1954 |
Harold Arlen/Truman Capotes musical premieres in NYC |
1956 |
NY Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game |
1957 |
Israeli government of Ben-Gurion, resigns |
1957 |
New York Giants win NFL championship |
1958 |
French franc devalued |
1959 |
George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned |
1961 |
Moscow: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 4th Symphony (out 1936) |
1962 |
Green Bay Packers beat NY Giants 16-7 in NFL championship game |
1963 |
"Let's Make A Deal," debuts on NBC-TV |
1963 |
Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar |
1963 |
Green Bay Packers win NFL championship |
1964 |
Edward Albee's "Tiny Alice," premieres in NYC |
1965 |
Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as President of the Phillipines |
1966 |
The cult classic "One Million Years B.C.", starring Raquel Welch, is released |
1967 |
Beatles' "Hello Goodbye," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks |
1967 |
Great Western Forum opens in LA |
1968 |
-48°F (-44°C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record) |
1969 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1970 |
The financial cost of the disturbances and riots in Northern Ireland during 1969 and 1970 are today estimated to be £5.5 million |
1971 |
Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders) |
1971 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1971 |
A member of the Irish Republican Army is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Santry, Dublin. |
1972 |
Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks |
1973 |
1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab) |
1973 |
Miami Dolphins beat Oakland Raiders 27-10 in AFC championship game |
1973 |
Minnesota Vikings beat Dallas Cowboys 27-10 in NFC championship game |
1974 |
Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought) |
1975 |
"Boccaccio" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 7 performances |
1975 |
Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force |
1976 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1977 |
Carter holds 1st news conference by US pres in Eastern Europe (Warsaw) |
1978 |
"King & I" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 719 performances |
1978 |
Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach |
1979 |
Rock group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up |
1979 |
Togo adopts constitution |
1980 |
"Wonderful World of Disney," last performance on NBC-TV |
1981 |
Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record of 50 goals by 39th game of season |
1982 |
Anthony Shaffers "Whodunnit," premieres in NYC |
1982 |
England defeat Australia by three runs at cricket MCG |
1982 |
US Assay Office in New York City, NY closes |
1985 |
IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released |
1985 |
Pakistan restores constitution |
1987 |
Australia hang on for draw v NZ at MCG, 1 wkt left 17 runs short |
1987 |
Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe |
1988 |
Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US |
1988 |
Former Soviet Pres Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery) |
1988 |
Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 government fuel standard |
1988 |
North subpoenas Reagan & Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial |
1989 |
10th United Negro College Fund raises $12,000,000 |
1989 |
Dmitri Volkov swims world record 50m freestyle (27.15 sec) |
1990 |
"Miser" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 93 performances |
1990 |
11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000 |
1992 |
Last day of Test Cricket for Michael Whitney |
1992 |
Shane Warne takes 7-52 to lead Australian MCG win v West Indies |
1993 |
"Candles, Snow, & Mistletoe" closes at Palace NYC after 7 perfs |
1993 |
Vatican recognizes Israel |
1995 |
Carquest Bowl 6: North Carolina beats Arkansas, 20-10 |
1995 |
The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equalled the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire on February 11, 1895 and January 10, 1982. |
1996 |
Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel. |
1996 |
UN announces that a total of 21 contracts have been approved for the limited Iraqi oil sales under Resolution 986 |
1997 |
An abandoned building collapses on NY's 42nd St, no one hurt |
1997 |
In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people are killed from four villages. |
2000 |
Rizal Day Bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a span of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred. |
2003 |
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses himself and his office from the Plame affair. |
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. |
2008 |
NFL head coach Mike Shanahan is fired by the Denver Broncos |
2012 |
19 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Balochistan, Pakistan |
2012 |
9 people are killed and 26 are injured in a tour bus crash off interstate 84, Oregon, US |
2012 |
The opening of Line 6 of the Beijing subway makes it the longest metro network in the world at 442km |
2013 |
15 people are killed in a trolley-bus bomb attack in Voglograd, Russia |
2013 |
NFL head coach Mike Shanahan is fired by the Washington Redskins |
2015 |
Bill Cosby charged with sexual assault |
2015 |
Guns N' Roses to reunite for Coachella, possible stadium tour |
2016 |
US House Speaker Ryan says Obama sanctions against Russia overdue |
2016 |
Obama sanctions Russia for intervening in 2016 election |
2016 |
US expels Russian diplomats over cyber attack allegations |
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