What Happened On December 30 - On This Day

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  • 1460 Battle of Wakefield: Duke of York is killed and his forces are soundly defeated by those of King Henry VI in northern England during the Wars of the Roses
  • 1906 All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca in East Bengal, British India, later lays the foundations for Pakistan
  • Signature page of the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR

    Soviet Union Founded

    1922 Creation of the USSR is formally proclaimed in Moscow at the Bolshoi Theatre, organized as a union (U) of the Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian and Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR)
  • 1924 Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces the existence of other galaxies at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society
  • 1950 Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become independent states within the French Union
More December 30 Events
  • 1953 The first NTSC color television sets go on sale for about $1,175 from RCA
  • 1968 Frank Sinatra records "My Way" for the first time, based on the French song "Comme d'habitude" with lyrics by Paul Anka
  • 1939 Donald Bradman scores 267 for South Australia against Victoria, a world record 34th first-class double century

Mills Commission, headed by Abraham G. Mills, declares baseball was invented in 1839 by future American Civil War general Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York; widely disproven and now known as the Doubleday myth

December 30, 1907

  • Titus

    39 AD - 81 AD

  • Rudyard Kipling

    1865 - 1936

  • Hideki Tojo

    1884 - 1948

  • Rodney Brooks

    71 Years Old

  • Mike Pompeo

    62 Years Old

  • Kevin Systrom

    42 Years Old
More Birthdays on December 30

  • Davy Jones

    1945 - 2012

  • Bo Diddley

    1928 - 2008

  • Ellie Goulding

    39 Years Old

  • Kim Tae-hyung

    30 Years Old

  • William Larned

    1872 - 1926

  • Sandy Koufax

    90 Years Old

  • Alexander Huber

    57 Years Old

  • Tiger Woods

    50 Years Old

  • LeBron James

    41 Years Old

A dinner party is held inside a life-sized hollow concrete model of an Iguanodon dinosaur, created by sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and biologist Richard Owen in South London

December 30, 1853

  • 1816 English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (24) marries 2nd wife writer "Frankenstein" Mary Godwin (19) and daughter of early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft
  • 1852 Future US President Rutherford B. Hayes (30) weds teetotaler and abolitionist Lucy Webb (21)
  • 1857 Confederate army cavalry battalion commander John S. Mosby (24) weds Pauline Clarke in Nashville
  • 1955 American actor Gregory Peck (39) divorces Finnish-American real estate broker Greta Kukkonen (44) after 13 years of marriage
More December 30 Weddings

  • José Rizal

    1861 - 1896

  • Grigori Rasputin

    1869 - 1916

  • Trygve Lie

    1896 - 1968

  • Sonny Liston

    1930 - 1970

  • Saddam Hussein

    1937 - 2006

  • Barbara Walters

    1929 - 2022
More December 30 Deaths
  • The Roaring Lion, Winston Churchill

    The Taming of Winston Churchill

    Winston Churchill made an emotional speech to the Canadian Parliament on this day, December 30, 1941. His photograph from that day is just as memorable. December 30, 1941
  • The Statue of Liberty, New York

    Weekly Quiz for December 30 - January 5

    What year did Ellis Island open? Who became a dictator in 1925, with the title Il Duce? Who was the 1st female added to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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  • Benjamin Franklin and a page from his highly successful Poor Richard’s Almanack

    Benjamin Franklin’s Words of Wisdom

    December 28, 1732
  • A drawing of the Tay Bridge disaster as it appeared in the Illustrated Police News

    Oh Tragedy! What Could Be Worse? – McGonagall’s Verse!

    December 28, 1879
  • Buckingham Palace is bombed. Churchill, King George VI and Queen Consort Elizabeth (The Queen Mother) inspect the damage. Photo: NPA Rota

    Hitler Will Have to Break Us or Lose the War

    December 29, 1940
  • A silver plate that once belonged to Samuel Pepys is carefully put on display at the Museum of London

    Collector Samuel Pepys Sets a Shining Example

    December 31, 1666
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