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30 Dec 1317
Pontifical degree Sancta Romania against spiritualists
30 Dec 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
30 Dec 1665
Messiah Sjabtai Tswi departs to Constantinople
30 Dec 1685
Don Francisco de Agurto installed as land guardian of Southern Netherlands
30 Dec 1689
Henry Purcell & Tates opera Dido & Aeneas premieres in Chesea
30 Dec 1731
1st US music concert (Peter Pelhams great room in Boston)
30 Dec 1835
Georgia gold rush forces the Cherokees to move across the Mississippi River
30 Dec 1836
Lehman Theater in St Petersburg catches fire 100s die
30 Dec 1844
Opera Stradella after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)
30 Dec 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
30 Dec 1854
Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co 1st in US incorporated in NYC
30 Dec 1873
American Metrological Society forms (NYC) weights measures & money
30 Dec 1875
Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms
30 Dec 1877
Johnannes Brahms 2nd Symphony in D premieres in Vienna
30 Dec 1879
Gilbert & Sullivans Pirates of Penzance premieres
30 Dec 1884
Anton Bruckners 7th Symphony in E premieres in Leipzig
30 Dec 1884
William Morris Eleanor Marx and others establish the Socialist League a revolutionary organization in the UK
30 Dec 1888
Belgium king Leopold II installs Order of African Star
30 Dec 1892
Dr Miles V Lynk physician publishes 1st Black medical journal
30 Dec 1896
Stanley Cup Montreal Victorias beat Winnipeg Victorias 6-5
30 Dec 1903
Electric arc lamp sets fire to Iroquois theater in Chicago leaving 602 dead in one of the deadliest blazes in American history
30 Dec 1903
American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans
30 Dec 1905
Former Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated near his home in Caldwell Idaho
30 Dec 1906
The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca East Bengal British India Empire later laid down the foundations of Pakistan
30 Dec 1907
Abraham Mills commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball
30 Dec 1908
Stanley Cup Mont Wanderers outscore Edmonton 13-10 in 2 game set
30 Dec 1911
English cricketer Sydney Barnes takes 5-6 in 1st 11 overs v Australia at MCG
30 Dec 1913
Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 & 9-103)
30 Dec 1915
Cromarty Harbour Scotland - British cruiser Natal explodes 405 die
30 Dec 1917
-32F (-36C) in Mountain City Tennessee (state record)
30 Dec 1917
-37F (-38C) in Lewisburg WV (state record)
30 Dec 1919
Lincolns Inn in London admits its first female bar student.
30 Dec 1922
Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR Ukrainian SSR Belorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR
30 Dec 1925
NSW score 705 against Victoria go from 8-475 to 9-701
30 Dec 1926
Paul Eliot Greens In Abrahams Bosom premieres in NYC
30 Dec 1926
Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substantiated)
30 Dec 1927
Japan dedicates 1st subway in Orient (route under 2 miles long)
30 Dec 1929
Cole Porters musical Wake Up & Dream premieres in NYC
30 Dec 1933
-50F (-46C) in Bloomfield Vermont (state record)
30 Dec 1933
Government disallows NSB-membership for civil service
30 Dec 1933
Jack Badcock scores 274 v Victoria Tasmanias 1st double-ton
30 Dec 1934
New York Rangers and Boston Bruins battle out a 0-0 tie first of a 37-game overtime undefeated streak for the Bruins the longest in NHL history streak spans over 4 years and includes 27 ties
30 Dec 1935
Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
30 Dec 1936
United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike at Fisher Body Plant
30 Dec 1936
Beginning of the feud between comedians Fred Allen and Jack Benny on Allens Town Hall Tonight show
30 Dec 1939
Bradman scores 267 South Australia v Vic world record 34th double cricket century
30 Dec 1939
OReilly takes 14-45 (8-23 & 6-22) as NSW crush Qld in 2 days
30 Dec 1940
Californias 1st freeway (Arroyo Seco Parkway) opens
30 Dec 1941
Nazis require Dutch physicians to join Nazi organization
30 Dec 1943
Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps & cash
30 Dec 1943
Subhash Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair
30 Dec 1944
King George II of Greece abdicates his throne appointing Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens as Regent in 1945
30 Dec 1947
36th Davis Cup USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
30 Dec 1947
King Michael of Romania forced by Communists abdicates his throne sending him into exlie
30 Dec 1948
Kiss Me Kate opens at New Century Theater NYC for 1077 performances
30 Dec 1950
Vietnam Laos & Cambodia become Independent states within the French Union
30 Dec 1950
Sixty Minute Man record single released by The Dominoes (Billboard Song of the Year 1951)
30 Dec 1952
Tuskegee Inst reports as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US
30 Dec 1953
The first ever NTSC color television sets go on sale for about USD at 1175 each from RCA.
30 Dec 1954
House of Flowers opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 165 performances
30 Dec 1956
NY Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game
30 Dec 1959
George Washington 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned
30 Dec 1962
Green Bay Packers beat NY Giants 16-7 in NFL championship game
30 Dec 1967
Beatles Hello Goodbye single goes 1 & stays 1 for 3 weeks
30 Dec 1968
-48F (-44C) Mazama & Winthrop Washington (state record)
30 Dec 1970
The financial cost of the disturbances and riots in Northern Ireland during 1969 and are today estimated to be 5.5 million
30 Dec 1971
Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders)
30 Dec 1971
A member of the Irish Republican Army is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Santry Dublin.
30 Dec 1973
1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab)
30 Dec 1973
NFC Championship Game Minnesota Vikings beat Dallas Cowboys 27-10
30 Dec 1974
Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought)
30 Dec 1975
Boccaccio closes at Edison Theater NYC after 7 performances
30 Dec 1975
Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force
30 Dec 1975
Ballon dOr FC Dynamo Kyiv forward Oleg Blokhin claims award for best European football player ahead of former winners Bayern Munich defender Franz Beckenbauer and Ajax forward Johan Cruyff
30 Dec 1977
Carter holds 1st news conference by US President in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)
30 Dec 1977
Australian Open Womens Tennis Evonne Goolagong Cawley wins her 6th career Grand Slam title beats fellow Australian Helen Gourlay Cawley 6-3 6-0
30 Dec 1978
The King & I closes at Uris Theater NYC after 719 performances
30 Dec 1978
Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach
30 Dec 1980
Wonderful World of Disney last performance on NBC-TV
30 Dec 1980
Ballon dOr Bayern Munich forward Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is named best European football player beats German international team mate Bernd Schuster of FC Barcelona and Saint-tienne midfielder Michel Platini
30 Dec 1982
Anthony Shaffers Whodunnit premieres in NYC
30 Dec 1982
England defeat Australia by three runs at cricket MCG
30 Dec 1986
Ballon dOr Dynamo Kyivs Ukrainian forward Igor Belanov is named best football player in Europe ahead of Barcelona striker Gary Lineker and Real Madrid forward Emilio Butragueo
30 Dec 1997
An abandoned building collapses on NYs 42nd St no one hurt
30 Dec 1997
In the worst incident in Algerias insurgency the Wilaya of Relizane massacres 400 people are killed from four villages.
30 Dec 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.
30 Dec 2003
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses himself and his office from the Plame affair.
30 Dec 2004
A fire in the Repblica Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires Argentina kills 194.
30 Dec 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
30 Dec 2006
Madrid Barajas International Airport is bombed.
30 Dec 2012
19 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Balochistan Pakistan
30 Dec 2012
9 people are killed and 26 are injured in a tour bus crash off interstate 84 Oregon US
30 Dec 2012
The opening of Line 6 of the Beijing subway makes it the longest metro network in the world at 442km
30 Dec 2013
15 people are killed in a trolley-bus bomb attack in Voglograd Russia
30 Dec 2013
NFL head coach Mike Shanahan is fired by the Washington Redskins
30 Dec 2016
A ceasefire organised by Russia Iran and Turkey between Syrias government and opposition groups takes effect
30 Dec 2016
Last day Indians are able to deposit in banks 500 and 1000 rupee notes which were scrapped only 50 days earlier in an anti-corruption measure
30 Dec 1987
Australia hang on for draw v New Zealand at MCG 1 wkt left 17 runs short
30 Dec 1988
Former Soviet President Brezhnevs son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)
30 Dec 1988
Mercedes-Benz pays 20.2-M fine failed to meet 86 government fuel standard
30 Dec 1989
10th United Negro College Fund raises 12000000
30 Dec 1989
Dmitri Volkov swims world record 50m freestyle (27.15 sec)
30 Dec 1990
Miser closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 93 performances
30 Dec 1990
11th United Negro College Fund raises 10000000
30 Dec 1992
Shane Warne takes 7-52 to lead Australian MCG win v West Indies
30 Dec 1992
Washington defenseman Al Iafrate becomes first player in NHL history to have his shot officially break 100 miles per hour records 101.4 mph during the Capitals Superskills competition
30 Dec 1993
Candles Snow & Mistletoe closes at Palace NYC after 7 performances
30 Dec 1995
Lowest ever UK temperature recorded of -27.2C iat Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands equaling the record set at Braemar Aberdeenshire on February 11 1895 and January 10 1982
30 Dec 1996
United Nations announces that a total of 21 contracts have been approved for the limited Iraqi oil sales under Resolution 986
30 Dec 1896
Stanley Cup Granite Rink Winnipeg Manitoba Ernie McLea scores a hat-trick as Montreal Victorias beat Winnipeg Victorias 6-5 first SC Challenge game played outside of Montreal
30 Dec 1908
Stanley Cup Montreal Arena Westmount Quebec Montreal Wanderers outscore Edmonton HC 14-9 in 2 game challenge series
30 Dec 1950
Vietnam Laos and Cambodia become Independent states within the French Union
30 Dec 1956
National Football League Championship Yankee Stadium NYC New York Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 Giants 4th NFL title
30 Dec 1973
NFC Championship Texas Stadium Irving Minnesota Vikings beat Dallas Cowboys 27-10
30 Dec 2016
83rd Orange Bowl 10 Florida State beats 6 Michigan 33-32
30 Dec 2017
84th Orange Bowl 6 Wisconsin beats 11 Miami (Florida) 34-24
30 Dec 2018
Patrick Mahomes becomes only the 2nd quarterback in NFL history to throw for 5000 yards and 50 touchdowns during KC Chiefs 35-3 win over Oakland Raiders achieves both marks with 3rd quarter 89-yard TD pass to Demarcus Robinson
30 Dec 1980
Ballon dOr Bayern Munich forward Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is named best European football player beats German international teammate Bernd Schuster of FC Barcelona and Saint-tienne midfielder Michel Platini
30 Dec 2019
86th Orange Bowl 6 Florida beats 24 Virginia 36-28
30 Dec 1317
Pontifical decree Sancta Romania against spiritualists
30 Dec 1853
Dinner party held inside life-sized model of an Iguanodon (ornithopod dinosaur) created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in South London
30 Dec 1944
Sergei Prokofjevs 8th Piano sonata premieres in Moscow
30 Dec 1948
Cole Porters musical Kiss Me Kate opens at the New Century Theatre NYC later transferred to Sam S. Shubert Theatre runs for 1077 performances
30 Dec 2020
San Antonio assistant Becky Hammon becomes first female to coach an NBA team after Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich is ejected in a 121-107 loss to the LA Lakers
30 Dec 2020
Argentina is the first major Latin American country to legalize abortion (signed into law 14 Jan 2021)
30 Dec 1907
Abraham Mills Mills Committee declares baseball was invented in 1839 by future American Civil War general Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown New York widely disproven now known as the Doubleday myth
30 Dec 1968
Frank Sinatra first records My Way with lyrics were written by Paul Anka and based on the French song Comme dhabitude
30 Dec 1978
Revival of Rodgers and Hammersteins musical The King & I closes at Uris Theater NYC after 719 performances
30 Dec 2021
Rare winter wildfire destroys nearly 1000 homes at the base of the Rocky Mountains Colorado in suburban neighborhoods between Boulder and Denver [1]
30 Dec 1689
Henry Purcell & Nahum Tates opera Dido & Aeneas premieres at Josias Priests girls school in Chelsea London
30 Dec 1731
One of the earliest music concerts in North America held at Peter Pelhams Great Room in Boston Massachusetts
30 Dec 1903
Electric arc lamp sets fire to Iroquois Theatre in Chicago Illinois leaving 602 dead in one of the deadliest single-building blazes in American history
30 Dec 1906
The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca East Bengal British India Empire later laid down the foundations of Pakistan
30 Dec 1963
TV game show Lets Make A Deal hosted by Monty Hall debuts on NBC-TV
30 Dec 1661
Swedens original Drottningholm Palace burns down rebuilt from 1662 in its modern form to design by Nikodemus Tessin
30 Dec 1672
Baron Karl Rabenhaupt occupies Coevorden Netherlands
30 Dec 1853
Elizabeth II visits Trangawaewae marae in New Zealand home of the Maori Kngitanga movement
30 Dec 1906
All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca in East Bengal British India later lays the foundations for Pakistan
30 Dec 1951
The Roy Rogers Show American Western television series starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans debuts on NBC runs for 6 seasons
30 Dec 1953
The first NTSC color television sets go on sale for about 1175 from RCA