This Day in History
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
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Rasputin murdered
Grigory Rasputin a self-fashioned Russian holy man is murdered by Russian nobles eager to end his sway over the royal family.Rasputin won the favor of Czar Ni...
Marcos inaugurated
Former Philippines Senate president Ferdinand Marcos is inaugurated president of the Southeast Asian archipelago nation. Marcos regime would span 20 yea...
Sit-down strike begins in Flint
At 8 p.m. on December 30 1936 in one of the first sit-down strikes in the United States autoworkers occupy the General Motors Fisher Body Plant Number One in...
USSR established
In post-revolutionary Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established comprising a confederation of Russia Belorussia Ukraine and the ...
Tojo is born
On this day Hideki Tojo prime minister of Japan during the war is born in Tokyo.After graduating from the Imperial Military Academy and the Military Staff Co...
Rasputin is murdered
Sometime over the course of the night and the early morning of December 29-30 1916 Grigory Efimovich Rasputin a self-proclaimed holy man is murdered by Russ...
U.S. Navy transfers some responsibility to South Vietnamese
The South Vietnamese Navy receives 125 U.S. vessels in a ceremony marking the end of the U.S. Navys four-year role in inland waterway combat. This bring...
Negotiations to resume in Paris
Officials in Washington D.C. announce that the peace talks in Paris between National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc T...
OSU fires coach Woody Hayes for attacking an opposing player
On December 30 1978 Ohio State University (OSU) makes the decision to fire its 65-year-old football coach Woody Hayes one day after Hayes punched a player o...
Rutherford B. Hayes marries Lucy Webb
On this day in 1852 Rutherford B. Hayes marries Lucy Webb a gregarious devout Methodist from his home state of Ohio. She was 24 and he was 33.According to th...
Former Idaho governor Steunenberg assassinated
Targeted for his role in quelling a miners strike in 1899 former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg is wounded by a powerful bomb that is triggered when ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin wed
On this day Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin wed. The pair had run away together in July 1814 but because Shelley was already married they ...
Led Zeppelin captured live for the first time in Spokane gym
Within a year theyd be big. Within two theyd be huge. And within three theyd be the biggest band in the world. But on December 30 19...
Cheers co-creator and famed TV director James Burrows born
On this day in 1940 James Burrows who will go on to have a significant impact on television as the co-creator of the mega-hit sitcom Cheers and the director o...
Fire breaks out in Chicago theater
A fire in the Iroquois Theater in Chicago Illinois kills more than 600 people on this day in 1903. It was the deadliest theater fire in U.S. history. Blocked ...
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