December 30

December 30 is the 364th (three hundred and sixty-fourth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 365th (three hundred and sixty-fifth) day of the year in leap years. One day left to end the year.

Events

• 1419: In La Rochelle, France, Castile's troops beat the English.
• 1460: Wakefield, England. Lancaster's side kills the third Duke of York and wins Wakefield's battle.
• 1530: from Panama the third journey of the conquering expedition, composed of 180 Spaniards.
• 1696: In the heavens of Guápulo (Ecuador) appears the "Virgen de la Nube".
• 1831: at the Teatro del Príncipe de Madrid (Spain), Manuel Bretón de los Herreros estrena Marcela or which one of the three?.
• 1833: In Spain, Minister Javier de Burgos establishes the division of the country in 49 provinces.
• 1844: The Philippines adapts to the Gregorian calendar, so tomorrow will not be Tuesday, December 31, but Wednesday, January 1, 1845.
• 1850: In Spain, Juan Donoso Cortés denounces administrative corruption, which causes the resignation of Ramón María Narváez and the appointment of Juan Bravo Murillo as president of the Council of Ministers.
• 1853: The Treaty of La Mesilla is signed, with which the United States acquires Mexican territory.
• 1855: The French army of the Crimean War returns to Paris.
• 1862: In Corporal Hatteras (United States), the USS Monitor vessel sinks.
• 1874: In Spain a provisional government is constituted under the direction of Cánovas del Castillo following the coup d'etat of Martínez Campos.
• 1885: in Spain, María Cristina de Habsburg, widow of Alfonso XII, swears as regent in Congress the Constitution.
• 1896: in Manila (Philippines), a firing squad executes the patriot José Rizal.
• 1902: The Spanish Government sends warships to Tangier, who are still prepared to invade Morocco, which will later be the beginning of the Rif War.
• 1903: In Chicago (United States) 590 people die in the Iroquois Theater fire.
• 1905: In Caldwell (Idaho) former governor Frank Steunenberg is murdered near his home.
• 1916: In St. Petersburg, the Russian monk Grigori Rasputin is assassinated
• 1918: The Communist Party of Germany is founded in Germany.
• 1919: In London (RU), the Lincoln’s Inn bar for the first time admits a female student as a parish.
• 1922: In Moscow, the Congress of Soviets approves the creation of the Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).
• 1927: In Zaragoza, Spain, the automatic telephone is opened.
• 1927: In Santiago de Chile is founded the commune of Conchalí.
• 1927: In Tokyo, Japan, the Ginza Line line, the first subway of Asia, is opened.
• 1928: In Vigo, Spain, the Municipal Stadium of Balaídos is inaugurated.
• 1930: in Spain Berenguer announces elections for March 1931.
• 1936: in the United States, the trade union United Auto Workers begins his first strike.
• 1937: In Egypt, King Faruk ceases to the Wafdista Nahhas Bajá and calls the head of the parliamentary minority, Mahmound Bajá, to form a new government.
• 1941: In India Majatma Gandhi resigns from the presidency of the National Indian Congress Party.
• 1947: In Romania, communists force King Michael I to abdicate.
• 1948: at the New Century Theatre in New York (United States), Broadway musical premieres Kiss me, KateCole Porter. He will perform 1077 shows and will be the first show to win a Tony prize.
• 1953: In the United States, the RCA company released the first NTSC color television ($1175 each, which is $1175 in 2019).
• 1954: in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the constitutional government of Juan Domingo Perón legalizes prostitution—which was "prohibited" since the Infamous Decade—and creates the Meretrics Union.
• 1960: In the city of Chilpancingo, Mexico, about 20 people are killed and one hundred are injured after the Mexican army, under the orders of the Government of the state of Guerrero, opened fire on students on strike.
• 1965: in the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos assumes as president.
• 1972: As part of the Vietnam War, the United States ceases to bomb civilian villages in North Vietnam.
• 1977: at Glenwood Springs (Colorado), Ted Bundy escapes from his cell for the second time.
• 1980: In Uruguay, the World Champions Gold Cup, known as the World Cup, began in Montevideo.
• 1982: In Peru, the state of emergency was established in 7 provinces, as the Shining Path organization was disobeyed by the Government ' s ultimatum.
• 1983: 60 km from San Salvador (El Salvador), the guerrillas occupy the main barracks of the north of the country.
• 1988: In Yugoslavia, Branco Mikulic abandons his post as Head of Government after accusing the autonomous entities of preventing the development of their anti-inflationist policy.
• 1989: in Poland, Parliament approves the change of political and economic system and concludes the constitutional reform.
• 1992: in Spain the Organic Law ratifying the Maastricht Treaty enters into force.
• 1993: Israel and Vatican City sign a historic mutual recognition agreement in Jerusalem.
• 1995: In Altnaharra (Scottish Highlands) the lowest temperature in the history of the United Kingdom is recorded, with 27.2 °C below zero. The previous two records were Braemar (Aberdeenshire) on 11 February 1895 and 10 January 1982.
• 1996: In the Indian State of Assam, the bode separatists bomb a passenger train and kill 26 people.
• 1996: In Israel, budget cuts ordered by Benjamin Netanyahu trigger the strike of 250,000 workers.
• 1997: In Romania, Miguel I announced his return to Bucharest after fifty years of exile.
• 1997: In Algeria, the worst incident in the history of the insurgency occurs, the Wilaya de Relizane massacres: 400 people are killed in four villages.
• 1999: in Venezuela, the new constitution of the nation is approved and put into effect, thus born the fifth republic.
• 2000: in Metro Manila (Philippines) the Rizal Day Bombardments happen: in the course of a few hours several bombs explode, killing 22 and wounding more than a hundred people.
• 2004: In Buenos Aires, Argentina, the discotheque República Cromañón burns: 194 dead and more than 1432 wounded.
• 2004: In Spain, the Basque Parliament approved the Ibarretxe Plan, which establishes a new political status for the Basque Country.
• 2006: in Baghdad, Iraq, Saddam Hussein is executed on the gallows.
• 2006: In Spain, the terrorist band ETA explodes a powerful car bomb in the car park of Terminal 4 of Madrid-Barajas Airport, effectively interrupting the ceasefire started on March 24. The explosion kills two people of Ecuadorian nationality.
• 2009: The fans of the Indian Film in Latin America and Spain declare 30 December like International Indian Film Day.
• 2009: In Iran the people take the streets of the country to repudiate the violent acts perpetrated by groups on 27 December and to express their support for the Islamic Republic and the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Jamenei.
• 2011: Samoa deletes the calendar day, so that it can advance 24 hours, passing from UTC-11 to UTC+13.
• 2019: The Wuhan City Municipal Health Committee issued an "urgent notice for treatment of pneumonia of unknown cause".
• 2020: In Buenos Aires, the Senate of Argentina legalizes abortion for up to fourteen weeks gestation with 38 votes in favor and 29 against.
• 2020: Becky Hammon became the first female coach in the history of the NBA, after taking over his team San Antonio Spurs for the expulsion of coach Gregg Popovich in a match against the Lakers.
• 2021: in Argentina, 50 000 cases of COVID-19 are first exceeded.

Births

• 39: Titus, Roman emperor (f. 81).
• 1642: Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (f. 1707).
• 1673: Ahmed III, Ottoman sultan (f. 1736).
• 1724: Louis Jean François Lagrénée, French painter (f. 1805).
• 1819: Theodor Fontane, German writer (f. 1898).
• 1837: Marie Lipsius The Mara, historian of German music and writer (f. 1927).
• 1838: Émile Loubet, a French politician (f. 1929).
• 1853: André Messager, composer and director of French orchestra (f. 1929).
• 1873: Al Smith, American politician (f. 1944).

Rudyard Kipling.

• 1865: Rudyard Kipling, British writer and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 (f. 1936).
• 1867: Simon Guggenheim, American philanthropist and industrialist (f. 1941).
• 1878: William Aberhart, Canadian politician (f. 1943).
• 1878: Federico Enrique Bruno Christmann, Argentine physician (f. 1987).
• 1879: Ramana Maharshi, Indian Hindu religious (f. 1950).
• 1882: Angel Roffo, Argentine physician (f. 1947).
• 1884: Hideki Tōjō, general and Japanese prime minister (f. 1948).
• 1890: Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Mexican politician, president of Mexico between 1952 and 1958 (f. 1973).
• 1895: José Bergamín, Spanish writer (f. 1983).
• 1898: Umm Kalzum, Egyptian singer (f. 1975).
• 1901: Manuel Fleitas Solich, footballer and Paraguayan coach (f. 1984).
• 1906: Carol Reed, British filmmaker (f. 1976).
• 1909: Jaime Lazcano, Spanish footballer (f. 1983).
• 1910: Paul Bowles, American writer, composer and traveler (f. 1999).
• 1911: Rafael Calvo, Spanish actor (f. 1988).
• 1911: Jeanette Nolan, American actress (f. 1998).
• 1913: Isabel Mesa Delgado, feminist and Spanish anarcho-syndicalist (f. 2002).
• 1914: Jo Van Fleet, American actress (f. 1996).
• 1918: William Eugene Smith, American photographer (f. 1978).
• 1918: Francisco Aura Boronat, Spanish activist and divulner (f. 2018).
• 1919: Yevdokia Pasko, Soviet aviator (f. 2017)
• 1920: Jack Lord, American actor (f. 1998).
• 1922: Magín Díaz, was a Colombian singer and composer of popular music. (f. 2017).
• 1922: René Benavides, a Chilean businessman and politician (f. 2009).
• 1923: Sara Lidman, Swedish writer (f. 2004).
• 1923: Haydée Santamaría, a Cuban guerrilla and political activist (f. 1980).
• 1925: Margarita Aguirre, writer and critic and Chilean biologist (f. 2003).
• 1927: Robert Hossein, actor, director and writer of French cinema (f. 2020).
• 1928: Bo Diddley, American musician (f. 2008).
• 1930: Your Youyou, Chinese scientist.
• 1932: Hernán Castrillón Restrepo, a Colombian journalist (f. 2000).
• 1934: John Bahcall, American astrophysicist (f. 2005).
• 1934: Joseph Bologna, American actor (f. 2017).
• 1934: Del Shannon, American singer (f. 1990).
• 1935: Omar Bongo, president of Gabon (f. 2009).
• 1935: Sandy Koufax, American baseball player.
• 1937: Gordon Banks, British footballer (f. 2019).
• 1937: Luciano Lutring, Italian criminal (f. 2013).
• 1937: Raquel Olmedo, Mexican actress of Cuban origin.
• 1939: Fernando Ledesma, Spanish politician.
• 1940: Sergio Bitar, Chilean engineer.
• 1942: Vladimir Bukovski, Soviet dissident and writer (f. 2019).
• 1942: Guy Edwards, British Formula 1 pilot.
• 1942: Michael Nesmith, American musician, of the band The Monkees (f. 2021).
• 1942: Fred Ward, American actor.
• 1942: Aníbal Ruiz, footballer and Uruguayan football coach (f. 2017).
• 1943: Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (f. 2002).
• 1945: Davy Jones, British actor and singer, from the band The Monkees (f. 2012).
• 1945: Lloyd Kaufman, American filmmaker.
• 1945: Enrique Borja, Mexican footballer.
• 1946: Marc Forné Molné, politician and Andorran lawyer.
• 1946: Patti Smith, American singer.
• 1946: Berti Vogts, German footballer.
• 1947: Jeff Lynne, British musician, Electric Light Orchestra band.
• 1947: Teresa Parodi, Argentine singer.
• 1948: Randy Schekman, American cell biologist, nobel medical prize in 2013.
• 1949: Pablo Brichta, Argentine actor (f. 2016).
• 1949: Sabin Intxaurraga, Basque nationalist politician (f. 2010).
• 1952: June Anderson, American soprano.
• 1952: Jesús Ferrero, Spanish writer.
• 1953: Bill Kazmaier, American weight lifter.
• 1956: Suzy Bogguss, American singer.
• 1956: Claudia di Girolamo, Chilean actress
• 1958: Lav Diaz, Filipino filmmaker.
• 1959: Tracey Ullman, British actress and singer.
• 1961: Douglas Coupland, Canadian writer.
• 1961: Sean Hannity, Anglo-American radio announcer.
• 1961: Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete.
• 1962: Donato Gama da Silva, Brazilian footballer.
• 1963: Mike Pompeo, American politician and businessman.
• 1965: Heidi Fleiss, Madame Hollywoodense.
• 1965: Santiago Gamboa, Colombian writer.
• 1965: Rubén López, Argentine trompetist of Uruguayan origin.
• 1966: Bennett Miller, American filmmaker.
• 1967: Débora Pérez Volpin, journalist and Argentine politics (f. 2018).
• 1968: Sabir Bhatia, Indian computer, founder of Hotmail in 1996.
• 1969: Jason "Jay" Kay, British singer, Jamiroquai band.
• 1969: Byron McMackin, American drummer, Pennywise.
• 1969: Meredith Monroe, American actress.
• 1971: Ricardo López Felipe, footballer and Spanish coach.
• 1973: Jason Behr, American actor.
• 1973: Ato Boldon, athlete trinitense.
• 1973: Maureen Flannigan, American actress.
• 1974: María Esteve, Spanish actress.
• 1974: Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (f. 2007).
• 1975: Scott Chipperfield, Australian footballer.
• 1975: Tiger Woods, American golfer.
• 1976: Rui Torres, Mexican television driver, program Art Attack (f. 2008).
• 1976: A.J. Pierzynski, American baseball player.
• 1977: Laila Ali, American boxer.
• 1977: Saša Ilić, Serbian footballer.
• 1978: Alonso Filomeno Mayo, Peruvian film director.
• 1978: Zbigniew Robert Prominski, Polish drummer, Behemoth band.
• 1978: Tyrese Gibson, American singer and actor.
• 1979: Flávio Amado, Angolan footballer.

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• 1979: Hernán Boyero, Argentine footballer.
• 1979: Boubacar Barry, Ivorian footballer.
• 1979: Tommy Clufetos, American drummer.
• 1980: Eliza Dushku, American actress.
• 1980: Didier Ilunga Mbenga, Congolese basketball player.
• 1981: Cédric Carrasso, French footballer.
• 1981: Ali Al Habsi, Omani footballer.
• 1982: Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress.
• 1983: Yussif Chibsah, Ghanaian footballer.
• 1984: LeBron James, American basketball player.
• 1986: Marcelo Díaz Rojas, Chilean footballer.
  

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• 1986: Ellie Goulding, British singer.
• 1986: Caity Lotz, American actress, dancer and model.
• 1986: Domenico Criscito, Italian footballer.
• 1986: Gianni Zuiverloon, Dutch footballer.
• 1988: Mariano Werner, Argentine motor racing pilot.
• 1989: Ryan Sheckler, American skater.
• 1992: Gerardo Cruz, Costa Rican baker and activist (f. 2015).
• 1992: Desiree van Lunteren, a Dutch footballer.
• 1992: Michael Eric Reid, American actor.
• 1992: Seo Yu-na, South Korean singer.
• 1994: David von Ballmoos, Swiss footballer.
• 1995: V, South Korean singer belonging to the BTS group.
• 1995: Joshua Hong, Korean-American singer, member of the SEVENTEEN group.
• 1995: Moderates Vorobjovas, Lithuanian footballer.
• 1999: Jean-Clair Todibo, Franco-Guyanese footballer.
• 2007: Axel Kei, Ivorian-American footballer.

Deaths

• 274: Felix I, Catholic Pope between 269 and 274 (n.?).
• 702: Logical, Visigoth king (n.?).
• 1525: Jacob Fugger, a German banker and merchant (n. 1459).
• 1639: Fernando de Valdés and Llano, Spanish bishop (n. 1575).
• 1644: Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Belgian physicist and chemist (n. 1580).
• 1662: Fernando Carlos de Habsburg-Médicis, Austrian aristocrat (n. 1628).
• 1797: Juan de Ayala, a Spanish navy (n. 1745).
• 1808: José Moñino, Spanish politician (n. 1728).
• 1837: Francisco Estruch and Martí, Pavorde, canons professor, (n. 1762).
• 1870: Juan Prim, Spanish military and political (n. 1814).
• 1879: Jean Baptiste Boisduval, botanist and French doctor (n. 1799).
• 1879: Adelardo López de Ayala, a Spanish writer and politician (n. 1828).
• 1890: Francisca Carrasco Jiménez, a Costa Rican peasant and military man (n. 1816).
• 1893: Samuel White Baker, British explorer (n. 1821).
• 1896: José Rizal, Filipino national hero (n. 1861).
• 1899: James Paget, British surgeon and pathologist (n. 1814).
• 1916: Grigori Rasputin, mystic and courtier Russian (n. 1869).
• 1922: José Ortega Munilla, a Spanish writer and journalist (n. 1856).
• 1920: Juan F. Muñoz and Pabon, a Spanish writer and religious (n. 1866).
• 1933: José Ramón Mélida, Spanish archaeologist (n. 1856).
• 1941: The Lissitzky, Russian artist (n. 1890).
• 1944: Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915 (n. 1866).
• 1947: Alfred North Whitehead, British mathematician and philosopher (n. 1861).
• 1958: Francisco Regalado Rodríguez, a Spanish military officer (n. 1881).
• 1961: José Royo Gómez, Spanish geologist (n. 1895).
• 1963: Joaquín Benjumea, Spanish politician (n. 1878).
• 1968: Trygve Lie, Norwegian diplomat, UN Secretary General between 1946 and 1952 (n. 1896).
• 1970: Sonny Liston, American boxer (n. 1932).
• 1973: D. E. Stevenson, Scottish novelist (n. 1892).
• 1978: Arturo Pacheco Altamirano, Chilean painter (n. 1905).
• 1979: Richard Rodgers, American composer (n. 1902).
• 1982: Gabriel Sánchez de la Cuesta, Spanish doctor (n. 1907).
• 1988: Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (n. 1904).
• 1991: Miguel Marín, Argentine footballer (n. 1945).
• 1992: Uncle Gamboín (Ramiro Gamboa), Mexican actor and presenter (n. 1917).
• 1993: Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (n. 1907).
• 1995: Doris Grau, American actress (n. 1924).
• 1995: Heiner Müller, German playwright (n. 1929).
• 1998: Joan Brossa, poet, playwright and Spanish plastic artist (n. 1919).
• 1996: Lew Ayres, American actor (n. 1908).
• 2000: Paco de Antequera, Spanish guitarist (n. 1938).
• 2000: Manuel de Rivacoba, Spanish politician (n. 1925).
• 2002: Gustavo Nocetti, singer of Uruguayan tangos (n. 1959).
• 2003: David Bale, a South African activist (n. 1941).
• 2003: Vladimir Bogomolov, Soviet writer (n. 1926).
• 2003: John Gregory Dunne, an American writer of Irish origin (n. 1932).
• 2004: Alberto Méndez, a Spanish writer (n. 1941).

Artie Shaw.

• 2004: Artie Shaw, director of American jazz orchestra and clarinetist (n. 1910).
• 2006: Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi military and president between 1979 and 2003 (n. 1937).
• 2007: Xaime Quesada Porto, painter, engraver, stage designer and Spanish artist (n. 1937).
• 2009: Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian politician, president between 1999 and 2001 (n. 1940).
• 2009: Ivan Zulueta, Spanish filmmaker (n. 1943).
• 2009: Concha Linares-Becerra, Spanish novelist (n. 1910).
• 2010: Bobby Farrell, Dutch singer, from the Boney M band (n. 1949).
• 2011: Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis, Mexican architect (n. 1931).
• 2011: Diego Rapoport, a key player and Argentine composer of jazz and rock (n. 1948).
• 2012: Rita Levi-Montalcini, neurologist and Italian politics (n. 1909).
• 2012: Carl Woese, American microbiologist (n. 1928).
• 2013: Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish skier (n. 1937).
• 2013: Akeem Adams, footballer trinitense (n. 1991).
• 2014: Luise Rainer, an American nationalized German actress (n. 1910).
• 2018: Héctor Timerman, Argentine diplomat and politician (n. 1953).
• 2019: Syd Mead, American industrial designer (n. 1933).
• 2020: Dawn Wells, American actress (n. 1938).
• 2022: Barbara Walters, American presenter (n. 1939).

Celebrations

International Indian Film Day

Catholic saints list

• St Felix I, Pope (274).
• Saint Hermetes of Bononia, exorcist and martyr (s. III/IV).
• Saint Anisio of Thessalonica, bishop (c. 406).
• Saint Perpetual of Tours, Bishop (491).
• Saint Jocundo of Aosta, bishop (c. 502).
• Saint Geremaro de Flay, Abbot (c. 658).
• St Egvino of Worcester, Bishop (707).
• San Rainerio de Furcone, bishop (1077).
• St. Rogerio de Canne, bishop (s. XII).
• Saint Lawrence of Fraxanone, monk (c. 1162).
• Blessed Margarita Colonna, virgin (1280).
• Blessed Eugenia Rivasco, virgin (1900)
• Blessed Juan María Boccardo, priest (1913).