A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on December 30 throughout history.
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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
All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca in East Bengal, British India, later lays the foundations for Pakistan
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)
Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces the existence of other galaxies at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society
Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become independent states within the French Union
Color television (American English) or colour television (British English) is a television transmission technology that also includes color information for the picture, so the video image can be...
"My Way" is an English-language lyrical adaptation of the French song "Comme d'habitude", written by Paul Anka and released by Frank Sinatra in 1969.
Donald Bradman scores 267 for South Australia against Victoria, a world record 34th first-class double century
English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (24) marries 2nd wife writer "Frankenstein" Mary Godwin (19) and daughter of early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft
Future US President Rutherford B. Hayes (30) weds teetotaler and abolitionist Lucy Webb (21)
Confederate army cavalry battalion commander John S. Mosby (24) weds Pauline Clarke in Nashville
American actor Gregory Peck (39) divorces Finnish-American real estate broker Greta Kukkonen (44) after 13 years of marriage
French King Hugo Capet crowns his son Robert the compassionate king
Pontifical decree "Sancta Romania" against spiritualists
Sweden's original Drottningholm Palace burns down, rebuilt from 1662 in its modern form to design by Nikodemus Tessin
"Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi departs to Constantinople
Abraham Crijnssen departs to Suriname
Baron Karl Rabenhaupt occupies Coevorden, Netherlands
Don Francisco de Agurto installed as land guardian of Southern Netherlands
Dido and Aeneas (Z. 626) is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate.
One of the earliest music concerts in North America held at Peter Pelham's Great Room in Boston, Massachusetts
The Directory (also called Directorate; French: le Directoire [diʁɛktwaʁ] ) was the system of government established by the French Constitution of 1795.
Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
Danzig surrenders to allied armies
The Treaty of St. Louis of 1816 was treaty signed by Ninian Edwards, William Clark, and Auguste Chouteau for the United States and representatives of the Council of Three Fires (united tribes of...
Lehman Theater in St Petersburg catches fire; 100s die
Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)
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
Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC
The Knights of Labor (K of L), officially the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, was the largest American labor movement of the 19th century, claiming for a time nearly one million...
American Metrological Society forms (NYC) weights, measures & money
Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms
Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal
Russia signs military accord with France
Province of Zululand annexed to Natal colony
American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans
Former Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated near his home in Caldwell, Idaho
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
Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers outscore Edmonton HC, 14-9 in 2 game challenge series
Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 & 9-103)
Cromarty Harbour, Scotland - British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die
-32°F (-36°C) in Mountain City, Tennessee (state record)
Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student.
NSW score 705 against Victoria, go from 8-475 to 9-701
Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substantiated)
Japan dedicates 1st subway in Orient (route under 2 miles long)
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. (ΣΓΡ) is a historically African American sorority. The sorority was founded on November 12, 1922.
-50°F (-46°C) in Bloomfield, Vermont (state record)
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
Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
California's 1st freeway, (Arroyo Seco Parkway), opens
Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps & cash
George II was King of Greece from 27 September 1922 until 25 March 1924, and again from 25 November 1935 until his death on 1 April 1947. The eldest son of King Constantine I of Greece and Princess...
King Michael of Romania, forced by Communists abdicates his throne, sending him into exlie
The People's Republic of China is the second most-populous country in the world with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, only surpassed by India.
An answer song, response song or answer record is a song (usually a recorded track) made in answer to a previous song, normally by another artist.
"The Roy Rogers Show", American Western television series starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans debuts on NBC; runs for 6 seasons
Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US
Harold Arlen and Truman Capote's musical "House of Flowers" premieres at Alvin Theater, NYC; runs for 165 performances
The franc (French: franc français, [fʁɑ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛ]; sign: F or Fr), also commonly distinguished as the French franc (FF), was a currency of France.
George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in...
Edward Albee's play "Tiny Alice" premieres on Broadway in NYC
Beatles' "Hello Goodbye" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
-48°F (-44°C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)
USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
The financial cost of the disturbances and riots in Northern Ireland during 1969 and 1970 are today estimated to be £5.5 million
A member of the Irish Republican Army is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Santry, Dublin.
The Beatles were an English rock band, active from 1960 to 1970. From 1962 onwards, the band's members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
Ballon d'Or: 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
USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Jimmy Carter's tenure as the 39th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1977, and ended on January 20, 1981.
The Ohio State University abuse scandal centered on allegations of sexual abuse that occurred between 1978 and 1998, while Richard Strauss was employed as a physician by the Ohio State University...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (informally known as ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970.
"Wonderful World of Disney" last performance on NBC-TV
Ballon d'Or: Bayern Munich forward Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is named best European football player; beats German international teammate Bernd Schuster of FC Barcelona and Saint-Étienne midfielder Michel Platini
Anthony Shaffer's "Whodunnit" premieres in NYC
IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released
Ballon d'Or: Dynamo Kyiv's Ukrainian forward Igor Belanov is named best football player in Europe ahead of Barcelona striker Gary Lineker and Real Madrid forward Emilio Butragueño
Australia hang on for draw v New Zealand at MCG, 1 wkt left 17 runs short
Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US
10th United Negro College Fund raises $12,000,000
11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
The Australian cricket team is the most successful team in the Cricket World Cup winning the 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015, and 2023 editions.
Vatican recognizes Israel
Lowest ever UK temperature recorded of -27.2°C iat Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands, equaling the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire on February 11, 1895 and January 10, 1982
An abandoned building collapses on NY's 42nd St, no one hurt
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.
The Plame affair (also known as the CIA leak scandal and Plamegate) was a political scandal that revolved around journalist Robert Novak's public identification of Valerie Plame as a covert Central...
On 30 December 2004, a fire broke out in the crowded República Cromañón nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 194 people and leaving at least 1,492 injured.
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
On 30 December 2006, a van bomb exploded in the Terminal 4 parking area at the Madrid–Barajas Airport in Spain, killing two and injuring 52.
Michael Edward Shanahan ( SHAN-ə-han; born August 24, 1952) is an American former football coach, best known as the head coach of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL) from 1995 to...
19 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Balochistan, Pakistan
15 people are killed in a trolley-bus bomb attack in Voglograd, Russia
Michael Edward Shanahan ( SHAN-ə-han; born August 24, 1952) is an American former football coach, best known as the head coach of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL) from 1995 to...
83rd Orange Bowl: #10 Florida State beats #6 Michigan, 33-32
The 2017 Orange Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 30, 2017 at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.
86th Orange Bowl: #6 Florida beats #24 Virginia, 36-28
Argentina is the first major Latin American country to legalize abortion (signed into law 14 Jan 2021)
Rare winter wildfire destroys nearly 1000 homes at the base of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, in suburban neighborhoods between Boulder and Denver [1]
"Queen" guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May (75) receives a British knighthood for his service to music and charity [1]
Britney Spears sells the rights to her entire music catalog, including nine studio albums since 1999, to Primary Wave for around $200 million USD [1]
Rodney Brooks is born
Mike Pompeo, American politician and diplomat, known for american politician and diplomat, was born on 1964-12-30.
Kevin Systrom, American computer programmer and entrepreneur, known for american computer programmer and entrepreneur, was born on 1984-12-30.
Ellie Goulding, English musician, known for english singer and songwriter, was born on 1987-12-30. Elena Jane Goulding is an English singer-songwriter and activist.
Kim Tae-hyung is born
William Larned is born
Sandy Koufax, American athlete, known for american baseball player, was born on 1936-12-30.
Alexander Huber is born
Tiger Woods, American athlete, known for american professional golfer, was born on 1976-12-30. Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer.
LeBron James, American athlete, known for american basketball player, was born on 1985-12-30.
French King Hugo Capet crowns his son Robert the compassionate king
Pontifical decree "Sancta Romania" against spiritualists
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
Sweden's original Drottningholm Palace burns down, rebuilt from 1662 in its modern form to design by Nikodemus Tessin
"Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi departs to Constantinople
Abraham Crijnssen departs to Suriname
Baron Karl Rabenhaupt occupies Coevorden, Netherlands
Don Francisco de Agurto installed as land guardian of Southern Netherlands
Dido and Aeneas (Z. 626) is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate.
One of the earliest music concerts in North America held at Peter Pelham's Great Room in Boston, Massachusetts
The Directory (also called Directorate; French: le Directoire [diʁɛktwaʁ] ) was the system of government established by the French Constitution of 1795.
Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
Danzig surrenders to allied armies
English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (24) marries 2nd wife writer "Frankenstein" Mary Godwin (19) and daughter of early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft
The Treaty of St. Louis of 1816 was treaty signed by Ninian Edwards, William Clark, and Auguste Chouteau for the United States and representatives of the Council of Three Fires (united tribes of...
Lehman Theater in St Petersburg catches fire; 100s die
Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)
Future US President Rutherford B. Hayes (30) weds teetotaler and abolitionist Lucy Webb (21)
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
Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC
Confederate army cavalry battalion commander John S. Mosby (24) weds Pauline Clarke in Nashville
The Knights of Labor (K of L), officially the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, was the largest American labor movement of the 19th century, claiming for a time nearly one million...
William Larned is born
American Metrological Society forms (NYC) weights, measures & money
Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms
Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal
Russia signs military accord with France
José Rizal, Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath, known for filipino nationalist, writer and polymath, died on 1896-12-30.
Province of Zululand annexed to Natal colony
American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans
Former Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated near his home in Caldwell, Idaho
All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca in East Bengal, British India, later lays the foundations for Pakistan
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
Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers outscore Edmonton HC, 14-9 in 2 game challenge series
Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 & 9-103)
Cromarty Harbour, Scotland - British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die
-32°F (-36°C) in Mountain City, Tennessee (state record)
Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student.
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)
Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces the existence of other galaxies at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society
NSW score 705 against Victoria, go from 8-475 to 9-701
Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substantiated)
Japan dedicates 1st subway in Orient (route under 2 miles long)
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. (ΣΓΡ) is a historically African American sorority. The sorority was founded on November 12, 1922.
-50°F (-46°C) in Bloomfield, Vermont (state record)
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
Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
Sandy Koufax, American athlete, known for american baseball player, was born on 1936-12-30.
Donald Bradman scores 267 for South Australia against Victoria, a world record 34th first-class double century
California's 1st freeway, (Arroyo Seco Parkway), opens
Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps & cash
George II was King of Greece from 27 September 1922 until 25 March 1924, and again from 25 November 1935 until his death on 1 April 1947. The eldest son of King Constantine I of Greece and Princess...
King Michael of Romania, forced by Communists abdicates his throne, sending him into exlie
The People's Republic of China is the second most-populous country in the world with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, only surpassed by India.
Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become independent states within the French Union
An answer song, response song or answer record is a song (usually a recorded track) made in answer to a previous song, normally by another artist.
"The Roy Rogers Show", American Western television series starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans debuts on NBC; runs for 6 seasons
Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US
Color television (American English) or colour television (British English) is a television transmission technology that also includes color information for the picture, so the video image can be...
Harold Arlen and Truman Capote's musical "House of Flowers" premieres at Alvin Theater, NYC; runs for 165 performances
American actor Gregory Peck (39) divorces Finnish-American real estate broker Greta Kukkonen (44) after 13 years of marriage
Rodney Brooks is born
The franc (French: franc français, [fʁɑ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛ]; sign: F or Fr), also commonly distinguished as the French franc (FF), was a currency of France.
George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in...
Edward Albee's play "Tiny Alice" premieres on Broadway in NYC
Mike Pompeo, American politician and diplomat, known for american politician and diplomat, was born on 1964-12-30.
Beatles' "Hello Goodbye" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
"My Way" is an English-language lyrical adaptation of the French song "Comme d'habitude", written by Paul Anka and released by Frank Sinatra in 1969.
-48°F (-44°C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)
USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Alexander Huber is born
The financial cost of the disturbances and riots in Northern Ireland during 1969 and 1970 are today estimated to be £5.5 million
A member of the Irish Republican Army is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Santry, Dublin.
The Beatles were an English rock band, active from 1960 to 1970. From 1962 onwards, the band's members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
Ballon d'Or: 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
USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Tiger Woods, American athlete, known for american professional golfer, was born on 1976-12-30. Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer.
Jimmy Carter's tenure as the 39th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1977, and ended on January 20, 1981.
The Ohio State University abuse scandal centered on allegations of sexual abuse that occurred between 1978 and 1998, while Richard Strauss was employed as a physician by the Ohio State University...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (informally known as ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970.
"Wonderful World of Disney" last performance on NBC-TV
Ballon d'Or: Bayern Munich forward Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is named best European football player; beats German international teammate Bernd Schuster of FC Barcelona and Saint-Étienne midfielder Michel Platini
Anthony Shaffer's "Whodunnit" premieres in NYC
Kevin Systrom, American computer programmer and entrepreneur, known for american computer programmer and entrepreneur, was born on 1984-12-30.
IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released
LeBron James, American athlete, known for american basketball player, was born on 1985-12-30.
Ballon d'Or: Dynamo Kyiv's Ukrainian forward Igor Belanov is named best football player in Europe ahead of Barcelona striker Gary Lineker and Real Madrid forward Emilio Butragueño
Australia hang on for draw v New Zealand at MCG, 1 wkt left 17 runs short
Ellie Goulding, English musician, known for english singer and songwriter, was born on 1987-12-30. Elena Jane Goulding is an English singer-songwriter and activist.
Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US
10th United Negro College Fund raises $12,000,000
11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
The Australian cricket team is the most successful team in the Cricket World Cup winning the 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015, and 2023 editions.
Vatican recognizes Israel
Lowest ever UK temperature recorded of -27.2°C iat Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands, equaling the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire on February 11, 1895 and January 10, 1982
Kim Tae-hyung is born
An abandoned building collapses on NY's 42nd St, no one hurt
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.
The Plame affair (also known as the CIA leak scandal and Plamegate) was a political scandal that revolved around journalist Robert Novak's public identification of Valerie Plame as a covert Central...
On 30 December 2004, a fire broke out in the crowded República Cromañón nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 194 people and leaving at least 1,492 injured.
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
On 30 December 2006, a van bomb exploded in the Terminal 4 parking area at the Madrid–Barajas Airport in Spain, killing two and injuring 52.
Michael Edward Shanahan ( SHAN-ə-han; born August 24, 1952) is an American former football coach, best known as the head coach of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL) from 1995 to...
19 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Balochistan, Pakistan
15 people are killed in a trolley-bus bomb attack in Voglograd, Russia
Michael Edward Shanahan ( SHAN-ə-han; born August 24, 1952) is an American former football coach, best known as the head coach of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL) from 1995 to...
83rd Orange Bowl: #10 Florida State beats #6 Michigan, 33-32
The 2017 Orange Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 30, 2017 at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.
86th Orange Bowl: #6 Florida beats #24 Virginia, 36-28
Argentina is the first major Latin American country to legalize abortion (signed into law 14 Jan 2021)
Rare winter wildfire destroys nearly 1000 homes at the base of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, in suburban neighborhoods between Boulder and Denver [1]
"Queen" guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May (75) receives a British knighthood for his service to music and charity [1]
Britney Spears sells the rights to her entire music catalog, including nine studio albums since 1999, to Primary Wave for around $200 million USD [1]