Important Historical Events Today, What Happened Today in History?
Today's Historical Events. What Happened This Day In History? Here is a chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened 30 December in history.
Historical Events on December 30
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 534 | The second and final edition of the Code of Justinian comes into effect in the Byzantine Empire. |
| 999 | Battle of Glenmama: The combined forces of Munster and Meath under king Brian Boru inflict a crushing defeat on the allied armies of Leinster and Dublin near Lyons Hill in Ireland. |
| 1066 | Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city. |
| 1419 | Hundred Years' War: Battle of La Rochelle. |
| 1460 | Wars of the Roses: Lancastrians kill the 3rd Duke of York and win the Battle of Wakefield. |
| 1702 | Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine. |
| 1813 | War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York. |
| 1816 | The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed. |
| 1825 | The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed. |
| 1853 | Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest. |
| 1890 | Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight. |
| 1896 | Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila. |
| 1896 | Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5. |
| 1897 | The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand. |
| 1902 | The Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott attained a Farthest South at 82°17′S in Antarctica. |
| 1903 | A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605. |
| 1905 | Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell. |
| 1906 | The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh). |
| 1916 | Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Petrograd river three days later. |
| 1916 | The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita. |
| 1922 | The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed. |
| 1927 | The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan. |
| 1935 | The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. |
| 1936 | The Flint sit-down strike hits General Motors. |
| 1943 | Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair. |
| 1944 | King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant. |
| 1947 | Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania. |
| 1952 | An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashes in Luqa, Malta after an engine failure, killing three crew members and a civilian on the ground. |
| 1954 | The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation is established to consolidate criminal investigation and intelligence into a single agency. |
| 1958 | The Guatemalan Air Force sinks several Mexican fishing boats alleged to have breached maritime borders, killing three and sparking international tension. |
| 1967 | Aeroflot Flight L-51 crashes near Liepāja International Airport in Liepāja, Latvia, killing 43. |
| 1972 | Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker II ends. |
| 1987 | Stella Sigcau, Prime minister of the South African Bantustan of Transkei, is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Bantu Holomisa. |
| 1993 | Israel establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City and also upgrades to full diplomatic relations with Ireland. |
| 1996 | Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel. |
| 1997 | In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed. |
| 2000 | Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred. |
| 2004 | A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 194. |
| 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. |
| 2006 | Madrid–Barajas Airport is bombed. |
| 2006 | The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths. |
| 2006 | Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed. |
| 2009 | A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000 L (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River. |
| 2009 | A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan. |
| 2013 | More than 100 people are killed when anti-government forces attack key buildings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
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