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December 30th Calendar By Years in History

  • Calendar Day of Week for December 30th. It's the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 1 days left to the end of the year.

Historical Events for December 30th

  • Year 1018 Calendar » The Peace of Bautzen is signed between Poland and Germany.
  • Year 1607 Calendar » An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in the Kingdom of England are destroyed by Bristol Channel floods, 1607 or massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
  • Year 1649 Calendar » King Charles I of England is beheaded.
  • Year 1661 Calendar » Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector Cromwellian republican Commonwealth e.g Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of Charles I of England e.g the monarch he himself de
  • Year 1667 Calendar » The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo.
  • Year 1703 Calendar » The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
  • Year 1790 Calendar » The first boat specializing as a Lifeboat (rescue) or lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
  • Year 1806 Calendar » The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania or Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
  • Year 1820 Calendar » Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
  • Year 1835 Calendar » In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence (failed assassin) known as Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen.
  • Year 1841 Calendar » A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
  • Year 1847 Calendar » Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
  • Year 1858 Calendar » The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
  • Year 1862 Calendar » The first American ironclad warship, the USS e.g Monitor is launched.
  • Year 1889 Calendar » Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austria-Hungary called Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling Incident named Mayerling.
  • Year 1902 Calendar » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
  • Year 1908 Calendar » Mahatma Gandhi named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to 2 months in jail earlier in the month.
  • Year 1911 Calendar » The destroyer USS Terry DD-25 6 makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
  • Year 1911 » The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
  • Year 1913 Calendar » The British House of Lords rejects the Government of Ireland Act 1914 called Irish Home Rule Bill.
  • Year 1925 Calendar » The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI of Constantinople named Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
  • Year 1933 Calendar » Adolf Hitler Machtergreifung e.g is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany (German Reich) named Chancellor of Germany.
  • Year 1942 Calendar » World War II: Empire of Japan Japanese forces Battle of Ambon invade the island of Ambon Island Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.
  • Year 1943 Calendar » World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago CA-29 6 is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.
  • Year 1944 Calendar » World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
  • Year 1944 » World War II: American troops land on Majuro.
  • Year 1945 Calendar » World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
  • Year 1945 » World War II: The 'KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff or Wilhelm Gustloff', overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet Union or Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximatel
  • Year 1948 Calendar » Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known for his non-violent freedom struggle, is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
  • Year 1959 Calendar » ship MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.
  • Year 1960 Calendar » The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
  • Year 1964 Calendar » Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
  • Year 1968 Calendar » Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
  • Year 1972 Calendar » Bloody Sunday (1972) or Bloody Sunday: Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom) called British Paratroopers open fire on and kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland.
  • Year 1972 » Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • Year 1975 Calendar » The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
  • Year 1979 Calendar » A Varig Boeing 707 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Varig Flight 820 Flight 820, 1979 Boeing 707-323C disappearance disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
  • Year 1982 Calendar » Richard Skrenta writes the first PC Computer virus e.g virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple Inc. or Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
  • Year 1989 Calendar » The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
  • Year 1994 Calendar » Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grandmaster.
  • Year 1995 Calendar » Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.

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