December 30 - Events

Events

• 1066 – Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizierJoseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.
• 1460 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield.
• 1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis is proclaimed.
• 1853 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in theSouthwest.
• 1853 – A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London.
• 1862 – The USS Monitor sinks off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
• 1896 – José Rizal is executed by firing squad in Manila.
• 1897 – Natal annexes Zululand.
• 1903 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills 600.
• 1905 – Former Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated near his home in Caldwell, Idaho.
• 1906 – The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan.
• 1916 – The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.
• 1919 – Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student.
• 1922 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.
• 1924 – Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.
• 1927 – The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
• 1936 – The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.
• 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 – King Michael of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
• 1948 – The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate (1,077 performances), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.
• 1965 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: The United States halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
• 1977 – For the second time, Ted Bundy escapes from his cell in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
• 1981 – In the 39th game of his 3rd NHL season Wayne Gretzky scores 5 goals giving him 50 on the year setting a new NHL record previously held by Maurice Richard and Mike Bossy who earlier had each scored 50 goals in 50 games.
• 1993 – Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations.
• 1996 – In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.
• 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 International Airport is bombed.
• 2006 – Deposed President of Iraq Saddam Hussein, convicted of the executions of 148 Iraqi Shiites, is executed by hanging.