30 December

The **30t o December** is the 364t day (365t in lowp years) o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 1 day bidin.

## Events

* 1661 - Drottningholm Castle in Swaden is destroyed bi fire.
* 1853 - Gadsden Purchase: The Unitit States gains the soothren pairts o New Mexico an Arizona frae Mexico.
* 1880 - Tahiti becomes a French colony as pairt o French Polynesie.
* 1896 - in the Philippines, poleetical figure José Rizal is executit.
* 1903 - A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago kills 590 fowk.
* 1915 - Armoured cruiser "Natal" sinks in the Cromarty Firth, killin 405 fowk.
* 1916 - Murther o Grigori Rasputin.
* 1916 - Charles I o Austrick is crouned as the last Keeng o Hungary.
* 1922 - The Soviet Union is foondit.
* 1927 - The Ginza Line, the first subway in East Asie, opens in Tokyo.
* 1947 - Michael I o Romanie is forced tae abdicate.
* 1965 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes Preses o the Philippines.
* 1993 - Vatican Ceety an Israel stairt diplomatic relations.
* 2000 - Bombs on the Manila Metro kill 22 fowk.
* 2002 - Mwai Kibaki becomes Preses o Kenyae.
* 2004 - A fire at a Buenos Aires nichtclub kills 194 fowk.
* 2005 - Tropical storm "Zeta" forms in the North Atlantic Ocean.
* 2006 - Execution o Saddam Hussein.
* 2006 - Indonesie ferry "MV Senopati Nusantara" sinks in the Java Sea, killin at least 400 fowk.
* 2008 - Herman Van Rompuy becomes Prime meenister o Belgium.
* 2011 - This date is missed in Samoa an Tokelau as the Internaitional Date Line is shifted East. American Samoa remains in the same time zone as afore.
* 2013 - A bus bombin in Volgograd, soothren Roushie, kills 14 fowk.
* 2019 - Umwhile Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn flees frae Japan, whaur he is awaitin trial, tae Lebanon.

## Births

* 39 - Titus, Roman Emperor (d. 81)
* 1673 - Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1736)
* 1819 - Theodor Fontane, German writer (d. 1898)
* 1865 - Rudyard Kipling, Inglis writer (d. 1936)
* 1880 - William Agnew, Scots fitbawer (d. 1936)
* 1884 - Hideki Tojo, Prime meenister o Japan (d. 1948)
* 1928 - Bo Diddley, American muisicker (d. 2008)
* 1930 - Sachiko Honda, Japanese Go player (d. 2020)
* 1930 - Tu Youyou, Cheenese pharmaceutical chemist an eddicator
* 1933 - Andy Stewart, Scots sangster an enterteener (d. 1993)
* 1935 - Omar Bongo, Preses o Gabon (d. 2009)
* 1935 - Sandy Koufax, American basebaw player
* 1937 - Gordon Banks, Inglis fitbawer (d. 2019)
* 1940 - Willie O'Neill, Scots fitbawer
* 1942 - Anne Charleston, Australian actress
* 1942 - Michael Nesmith, Amrican muisicker
* 1945 - Davy Jones, Inglis sangster (d. 2012)
* 1946 - Patti Smith, American sangster an poet
* 1946 - Berti Vogts, German fitbawer an manager
* 1959 - Tracey Ullman, Inglis-American actress an sangster
* 1961 - Bill English, 39nt Prime meenister o New Zealand
* 1961 - Charlie Nicholas, Scots fitbawer
* 1963 - Mike Pompeo, 70t Unitit States Secretar o State
* 1969 - Kersti Kaljulaid, 5t Preses o Estonie
* 1973 - Maureen Flannigan, American actress
* 1975 - Tiger Woods, American gowfer
* 1984 - LeBron James, American basketbaw player
* 1986 - Ellie Goulding, Inglis sangster-sangwriter
* 1988 - Leon Jackson, Scots sangster
* 1994 - Barrie McKay, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 274 - Pape Felix I
* 1591 - Pape Innocent IX (b. 1519)
* 1691 - Robert Boyle, Erse scientist (b. 1625)
* 1878 - Adam White, Scots zoologist (b. 1817)
* 1887 - Alexander Dickson, Scots botanist (b. 1836)
* 1896 - José Rizal, Filipino poleetical figure (b. 1865)
* 1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Roushie monk (b. 1869)
* 1944 - Romain Rolland, French writer (b. 1866)
* 1968 - Trygve Lie, 1st Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions (b. 1896)
* 2006 - Saddam Hussein, dictator o Iraq (b. 1937)
* 2009 - Abdurrahman Wahid, Preses o Indonesie (b. 1940)
* 2012 - Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist (b. 1909)
* 2014 - Luise Rainer, German actress (b. 1910)
* 2019 - Marion Chesney, Scots writer (b. 1936)

## Halidays
* Rizal Day (Philippines)