Major Events
- 1460 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield (Northern England), Duke of York killed and his forces soundly defeated by forces of King Henry VI
- 1906 The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, later laid down the foundations of Pakistan
- 1922 Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, organized as a union (U) of Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian and Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR).
- 1924 Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces existence of other galactic systems at meeting of the American Astronomical Society
- 1950 Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become Independent states within the French Union
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Dec 30 in Film & TV
- 1953 The first ever NTSC color television sets go on sale for about USD at $1,175 each from RCA.
- 1968 Frank Sinatra first records "My Way" with lyrics were written by Paul Anka and based on the French song "Comme d'habitude"
Dec 30 in Sport
Did You Know?
Abraham Mills' Mills Committee declares baseball was invented in 1839 by future American Civil War general Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York; widely disproven, now known as 'the Doubleday myth'
Titus
Rudyard Kipling
Hideki Tojo
Rodney Brooks
Mike Pompeo
Kevin Systrom
Davy Jones
Bo Diddley
Ellie Goulding
Kim Tae-hyung
William Larned
Sandy Koufax
Alexander Huber
Tiger Woods
LeBron James
Fun Fact About December 30
Dinner party held inside life-sized model of an Iguanodon (ornithopod dinosaur), created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in South London
Famous Weddings
- 1816 English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (24) marries 2nd wife writer "Frankenstein" Mary Godwin (19) and daughter of early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft
- 1852 Future US President Rutherford B. Hayes (30) weds teetotaler and abolitionist Lucy Webb (21)
- 1857 Confederate army cavalry battalion commander John S. Mosby (24) weds Pauline Clarke in Nashville
Famous Divorces
- 1955 Actor Gregory Peck (39) divorces real estate broker Greta Kukkonen (44) after 13 years of marriage
More December 30 Weddings
José Rizal
Grigori Rasputin
Sonny Liston
Richard Rodgers
Saddam Hussein
Barbara Walters
