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On this day - December 30
534 — The second and final edition of the Code of Justinian comes ...
999 — Battle of Glenmama: The combined forces of Munster and Meath ...
1066 — Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in ...
1419 — Hundred Years' War: Battle of La Rochelle.
1460 — Wars of the Roses: Lancastrians kill the 3rd Duke of York and ...
1641 — Reapers' War: Louis XIII of France swears the Catalan ...
1702 — Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province ...
1813 — War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.
1816 — The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the ...
1825 — The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the ...
1853 — Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to ...
1890 — Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army ...
1896 — Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first ...
1896 — Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by ...
1897 — The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
1902 — The Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott attains a ...
1903 — A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at ...
1905 — Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the ...
1906 — The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, ...
1916 — The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles ...
1916 — Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich ...
1922 — The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed.
1927 — The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, ...
1935 — The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital ...
1936 — The Flint sit-down strike hits General Motors.
1943 — Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at ...
1944 — King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the ...
1947 — Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by ...
1952 — An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashes in Luqa, Malta after an ...
1954 — The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation is established to ...
1958 — The Guatemalan Air Force sinks several Mexican fishing boats ...
1967 — Aeroflot Flight L-51 crashes near Liepāja International ...
1970 — Hurricane Creek mine disaster, near Hyden, Kentucky
1972 — Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker II ends.
1987 — Stella Sigcau, Prime minister of the South African Bantustan ...
1993 — Israel establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City and ...
1996 — Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from ...
1997 — In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya ...
2000 — Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various ...
2004 — A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, ...
2005 — Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying ...
2006 — Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed.
2006 — The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in ...
2006 — Madrid–Barajas Airport is bombed.
2009 — A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base ...
2009 — A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures ...
2013 — More than 100 people are killed when anti-government forces ...
2020 — A large explosion at the airport in the southern Yemeni city ...