About December 30
December 30, 2024 is the 365th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There is one day remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 30 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 30
- 1702 –Queen Anne’s War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.
- 1825 –The Treaty of St. Louis (1825) between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.
- 1897 –The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
- 1905 –Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Vatican City establish diplomatic relations.
- 1996 –In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.
- 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.
- 2006 –Madrid Barajas International Airport is bombed.
- 2009 –A segment of Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha product oil pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150000 l of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.
- 2011 –Due to a change of time zone the day is skipped in Samoa and Tokelau.
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