About December 30
December 30, 2025 is the 364th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There is one day remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 49 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 30
- 1460 –Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield.
- 1702 –Queen Anne’s War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.
- 1896 –Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila, Philippines.
- 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.
- 1916 –The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.
- 1936 –The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.
- 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.
- 1977 –For the second time, Ted Bundy escapes from his cell in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
- 1993 –Israel and Vatican City establish diplomatic relations.
- 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.
- 2004 –A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
- 2006 –Madrid Barajas International Airport is bombed.
- 2006 –The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths.
- 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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