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
- 1066 –Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.
- 1816 –The Treaty of St. Louis (1816) between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.
- 1853 –Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
- 1897 –The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
- 1903 –A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
- 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.
- 1944 –King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2005 –Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.
- 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.
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