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
- 1460 –Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield.
- 1853 –Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
- 1896 –Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila, Philippines.
- 1903 –A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
- 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.
- 1922 –The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.
- 1924 –Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.
- 1927 –The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2004 –A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
- 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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