About December 30
December 30, 2023 is the 364th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There is one day remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 42 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1919 –Lincoln’s Inn in London admits its first female bar student.
- 1924 –Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.
- 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.
- 1965 –Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.
- 1977 –For the second time, Ted Bundy escapes from his cell in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
- 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.
- 2004 –A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
- 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.
- 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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