Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 30
This is a list of selected December 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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A pro-government rally in Tehran -
The second inauguration of Ferdinand Marcos -
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1066 – A Muslim mob stormed the royal palace in Granada, crucified vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacred most of the Berber Jewish population of the city. | Article consists mainly of a biography of one victim, which should be split to another article. The remainder is largely direct quotes from sources |
| 1853 – The United States purchased approximately 29,700 square miles (77,000 km2) of land south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande from Mexico for $10 million. | Multiple uncited paragraphs |
| 1896 – Philippine Revolution: Nationalist José Rizal was executed by a firing squad in Manila after Spanish authorities convicted him of rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy. | Template:Ancestry of José Rizal unreferenced |
| 1916 – Emperor Charles I of Austria and Empress Zita were crowned as the last King and Queen of Hungary. | refimprove section |
| 1922 – The Treaty on the Creation of the USSR, legalizing the creation of a union of several Soviet republics in the form of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was ratified. | refimprove |
| 1927 – The Ginza Line, the oldest underground subway line in Asia, opened in Tokyo. | refimprove |
| 1947 – Michael, King of Romania, was forced to abdicate by the country's communist government. | refimprove section |
| 2004 – A fire broke out in the República Cromañón nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 194 people and injuring 714 others. | multiple issues |
Eligible
- 999 – In Ireland, the combined forces of Munster and Meath crushed a rebellion by Leinster and Dublin.
- 1460 – Wars of the Roses: At the Battle of Wakefield, Lancastrian forces destroyed the Yorkist army and killed Richard of York (pictured) at Sandal Magna in West Yorkshire, England.
- 1902 – The Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott attained a new Farthest South point in Antarctica.
- 1903 – In one of the deadliest single-building fires in United States history, the Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago killed more than 600 people.
- 1906 – The All-India Muslim League, a political party in British India that developed into the driving force behind the creation of Pakistan as a Muslim state on the Indian subcontinent, was founded in Dhaka.
- 1935 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: The Italian Air Force destroyed a Swedish Red Cross field hospital in Dolo, Ethiopia, in retaliation for the earlier execution of an Italian prisoner of war.
- 1954 – The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation was established to consolidate criminal investigation and intelligence into a single agency.
- 1969 – Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos began his second term after being re-elected by a landslide, but economic unrest led him to declare martial law within a year.
- 2000 – A series of bombings occurred around Metro Manila in the Philippines, killing 22 people and injuring around 100 others.
- 2005 – Tropical Storm Zeta was declared a tropical depression, making it the record-breaking 28th tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, the most active in recorded history until 2020.
- 2006 – The Indonesian ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sank in the Java Sea during a storm, killing at least 400 people.
- 2006 – Basque nationalist group ETA detonated a van bomb at Madrid–Barajas Airport in Spain, ending a nine-month ceasefire.
- 2006 – Saddam Hussein, the former President of Iraq, was executed after being found guilty of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal.
- 2009 – Due to a rupture of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline in Shaanxi, China, caused approximately 150,000 l (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil flowed down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River six days later.
- 2009 – Pro-government counter-demonstrators held rallies in several Iranian cities in response to recent anti-government protests on the holy day of Ashura.
- Born/died this day: | Bernard Gui |d|1331| Vincenzo da Filicaja |b|1642| Charles Yorke |b|1722| Sebastián Kindelán y O'Regan |b|1757| Osman Hamdi Bey |b|1842| André Messager |b|1853| Rudyard Kipling |b|1865| Josephine Butler |d|1906| Rosalinde Hurley |b|1929| Elmira Minita Gordon |b|1930| Fatima Jibrell |b|1947| Liam Norberg |b|1969| Bianca Ingrosso |b|1994 | Erica Garner |d|2017
Notes
- Ashura protests appears on December 27, so December 30 rally should not appear in the same year
- Adam Air Flight 574 appears on January 1 (crashed as a result of the same storm), so MV Senopati Nusantara should not appear in the same year.
December 30: Rizal Day in the Philippines (1896)
Arroyo Seco Parkway
- 1702 – Queen Anne's War: James Moore, the British colonial governor of Carolina, abandoned a siege against St. Augustine in Spanish Florida and retreated to Charles Town in disgrace.
- 1813 – War of 1812: British forces captured Buffalo, New York, and burned down nearly all its buildings.
- 1940 – The Arroyo Seco Parkway (pictured), one of the first freeways built in the U.S., connecting downtown Los Angeles with Pasadena, California, was officially dedicated.
- 1958 – The Guatemalan Air Force fired on Mexican fishing boats that had strayed into Guatemalan territory, triggering an eight-month conflict.
- 2013 – Supporters of Congolese religious leader Paul-Joseph Mukungubila carried out a series of attacks on television studios, the airport and a military base in Kinshasa.
- Giovanni Baglione (d. 1643)
- Anna Blackburne (d. 1793)
- Elena Landázuri (b. 1888)
- C. Harold Wills (d. 1940)
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