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This day in history: 30 December

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382 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 30 December.
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2020: A large explosion at the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden kills at least 22 people and wounds 50.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Abraham the Writer

Christian feast day: Anysia of Salonika

Christian feast day: December 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Egwin of Evesham

Christian feast day: Frances Joseph-Gaudet (Episcopal Church)

Christian feast day: Liberius of Ravenna

Christian feast day: Pope Felix I

Christian feast day: Ralph of Vaucelles

Christian feast day: Roger of Cannae

Day of the Declaration of Slovakia as an Independent Ecclesiastic Province (Slovakia)

Rizal Day (Philippines)

The fifth day of Kwanzaa (United States)

Events

2020A large explosion at the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden kills at least 22 people and wounds 50.

2013More than 100 people are killed when anti-government forces attack key buildings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

2009A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000 L (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.

2009A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.

2006Former president of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed.

2006Madrid–Barajas Airport is bombed.

2006The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths.

2005Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.

2004A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 194.

2000Rizal 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.

1997In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.

1996Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.

1993Israel establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City and also upgrades to full diplomatic relations with Ireland.

1987Stella Sigcau, Prime minister of the South African Bantustan of Transkei, is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Bantu Holomisa.

1972Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker II ends.

1970Hurricane Creek mine disaster, near Hyden, Kentucky

1967Aeroflot Flight L-51 crashes near Liepāja International Airport in Liepāja, Latvia, killing 43.

1958The Guatemalan Air Force sinks several Mexican fishing boats alleged to have breached maritime borders, killing three and sparking international tension.

1954The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation is established to consolidate criminal investigation and intelligence into a single agency.

1952An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashes in Luqa, Malta after an engine failure, killing three crew members and a civilian on the ground.

1947Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.

1944King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.

1943Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.

1936The Flint sit-down strike hits General Motors.

1935The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

1927The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.

1922The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed.

1916Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Petrograd river three days later.

1916The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.

1906The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).

1905Former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.

1903A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

1902The Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott attains a Farthest South at 82°17′S in Antarctica.

1897The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.

1896Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5.

1896Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.

1890Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.

1853Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.

1825The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.

1816The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.

Born on this day

1995Igor Shesterkin, Russian hockey goaltender

1995Joshua, American singer

1995Ollie Watkins, English footballer

1995V, South Korean singer

1992Carson Wentz, American football player

1992Ryan Tunnicliffe, English footballer

1991Camila Giorgi, Italian tennis player

1990Bruno Henrique, Brazilian footballer

1990C. J. Wilcox, American basketball player

1990Joe Root, English cricketer

1989Kateřina Vaňková, Czech tennis player

1989Ryan Sheckler, American skateboarder and entrepreneur

1989Tyler Anderson, American baseball player

1987Jakub Nakládal, Czech ice hockey player

1986Caity Lotz, American actress

1986Domenico Criscito, Italian footballer

1986Ellie Goulding, English singer-songwriter and producer

1986Gianni Zuiverloon, Dutch footballer

1986Jeff Ward, American actor

1985Anna Wood, American actress

1985Bryson Goodwin, Australian rugby league player

1985Lars Boom, Dutch cyclist

1984Andra Day, American singer and songwriter

1984LeBron James, American basketball player, producer and businessman

1984Randall Azofeifa, Costa Rican footballer

1983Eddie Edwards, American professional wrestler

1983Kevin Systrom, American computer programmer and businessman, co-founded Instagram

1983Nick Symmonds, American runner

1982Dawan Landry, American football player

1982Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress

1982Tobias Kurbjuweit, German footballer

1981Ali Al-Habsi, Omani footballer

1981Cédric Carrasso, French footballer

1981Matt Ulrich, American football player

1981Michael Rodríguez, Costa Rican footballer

1980Alison McGovern, British politician

1980D. J. Mbenga, Congolese-Belgian basketball player

1980Eliza Dushku, American former actress and producer

1979Michael Grimm, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1978Devin Brown, American basketball player

Died on this day

2025Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician, Former prime minister of Bangladesh

2023Aki Yashiro, Japanese singer (born 1950)

2023Bryan Ansell, British role-playing and wargame designer (born 1955)

2023Tom Wilkinson, English actor (born 1948)

2022Barbara Walters, American journalist, producer, and author (born 1929)

2020Dawn Wells, American actress, (born 1938)

2017Erica Garner, American civil rights activist (born 1990)

2015Doug Atkins, American football player (born 1930)

2015Howard Davis, Jr., American boxer and trainer (born 1956)

2015Howard Pawley, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Premier of Manitoba (born 1934)

2015Mangesh Padgaonkar, Indian poet, playwright, and translator (born 1929)

2014Jim Galloway, Scottish-Canadian clarinet player and saxophonist (born 1936)

2014Luise Rainer, German-born American-British actress (born 1910)

2014Terry Becker, American actor, director, and producer (born 1921)

2013Eiichi Ohtaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (born 1948)

2013Johnny Orr, American basketball player and coach (born 1927)

2013José María Maguregui, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1934)

2013Kinnaird R. McKee, American admiral (born 1929)

2013Paul Sally, American mathematician and academic (born 1933)

2012Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian-American director and producer (born 1923)

2012Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (born 1928)

2012Dennis Ferguson, Australian sex offender (born 1948)

2012Philip Coppens, Belgian-American journalist and author (born 1971)

2012Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1909)

2011Ronald Searle, English-French cartoonist (born 1920)

2010Bobby Farrell, Dutch dancer and performer from Aruba (born 1949)

2009Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian journalist and politician, fourth President of Indonesia (born 1940)

2009Rowland S. Howard, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1959)

2006Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1948)

2006Saddam Hussein, Iraqi general and politician, fifth President of Iraq (born 1937)

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“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

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