On This Day in History

December 30

Historical Events

1460 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield (Northern England), Duke of York is killed and his forces are soundly defeated by the forces of King Henry VI

1906 All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca in East Bengal, British India, later lays the foundations for Pakistan

Signature page of the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR

1922 Creation of the USSR is formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, organized as a union (U) of Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian and Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR).

1924 Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces the existence of other galactic systems at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society

1950 Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become Independent states within the French Union.

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Famous Birthdays

Rudyard Kipling 1865 - 1936  Hideki Tojo 1884 - 1948

Tiger Woods 49th Birthday  LeBron James 40th Birthday

Also Bo Diddley and Kim Tae-hyung (29)

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Famous Deaths

José Rizal 1861 - 1896  Grigori Rasputin 1869 - 1916

Saddam Hussein 1937 - 2006  Barbara Walters 1929 - 2022

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The Taming of Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill made an emotional speech to the Canadian Parliament on this day, December 30, 1941. His photograph from that day is just as memorable.

The Roaring Lion