What Happened on December 30th in History
30 historical events on this date
The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).
The All-India Muslim League was a political party in the British India active between 1906 and 1947 that advocated for Muslim interests. The party emerged from the Aligarh Movement and the broader...
Russian 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.
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic and faith healer. He is best known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, through whom he gained...
The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.
The coronation of the Hungarian monarch was a ceremony in which the king or queen of the Kingdom of Hungary was formally crowned and invested with regalia. It corresponded to the coronation...
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed.
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991. It was the world's...
The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
The Ginza Line , officially designated as Line 3 Ginza Line , is a subway line in Tokyo, Japan, operated by Tokyo Metro. The line spans 14.3 km and serves the wards of Shibuya, Minato, ChĆ«Ć,...
The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
On 30 December 1935, a Swedish Red Cross field hospital was destroyed in an airstrike by the Regia Aeronautica in Dolo, Ethiopia, killing between 22 and 30 people, mostly Ethiopians. The attack was...
The Flint sit-down strike hits General Motors.
The 1936â1937 Flint sit-down strike, also known as the General Motors sit-down strike, or the great GM sit-down strike, was a sitdown strike at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, United...
Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist whose defiance of British authority in India made him a hero among many Indians, but his wartime alliances with Nazi Germany and the...
King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
George II was King of Greece from 27 September 1922 until 25 March 1924, and again from 25 November 1935 until his death on 1 April 1947.
Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist...
An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashes in Luqa, Malta after an engine failure, killing three crew members and a civilian on the ground.
The Avro Lancaster, commonly known as the Lancaster Bomber, is a British Second World War heavy bomber. It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary of the Handley Page Halifax, both...
The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation is established to consolidate criminal investigation and intelligence into a single agency.
The National Bureau of Investigation is a national law enforcement agency of the Finnish Police and the principal criminal investigation and criminal intelligence organization of Finland. The...
The Guatemalan Air Force sinks several Mexican fishing boats alleged to have breached maritime borders, killing three and sparking international tension.
The Guatemalan Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the Armed Forces of Guatemala. The FAG is a subordinate to the Guatemalan Military and its commanding officer reports to the Defence...
Aeroflot Flight L-51 crashes near LiepÄja International Airport in LiepÄja, Latvia, killing 43.
Aeroflot Flight L-51 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by an Antonov An-24 that crashed on approach to LiepÄja International Airport on 30 December 1967, resulting in the death of...
Hurricane Creek mine disaster, near Hyden, Kentucky
The Hurricane Creek mine disaster occurred at the Finley Mine near Hyden, Kentucky, USA, on December 30, 1970, shortly after noon and resulted in the deaths of 38 men. As was often pointed out in...
Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker II ends.
Operation Linebacker II, sometimes referred to as the Christmas bombings and, in Vietnam, the Twelve days and nights, or Äiá»n BiĂȘn Phủ of the Sky, was a strategic bombing campaign conducted by the...
Stella Sigcau, Prime minister of the South African Bantustan of Transkei, is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Bantu Holomisa.
Stella Nomzamo Sigcau was a South African politician. Sigcau was also the first female Prime Minister of the bantustan of Transkei before being deposed in a military coup in 1987. After Transkei was...
Israel establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City and also upgrades to full diplomatic relations with Ireland.
Diplomatic recognition in international law is a unilateral declarative political act of a state that acknowledges an act or status of another state or government in control of a state. Recognition...
Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is an Israeli politician and diplomat who has served as Prime Minister of Israel since 2022. Having previously held office from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021,...
In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. Spanning over 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), it is the largest...
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.
The Rizal Day bombings, also referred to as the December 30 bombings, were a series of bombings that occurred around Metro Manila in the Philippines on December 30, 2000. The explosions occurred...
A fire in the RepĂșblica Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 194.
On 30 December 2004, a fire broke out in the crowded RepĂșblica Cromañón nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 194 people and leaving at least 1,492 injured. The direct cause was the indoor...
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.
Tropical Storm Zeta was a very late-developing tropical storm that formed in the central Atlantic Ocean during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, forming one month after the season's official end....
MadridâBarajas Airport is bombed.
Adolfo SuĂĄrez MadridâBarajas Airport is the main international airport serving Madrid, the capital of Spain, and its metropolitan area. At 3,050Â ha in area, it is the second-largest airport in...
The Indonesian passenger ferry MVÂ Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths.
The MV Senopati Nusantara was an Indonesian ferry that sank in a storm on December 30, 2006. The Japanese-made ship was a scheduled passenger liner from the port of Kumai in Central Kalimantan...
Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed.
The president of the Republic of Iraq is the head of state of Iraq. Since the mid-2000s, the presidency is primarily a symbolic office, as the position does not possess significant power within the...
A segment of the LanzhouâZhengzhouâChangsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000Â L (40,000Â USÂ gal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.
The LanzhouâZhengzhouâChangsha product oil pipeline is a pipeline carrying diesel and other oil products from the northwest to the central regions of China. The 2,070-kilometre (1,290Â mi) pipeline...
A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.
The Camp Chapman attack was a suicide attack by Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi against the Central Intelligence Agency facility inside Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan on December 30,...
More than 100 people are killed when anti-government forces attack key buildings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Attacks in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, were launched by supporters of religious leader Paul Joseph Mukungubila against television studios, the airport and a...
A large explosion at the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden kills at least 22 people and wounds 50.
On 30 December 2020, a plane carrying members of the recently formed Yemeni government landed at Aden International Airport in the southwest of Yemen. As passengers disembarked, there were...