Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 30
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/doc Template:Divhide
Images
Use only ONE image at a time
-
Michael I of Romania
-
Tropical Storm Zeta
-
Castillo de San Marcos
-
Map of 1853 Gadsden Purchase territory
-
José Rizal
-
Richard of York
-
Arroyo Seco Parkway
-
Richard of York
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 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 Template:Convert of land south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande from Mexico for Template:Nowrap. | 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|Template:Nowrap 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1845 - University of Galway, University College Cork and Queen's University Belfast were established as part of the Queen's University of Ireland
- 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.
- 1958 – The Guatemalan Air Force fired on Mexican fishing boats that had strayed into Guatemalan territory, triggering an eight-month conflict.
- 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 Template:MV 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.
- 2009 – Due to a rupture of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline in Shaanxi, China, caused approximately Template:Nowrap (Template:Nowrap gal) of diesel oil flowed down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River six days later.
- 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.
- Born/died this day: | Vincenzo da Filicaja |b|1642| Giovanni Baglione |d|1643| Charles Yorke |b|1722| Sebastián Kindelán y O'Regan |b|1757| Anna Blackburne |d|1793| Osman Hamdi Bey |b|1842| André Messager |b|1853| Rudyard Kipling |b|1865| Elena Landázuri |b|1888| Josephine Butler |d|1906| Rosalinde Hurley |b|1929| Elmira Minita Gordon |b|1930| C. Harold Wills |d|1940| Fatima Jibrell |b|1947| Liam Norberg |b|1969| Bianca Ingrosso |b|1994| Abdurrahman Wahid |d|2009|
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) Template:Main page image/OTD
- 999 – In Ireland, the combined forces of Munster and Meath crushed a rebellion by Leinster and Dublin.
- 1940 – The Arroyo Seco Parkway, one of the first freeways built in the U.S., connecting downtown Los Angeles with Pasadena, California, was officially dedicated.
- 1954 – The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation was established to consolidate criminal investigation and intelligence into a single agency.
- 2006 – Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, was executed after being found guilty of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi High Tribunal.
- 2009 – Pro-government counter-demonstrators held rallies (pictured) in several Iranian cities in response to recent anti-government protests on the holy day of Ashura.