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Dec 29| HISTORY 4 2DAY
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>> Events, deaths, births, of 30 DEC [For Dec 30 Julian go to Gregorian date: 1582~1699: Jan 09 1700s: Jan 10 1800s: Jan 11 1900~2099: Jan 12] |
1986 US begins Military exercises in Honduras. 1985 President Zia of Pakistan ends martial law. 1977 Carter holds 1st news conference by US President in Eastern Europe (Warsaw). 1976 Governor Carey of New York pardons seven inmates, closing the book on the Attica uprising. 1975 Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force
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1969 US President Richard Nixon signs a tax bill which
exempts nine million low-income citizens and reduces tax rates for individuals
by 5%.
1952 Tuskegee Institute reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US
1944 King George II of Greece, renounces his throne
1932 The Soviet Union bars food handouts for housewives under 36 years of age. They must now work to eat. 1927 Japan dedicates 1st subway in the Orient (route under 2 miles long) 1924 Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems. 1922 Vladimir Lenin proclaimed the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 1911 Sun Yat-sen is elected the first President of the Republic of China. |
1907 Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday
invented baseball 1906 Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy 1905 French driver Victor Hemery, driving a gasoline-powered Darracq automobile, set a new land-speed record in Arles-Salon, France. He reached a speed of 109.589 miles per hour. Hemery's record stood until 1906, when American Fred Marriot set a record of 121.573 in a steam-powered Stanley. 1903 American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans 1897 Province of Zululand annexed to Natal colony. 1887 A petition to Queen Victoria with over one million names of women appealing for British public houses to be closed on Sundays is handed to the Home Secretary. 1875 Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms 1862 The draft of the Emancipation Proclamation is finished and circulated among President Abraham Lincoln's cabinet for comment. 1861 US government suspends the use of gold and silver for redeeming paper money. However the practice would be resumed after the Civil War and continue until 1879. 1854 Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC
1817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii
1805 La victoire d'Austerlitz détermine le Tribunat à proposer à l'empereur que son nom soit désormais Napoléon le Grand. Celui-ci accepte. 1803 The United States takes possession of the Louisiana area from France at New Orleans with a simple ceremony, the simultaneous lowering and raising of the national flags. |
Deaths
which occurred on a December 30:. 2000 Hilal Ahmed Haj, 21, Lebanese, hit in the head by two bullets fired from a passing Israeli patrol at the Fatima Gate border fence. He was throwing stones at an Israeli outpost 10 m from the border fence. 2000:: 22 persons in a series of bombings in Manila. On 18 April 2002, in General Santos, Philippines, an Indonesian man believed to be a key leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah (a Southeast Asian-based terrorist group), Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi would be sentenced to 12 years in prison for explosives possession. He told police he had planned the 30 Dec 2000 series of bombings in Manila, and in January 2002 he led police to a buried cache of more than a ton of TNT, detonating cords and M-16 rifles in General Santos, a largely Christian city of 800'000 in the predominantly Muslim south of the Philippines. On 21 April 2002 three terrorist bombs would explode in General Santos, one of them killing at least 14 persons. 2000 Yu Lianchun's death in notified to her family in Jinan (Shandong province, China) by the staff of the labor camp to which she had been sentenced for being a Falun Gong member. Yu, 45, was a worker at a factory in Shandong. Bruises on her body showed that she had been beaten to death. 1999 Sarah "Sadie" Clark Knauss, 119, at 15:00, sleeping in her chair in an Allentown, Pa., nursing home. She was born on 24 September 1880. The Guinness Book of Records: 1999 declared Knauss the oldest person in the world, on the 16 April 1998 death of 117-year-old Marie-Louise Febronie Chassé-Meilleur of Québec, born 29 August 1880. Mrs. Knauss ate chocolate every day and rarely got angry.(the longevity record-holder is still Jeanne Louise Calment of Arles, France, born 21 February 1875, who died on 04 August 1997, who also was partial to chocolate, and drank wine). 1997: 412 men, women and children massacred by armed gangs, in four mountain villages in Algeria.
1978 Naimark, mathematician. 1947 Alfred Whitehead, 86, mathematician. 1940 Walter Kurt Wiemken, Swiss artist born on 14 September 1907.
1917 Federigo Zandomeneghi, Italian artist born on 02 June 1841. |
1896 Jose Mercado Rizal, anti-Spanish rule of Philippines proponent. 1894 Amelia Jenks Bloomer suffragist dies (Bloomers named for her). 1885 Martha Darley (or Durley) Mutrie, British artist born on 26 August 1824. 1870 El general Juan Prim y Prats, presidente del Gobierno español, a causa de las heridas de bala recibidas al sufrir un atentado en Madrid tres días antes.
1788 Francesco Zuccarelli, Florentine landscape painter born on 15 August 1702. MORE ON ZUCCARELLI AT ART 4 DECEMBER LINKS Bacchanal The Rape of Europa 1691 Boyle, mathematician. 1672 Hendrick Bloemaert, Dutch artist born in 1601. 1460 The Duke of York is defeated and killed by Lancastrians at the Battle of Wakefield. 0274 St Felix I, Pope. |
Births which
occurred on a December 30: 1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released. 1938 Electronic television system patented, VK Zworykin.
1904 Dmitri Kabalevsky St Petersburg Russia, composer (In the Fire) 1897 Saks, mathematician
In British South Africa, the Transvaal province is declared an independent Boer republic, setting off an armed conflict with Britain that serves as a precursor for the South African Boer War two decades later. Boers, also known as Afrikaners, were the descendants of the original Dutch settlers of southern Africa. At the end of the Napoleonic wars, Britain took possession of the Dutch Cape colony, sparking resistance from the independence-minded Boers, who resented the Anglicization of South Africa and Britain's anti-slavery policies. In 1833, the Boers began an exodus into African tribal territory, where they founded the republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The two new republics lived peaceably with their British neighbors until 1867, when the discovery of diamonds and gold in the region made conflict between the Boer states and Britain inevitable. Following declarations of independence from the Boer states during the 1880s, minor fighting with Britain ensued before the outbreak of full-scale war in 1899. In 1902, after three years of fighting, Britain is victorious in the South African Boer War, and in 1910, the Union of South Africa is created within the British Empire, comprising the two Boer republics and the old Cape and Natal colonies. 1880 Alfred Einstein, German-born US musicologist and critic who died on 13 February 1952. (not to be confused with THE Albert Einstein). 1879 Ramana Maharshi, Hindu philosopher and yogi, who died on 14 April 1950. 1879 The Pirates of Penzance, by Gilbert and Sullivan, is first performed, at Paignton, Devon, England. 1873 Alfred Al Smith [photo >], Catholic, 4 times governor of New York, 1928 Democratic Party presidential nominee (he lost all but 8 of the 48 state to Republican Herbert Hoover). He died on 04 October 1944. 1869 Stephen Leacock Canada, economist/humorist/professor 1867 Simon Guggenheim, [< portrait] 5th of the 7 sons of mining tycoon Meyer Guggenheim (01 Feb 1828 15 Mar 1905), brother of Daniel Guggenheim (09 July 1856 28 Sep 1930) and of Solomon Guggenheim (1861-1949), US senator for Colorado (1907-1913), president of the American Smelting and Refining Company (1919-1941). He died on 02 November 1941. Philanthropist founder in 1925 (in memory of his son John Simon, who died on 26 April 1922) of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to award fellowships to aid artists and scholars studying abroad (not to be confused with the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation, the Daniel Guggenheim Foundation for the Promotion of Aeronautics, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, or the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for the advancement of art). [The 6th son of Meyer, Ben Guggenheim died in the sinking of the Titanic, on 15 April 1912] |
1850 John Milne, English seismologist and geologist; inventor of the seismograph. He died on 30 July 1913. [not to be confused with A. A. Milne, the father of Christopher Robin and the author of Pooh]
1746 François André Vincent, French Neoclassical painter, specialized in historical subjects, who died on 03 August 1816. LINKS The Ploughing Lesson. 1677 Felice Rubbiani, Italian artist who died on 18 October 1752. 0039 Titus Flavius Vespasianus, would become Titus Vespasianus Augustus, 10th Roman emperor (79-81), conqueror of Jerusalem in 70. He would die on 13 September 81, Domitian his successor having something to do with it.. |