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Birthday December 30, 1851 Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola |
Birthday December 30, 1865 Rudyard Kipling, author who coined "White man's burden" (Nobel '07) |
Birthday December 30, 1867 Simon Guggenheim, sen |
Birthday December 30, 1869 Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist, humorist |
Birthday December 30, 1876 Pablo Casals, Spanish violinist, conductor, composer |
Birthday December 30, 1884 Tojo is born |
Birthday December 30, 1884 Tojo Hideki, Japanese PM in WWII |
Birthday December 30, 1911 Jeanette Nolan |
Birthday December 30, 1914 Bert Parks, Miss America emcee |
Birthday December 30, 1919 Jo Van Fleet, Actress (Gunfight at the OK Corral, East of Eden) |
Birthday December 30, 1928 Bo Diddley, Rock 'n' roll pioneer |
Birthday December 30, 1928 Jack Lord, (Hawaii 5-0) |
Birthday December 30, 1929 Barbara Nichols |
Birthday December 30, 1931 Skeeter Davis, in Dry Ridge Ky |
Birthday December 30, 1935 Sandy Koufax, Dodger pitcher |
Birthday December 30, 1940 Cheers co-creator and famed TV director James Burrows born |
Birthday December 30, 1942 Mike Nesmith, (Monkees) |
Birthday December 30, 1959 Tracy Ullman |
History December 30, 1803 Francis Lewis dies |
History December 30, 1809 Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston |
History December 30, 1816 Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin wed |
History December 30, 1817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii |
History December 30, 1852 Rutherford B. Hayes marries Lucy Webb |
History December 30, 1853 Gadsden Purchase 45 000 sq miles by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million. Area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico |
History December 30, 1853 Southern U.S. border established |
History December 30, 1862 U.S.S. Monitor sinks |
History December 30, 1903 602 die as flames swept through Iroquois Theater in Chicago |
History December 30, 1903 Fire breaks out in Chicago theater |
History December 30, 1905 Former Idaho governor Steunenberg assassinated |
History December 30, 1916 Rasputin is murdered |
History December 30, 1916 Grigori Rasputin Russian monk advisor to tsarina is assassinated |
History December 30, 1916 Rasputin murdered |
History December 30, 1922 USSR organized as a federation |
History December 30, 1924 Edwin Hubble announces existence of other Milky Way systems |
History December 30, 1935 Italian bombers destroyed Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia |
History December 30, 1936 Sit-down strike begins in Flint |
History December 30, 1938 Electronic television system patented VK Zworykin |
History December 30, 1950 Acheson calls for renewed effort to meet communist threat |
History December 30, 1965 Marcos inaugurated |
History December 30, 1968 Led Zeppelin captured live for the first time in Spokane gym |
History December 30, 1970 U.S. Navy transfers some responsibility to South Vietnamese |
History December 30, 1971 Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders) |
History December 30, 1972 Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks |
History December 30, 1972 Negotiations to resume in Paris |
History December 30, 1975 Democratic Republic of Madagascar founded |
History December 30, 1978 OSU fires coach Woody Hayes for attacking an opposing player |
History December 30, 1994 An anti-abortion activist goes on a murder spree |