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- 1460 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield
- 1809 Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
- 1817 First coffee planted in Hawaii
- 1835 After gold discovery in GA, Cherokees forced to move across Mississippi River
- 1853 A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London.
- 1853 Gadsden Purchase 45,000 mi (120,000 km) by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million. Area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico
- 1853 Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
- 1853 The US purchases 30,000 square miles of land from Mexico in what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona. The Gadsden Purchase cost the US $10 million.
- 1854 Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, first in US, incorporated in NYC
- 1862 USS Monitor sinks off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
- 1875 Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms
- 1879 The Pirates of Penzance is first performed (Paignton, Devon, England).
- 1880 The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger, its first president.
- 1896 Jos Rizal was executed by firing squad in Manila.
- 1896 Montreal Victorias beat Winn Victorias 6-5 for the Stanley Cup
- 1897 Natal annexes Zululand.
- 1897 Province of Zululand annexed to Natal colony
- 1903 600 people die in a fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago.
- 1903 602 die as flames swept through Iroquois Theater in Chicago
- 1903 A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills 600.
- 1903 American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans
- 1905 Former Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated near his home in Caldwell, Idaho.
- 1906 Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy
- 1906 The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan.
- 1907 Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball
- 1908 Montreal Wanderers loses to Edmonton but retain Stanley Cup (4th of 1908). Cup is won by total points in a 2 game series
- 1911 Sun Yat-sen elected first President of Republic of China
- 1911 Sun Yat-sen is elected as the first president of the Republic of China.
- 1915 HMS Natal, blew up and sank at her moorings in the Cromarty Firth, Scotland, over 400 lives lost. Sources differ about the date with some giving it as 31st. The cause was speculated about at the time and sabotage was feared by some but the official enquiry put it down to a cordite explosion which becomes unstable when overheated. Other ships had suffered a similar fate, and this is the most likely explanation.
- 1919 Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student.
- 1922 Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR
- 1922 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.
- 1922 Vladimir Lenin establishes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
- 1924 Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems
- 1927 Japan dedicates first subway in the Orient (route under 2 miles long)
- 1927 The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo.
- 1929 Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates
- 1935 Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
- 1938 Electronic television system patented, VK Zworykin
- 1940 California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
- 1943 Subhash Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
- 1944 King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving his throne vacant.
- 1947 King Michael of Romania abdicates the throne, but makes it clear that he is forced out by Communists.
- 1948 Cole Porter's musical Kiss Me, Kate opens on Broadway.
- 1952 Tuskegee Institute reports 1952 as first yr in 71 with no lynchings in US
- 1953 Electronics manufacturer Admiral unveils the first color television set for consumers, priced at a modest $1,175.
- 1953 Television Technology: The first ever NTSC color television sets go on sale for about USD at $1,175 each from RCA.
- 1959 The George Washington, first ballistic missile sub commissioned
- 1959 Visitor posting - December, 30, 1959 Happy Birthday Darren, from your sister, Melody
- 1964 Visitor posting - Born today was the love of my life Jeff G. - USA
- 1965 Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.
- 1967 Beatles' "Hello Goodbye," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
- 1968 -48ø F (-44ø C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)
- 1969 Visitor posting - Vicki Jean was born - USA
- 1972 President Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
- 1972 The US stops the bombing of North Vietnam.
- 1972 Vietnam War: The US halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
- 1973 The first picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab)
- 1975 Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force
- 1975 Visitor posting - Stephanie Ann Dalton is born at 4:10 pm - USA
- 1976 Visitor posting - Andreah Eve is born 2:10 pm pacific time - USA
- 1977 Carter holds first news conference by US President in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)
- 1977 Ted Bundy escapes from his cell in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
- 1978 Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach
- 1979 Rock group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up
- 1980 NBC cancels The Wonderful World of Disney, the longest-running prime time TV show in history. Disney now owns the ABC TV network.
- 1981 Wayne Gretzky scores his 50th goal in 39 games, still a National Hockey League record.
- 1982 US Assay Office in New York City NY closes
- 1984 Miss Elizabeth (Hulette) & Macho Man Randy Savage (Poffo) wed
- 1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released
- 1985 President Zia of Pakistan ends martial law
- 1986 US begins Military exercises in Honduras
- 1988 Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US
- 1988 Former Soviet President Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)
- 1988 Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 government fuel standard
- 1988 North subpoenas Reagan & Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial
- 1988 Yugoslav government resigns
- 1992 Visitor posting - Corie Nanney was born at 5:56 pm
- 1992 Visitor posting - Jeannie Marie Patton born - USA
- 1993 Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Julia Anna was born - USA
- 1994 Two are killed and five wounded when a gunman opens fire at two Boston area abortion clinics.
- 1994 US Army pilot Bobby Hall is free, some 13 days after his helicopter is downed (resulting in the death of his co-pilot David Hilemon) by North Korea. Dec 30, 1993 Israel and the Vatican agree to recognize each other.
- 1995 The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2C was recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equalled the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire on February 11, 1895 and January 10, 1982.
- 1995 Visitor posting - December 30, 1995- Suzzette Ponce was born in CA
- 1995 Visitor posting - Jt is born in Colorado - USA
- 1996 In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.
- 1996 Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.
- 1997 In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people are killed from four villages.
- 2000 Rizal Day Bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a span of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
- 2003 U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses himself and his office from the Plame affair.
- 2004 A fire in the Repblica Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
- 2005 Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.
- 2006 Madrid Barajas International Airport is bombed.
- 2006 Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging.
- 2009 A British hostage is released alive in Iraq following over two and a half years of captivity in Iraq and Iran.
- 2009 A senior Chinese admiral says the country may build its first foreign naval base in the Middle East.
- 2009 Bushfires consume 13,400 hectares (33,000 acres) of land and destroy at least 37 homes near Toodyay, northeast of Perth, Western Australia.
- 2009 Former President of Indonesia Abdurrahman Wahid dies at the age of 69.
- 2009 Four Canadian soldiers and a journalist, Michelle Lang of the Calgary Herald, are killed in a vehicle explosion in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
- 2009 Hundreds of protesters gather outside Allende prison in Veracruz, Mexico, objecting to the removal of inmates to allow U.S. film director Mel Gibson to shoot a controversial movie.
- 2009 Police in Italy locate a wooden toy guitar sculpture which co-founder of Cubism Pablo Picasso made for his daughter Paloma.
- 2009 Seven American CIA agents are killed by a suicide bomb attack in a US military base in Khost Province, Afghanistan. Two of the seven killed are contractors for Blackwater Worldwide. The CIA considers contractors to be officers.
- 2009 Taiwan announces plans to reimpose a ban on certain U.S. beef products amid concerns over mad cow disease.
- 2009 The Australian government predicts a 20% fall in the number of Indian students studying in the country, due to a series of racist attacks earlier this year.
- 2009 The death toll in clashes in the northern Nigerian state of Bauchi rises to 70, with 1,000 displaced.
- 2009 Thousands of pro-government supporters in Iran demonstrate against recent anti-government protests on Ashura.
- 2009 Two people are found dead following three separate avalanches in Scotland, while a third person who was rescued dies later in hospital.
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