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Events from History on December 30

1317 : Pontifical degree "Sancta Romania" against spiritualists
1621 : English king James I cracks Protestation of Parliament
1665 : "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi departs to Constantinople
1666 : Abraham Crijnssen departs to Suriname
1672 : Baron Karl Rabenhaupt occupies Coevorden Neth
1685 : Don Francisco de Agurto installed as land guardian of S Netherlands
1689 : Henry Purcell & Tates opera "Dido & Aeneas," premieres in Chesea
1703 : Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die
1731 : 1st US music concert (Peter Pelham's great room in Boston)
1794 : French troops conquer Grave Neth
1809 : Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
1813 : Danzig surrenders to allied armies
1817 : 1st coffee planted in Hawaii (Kona)
1835 : After gold discovery in Ga, Cherokees forced to move across Miss R
1835 : HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from NZ to Sydney
1836 : Lehman-theater in St Petersburg catches fire; 100s die
1844 : Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)
1853 : Gadsden Purchase 45,000ý mi (120,000ý km) by Gila River from M‚xico
1853 : for $10 million, area is now southern Arizona & New M‚xico
1854 : Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC
1861 : US, banks stops payments in gold
1869 : Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms
1873 : American Metrological Society forms (NYC) weights, measures & money
1875 : Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms
1877 : Johnannes Brahms' 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna
1879 : Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance," premieres
1884 : Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig
1888 : Belgium: king Leopold II installs Order of African Star
1892 : Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal
1893 : Russia signs military accord with France
1897 : Province of Zululand annexed to Natal colony
1903 : American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans
1903 : Fire at Chicago's Iriquois Theater kills 602
1906 : Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy
1907 : Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball
1911 : Sun Yat-sen elected 1st pres of Republic of China
1913 : Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 & 9-103)
1915 : Cromarty Harbour, Scot-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die
1917 : -32øF (-36øC) in Mountain City, Tennessee (state record)
1917 : -37øF (-38øC) in Lewisburg, WV (state record)
1918 : John E Hoover decides to be called J Edgar Hoover
1922 : Belorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR
1922 : Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR,
1924 : Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems
1925 : NSW score 705 against Victoria, go from 8-475 to 9-701
1926 : Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White
1926 : Paul Eliot Greens "In Abraham's Bosom," premieres in NYC
1926 : Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substaniated)
1927 : Japan dedicates 1st subway in Orient (route under 2 miles long)
1929 : Cole Porter's musical "Wake Up & Dream," premieres in NYC
1929 : Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates
1933 : -50øF (-46øC) in Bloomfield, Vermont (state record)
1933 : Govt disallows NSB-membership for civil service
1933 : Jack Badcock scores 274 v Victoria, Tasmania's 1st double-ton
1935 : Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
1936 : United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant
1938 : Electronic television system patented (V K Zworykin)
1939 : O'Reilly takes 14-45 (8-23 & 6-22) as NSW crush Qld in 2 days
1940 : California's 1st freeway, (Arroyo Seco Parkway), opens
1941 : Al Capone's son Sonny marries in Miami Beach
1941 : Nazibezetters oblige artsen member to become of Artsenkamer
1941 : Nazis require Dutch physicians to join Nazi organization
1941 : Winston Churchill addresses Canadian parliament
1943 : Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps & cash
1944 : King George II of Greece, abdicates his throne
1947 : King Michael of Romania, forced by communists abdicates his throne
1947 : Romanian republic proclaimed
1948 : "Kiss Me, Kate" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 1077 performances
1949 : India recognizes People's Republic of China
1950 : Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia become Independent states in France Union
1952 : Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US
1954 : "House of Flowers" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 165 performances
1954 : Harold Arlen/Truman Capotes musical premieres in NYC
1957 : Israeli govt of Ben-Gurion, resigns
1958 : French franc devalued
1959 : George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned
1961 : Moscow: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 4th Symphony (out 1936)
1963 : "Let's Make A Deal," debuts on NBC-TV
1963 : Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar
1964 : Edward Albee's "Tiny Alice," premieres in NYC
1965 : Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as president of the Phillipines
1967 : Beatles' "Hello Goodbye," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
1967 : Great Western Forum opens in LA
1968 : -48øF (-44øC), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)
1969 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 : Paul McCartney sues his bandmates to dissolve the Beatles
1971 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 : Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
1973 : 1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab)
1973 : Miami Dolphins beat Oakland Raiders 27-10 in AFC championship game
1973 : Minn Vikings beat Dallas Cowboys 27-10 in NFC championship game
1974 : Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought)
1975 : "Boccaccio" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 7 performances
1975 : Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force
1976 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 : Carter holds 1st news conf by US pres in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)
1978 : "King & I" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 719 performances
1978 : Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach
1979 : Rock group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up
1979 : Togo adopts constitution
1980 : "Wonderful World of Disney," last performance on NBC-TV
1982 : Anthony Shaffers "Whodunnit," premieres in NYC
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 : Pakistan restores constitution
1987 : Australia hang on for draw v NZ at MCG, 1 wkt left 17 runs short
1987 : Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe
1988 : Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US
1988 : Former Soviet Pres Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)
1988 : Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 govt fuel standard
1988 : North subpoenas Reagan & Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial
1989 : 10th United Negro College Fund raises $12,000,000
1989 : Dmitri Volkov swims world record 50m freestyle (27.15 sec)
1990 : "Miser" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 93 performances
1990 : 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
1992 : Shane Warne takes 7-52 to lead Australian MCG win v West Indies
1993 : "Candles, Snow, & Mistletoe" closes at Palace NYC after 7 perfs
1993 : Singer Deni Hines (22) weds INXS guitarist Kirk Pengilly (35)
1993 : Vatican recognizes Israel
1995 : Carquest Bowl 6: North Carolina beats Arkansas, 20-10
1997 : An abandoned building collapses on NY's 42nd St, no one hurt

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