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1 - 27 of 27 Interesting & Fun 30th of December Facts: |
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| 1816 - The Treaty with the Ottawa, etc. is proclaimed. |
| 1853 - Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest. |
| 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. |
| 1862 - USS Monitor sinks off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. |
| 1879 - The Pirates of Penzance is first performed (Paignton, Devon, England). |
| 1880 - The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger, its first president. |
| 1903 - A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills 600. |
| 1905 - Former Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated near his home in Caldwell, Idaho. |
| 1919 - Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student. |
| 1924 - Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies. |
| 1927 - The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo. |
| 1936 - The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike. |
| 1940 - California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway. |
| 1943 - 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 forced to abdicate by the Soviet-backed Communist government of Romania. |
| 1948 - The play Kiss Me, Kate opens for the first of 1,077 performances. |
| 1953 - The first color television sets go on sale for about USD at $1,175 each. |
| 1965 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines. |
| 1972 - Vietnam War: The US halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam. |
| 1980 - After 25 years, the longest-running prime-time TV series The Wonderful World of Disney is cancelled by NBC |
| 1981 - Wayne Gretzky scores his 50th goal in 39 games, still a National Hockey League record. |
| 1993 - Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations. |
| 1996 - Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel. |
| 2003 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announces a ban on the sale of dietary supplement ephedra. |
| 2003 - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses himself and his office from the Plame affair. |
| 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. |
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