December 30 birthdays & history

Famous people born on December 30

• 1865Rudyard Kipling, Indian-English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1984LeBron James, American basketball player, producer and businessman
• 1969Kersti Kaljulaid, President of Estonia
• 1975Tiger Woods, American golfer
• 1930Tu Youyou, Chinese chemist and pharmacist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1819Theodor Fontane, German author and poet
• 1986Ellie Goulding, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1879Ramana Maharshi, Indian guru and philosopher
• 1946Patti Smith, American singer-songwriter and poet
• 1950Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist, created the C++ programming language

What happened on December 30

• 1816The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.
• 1825The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.
• 1845The University of Galway, University College Cork and Queen's University Belfast were established as part of the Queen's University of Ireland.
• 1853Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
• 1902The Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott attained a new Farthest South point in Antarctica.
• 1906The All-India Muslim League, a political party in British India that developed into the driving force behind the creation of Pakistan as a Muslim state on the Indian subcontinent, was founded in Dhaka.
• 1916The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.
• 1922The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed.
• 1927The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
• 1940The Arroyo Seco Parkway, one of the first freeways built in the U.S., connecting downtown Los Angeles with Pasadena, California, was officially dedicated.
• 1943Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
• 1944King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.

Also observed on December 30

• Day of the Declaration of Slovakia as an Independent Ecclesiastic Province (Slovakia)
• Rizal Day (Philippines)
• The fifth day of Kwanzaa (United States)
• The sixth of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)