Events on December 30 39
Year 1066
Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.
Year 1702
Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.
Year 1816
The Treaty of St. Louis (1816) between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.
Year 1825
The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.
Year 1853
Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
Year 1896
Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
Year 1896
Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6-5.
Year 1905
Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.
Year 1906
The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).
Year 1916
Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.
Year 1947
Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
Year 1954
The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation is established to consolidate criminal investigation and intelligence into a single agency.
Year 1958
The Guatemalan Air Force sinks several Mexican fishing boats alleged to have breached maritime borders, killing three and sparking international tension.
Year 1993
Israel establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City and also upgrades to full diplomatic relations with Ireland.
Year 1996
Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.
Year 1997
In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.
Year 2000
Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
Year 2004
A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
Year 2005
Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.
Year 2006
The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths.
Year 2009
A segment of the Lanzhou-Zhengzhou-Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000 l (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.
Year 2009
A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.
Year 2013
More than 100 people are killed when anti-government forces attack key buildings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.