A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, December 30th!
| 1460 | The Duke of York is defeated and killed by Lancastrians at the Battle of Wakefield. |
| 1803 | The United States takes possession of the Louisiana area from France at New Orleans with a simple ceremony, the simultaneous lowering and raising of the national flags. |
| 1813 | The British burned Buffalo, N.Y., during the War of 1812.  |
| 1861 | Banks in the United States suspend the practice of redeeming paper money for metal currency, a practice that would continue until 1879. |
| 1862 | The draft of the Emancipation Proclamation is finished and circulated among President Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet for comment. |
| 1865 | Author Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India.  |
| 1903 | About 600 people died when fire broke out at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago. |
| 1905 | Governor Frank Steunenberg of Idaho is killed by an assassin’s bomb. |
| 1911 | Sun Yat-sen was elected the first president of the Republic of China. |
| 1922 | Soviet Russia is renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. |
| 1928 | Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates in McComb, Miss.  |
| 1932 | The Soviet Union bars food handouts for housewives under 36 years of age. They must now work to eat. |
| 1940 | California’s first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena, was officially opened. |
| 1947 | Romania’s King Michael is forced to abdicate by Soviet-backed Communists. Communists now control all of Eastern Europe. |
| 1965 | Ferdinand E. Marcos is sworn in as the Philippine Republic’s sixth president. |
| 1972 | After two weeks of heavy bombing raids on North Vietnam, President Nixon halts the air offensive and agrees to resume peace negotiations with Hanoi representative Le Duc Tho. |
| 1976 | Governor Carey of New York pardons seven inmates, closing the book on the Attica uprising. |
| 1978 | Ohio State University fired Woody Hayes as its football coach, one day after Hayes punched a Clemson University player during a game. |
| 1993 | Israel and the Vatican agreed to recognize one another. |
| 2003 | The federal government announced it would ban the sale of ephedra, an herbal stimulant linked to 155 deaths and dozens of heart attacks and strokes. |
| 2006 | Saddam Hussein, former Iraq dictator, is executed by hanging for crimes committed against his own people during his rule. |
| 2010 | Top-ranked Connecticut’s record 90-game winning streak in women’s basketball ended with a 71-59 loss to No. 9 Stanford. |
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