December 30: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1853 - Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
2. 1906 - The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India. It went on to lay the foundations of Pakistan.
3. 1919 - Lincoln's Inn in London, England, UK admits its first female bar(law) student.
4. 1927 - The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
5. 1948 - The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate (1,077 performances), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.
6. 1965 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.
7. 1981 - In the 39th game of his third NHL season, Wayne Gretzky scores five goals, giving him 50 on the year and setting a new NHL record previously held by Maurice Richard and Mike Bossy, who earlier had each scored 50 goals in 50 games.
8. 1993 - Israel and Vatican City establish diplomatic relations.
9. 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.
10. 2011 - Owing to a change of time zone the day is skipped in Samoa and Tokelau.
11. Famous Birthdays: William Croft (English composer), John Milne (English seismologist and geologist), Rudyard Kipling (English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate), Helge Ingstad (Norwegian explorer), John N. Bahcall (American physicist, co-developed the Hubble Space Telescope)

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