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Events on December 30

• 1066 The Granada Massacre is the first pogrom in Europe. A Muslim mob confronts the Jewish vizier in Granada's Royal Palace and murders approximately 4,000 Jewish residents.
• 1812 The Prussian general Johann David Ludwig Count Yorck von Wartenburg concludes a local armistice with the Russian general Hans Karl von Diebitsch-Sabalkanski on his own initiative. The Convention of Tauroggen is the initial trigger for the wars of liberation against Napoleon Bonaparte.
• 1877 In Vienna, Johannes Brahms's Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73, receives its world premiere.
• 1916 The Russian itinerant preacher and alleged spiritual healer Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is murdered by a group of conspirators including Felix Felixovich Yusupov, presumably because of his decisive influence on Tsar Nicholas II and his wife.
• 1922 The Soviet Union (USSR) is founded through the union of the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, the Byelorussian SSR, and the Transcaucasian SFSR.
• 1948 Based on William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, the musical Kiss Me, Kate holds its world premiere at the Century Theatre in New York. It subsequently becomes Cole Porter's most successful musical.
• 1975 Under the designation Operation Müll, the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution launches an extensive eavesdropping operation, not covered by legislation, by installing bugging devices in the apartment of nuclear physicist Klaus Traube due to suspicion of contact with wanted RAF terrorists.
• 1978 Following exceptional drops in temperature in the preceding days, heavy precipitation causes disruption, property damage, and deaths across large parts of Central and Northern Europe. This day is therefore regarded as the beginning of the 1978/1979 snow disaster.
• 1990 The organization, tasks, and powers of the German Federal Intelligence Service are regulated by the BND Act, which has entered into force.
• 1999 A mentally confused intruder seriously injures George Harrison, the former lead guitarist of the Beatles, with a kitchen knife in his castle.
• 2006 On the basis of an Iraqi court judgment, Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging and executed in the early hours before the start of the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice.
• 2011 Due to the switch to the western side of the International Date Line, December 30 is skipped in Samoa and Tokelau. December 29 is followed directly by December 31.

Born on December 30

• 1865 Rudyard Kipling, British writer and Nobel Prize winner
• 1880 Alfred Einstein, German musicologist and music critic
• 1905 Daniil Kharms, Russian writer
• 1927 Robert Houssein, French actor and director
• 1950 Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist
• 1961 Ben Johnson, Canadian sprinter
• 1962 Paavo Järvi, Estonian conductor
• 1970 Jan Henrik Stahlberg, German actor, screenwriter, and director
• 1980 Eliza Dushku, American actress
• 1982 Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress and model

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „30. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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