Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 30

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 * 999 – In Ireland, the combined forces of Munster and Meath crushed a rebellion by Leinster and Dublin.
 * 1460 – Wars of the Roses: At the Battle of Wakefield, Lancastrian forces destroyed the Yorkist army and killed Richard of York (pictured) at Sandal Magna in West Yorkshire, England.


 * 1902 – The Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott attained a new Farthest South point in Antarctica.
 * 1903 – In one of the deadliest single-building fires in United States history, the Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago killed more than 600 people.
 * 1906 – The 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.
 * 1935 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: The Italian Air Force destroyed a Swedish Red Cross field hospital in Dolo, Ethiopia, in retaliation for the earlier execution of an Italian prisoner of war.


 * 1954 – The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation was established to consolidate criminal investigation and intelligence into a single agency.
 * 1969 – Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos began his second term after being re-elected by a landslide, but economic unrest led him to declare martial law within a year.
 * 2000 – A series of bombings occurred around Metro Manila in the Philippines, killing 22 people and injuring around 100 others.
 * 2005 – Tropical Storm Zeta was declared a tropical depression, making it the record-breaking 28th tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, the most active in recorded history until 2020.
 * 2006 – The Indonesian ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sank in the Java Sea during a storm, killing at least 400 people.
 * 2006 – Basque nationalist group ETA detonated a van bomb at Madrid–Barajas Airport in Spain, ending a nine-month ceasefire.
 * 2006 – Saddam Hussein, the former President of Iraq, was executed after being found guilty of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal.
 * 2009 – Due to a rupture of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline in Shaanxi, China, caused approximately 150,000 l (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil flowed down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River six days later.
 * 2009 – Pro-government counter-demonstrators held rallies in several Iranian cities in response to recent anti-government protests on the holy day of Ashura.
 * Born/died this day: | Bernard Gui |d|1331| Vincenzo da Filicaja |b|1642| Charles Yorke |b|1722| Sebastián Kindelán y O'Regan |b|1757|  Osman Hamdi Bey |b|1842| André Messager |b|1853| Rudyard Kipling |b|1865| Josephine Butler |d|1906| Rosalinde Hurley |b|1929|  Elmira Minita Gordon |b|1930|  Fatima Jibrell |b|1947| Liam Norberg |b|1969| LeBron James |b|1984| Bianca Ingrosso |b|1994 | V |b|1995| Erica Garner |d|2017