On This Day December 30th

 OTD

December 30th is the 364th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 1 day remains until the end of the year.

 Events

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.

1460 – Wars of the Roses: Lancastrians kill the 3rd Duke of York and win the Battle of Wakefield.

1813 – War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.

1853 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.

1902 – The Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott attained a Farthest South at 82°17′S in Antarctica.

1916 – Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially trussed body was discovered in a Petrograd river three days later.

1922 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed.

1993 – Israel establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City and upgrades to full diplomatic relations with Ireland.

2005 – Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic basin.

 

Birthdays

AD 39 – Titus, Roman emperor (probable; [ d. 81)

1678 – William Croft, English organist and composer (d. 1727)

1849 – John Milne, English seismologist and geologist (d. 1913)

1865 – Rudyard Kipling, Indian-English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)

1919 – David Willcocks, English organist, composer, and conductor (d. 2015)

1928 – Bo Diddley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)

1931 – Frank Torre, American baseball player and manager (d. 2014)

1935 – Sandy Koufax, American baseball player and sportscaster

1947 – Jeff Lynne, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1975 – Tiger Woods, American golfer

1984 – LeBron James, an American basketball player, producer, and businessman

 

Holiday Spotlight

Falling Needles Family Fest Day

  Falling Needles Family Fest Day is one of the many holidays by the special day-inventing couple, Thomas and Ruth Roy of Wellcat Holidays. This holiday has been published in the “Chase’s Calendar of Events” and reminds people to take down their Christmas trees and recycle them. It is an awareness celebration and not a traditional holiday.

 Christmas trees became popular in America around 1700 and have become a symbol of Christmas around the country. Private homes and public spaces are decorated with Christmas trees as soon as the season rolls around.

 Live Christmas trees are more environmentally friendly than fake trees because they are biodegradable. And there’s nothing like the smell of pine to remind you that the season of cheer has arrived! You can’t sip on cocoa in front of a plastic tree and feel like it’s the season to be jolly.

 But the most important thing is to ensure that your live tree returns to the environment to get recycled and doesn’t end up in the landfill. It doesn't become part of the enormous waste generated during the holiday season.

 If you have a tree with the roots still attached, you could plant it in your backyard. This is even better than a plastic tree because you can bring it inside from the garden for next Christmas.

 

Other Include

Bacon Day

Festival of Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

National Bicarbonate of Soda Day (Baking Soda)

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