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José Rizal
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1066 – A Muslim mob stormed the royal palace in Granada, crucified vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacred most of the Berber Jewish population of the city. | Article consists mainly of a biography of one victim, which should be split to another article. The remainder is largely direct quotes from sources |
| 1896 – Philippine Revolution: Nationalist José Rizal was executed by a firing squad in Manila after Spanish authorities convicted him of rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy. | Template:Ancestry of José Rizal unreferenced |
| 1916 – Emperor Charles I of Austria and Empress Zita were crowned as the last King and Queen of Hungary. | refimprove section |
| 1922 – The Treaty on the Creation of the USSR, legalizing the creation of a union of several Soviet republics in the form of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was ratified. | refimprove |
| 1927 – The Ginza Line, the oldest underground subway line in Asia, opened in Tokyo. | refimprove |
| 1947 – Michael, King of Romania, was forced to abdicate by the country's communist government. | refimprove section |
| 1965 – Ferdinand Marcos took office as President of the Philippines and went on to rule the country for 21 years. | neutrality disputed, expansion |
| 2004 – A fire broke out in the República Cromañón nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 194 people and injuring 714 others. | multiple issues |
| 2006 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein was executed after being found guilty of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal. | missing section summary |
Eligible
- 1702 – Carolina colonial governor James Moore abandoned the siege against the Castillo de San Marcos at St. Augustine, Spanish Florida, and retreated to Charles Town in disgrace.
- 1853 – The United States purchased approximately 29,600 sq mi (77,000 km2) of land south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande from Mexico for $10 million.
- 1903 – In the deadliest single-building fire in United States history, the Iroquois Theatre fire claimed over 600 lives in Chicago.
- 1958 – The Guatemalan Air Force fired upon Mexican fishing boats which had strayed into Guatemalan territory, causing conflict between the two nations.
- 2000 – A series of bombings occurred around Metro Manila in the Philippines within a span of a few hours, killing 22 people and injuring 100 others.
- 2005 – Tropical Storm Zeta was declared a tropical depression, making it the record-breaking thirtieth tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, the most active in recorded history.
- 2006 – MV Senopati Nusantara, an Indonesian ferry, 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.
- 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.
- 2013 – Supporters of religious leader Paul Joseph Mukungubila Mutombo attacked against television studios, the airport and a military base in Kinshasa, DR Congo.
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Notes
- Ashura protests appears on December 27, so December 30 rally should not appear in the same year
- Adam Air Flight 574 appears on January 1 (crashed as a result of the same storm), so MV Senopati Nusantara should not appear in the same year.
December 30: Rizal Day in the Philippines (1896)
- 1460 – Wars of the Roses: Richard, Duke of York (pictured), was killed in the Battle of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, and his army was destroyed.
- 1813 – War of 1812: British forces captured Buffalo, New York, and engaged in considerable plundering and destruction.
- 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.
- 1954 – The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation was established to consolidate criminal investigation and intelligence into a single agency.
- 2009 – Pro-government counter-demonstrators held rallies in several Iranian cities in response to recent anti-government protests held on the holy day of Ashura.
Rudyard Kipling (b. 1865) · Josephine Butler (d. 1906) · Fatima Jibrell (b. 1947)