Historical Events December 30.

1703: An earthquake in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, killed 37,000 people.

1803: The East India Company of Britain took Delhi, Agra, and Bharuch under its control.

1893: Russia and France signed a military agreement.

1906: Establishment of All India Muslim League at Dhaka. It was in this incident that the seeds of India’s partition laid.

1924: Edwin Hubble announced the existence of galaxies other than the Milky Way.

1943: Subhash Chandra Bose hoisted the Indian Independence Flag at Port Blair.

2006: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was executed.

Famous Birthdays and Birth Anniversaries December 30

39 AD: Titus, the Roman emperor.

1865: Joseph Rudyard Kipling, an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

1879: Ramana Maharshi, an Indian Hindu sage and jivanmukta.

1887: Ghanshyam Vyas, an Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer, and educationist.

1916: Esther Victoria Abraham (Pramila), a Jewish Indian model, actress, and first woman film producer in the Hindi film industry. She is also well known for winning the first Miss India pageant in 1947.

1934: John Norris Bahcall, an American astrophysicist.

1950: Bjarne Stroustrup, a Danish computer scientist, creator and developer of the C++ programming language.

1983: Kevin Systrom, an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and co‑founder of Instagram.

1984: LeBron Raymone James Sr., an American professional basketball player.

Death Anniversaries of Famous People– December 30

1944: Romain Rolland, a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian, and Nobel Prize Literature.

1947: Alfred North Whitehead, an English mathematician, and philosopher. 

1971: Vikram Sarabhai, an Indian physicist, and astronomer.

1990: Raghuvir Sahay, a Hindi poet, short-story writer, essayist, literary critic, translator, and journalist.

2006: Saddam Hussein, the fifth President of Iraq.

2015: Mangesh Padgaonkar, an Indian poet, playwright, and translator.

2018: Mrinal Sen, an Indian film director and a nominated Member of the Indian parliament.