What is December 30?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[1066]] &ndash; In the [[Granada Massacre]], a Muslim mob storms the royal palace, killing most of the city's Jewish [[population]]. * [[1460]] &ndash; During The [[Wars of the Roses]], the [[Battle of Wakefield]] takes place. * [[1661]] &ndash; In [[Sweden]], [[Drottningholm]] Castle is destroyed by [[fire]]. * [[1702]] &ndash; [[Queen Anne's War]]: [[James Moore]], Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the [[Siege of St. Augustine (1702)|Siege of St. Augustine]]. * [[1813]] &ndash; [[War of 1812]]: British [[soldier]]s burn [[Buffalo, New York]]. * [[1816]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of St. Louis]] between the [[United States]] and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa and Pitawatomi [[Native American]] tribes is proclaimed. * [[1825]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of St. Louis]] between the [[United States]] and [[Shawnee]] Nation is proclaimed. * [[1853]] &ndash; [[Gadsden Purchase]]: The [[US]] buys land from [[Mexico]] for railroad building in the [[Southwestern United States]]. * [[1862]] &ndash; The ship USS ''Monitor'' sinks off [[Cape Hatteras]], [[North Carolina]]. * [[1880]] &ndash; [[Tahiti]] becomes a French colony as part of [[French Polynesia|French Oceania]]. * [[1896]] &ndash; Filipino National hero [[Jose Rizal]] is executed by a firing squad. * [[1897]] &ndash; The British [[colony of Natal]] takes over [[Zululand]] in present–day [[South Africa]]. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1901]] &ndash; [[Antarctica]] exploration: [[Robert Falcon Scott]], [[Ernest Shackleton]] and [[Edward Adrian Wilson]] reach a [[South]] [[latitude]] of 82 degrees, 11 minutes, which was the farthest south anyone had been up until then. * [[1903]] &ndash; Around 600 people are killed in a [[fire]] at the Iroquois Theatre in [[Chicago]]. * [[1905]] &ndash; [[Governor]] of [[Idaho]] [[Frank Steunenberg]] is assassinated by a bomb attack on his home in [[Caldwell, Idaho]]. * [[1906]] &ndash; The All–[[India]] [[Islam|Muslim]] League is founded in [[Dhaka]]. It later plays an important