Today in History for 30th December 2017:
Historical Events
1666 – Abraham Crijnssen departs to Suriname
1903 – Electric arc lamp sets fire to Iroquois theater in Chicago leaving 602 dead in one of the deadliest blazes in American history
1922 – Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR
1926 – Paul Eliot Green’s “In Abraham’s Bosom” premieres in NYC
1997 – In the worst incident in Algeria’s insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people are killed from four villages.
1997 – An abandoned building collapses on NY’s 42nd St, no one hurt
Famous Birthdays
1880 – Alfred Einstein, German-American musicologist and nephew of Albert Einstein
1913 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002)
1940 – James Burrows, TV producer and director (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers)
1942 – Robert Quine, American guitarist, born in Akron, Ohio (d. 2004)
1952 – June Anderson, American soprano
1970 – Grant Carter, CFL defensive end (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
Famous Deaths
274 – St Felix I, dies and ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1525 – Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant, dies at 66
1769 – Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier (b. 1685)
1971 – Jan Mul, Dutch composer, dies at 60
1995 – Roger W Suddards, solicitor, dies at 65
2011 – Mirko Tremaglia, fiercely nationalist Italian politician, dies at 85