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Events

• 1066 (960 years ago) 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.
• 1902 (124 years ago) The Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott attains a Farthest South at 82°17′S in Antarctica.
• 1903 (123 years ago) A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
• 1922 (104 years ago) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed.
• 1947 (79 years ago) Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
• 1997 (29 years ago) In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.
• 2004 (22 years ago) A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 194.
• 2009 (17 years ago) A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.

Births

• 39 (1987 years ago) Titus, Roman emperor (probable) (died 81)
• 1865 (161 years ago) Rudyard Kipling, Indian-English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)
• 1884 (142 years ago) Hideki Tōjō, Japanese general and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1948)
• 1930 (96 years ago) Tu Youyou, Chinese chemist and pharmacist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1963 (63 years ago) Mike Pompeo, American diplomat and politician; 70th United States Secretary of State
• 1969 (57 years ago) Kersti Kaljulaid, President of Estonia
• 1975 (51 years ago) Tiger Woods, American golfer
• 1984 (42 years ago) LeBron James, American basketball player, producer and businessman

Deaths

• 1896 (130 years ago) José Rizal, Filipino ophthalmologist, journalist, and author (born 1861)
• 1916 (110 years ago) Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (born 1869)
• 1944 (82 years ago) Romain Rolland, French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)
• 1947 (79 years ago) Alfred North Whitehead, English-American mathematician and philosopher (born 1861)
• 1968 (58 years ago) Trygve Lie, Norwegian journalist and politician, first Secretary-General of the United Nations (born 1896)
• 2006 (20 years ago) Saddam Hussein, Iraqi general and politician, fifth President of Iraq (born 1937)
• 2009 (17 years ago) Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian journalist and politician, fourth President of Indonesia (born 1940)
• 2012 (14 years ago) Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1909)

All 382 events, births and deaths of December 30