History for December 30 - On-This-Day.com
Rudyard Kipling 1865 - Short-story writer, Bert Parks (Bertram Jacobson) 1914 - Actor, singer, Del Shannon 1939
Matt Lauer 1957 - TV host ("Today"), Tiger Woods 1975 - Golfer, LeBron James 1984 - Basketball player
1460 - At the Battle of Wakefield, in England's Wars of the Roses, the Duke of York was defeated and killed by the Lancastrians.
1853 - The United States bought about 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase.
1879 - Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance" was first performed, at Paignton, Devon, England.
1922 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed.
1936 - The United Auto Workers union staged its first sit-down strike, at the Fisher Body Plant in Flint, MI.
1953 - The first color TV sets went on sale for about $1,175.
1978 - Ohio State University fired Woody Hayes as its football coach, one day after Hayes punched Clemson University player Charlie Bauman during the Gator Bowl. Bauman had intercepted an Ohio pass.
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