Lake Ngozi in Tanzania is the second largest crater lake in Africa. Image: Wikimedia Commons
On This Day: What happened on 30 December?
We look back on this day in history and remember the people and events that shaped the world we live in today.
Lake Ngozi in Tanzania is the second largest crater lake in Africa. Image: Wikimedia Commons
Here’s a look at what happened on this day, 30 December, throughout history. We remember the news, events, and people that influenced the course of history forever.
ON THIS DAY: 30 DECEMBER
2009 | In Shaanxi, China around 150 000 litres (40 000 US gal) of diesel oil flowed down the Wei River when a segment of the Lanzhou-Zhengzhou-Changsha pipeline ruptured and reached the Yellow River on January 4, 2010, the source of drinking water for millions of people.
2009 | Nine people, including 7 CIA operatives killed by a suicide bomber at the CIA’s Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.
2006 | At least 400 deaths were recorded when the Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sank in a storm on this day.
2004 | More than 175 people were killed and more than 700 injured when a fire at the República Cromañón nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina raged through a packed nightclub.
1922 | On this day the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed officially.
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BIRTHDAYS
1951 | American musician, singer-songwriter, and producer, Chris Jasper.
1959 | British-American actress, singer, director, and screenwriter, Tracey Ullman.
1930 | Chinese chemist and pharmacist, Nobel Prize laureate, Tu Youyou.
1940 | American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, James Burrows.
1992 | British footballer, Ryan Tunnicliffe.
ON THIS DAY: DEATHS
1941 | Russian photographer and architect, El Lissitzky, 51.
2014 | American actor, director, and producer, Terry Becker, 93.
1998 | American wrestling promoter, co-founded the National Wrestling Alliance, Sam Muchnick, 93.
2012 | Australian sex offender, Dennis Ferguson, 64.
1999 | German structural engineer, co-designed the Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge and Fernsehturm Stuttgart, Fritz Leonhardt, 90.
SPORTS
2009 | For the first time, the Premier League match at Fratton Park for the Portsmouth v Arsenal kicked off without Englishman on the field for either side but before the final whistle each side brought on an English sub.
ENTERTAINMENT
2016 | The film directed and written by John Hamburg, “Why Him?” was released on this day.
2008 | “A Frozen Flower” was released for the first time in South Korea.
AFRICA FACT
Lake Ngozi in Tanzania is the second largest crater lake in Africa.
