December 30

This day in history:

• 1896 – Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker II ends.
• 2009 – A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.
• 1947 – Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.

Births:

• 1942 – Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and activist (d. 2019)
• 1930 – Red Rhodes, American pedal steel guitarist (d. 1995)
• 1939 – Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (d. 1983)

Deaths:

• 1994 – Dmitri Ivanenko, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1967 – Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada (b. 1887)
• 2013 – Eiichi Ohtaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1948)

Holidays:

• The fifth day of Kwanzaa (United States)
• Day of the Declaration of Slovakia as an Independent Ecclesiastic Province (Slovakia)
• Rizal Day (Philippines)

Random Article of the day:

Vietnam men's national 3x3 team

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