Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 30
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December 30: Rizal Day in the Philippines
- 1880 – Paul Kruger, who would eventually become the international face of the Boer resistance during the Second Boer War, was elected President of the Transvaal Republic.
- 1896 – Philippine Revolution: Nationalist José Rizal (pictured) was executed by a firing squad in Manila after Spanish authorities convicted him of rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy.
- 1903 – In the deadliest single-building fire in United States history, the Iroquois Theater Fire claimed 602 lives in Chicago.
- 1922 – The Treaty on the Creation of the USSR, legalizing the creation of a union of several Soviet republics in the form of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was ratified.
- 1947 – Michael, King of Romania, was forced to abdicate as the Kingdom of Romania became Communist Romania.
- 2006 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein was executed after being found guilty of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal.