December 30
Today in America's Present Past
1809 | Civil Rights: Wearing masks at balls outlawed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1816 | Indian Wars: The Treaty of St. Louis was executed.
1851 | Entrepreneur Asa Griggs Candler was born.
1852 | POTUS: President Rutherford B. Hayes wed Lucy Webb.
1854 | The Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company, the nation’s first oil firm was founded.
1861 | Associated Banks in New York City halted gold payments to government and investors, to disrupt President Lincoln’s bank reforms.
1867 | Entrepreneur Simon Guggenheim was born.
1873 | Politician Alfred “Al” Smith was born.
1892 | Dr. Miles V Lynk, published the first Black medical journal, The Medical and Surgical Observer.
1894 | Activist Amelia Jenks Bloomer died.
1903 | The American Political Science Association was formed.
1905 | Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg was assassinated.
1914 | Aviator Marge Hurlburt was born.
1928 | Musician Bo Diddley was born.
1929 | Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority founded.
1934 | General Joseph P. Hoar was born.
1835 | Baseball Pro Sandy Koufax was born.
1936 | General Motor’s sit-down strikes started in Flint, Michigan.
1944 | Admiral William J. Fallon was born.
1950 | Author Lewis Shiner was born.
1950 | Entrepreneur Arthur Davison died.
1951 | TV: “The Roy Rogers Show” debuted.
1957 | Journalist Matt Lauer was born.
1975 | Golfing pro Tiger Woods was born.
1979 | Composer Richard Rodgers died.
1983 | Entrepreneur Kevin Systrom was born.
1984 | Basketball pro LeBron James was born.
2003 | Author John Gregory Dunne died.
2019 | Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb died.
2020 | Actress Dawn Wells died.
2022 | Journalist Barbara Walters died.