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| Rudyard Kipling |
Dec. 30, 1821 – James Hayes became the postmaster at Burnt
Corn Spring, Ala.
Dec. 30, 1853 - The United States bought about 45,000 square
miles of land from Mexico in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase. The land was
bought to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
Dec. 30, 1862 – During the Civil War, the U.S.S. Monitor
sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras, N.C. Sixteen sailors were unable to be
rescued.
Dec. 30, 1864 – During the Civil War, a skirmish occurred at
Leighton in Colbert County, Ala.
Dec. 30, 1865 – Short-story writer, poet, novelist and
prominent Freemason Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India. He would go on
to publish his best known book, “The Jungle Book,” in 1894.
Dec. 30, 1868 – Baker County, Ala. (present-day Chilton
County) was established and named in honor of Alfred Baker with its county seat
at Grantville. Residents of the county petitioned the Alabama legislature for
the renaming of their county and on December 17, 1874, the petitioners accepted
the suggestion of Chilton County, in honor of William Parish Chilton Sr.
(1810–1871). Chilton was a lawyer who became Chief Justice of the Alabama
Supreme Court and later represented Montgomery County in the Congress of the
Confederate States of America.
Dec. 30, 1916 – Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, a
47-year-old self-fashioned holy man, was murdered in Petrograd by Russian
nobles eager to end his sway over the royal family. In the early hours of this
day, a group of nobles lured Rasputin to Yusupovsky Palace, where they
attempted to poison him. Seemingly unaffected by the large doses of poison
placed in his wine and food, he was finally shot at close range and collapsed.
A minute later he rose, beat one of his assailants, and attempted to escape
from the palace grounds, where he was shot again. Rasputin, still alive, was
then bound and tossed into a freezing river.
Dec. 30, 1924 - Pioneering astronomer Edwin Hubble announced
the existence of other galaxies.
Dec. 30, 1926 - The Chicago Tribune broke a story that the
Detroit Tigers threw a 4-game series to the Chicago White Sox in 1917.
Dec. 30, 1935 – Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax
was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He would play his entire career (1955-1966) for the
Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers.
Dec. 30, 1953 - The first color TV sets went on sale for
about $1,175.
Dec. 30, 1954 - Alabama author Truman Capote's only musical,
“House of Flowers,” opened at
the Alvin Theatre on Broadway, where it ran for 165 performances. The musical
was based on Capote’s short story, “House of Flowers,” which was first
published in his 1958 book, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” where the story was
included as one of three extra pieces besides the novella, “Breakfast at
Tiffany’s.”
Dec. 30, 1959 – Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, who were
the subjects of Truman Capote’s book “In Cold Blood,” were identified as
suspects in the November 1959 Clutter family murders, and were arrested in Las
Vegas.
Dec. 30, 1964 – Wreckage from a June 17, 1961 Cessna 182
crash that killed John O. Leu, 22, of Nashville, Tenn. and Gene McGill, 18, of
Mobile discovered 12 miles northwest of Uriah, Ala., near Jeddo, by Edmond Jerkins of
Stapleton.
Dec. 30, 1978 - Ohio State University fired football coach
Woody Hayes one day after Hayes punched Clemson University player Charlie
Bauman during the Gator Bowl. Bauman had intercepted an Ohio State pass.
Dec. 30, 1981 – The Old LaSalle Hotel and Restaurant in
Monroeville, Ala. was sold to Monroe County Library Board by Dwight Harrington, who
bought the building in 1979.
Dec. 30, 1996 - Brett Favre of the Green Bay Packers became
only the second player to win consecutive NFL MVP Awards.
Dec. 30, 2006 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein was
executed by hanging at Camp Justice, an Iraqi army base in Kadhimiya, a
neighborhood of northeast Baghdad, Iraq. Saddam
Dec. 30, 2010 – This was the final day Kodachrome film was
developed by Dwayne's Photo, the last remaining Kodachrome processor,
concluding the iconic film's 74-year run.
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