Daily Calendar for Saturday, December 30, 2023
Born
- Rudyard Kipling (author) –
- Bert Parks (television personality) –
- Bo Diddley (guitarist) –
- Del Shannon (singer) –
- Mike Nesmith (musician, member of The Monkees) –
- Davy Jones (musician; member of The Monkees) –
- Matt Lauer (journalist) –
- Tiger Woods (golfer) –
- Eliza Dushku (actress) –
- Kristin Kreuk (actress) –
- LeBron James (basketball player) –
Died
- Amelia Bloomer (social reformer who introduced BLOOMERS) –
- Richard Rodgers (composer) –
- Artie Shaw (jazz clarinetist and bandleader) –
- Barbara Walters (broadcast journalist
) –
- Tom Wilkinson ( actor) –
Events
- Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft were married–
- U.S. president Rutherford B. Hayes married Lucy Webb–
- U.S. and Mexico signed the Gadsden Purchase Treaty–
- First photo of Earth’s curvature exhibited, in Cleveland, Ohio–
- The Arroyo Seco Parkway, California’s first freeway, officially opened. It connected Los Angeles and Pasadena–
- The Roy Rogers Show made its TV debut–
- Figure skater David Pelletier wed skating partner Jamie Salé–
- Samoa skipped this day in order to move from the eastern to the western side of the International Date Line–
Weather
- Great Cold Wave hit the East : -13 degrees F, New York City; -15 degrees F, Boston, Massachusetts; and -43 degrees F, New Hampshire–
- The temperature in Lewisburg, West Virginia, dropped to -37F.–
- Bloomfield, Vermont, set a record low temperature for New England with -50 degrees F–
- Forty-eight degrees below zero F in Mazama and Winthrop, Washington–
- Las Vegas was blanketed with 1.3 inches of snow–
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