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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 30 Dec 1924 | Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems | |||
| 30 Dec 1924 |
Andromeda outside Milky way In 1924, a meeting of scientists began in Washington, D.C. On its last day, 1 Jan 1925, its main event was a paper read by H. N. Russell on behalf of the absent author, Edwin Hubble. Although titled about Cepheid Variables, Hubble's paper gave the first proof that Andromeda was a separate galactic system—an “island universe,” far beyond our own Milky Way, and equally large. Previously, scientists couldn't tell if nebulae (fuzzy clouds of light) were within the Milky Way or not. Hubble measured the distances to Cepheid stars in the Andromeda nebula and showed it was a hundred thousand times as far away as the nearest stars—proof it was a separate galaxy. He wrote a letter to Harlow Shapley on 19 Feb 1923 about his first measurement. New York Times (22 Nov 1924) told the public, before the meeting. |
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30 Dec 1924
Yvonne Brill |
birth Yvonne Brill Yvonne Brill, Canadian scientist best known for her work developing rocket and jet propulsion technologies (died 2013) |
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| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 30 Dec 1949 | Bruce Davidson: Equestrian 3-day (1996 Olympics - Silver Medalist) | |||
| 30 Dec 1949 | David Bedford, English runner | |||
| 30 Dec 1949 | Jim Flaherty, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Canadian Minister of Finance (d. 2014) | |||
| 30 Dec 1949 | WW2 | The NKVD of the Soviet Union provided Joseph Stalin a secret dossier that contained a biography of Adolf Hitler. | ||
| 30 Dec 1949 | WW2 | Deng Xihou defected to the Chinese communists, allowing communist forces to occupy Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China without opposition. | ||
| 30 Dec 1949 | Bruce Davidson equestrian 3-day (Olympics-silver-96) | |||
| 30 Dec 1949 | India recognizes People's Republic of China | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 30 Dec 1974 | Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought) | |||
| 30 Dec 1974 | G-Enka, Estonian rapper and producer (Toe Tag) | |||
| 30 Dec 1974 | Alexandro Alves do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer (d. 2012) | |||
| 30 Dec 1974 | S. Jithesh, Indian cartoonist, poet, and critic | |||
| 30 Dec 1974 | Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (d. 2007) | |||
| 30 Dec 1974 | Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought) | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 30 Dec 1999 | Sarah Knauss, American super-centenarian (b. 1880) | |||
| 30 Dec 1999 | Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer, co-designed the Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge and Fernsehturm Stuttgart (b. 1909) | |||
| 30 Dec 1999 | George Harrison and his wife Olivia were attacked when an intruder broke into their home in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Olivia beat off the attacker with a poker and heavy lamp. Harrison who was stabbed in the chest was admitted to hospital and treated for a collapsed lung and various minor stab wounds. His wife, Olivia, was treated for cuts and bruises she had suffered in the struggle with the intruder. Police later arrested Michael Abram from Liverpool who had nursed an irrational obsession with the Beatles. | |||
| 30 Dec 1999 | In the Queen's Millennium Honours list, former Slade singer Noddy Holder was awarded an MBE and guitarist Mark Knopfler was awarded an OBE. | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 30 Dec 2004 | Rıza Maksut İşman, Turkish runner (b. 1915) | |||
| 30 Dec 2004 | Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910) | |||
| 30 Dec 2004 | A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194. | |||
| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 30 Dec 2009 | Vishnuvardhan, Indian actor (b. 1950) | |||
| 30 Dec 2009 | Rowland S. Howard, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Birthday Party and These Immortal Souls) (b. 1959) | |||
| 30 Dec 2009 | Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian journalist and politician, 4th President of Indonesia (b. 1940) | |||
| 30 Dec 2009 | A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000 l (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River. | |||
| 30 Dec 2009 | A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan. | |||
| 30 Dec 2009 | Singer, songwriter Neil Young was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Other Canadian musicians who have been given the award include Bryan Adams, Leonard Cohen and the members of Rush. | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 30 Dec 2014 | Terry Becker, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1921) | |||
| 30 Dec 2014 | Yolande Donlan, American-English actress (b. 1920) | |||
| 30 Dec 2014 | Jim Galloway, Scottish-Canadian clarinet player and saxophonist (b. 1936) | |||
| 30 Dec 2014 | Luise Rainer, German-English actress (b. 1910) | |||
| 30 Dec 2014 | B. G. Verghese, Indian journalist (b. 1927) | |||
| 30 Dec 2014 | The woman who inspired Pulp's hit song 'Disco 2000' died shortly after being appointed an MBE. Deborah Bone, from Hertfordshire was a childhood friend of lead singer Jarvis Cocker in Sheffield. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2013. The 1995 Britpop hit contains the lyric: "Your name is Deborah. Deborah. It never suited ya." | |||
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