This Day In European History

30th December

Events
1460: The Battle of Wakefield; Richard of York is killed by Lancastrian troops.
1887: A million Britons petition for pubic houses to shut on Sundays.
1922: Russia becomes the USSR: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
1947: King Michael of Romania abdicates.

Births
39: Roman Emperor Titus.
1865: Rudyard Kipling, British writer.
1891: Antoine Pinay, French finance minister.

Deaths
1460: Richard, Duke of York.
1525: Jakob Fugger, German merchant.
1691: Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish philosopher.
1916: Rasputin, Russian monk.
1899: James Paget, English pathologist.

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