Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 30
December 30: José Rizal Day in the Philippines.
- 1853 - Gadsden Purchase: The United States bought 30,000 square miles of land south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande from Mexico for 10 million U.S. dollars.
- 1880 - Paul Kruger became the President of the Transvaal Republic.
- 1927 - The Ginza Line, the oldest subway line in Asia, opened in Tokyo, Japan.
- 1947 - King Michael was forced to abdicate as Romania became a People's Republic.
- 1965 - Ferdinand Marcos became President of the Philippines.
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