Today is Thursday, December 30, the 364th day of 2010. There are one day left in the year.
1621 ― English king James I cracks Protestation of Parliament
1703 ― Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die
1911 ― Sun Yat-sen elected first president of Republic of China
1922 ― Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR
1927 ― Japan dedicates first subway in the Orient (route under two miles long)
1938 ― Electronic television system patented by V. K. Zworykin
1950 ― Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become Independent states in France Union
1959 ― The George Washington, first ballistic missile submarine, commissioned
1969 ― USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1974 ― Beatles are legally disbanded (four years after suit was brought)