10 World-Changing Events That Happened on December 30

10 World-Changing Events That Happened on December 30

By Michelle Carr Crowe, Silicon Valley real estate guide selling homes in San Jose

Are you an inquisitive person who enjoys learning? If you’ve read my blog, you know one of the pastimes I enjoy is discovering new facts and interesting pieces of history.

I like to share intriguing stories from our local newspaper the San Jose Mercury News, as well as my favorite print and online magazines Mental Floss, the National Geographic Society or  Smithsonian Magazine. Other times I find articles or facts online at The History Place, Brainy History,orDates In History.These events for today’s blog post are culled from History Orb.

While these interesting items are intriguing, they have nothing to do with my real estate business, helping people like you buy and sell homes in Silicon Valley, Calif., from Palo Alto to Cupertino, and beyond. I admit, they just add fun and fascination to life.

Here are today’s 10 world-changing events that happened in history on today’s date, December 30. I hope you find them interesting, too.

What happened on December 30?

1817 - The first coffee plants were established in Kona, Hawaii.

1861 - United States banks stop making payments in gold.

1907 - Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball

1924 - Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galactic systems besides the Milky Way.

1938 - Electronic television system patented (V K Zworykin)-by 1953 the first ever color television sets go on sale for about $1,175 each from RCA.

1940 - California's first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway, opens.

1941 - The Nazis require Dutch physicians to join the Nazi organization in order to continue pracising medicine.

1943 - Subhash Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.

1952 - The Tuskegee Institute reports that 1952 is the first year in the past 71 years with recorded lynchings in the U.S.

1993 - The Vatican recognizes Israel as a country.

Thank you for reading. You may want to read my blog at www.activerain.com/results for more fun facts on history, real estate, home, life and other topics. I hope you enjoyed 10 World-Changing Events That Happened on December 30.