On This Day:
Monday December 30, 2013 This is the 364th day of the year, with 1 day remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: vocabulary It is estimated that the average English speaker's active vocabulary ranges between 15,000 and 50,000 words, while the passive vocabulary (the words a speaker understands but doesn't use) can include up to 100,000 words.
Holidays Feast day of St. Sabinus of Spoleto, St. Anysia, St. Anysius, and St. Egwin.
Philippines: Rizal Day.
Events 1853 - The United States bought 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase. The treaty established the final boundaries of the southern United States.
1862 - The Union ironclad ship USS Monitor (famous for her battle with the Merrimac) sank off Cape Hatteras during a storm.
1879 - Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance" was first performed, in England.
1880 - In British South Africa, the Transvaal province was declared an independent Boer republic, which set off an armed conflict with Britain.
1911 - Sun Yat-sen was elected the first president of the Republic of China.
1922 - Vladimir I. Lenin proclaimed the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, comprising a confederation of Russia, Byelorussia, the Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation.
1940 - California's first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena, was officially opened.
1948 - "Kiss Me Kate" opened on Broadway, New York City.
1951 - "The Roy Rogers Show" premiered on TV.
1963 - "Let's Make a Deal" premiered on television.
1965 - Ferdinand E. Marcos was sworn in as the Philippine Republic's sixth president.
1972 - The United States halted its heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
Births 1865 - Rudyard Kipling, English novelist, short story author, poet, Nobel Prize for Literature winner.
1867 - Simon Guggenheim, American philanthropist.
1928 - Bo Diddley (Ellas Bates, Ellas McDaniel), American rhythm and blues singer.
1959 - Tracey Ullman, English comedienne.
1975 - Tiger Woods, American pro golfer.
Deaths 1933 - Ion Duca, the liberal premier of Romania, assassinated by a member of the Iron Guard, an extreme rightist movement.
1979 - Richard Rodgers, American composer of musical comedies and collaborator with Oscar Hammerstein.
2004 - Arthur Arshawsky (Artie Shaw), an accomplished jazz clarinetist, composer, bandleader, and writer.
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