On This Day:
Tuesday December 30, 2014 This is the 364th day of the year, with 1 day remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: cooking Humans cook food (especially meat) to sterilize it, to break down factors that may be toxic, to break down polymers in the food that are otherwise difficult to digest (such as tough meats or starchy foods), or simply because it tastes better that way. Humans have been cooking, cleaning, or fermenting their food since before recorded history. Cooking probably decreases the health value of the food because it destroys many vitamins. One troop of macaque monkeys has learnt to wash certain foods before eating and some snakes, dragonfly larvae, and pitcher plants digest or rot their prey before assimilating it, but no other known animal deliberately cooks its food.
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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