Daily Calendar for Wednesday, December 30, 2026

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Asa Griggs Candler (Politician and founder of the Coca-Cola Company; born in Villa Rica, Georgia) – 1851
Rudyard Kipling (author) – 1865
Bert Parks (television personality) – 1914
Bo Diddley (guitarist) – 1928
Del Shannon (singer) – 1934
Mike Nesmith (musician, member of The Monkees) – 1942
Davy Jones (musician; member of The Monkees) – 1945
Matt Lauer (journalist) – 1957
Tiger Woods (golfer) – 1975
Eliza Dushku (actress) – 1980
Kristin Kreuk (actress) – 1982
LeBron James (basketball player) – 1984

Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft were married – 1816
U.S. president Rutherford B. Hayes married Lucy Webb – 1852
U.S. and Mexico signed the Gadsden Purchase Treaty – 1853
First photo of Earth’s curvature exhibited, in Cleveland, Ohio – 1930
The Arroyo Seco Parkway, California’s first freeway, officially opened. It connected Los Angeles and Pasadena – 1940
The Roy Rogers Show made its TV debut – 1951
Figure skater David Pelletier wed skating partner Jamie Salé – 2005
Samoa skipped this day in order to move from the eastern to the western side of the International Date Line – 2011

Great Cold Wave hit the East : -13 degrees F, New York City; -15 degrees F, Boston, Massachusetts; and -43 degrees F, New Hampshire – 1917
The temperature in Lewisburg, West Virginia, dropped to -37F. – 1917
Bloomfield, Vermont, set a record low temperature for New England with -50 degrees F – 1933
Forty-eight degrees below zero F in Mazama and Winthrop, Washington – 1968
Las Vegas was blanketed with 1.3 inches of snow – 2003