30th December 1460 The Wars of the Roses: Richard Plantagenet 3rd Duke of York dies in The Battle of Wakefield. 1813 War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York. 1850 The birth of John Milne, British geologist and mining engineer. 1851 The artist JMW Turner, who died on 19th December was buried, at his own request, in the crypt of St Pauls Cathedral, next to Sir Joshua Reynolds, the English portrait artist. 1865 Author Rudyard Kipling was born, in India. 1879 The first performance of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance, at the Royal Bijou Theatre, Paignton, Devon. 1887 A petition, signed by more than 1 million women in Britain, was sent to Queen Victoria calling for public houses to be closed on Sundays. 1919 Lincolns Inn, one of four Inns of Court in London to which barristers belong and where they are called to the Bar, admitted its first female students. 1932 The completion of the electrification of the London to Brighton railway line. 1937 Gordon Banks, English goal keeper, was born, in Sheffield. 1942 The birth of Guy Edwards, former racing driver. 1946 Football league players threatened to strike over the proposed maximum wage of £11 a week. 1954 British athlete Chris Chataway became the first winner of the BBCs Sports Personality of the Year award. 1956 The last passenger train service ran on the Liverpool Overhead Railway. 1986 According to new plans by the government, more than 200 canaries would be phased out of Britains mining pits. 2013 Forestry Commission figures showed that more than five million trees had been felled in Scotland since Alex Salmond came to power in 2007, to make way for wind farm developments, with fewer than 1.6 million planted to replace them. 2013 The Energy Networks Association (ENA) said that all of the houses that lost power during the Christmas storms had been reconnected.
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