What happened on 30 December?

11 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1922 Founding of the Soviet Union Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Transcaucasia federate as the USSR.
2. 1906 All-India Muslim League founded Muslim League formed at Dacca to safeguard Muslim political interests.
3. 1938 Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet ballet Prokofiev's ballet on Shakespeare's tragedy; source of the famous Dance of the Knights; premiered in Brno.
4. 1984 Born: LeBron James American basketball star.
5. 1865 Born: Rudyard Kipling British author; The Jungle Book, Kim; Nobel laureate.
6. 1975 Born: Tiger Woods Dominant golfer of the 1990s-2000s.
7. 1460 Battle of Wakefield Lancastrians kill Richard, Duke of York; his head exhibited on Micklegate Bar wearing a paper crown.
8. 1916 Murder of Rasputin Conservative nobles led by Felix Yusupov assassinate Grigori Rasputin in a bid to save the monarchy, months before its collapse.
9. 2006 Execution of Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein is hanged after conviction for crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal.
10. 1460 Margaret of Anjou's victory at Wakefield The Lancastrian queen's army destroys the Duke of York, whose head is set above Micklegate Bar in a paper crown.
11. 1812 Prussia changes sides at Tauroggen General Yorck, commanding the Prussian corps in Napoleon's ruined army, signs a private neutrality convention with the Russians — without asking his king. The act of insubordinatio