30th December: Today In History

Today is 30th December,  the 364 day of 2015. There are 01 day left in the year. Today's Highlight In History;  Birthdays:   1865 Rudyard Kipling, Author of 'The Jungle Book'   1928 Bo Didley, US singer & songwriter   1937 Gordon Banks, English goal keeper   1942 Mike Nesmith, One of the 'Monkees'   1945 Davy Jones, English member of the 'Monkees'   1959 Tracey Ullman, British born comedienne   1961 Ben Johnson, Canadian sprinter Events:   1916 In Russia, Rasputin 'the mad monk' was murdered   1922 Russia became the Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics   1947 King Michael of Romania abdicated, allowing a communist republic to be formed   1956 The last passenger train on the Liverpool Overhead Railway ran   1964 Federal elections are held. The elections are widely boycotted in the East and West.   1964 Federal election are held. The elections are widely boycotted in the East and West.   1965 Ferdinand Marcos became president of the Philippines   1988 The Yugoslavian government resigned over problems in Serbia   1991 Pavarotti gave an open air concert in Dublin