December 30 in history: • 1460 – Wars of the Roses: At the Battle of Wakefield, Lancastrian forces destroyed the Yorkist army and killed Richard of York at Sandal Magna in West Yorkshire, England. → go there • 1845 – The University of Galway, University College Cork and Queen's University Belfast were established as part of the Queen's University of Ireland. → go there • 1935 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: In retaliation for the execution of an Italian prisoner of war, the Italian Air Force destroyed a field hospital of the Swedish Red Cross in Dolo. → go there • 2000 – A series of bombings occurred around Metro Manila in the Philippines, killing 22 people and injuring around 100 others. → go there • 2005 – Tropical Storm Zeta (pictured) became a tropical depression, making it the record-breaking 28th tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, the most active in recorded history until 2020. → go there Born 1865: Rudyard Kipling Wiki link Born 1930: Elmira Minita Gordon Wiki link Died 1940: C. Harold Wills Wiki link Born 1995: V Wiki link Pictured: Tropical Storm Zeta.