December 30, 1972 (Saturday)
- The "Christmas Bombing" of North Vietnam halted by order of U.S. President Nixon, after the North Vietnamese agreed to resume negotiations with Henry Kissinger beginning on January 8. A total of 20,370 tons of bombs were dropped on North Vietnam over eleven days. In an oft-quoted passage from The Lessons of Vietnam, Sir Robert Thompson wrote "after eleven days of those B-52 attacks on the Hanoi area, you had won the war! It was over!" South Vietnam would be conquered by the North forty months later.
- Born: Kerry Collins, American NFL quarterback, in Lebanon, PA
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Famous quotes containing the word december:
“Work—work—work,
In the dull December light,
And work—work—work,
When the weather is warm and bright—
While underneath the eaves
The brooding swallows cling
As if to show me their sunny backs
And twit me with the spring.”
—Thomas Hood (1799–1845)