October 30
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October 30 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 61 days remaining after October 30 until the end of the year.
[change] Events
- 1470 – Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle.
- 1485 – Henry VII of England is crowned King.
- 1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch."
- 1905 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
- 1918 – The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East
- 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic.
- 1941 – World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
- 1944 – Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
- 1961 – The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba. It is the largest nuclear device ever detonated. Nikita Khrushchev says that the scientists had planned to make it larger, but had reduced the yield to prevent breaking all the windows in Moscow.
- 1961 – Due to "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
- 1965 – Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines stop an large attack of NLF forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
- 1970 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
- 1974 – "The Rumble in the Jungle": Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship.
- 1975 – Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
- 1980 – El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
- 1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
- 1983 – An earthquake in eastern Turkey, near Erzurum, kills around 1,300 people.
- 1991 – The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
- 1995 – Quebec independence referendum: Voters in Quebec narrowly choose to stay part of Canada.
- 2000 – The Somoni replaces the Rouble as the currency of Tajikistan.
- 2002 – British television Service Freeview starts transmitting throughout parts of the United Kingdom.
- 2005 – Having been destroyed in the Firebombing of Dresden in World War II, the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady), is reconsecrated.
[change] Births
- 1218 – Emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234)
- 1580 – Dirk Hartog, Dutch explorer (d. 1621)
- 1632 – Christopher Wren, English architect (d. 1723)
- 1668 – Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Queen of Prussia (d. 1705)
- 1735 – John Adams, 1st Vice President and 2nd President of the United States (d. 1826)
- 1741 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter (d. 1807)
- 1839 – Alfred Sisley, Anglo-French painter (d. 1899)
- 1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)
- 1873 – Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (d. 1913)
- 1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
- 1895 – Gerhard Domagk, German doctor, won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1964)
- 1895 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician (d. 1973)
- 1896 – Harry Randall Truman, Guardian of Mt. St. Helens (d. 1980)
- 1900 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist (d. 1991)
- 1906 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian racing driver (d. 1966)
- 1906 – Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)
- 1911 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist (d. 1999)
- 1930 – Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1956)
- 1935 – Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer (d. 2011)
- 1935 – Michael Winner, English film director
- 1937 – Claude Lelouch, French director
- 1939 – Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist
- 1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor, director and producer
- 1954 – Mario Testino, Peruvian-born fashion photographer
- 1960 – Diego Armando Maradona, Argentine footballer
- 1962 – Stefan Kuntz, German footballer
- 1964 – Jean-Marc Bosman, Belgian footballer
- 1971 – Fredi Bobic, German footballer
- 1976 – Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
- 1978 – Matthew Morrison, American actor and singer
- 1986 – Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian skijumper
- 1989 – Seth Adkins, American actor
- 1989 – Nastia Liukin, American gymnast
- 1996 – Mizuki Fukumura, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
[change] Deaths
- 1611 – King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
- 1654 – Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633)
- 1809 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
- 1893 – John Abbott, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
- 1910 – Jean-Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the International Red Cross, co-winner of the first Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)
- 1912 – James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
- 1915 – Charles Tupper, shortest-serving Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
- 1923 – Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
- 1956 – Pio Baroja, Spanish writer (b. 1872)
- 1961 – Luigi Einaudi, 2nd President of Italy (b. 1874)
- 1975 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist (b. 1887)
- 1997 – Samuel Fuller, American film director (b. 1912)
- 2000 – Steve Allen, American comedian, writer, and composer (b. 1921)
- 2002 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 2007 – Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)
- 2009 – Claude Levi-Strauss, French anthropologist (b. 1908)
- 2010 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (b. 1927)
