30th October
October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining.
Events
- 1470 - Henry VI of England returns to the throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle.
- 1831 - In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history.
- 1864 - Second war of Schleswig ends: Duke Frederick and the Danish Crown recognize Prussia's and Austria's annexation of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg.
- 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.
- 1925 - John Logie Baird creates Great Britain's first television transmitter.
- 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.
- 1953 - Cold War: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
- 1961 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates a 58 megaton yield hydrogen bomb over Novaya Zemlya (this is still the largest nuclear device to ever be detonated).
- 1965 - Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong 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.
- 1968 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.
- 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.
- 1972 - US President Richard Nixon approves legislation to increase Social Security spending by US$5.3 billion.
- 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 King of Spain after dictator Francisco Franco concedes that he is too ill to govern.
- 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.
- 1987 - In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the PC-Engine.
- 1988 - Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.
- 1995 - Quebec separatists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote was 50.6 % to 49.4 %).
- 1997 - British au pair Louise Woodward is found guilty of the baby-shaking death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.
- 2001 - Michael Jordan returns to the National Basketball Association with the Washington Wizards after 3 1/2 years (the Wizards lose 93-91 to the New York Knicks).
Births
- 1735 - John Adams, American revolutionary leader and President of the United States († 1826)
- 1751 - Richard Sheridan, playwright († 1816)
- 1839 - Alfred Sisley, artist († 1899)
- 1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist († 1930)
- 1861 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor († 1929)
- 1871 - Paul Valery,Franch, poet,(† 1945)
- 1882 - Guenter von Kluge, German,Field Marshal,(† 1944)
- 1882 - William Halsey, Jr, American admiral († 1959)
- 1885 - Ezra Pound, American poet († 1972)
- 1893 - Charles Atlas, bodybuilder († 1972)
- 1893 - Roland Freisler, German Nazi politician († 1945)
- 1896 - Ruth Gordon, American actress († 1985)
- 1915 - Fred Friendly, journalist († 1998)
- 1916 - Leon Day, baseballer († 1995)
- 1930 - Nestor Almendros, cinematographer († 1992)
- 1932 - Louis Malle, director († 1995)
- 1937 - Claude Lelouche, director
- 1939 - Grace Slick, singer with Jefferson Airplane
- 1941 - Otis Williams, singer
- 1945 - Henry Winkler, actor
- 1951 - Harry Hamlin, actor
- 1956 - Juliet Stevenson, actress
- 1960 - Diego Maradona, Argentinian football player
- 1967 - Gavin Rossdale, musician
Deaths
- 1816 - Frederick I of Württemberg
- 1842 - Allan Cunningham, poet and author (* 1784)
- 1883 - Robert Volkmann, composer
- 1893 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third prime minister of Canada
- 1910 - Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross
- 1912 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States
- 1915 - Charles Tupper, sixth prime minister of Canada
- 1918 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter
- 1968 - Rose Wilder Lane, author
- 1968 - Ramon Novarro, actor
- 1978 - Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist
- 1988 - John Houseman, actor, director, teacher
- 2000 - Steve Allen, comedian, author, and composer
- 2001 - Matthias Seefelder, chemist, BASF CEO
- 2002 - Juan Antonio Bardem, movie director
- 2002 - Jam Master Jay, Rap and Hip Hop musician
Holidays
October 29 - October 31 - November 30 - September 30 - more historical anniversaries
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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