October 30

October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining.

Events:

1270 - Eighth Crusade is launched
1470 - Henry VI of England returned to the throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle
1905 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly
1925 - John 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
1939 - Germany and USSR partition Poland
1941 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union
1953 - Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize[?]
1963 - The first Lamborghini rolls off the assembly line
1974 - "The Rumble in The Jungle": Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship.
1975 - Juan Carlos becomes King of Spain
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 - First democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military ruling.
1995 - Quebec separatists lose secession election

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See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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