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

Births:

• 1735 - John Adams, American revolutionary leader and President of the United States (+ 1826)
• 1751 - Richard Sheridan[?], playwright (+ 1816)
• 1821 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (+ 1881)
• 1839 - Alfred Sisley[?], artist (+ 1899)
• 1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist
• 1861 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (+ 1929)
• 1882 - Bull Halsey, American admiral (+ 1959)
• 1885 - Ezra Pound, American poet (+ 1972)
• 1893 - Charles Atlas[?], bodybuilder (+ 1972)
• 1893 - Roland Freisler, German politician
• 1896 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (+ 1985)
• 1915 - Fred Friendly[?], journalist (+ 1998)
• 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
• 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

Holidays:

October 29 - October 31 - November 30 - September 30 - more historical anniversaries