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 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.
- 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 Kruschev 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 Josef 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.
- 1991 - The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
- 2002 - British television Service Freeview starts transmitting throughout parts of the United Kingdom
[change] Births
- 1735 - John Adams, President of the United States
- 1906 - Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970
- 1960 - Diego Armando Maradona, Argentine footballer
- 1989 - Seth Adkins, American actor
[change] Deaths
- 1809 - William Cavendish-Bentinck Prime Minister of Great Britian (b. 1738)
- 1923 - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
- 1956 - Pio Baroja, Spanish writer (b. 1872)
- 2000 - Steve Allen, American comedian, writer, and composer (b. 1921)