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October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 62 days remaining.
Events
1400-1899
1900-1999 1905 - Tsar 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 1925 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds 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 .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 the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya ; at over 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest nuclear device ever detonated.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 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.1966 - The Zodiac killer kills his first victim, 18-year old Cheri Jo Bates, in Riverside , California .1968 - The film The Lion in Winter 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 sovereignists 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.
2000-2099
Births
1700-1899 1735 - John Adams , American revolutionary leader and President of the United States (d. 1826 )1751 - Richard Sheridan , playwright (d. 1816 )1839 - Alfred Sisley , artist (d. 1899 )1844 - Harvey W. Wiley , American chemist (d. 1930 )1861 - Antoine Bourdelle , sculptor (d. 1929 )1871 - Paul Valery , poet (d. 1945 )1882 - Günther von Kluge , German Field Marshal (d. 1944 )1882 - William Halsey, Jr , American admiral (d. 1959 ) 1885 - Ezra Pound , American poet (d. 1972 )1893 - Charles Atlas , bodybuilder (d. 1972 )1893 - Roland Freisler , German Nazi politician (d. 1945 ) 1896 - Ruth Gordon , American actress (d. 1985 )
1900-1999 1915 - Fred Friendly , journalist (d. 1998 )1916 - Leon Day , baseballer (d. 1995 )1930 - Nestor Almendros, cinematographer (d. 1992 )1932 - Louis Malle , director (d. 1995 )1934 - Frans Brüggen , Dutch flutist, recorder player, and conductor1937 - Claude Lelouch , director1939 - Grace Slick , singer with Jefferson Airplane 1941 - Otis Williams , singer1945 - Henry Winkler, actor1951 - Harry Hamlin , actor1956 - Juliet Stevenson, actress1960 - Diego Maradona , Argentine football player1962 - Courtney Walsh , cricketer1966 - Scott Innes , comic voice actor, Scooby Doo1967 - Gavin Rossdale , musician1973 - Adam Copeland , professional wrestler1978 - Martin Dossett , former NFL wide receiver1989 - Seth Adkins, child actor
Deaths
1600-1899
1900-1999 1910 - Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross (b. 1828 )1912 - James S. Sherman , Vice President of the United States 1915 - Charles Tupper , sixth prime minister of Canada 1918 - Egon Schiele , Austrian painter1968 - Rose Wilder Lane , author, reporter (b. 1886 )1968 - Ramon Novarro , actor 1969 - Pops Foster , jazz musician (b. 1892 )1978 - Edgar Bergen , American ventriloquist 1988 - John Houseman , actor, director, teacher
2000-2099
Holidays October 29 - October 31 - November 30 - September 30 - more historical anniversaries
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October 30 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1527 words)
October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. Calendar of Saints - October 30th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints : October 29 - October 31 - September 30 - November 30 - more historical anniversaries
October 2002 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2549 words)
Suspicion immediately focused on Jemaah Islamiyah, an Islamic extremist group also being investigated for the October 11 Bali car bombing, in which more than 180 people died. Astronomy: There is further evidence for the existence of a supermassive fl hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy. October 18, 2002 Manila bus bombing: A bomb exploded in suburban Manila, destroying a bus and killing at least three people, while 23 others were wounded.
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