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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
- 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.
- 1987 - NEC PC-Engine is released in Japan
- 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
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
October 29 - October 31 - November 30 - September 30 - more historical anniversaries