What happened on October 30? There are more than 272 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About October 30
October 30 is the 304th day of the year 2024. There are 62 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday. This day falls under the 44th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Bridgehampton, New York 11932 sunrise will occur at 07:17 AM and sunset will occur at 05:48 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Scorpio. The modern birthstone for this month is Opal while the mystical birthstone is Jasper.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 91 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For October 30
- 758Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
- 1137Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
- 1226Tran Thu Do, head of the Tran clan of Vietnam, forces Ly Hue Tong, the last emperor of the Ly dynasty, to commit suicide.
- 1270The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
- 1340Battle of Rio Salado.
- 1470Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats the Yorkists in battle.
- 1485King Henry VII of England is crowned.
- 1501Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.
- 1831In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
- 1863Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
- 1864Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at “Last Chance Gulch”.
- 1864Second war of Schleswig ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.
- 1894Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
- 1905Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia’s first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
- 1918The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
- 1920The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
- 1922Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
- 1925John Logie Baird creates Britain’s first television transmitter.
- 1929The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
- 1938Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
- 19411,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
- 1941World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
- 1942Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.
- 1944Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
- 1945Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
- 1947The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
- 1950Pope Pius XII witnesses “The Miracle of the Sun” while at the Vatican.
- 1953Cold War: U.S. 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.
- 1960Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
- 1961Because of “violations of Lenin’s precepts”, it is decreed that Joseph 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.
- 1961Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
- 1965Vietnam 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 is found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
- 1970In 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.
- 1972A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago, Illinois kills 45 and injures 332.
- 1973The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
- 1974The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
- 1975Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain’s acting head of state, taking over for the country’s ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
- 1980El 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.
- 1983The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
- 1985Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
- 1987In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the PC Engine, which was later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.
- 1991The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
- 1993Greysteel massacre: The Ulster Freedom Fighters, a loyalist terrorist group, open fire on a crowded bar in Greysteel, Northern Ireland. Eight civilians are killed and thirteen wounded.
- 1995Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote is 50.6% to 49.4%).
- 2000The last Multics machine is shut down.
- 2005The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
Who Were Born On October 30?
- 39 BCJulia the Elder, the only child the Roman Emperor Augustus (d. AD 14)
- 1218Emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234)
- 1513Jacques Amyot, French writer (d. 1593)
- 1624Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693)
- 1668Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, queen in Prussia (d. 1705)
- 1735John Adams, second President of the United States (d. 1826)
- 1751Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright (d. 1816)
- 1762André Chénier, French writer (d. 1794)
- 1786Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871)
- 1799Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal (d. 1885)
- 1821Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
- 1839Alfred Sisley, Anglo-French artist (d. 1899)
- 1844Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
- 1847Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)
- 1857Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)
- 1861Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)
- 1871Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)
- 1871Paul Valéry, French poet (d. 1945)
- 1873Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (d. 1913)
- 1881Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941)
- 1882Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (d. 1944)
- 1882Oldrich Duras, Czech Chess Grandmaster (d. 1957)
- 1882William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (d. 1959)
- 1885Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
- 1886Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
- 1887Sukumar Ray, Bengali Writer (d. 1923)
- 1888Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek Olympic champion (d. 1913)
- 1893Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (d. 1972)
- 1893Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (d. 1945)
- 1894Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977)
- 1895Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
- 1895Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964)
- 1896Antonino Votto, Italian opera conductor (d. 1985)
- 1896Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)
- 1896Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)
- 1897Agustín Lara, Mexican composer (d. 1970)
- 1897Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
- 1898Bill Terry, baseball player (d. 1989)
- 1900Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
- 1906Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)
- 1906Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (d. 1966)
- 1906Hermann Fegelein, German Nazi official and brother-in-law to Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
- 1907Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)
- 1908Patsy Montana, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
- 1908U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, An Indian politician (d. 1963)
- 1909Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)
- 1910Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian harpsichordist and composer (d. 1994)
- 1911Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1914Anna Wing, English actress
- 1914Richard E Holz, American composer (d. 1986)
- 1915Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)
- 1915Jane Randolph, American Actress d. 2009
- 1916Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995)
- 1917Bobby Bragan, American baseball player (d. 2010)
- 1917Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (d. 2005)
- 1917Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (d. 1994)
- 1922Jane White, American actress and singer (d. 2011)
- 1925Tommy Ridgley, American R&B singer (d. 1999)
- 1926Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver (d. 2010)
- 1927Joe Adcock, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1928Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
- 1930Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1956)
- 1930Néstor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992)
- 1931Vince Callahan, American politician
- 1932Barun De, Indian historian
- 1932Louis Malle, French film director (d. 1995)
- 1934Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician
- 1935Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer
- 1935Jim Perry, American baseball player
- 1935Michael Winner, British film director
- 1935Robert Caro, American biographer
- 1936Dick Vermeil, American football coach
- 1936Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
- 1937Claude Lelouch, French film director
- 1939Edward Holland, Jr., American singer
- 1939Grace Slick, American singer (Jefferson Airplane)
- 1939Jean Chapman, British writer.
- 1939Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, Nobel laureate
- 1940Ed Lauter, American actor
- 1941Otis Williams, American singer
- 1941Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1943Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
- 1945Henry Winkler, American actor
- 1946Chris Slade, Welsh drummer (Asia)
- 1947Timothy B. Schmit, American musician (Eagles)
- 1948Garry McDonald, Australian actor
- 1948Rusty Goffe, British actor
- 1951Harry Hamlin, American actor
- 1951Poncho Sanchez, Mexican-American conga player
- 1951Trilok Gurtu, Kashmiri Indian percussionist and composer
- 1953Charles Martin Smith, American actor
- 1953Pete Hoekstra, Dutch-American politician
- 1954Mahmoud El Khatib, Egyptian footballer
- 1954Mario Testino, Peruvian-born English fashion photographer
- 1956Juliet Stevenson, English actress
- 1957Kevin Pollak, American actor
- 1958Joe Delaney, American football player (d. 1983)
- 1958Ramona d'Viola, American cyclist
- 1958Stefan Dennis, Australian actor
- 1959Michael Fiedler, German footballer
- 1960Diego Maradona, Argentine footballer
- 1961Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek economist and politician
- 1961Scott Garrelts, American baseball player
- 1962Courtney Walsh, Jamaican West Indies cricketer
- 1963Kristina Wagner, American actress
- 1963Michael Beach, American actor
- 1963Rebecca Heineman, Computer game programmer
- 1964Adnan Al Talyani , Emirates footballer
- 1964Howard Lederer, American poker player
- 1964Humayun Kabir Dhali, Bangladeshi Writer & Journalist
- 1965Gavin Rossdale, English musician
- 1966Scott Innes, American voice actor
- 1967Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968Jack Plotnick, American actor
- 1969Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer
- 1969Vagelis Vourtzoumis, Greek basketball player
- 1970Ben Bailey, American game show host
- 1970Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower
- 1970Maja Tatic, Bosnia singer
- 1970Nia Long, American actress
- 1970Tory Belleci, American television personality
- 1971Fredi Bobic, German former footballer and current sports director of VfB Stuttgart
- 1971Suzan van der Wielen, Dutch hockey-international
- 1971Tzanis Stavrakopoulos, Greek basketball player
- 1972Jessica Hynes, English actress and writer
- 1973Adam “Edge” Copeland, Canadian wrestler
- 1973Michael Oakes, English footballer
- 1973Silvia Corzo, Colombian newscaster
- 1975Ian D'Sa, Canadian musician (Billy Talent)
- 1975Marco Scutaro, American Baseball player
- 1975Maria Thayer, American actress
- 1976Ümit Özat, Turkish footballer
- 1976Maurice Taylor, American Basketball Player
- 1976Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
- 1977Eefke Mulder, Dutch hockey-international
- 1977Jason Adelman, American actor
- 1978Amanda Swafford, American model
- 1978Derren Witcombe, New Zealand rugby player
- 1978Martin Dossett, American football player
- 1978Matthew Morrison, American actor
- 1979Jason Bartlett, American baseball player
- 1979Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress
- 1980Choi Hong-man, South Korean kickboxer
- 1980John Foo, Irish martial artist and actor
- 1980Kareem Rush, American basketball player
- 1980Sarah Carter, Canadian actress
- 1981Ayaka Kimura, Japanese actress
- 1981Ian Snell, American baseball player
- 1981Ivanka Trump, American model
- 1981Joshua Jay, American magician
- 1981Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
- 1982Andy Greene, American ice hockey player
- 1982Manny Parra, American baseball player
- 1983Iain Hume, Canadian footballer
- 1983Maor Melikson, Israeli footballer
- 1983Trent Edwards, American football player
- 1984Eva Marcille, American model and actress
- 1984Isaac Ross, New Zealand rugby player
- 1984Tyson Strachan, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper
- 1987Ali Riley. New Zealand Female football player
- 1988Janel Parrish, American actress
- 1989Jay Asforis, American singer
- 1989Nastia Liukin, Russian/American gymnast
- 1989Seth Adkins, American actor
- 1989Vanessa White, British singer (The Saturdays)
- 1992Tequan Richmond, American actor
- 1996Mizuki Fukumura, 9th generation member of Japanese girl group Morning Musume
Who Died On October 30?
- 1522Jean Mouton, French composer
- 1553Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)
- 1602Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
- 1611King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
- 1626Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580)
- 1632Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc (b. 1595)
- 1654Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633)
- 1680Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
- 1685Michel le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603)
- 1757Edward Vernon, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1684)
- 1809William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
- 1816Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
- 1842Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (b. 1784)
- 1853Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786)
- 1883Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815)
- 1893John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
- 1894Honoré Mercier, politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
- 1899William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816)
- 1910Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)
- 1912Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean military, participated on Battle of Huamachuco (b. 1840)
- 1912James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
- 1915Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
- 1917Talbot Mercer Papineau, Canadian lawyer and soldier (b. 1883)
- 1923Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
- 1957Fred Beebe, baseball player (b. 1880)
- 1961Luigi Einaudi, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1874)
- 1963U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (b. 1908)
- 1966Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (b. 1906)
- 1968Conrad Richter, American writer (b. 1890)
- 1968Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (b. 1899)
- 1968Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886)
- 1969Pops Foster, American musician (b. 1892)
- 1975Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
- 1975Martha Moxley, American murder victim (b. 1960)
- 1975Wilma McCann, first murder victim of Peter Sutcliffe, the “Yorkshire Ripper” (b. 1946/7)
- 1979Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
- 1979Sir Barnes Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (b. 1887)
- 1985Kirby Grant, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1987Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, author (b. 1904)
- 1988T. Hee, American animator (b. 1911)
- 1993Paul Grégoire, Archbishop of Montreal (b. 1911)
- 1997Samuel Fuller, American film director (b. 1912)
- 2000Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)
- 2002Aliki Diplarakou, Greek Miss Europe (b. 1912)
- 2002Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (b. 1965)
- 2002Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 2004Dame Phyllis Frost, Australian welfare worker and philanthropist (b. 1917)
- 2004Peggy Ryan, American actress (b. 1924)
- 2005Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (b. 1908)
- 2005Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (b. 1942)
- 2006Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
- 2006Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
- 2007John Woodruff, American athlete (b. 1915)
- 2007Linda Stein, Ramones manager and real estate broker (b. 1945)
- 2007Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)
- 2007Washoe, chimpanzee trained in American Sign Language (b. 1965)
- 2008Pedro Pompilio, Argentinian businessman (b. 1950)
- 2009Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist (b. 1908)
- 2010Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (b. 1927)
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