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2005-10-30

On this day in History - Oct. 30

1218 - Emperor Chukyo was born (d. 1234). Emperor of Japan
1270 - The 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.
1459 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini dies (b. 1380). Italian humanist
1470 - Henry VI of England returns to the throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle.
1513 - Jacques Amyot was born (d. 1593). French writer.
1522 - Jean Mouton dies. French composer
1534 - The English parliament passed the Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church.
1553 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck dies (b. 1489). German statesman and reformer.
1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard dies (b. 1528). French poet.
1611 - King Charles IX of Sweden dies (b. 1550)
1624 - Paul Pellisson was born (d. 1693). French writer.
1626 - Willebrord Snell dies (b. 1580). Dutch astronomer and mathematician
1632 - Henri II de Montmorency dies (b. 1595). French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc
1654 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan dies (b. 1633).
1680 - Antoinette Bourignon dies (b. 1616). Flemish mystic.
1685 - Michel le Tellier dies (b. 1603). French statesman.
1700 - Gaspar Molina Rocha was born. Spanish bishop
1712 - Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich was born. German painter.
1733 - Rodrigo Anes de Sá Almeida e Meneses dies (b. 19 Oct 1626). Portuguese noble. 1st Marquis of Abrantes
1735 - John Adams was born (d. 1826). American revolutionary leader and President of the United States
1739 - Leonty Filippovich Magnitsky dies. Russian mathematicien.
1751 - Richard Sheridan was born (d. 1816), Irish playwright.
1762 - André Chénier was born (d. 1794). French writer.
1816 - Frederick I of Württemberg dies (b. 1754)
1817 - Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp was born (d. 20 Feb 1892). German chemist and historian of chemistry whose studies of the relation of physical properties to chemical structure pioneered physical organic chemistry.
1820 - Sir John William Dawson was born (d. 20 Nov 1899). Canadian geologist who made numerous contributions to paleobotany and extended the knowledge of Canadian geology
1823 - Edmund Cartwright dies (b. 24 Apr 1743). English inventor of the power loom. He also invented a machine for combing wool.
1831 - In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history.
1839 - Alfred Sisley was born (d. 1899). Landscape painter.
1842 - Allan Cunningham dies (b. 1784). Scottish poet and author.
1844 - Harvey W. Wiley was born (d. 1930). American chemist.
1853 - Pietro Raimondi dies (b. 1786). Italian composer.
1861 - Antoine Bourdelle was born (d. 1929). French sculptor.
1864 - Second war of Schleswig ends: Duke Frederick and the Danish Crown recognize Prussia's and Austria's annexation of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg.
1864 - Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch."
1867 - Louis Winslow Austin was born (d. 27 Jun 1932). American physicist known for research on long-range radio transmissions. In 1904 he began work on radio transmissions for the U.S. Bureau of Standards. In
1871 - Paul Valery was born. French poet.
1872 - John Chubb dies (b. 1816). English locksmith and safe maker.
1873 - Francisco I. Madero was born. President of Mexico (1911-1913)
1882 - Günther von Kluge was born (d. 1944). German field marshal.
1882 - William Halsey, Jr was born (d. 1959). American admiral.
1883 - Robert Volkmann dies (b. 1815). German composer.
1885 - Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho (d. 1972). American poet, critic, and translator.
1893 - Charles Atlas was born (d. 1972). Italian-born bodybuilder
1893 - Roland Freisler was born (d. 1945). German Nazi politician,
1894 - Domenico Menegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
1895 - Gerhard Domagk was born (d. 24 Apr 1964). German bacteriologist and pathologist who was awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery (announced in 1932) of the antibacterial effects of Prontosil, the first of the sulfonamide drugs.1895 - Dickinson W(oodruff) Richards was born (d. 23 Feb 1973). American physiologist who was one of three who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system".
1895 - Raul de Leoni was born in Petrópolis RJ (d. 1926). Brazilian poet (Luz mediterrânea)
1896 - Ruth Gordon was born (d. 1985). Actress and playwright.
1900 - Ragnar Arthur Granit was born (d. 1991). Finnish-born Swedish physiologist who was a corecipient (with George Wald and Haldan Hartline) of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his analysis of the internal electrical changes that take place when the eye is exposed to light.
1905 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
1906 - Giuseppe Farina was born (d. 1966). Italian race car driver.
1907 - Sol Tax was born (d. 4 Jan 1995). American cultural anthropologist, founder of the Current Anthropology journal and initiator of the Fox Project, a study of the culture of the Fox and Sauk Indians
1909 - Homi Jahangir Bhabha was born (d. 1967). Indian Nuclear Scientist
1910 - Henry Dunant dies (b. 1828). Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1910 - Miguel Hernández was born. Spanish poet.
1911 - Ruth Hussey was born (d. 2005). American actress
1912 - James S. Sherman dies (b. 1855). Vice President of the United States
1914 - Richard E Holz was born. American composer
1915 - Fred Friendly was born (d. 1998), American journalist and network executive.
1915 - Charles Tupper dies (b. 1821). Sixth Prime Minister of Canada
1916 - Leon Day was born (d. 1995). Baseball player.
1917 - Maurice Trintignant was born (d. 2005). French race car driver
1918 - Robert C. Seamans, Jr. was born. American aeronautical engineer who pioneered in the development of advanced systems of flight control, fire control, and guidance for modern aircraft.
1918 - Egon Schiele dies (b. 1890). Austrian painter
1918 - The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East
1920 - The Communist Party of Australia founded in Sydney.
1925 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
1928 - Daniel Nathans was born. American microbiologist, corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1978 (with American Hamilton Othanel Smith and Swiss scientist Werner Arber).
1930 - Nestor Almendros was born (d. 1992). Spanish cinematographer
1932 - Louis Malle was born (d. 1995). French film director
1934 - Frans Brüggen was born. Dutch flutist, recorder player, and conductor
1935 - Agota Kristof was born. Hungarian writer
1936 - Polina Astakhova was born (d. 2005). Ukrainian gymnast
1937 - Claude Lelouch was born. French film director
1938 - Radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds starring Orson Welles, caused nationwide panic among listeners.
1939 - Grace Slick was born. American singer (Jefferson Airplane)
1940 - Ed Lauter was born. American actor
1941 - Theodor W. Hänsch was born. German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 - Otis Williams was born. American singer
1941 - World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
1942 - António de Morais Barreto was born. Portugueses politician and sociologist.
1942 - Francisco Xavier Marques dies. Brazilian writer.
1944 - Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1944 - Martha Graham's ballet Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron Copland, premiered.
1945 - Henry Winkler was born. American actor
1946 - William Paul Thurston was born. American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1983 for his work in topology.
1947 - The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is founded.
1951 - Harry Hamlin was born. American actor
1953 - Gen. George C. Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize for originating the Marshall Plan.
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.
1956 - Pio Baroja dies. Spanish writer.
1956 - Juliet Stevenson was born. English actress
1958 - Joe Delaney was born (d. 1983). American football player
1959 - Jim Mollison dies. Scotish aviation pioneer.
1960 - Diego Armando Maradona was born. Argentine football player
1961 - Luigi Einaudi dies. Italian politician.
1961 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest nuclear device ever detonated. Nikita Kruschev announces that the scientists had planned to make it 100 megatons, but had reduced the yield so as to avoid 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.
1962 - Courtney Walsh was born. West Indian cricketer
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.
1966 - Scott Innes was born. American voice actor
1967 - Gavin Rossdale was born. English musician
1968 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.
1968 - Rose Wilder Lane dies (b. 1886). American journalist and author
1968 - Ramon Novarro dies (b. 1899). Mexican actor
1969 - Pops Foster dies (b. 1892). American musician
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.
1973 - Adam Copeland was born. Canadian professional wrestler
1973 - Silvia Corzo was born. Colombian newsreader
1974 - Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire ("rumble in the jungle") to regain his world heavyweight title.
1975 - Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
1975 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz dies (b. 1887). German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1978 - Edgar Bergen dies (b. 1903). American ventriloquist
1978 - Martin Dossett was born. American football player
1979 - Sir Barnes Wallis dies (b. 26 Sep 1887). British aeronautical designer and military engineer, famous for his "dambuster" bombs
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.
1985 - The portuguese jesuits Silvio Moreira and João de Deus Kamtedza are killed in Mozambique
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.
1991 - The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
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 - Steve Allen dies (b. 1921). Comedian, TV host, author and composer.
2001 - George W. Bush throws out the first pitch at Game 3 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium, in what was intended to be a defiant gesture, coming just weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks.
2001 - Michael Jordan returns to the National Basketball Association with the Washington Wizards after 3 1/2 years (the Wizards lose 93-91 to the New York Knicks).
2002 - British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview starts transmitting throughout parts of the United Kingdom
2002 - Jam Master Jay dies murdered (b. 1965). American rapper and musician (Run DMC)
2004 - A 163-metre high radio mast in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK collapses in a fire.
2004 - In Punjab, India the expelled BSP leader Satnam Singh Kainth launches Bahujan Samaj Party (Kainth).
2004 - Peggy Ryan dies in Las Vegas. Actress-dancer
Calendar of Saints - October 30th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
Bl. Angelus of Acri, St. Alfonso Rodríguez, St. Arilda, St. Artemas, St. Dorothy of Montau, St. Herbert, Bl. John Slade, St. Macarius, St. Marcel, St. Maximus, St. Saturninus, St. Serapion, St. Talacrian, St. Theonestus, St. Zenobius & Zenobia
USA - Devil's Night also known as Mischief night in Detroit; National Candy Corn Day


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