On this day in History - Oct. 30

• 1137 - Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
• 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.
• 1340 - Battle of Rio Salado (Ler em português)
• 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 (d. 4 Dec 1760). Spanish bishop
• 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.
• 1786 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé was born (d. 1871). French Canadian writer and politician
• 1799 - Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal was born (d. 1885)
• 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.
• 1847 - Galileo Ferraris was born (d. 1897). Italian physicist.
• 1853 - Pietro Raimondi dies (b. 1786). Italian composer.
• 1857 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette was born (d. 1904). French neurologist
• 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.
• 1871 - Paul Valery was born. French poet.
• 1871 - Buck Freeman was born (d. 1949). Baseball player.
• 1872 - John Chubb dies (b. 1816). English locksmith and safe maker.
• 1873 - Francisco I. Madero was born (d. 1913). 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.
• 1886 - Zoe Akins was born (d. 1958). American playwright.
• 1893 - Charles Atlas was born (d. 1972). Italian-born bodybuilder
• 1893 - Roland Freisler was born (d. 1945). German Nazi politician
• 1893 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott dies (b. 1821). Third Prime Minister of Canada
• 1894 - Jean Rostand was born (d. 1977). French biologist and philosopher.
• 1894 - Domenico Menegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
• 1894 - Honoré Mercier dies (b. 1840). Politician, Premier of Quebec.
• 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. 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.
• 1897 - Rex Cherryman was born (d. 1928). American actor.
• 1898 - Bill Terry was born (d. 1989). Baseball player.
• 1899 - William Henry Webb dies (b. 1816). American industrialist and philanthropist.
• 1900 - Ragnar 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 J. Bhabha was born (d. 1966). 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 (d. 1942). 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.
• 1917 - Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov was born (d. 1994). Soviet field marshal
• 1918 - The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East
• 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.
• 1927 - Joe Adcock was born (d. 1999). Major League Baseball player
• 1928 - Daniel Nathans was born (d. 1999). American microbiologist, corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1978 (with American Hamilton Othanel Smith and Swiss scientist Werner Arber).
• 1929 - The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
• 1930 - Clifford Brown was born (d. 19456). Noted and highly influential American jazz trumpeter.
• 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.
• 1935 - Michael Winner was born. British film director
• 1935 - Jim Perry was born. Major League Baseball pitcher
• 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)
• 1939 - Leland H. Hartwell was born. American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1939 - Edward Holland, Jr., American singer and songwriter
• 1940 - Ed Lauter was born. American actor
• 1941 - World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
• 1941 - 1.500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) were sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
• 1941 - Theodor W. Hänsch was born. German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1941 - Otis Williams was born. American singer
• 1942 - António de Morais Barreto was born. Portugueses politician and sociologist.
• 1942 - Francisco Xavier Marques dies. Brazilian writer.
• 1943 - Joanna Shimkus was born. Canadian actress
• 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
• 1945 - Ignacio Zuluaga dies (b. 1870). Spanish painter
• 1946 - William Paul Thurston was born. American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1983 for his work in topology.
• 1947 - Timothy B. Schmit was born. Bass guitarist (Eagles)
• 1947 - The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is founded.
• 1950 - Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican
• 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.
• 1953 - Charles Martin Smith was born. American actor
• 1956 - Pio Baroja dies. Spanish writer.
• 1956 - Juliet Stevenson was born. English actress.
• 1957 - Kevin Pollak was born. American actor
• 1957 - Fred Beebe dies (b. 1880). Baseball player.
• 1958 - Joe Delaney was born (d. 1983). American football player.
• 1958 - Stefan Dennis was born. Australian actor
• 1959 - Jim Mollison dies. Scotish aviation pioneer.
• 1960 - Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
• 1960 - Diego Armando Maradona was born. Argentine football player.
• 1961 - Scott Garrelts was born. Baseball 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.
• 1963 - Kristina Wagner was born. American actress
• 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.
• 1965 - Gavin Rossdale was born. English musician
• 1966 - Scott Innes was born. American voice actor
• 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
• 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.
• 1968 - Rose Wilder Lane dies (b. 1886). American journalist and author
• 1968 - Conrad Richter dies (b. 1890). American novelist and short story writer
• 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.
• 1970 - Maja Tatic was born. Bosnia singer
• 1970 - Nia Long was born. American actress
• 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
• 1976 - Stern John was born. Trinidadian footballer
• 1978 - Edgar Bergen dies (b. 1903). American ventriloquist
• 1978 - Martin Dossett was born. American football player
• 1979 - Yukie Nakama was born. Japanese actress
• 1979 - Sir Barnes Wallis dies (b. 26 Sep 1887). British aeronautical designer and military engineer, famous for his "dambuster" bombs.
• 1979 - Donna Rachele Mussolini dies (b. 1890). Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini.
• 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.
• 1980 - Sarah Carter was born. Canadian actress
• 1981 - Euthanasia chief jailed over suicides: The secretary of the UK's pro-euthanasia group Exit is sentenced to two and a half years for aiding and abetting suicide.
• 1981 - Ivanka Trump was born. American model and daughter of Donald Trump
• 1983 - The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
• 1983 - Iain Hume was born. Canadian football player
• 1984 - Eva Pigford was born. American model and actress
• 1984 - Pro-Solidarity priest is murdered: Father Jerzy Popieluszko, an outspoken supporter of Poland's banned trade union, is found dead 11 days after he was kidnapped.
• 1985 - The portuguese jesuits Silvio Moreira and João de Deus Kamtedza are killed in Mozambique
• 1985 - Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
• 1985 - Kirby Grant dies (b. 1911). American actor.
• 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.
• 1989 - Nastia Liukin was born. American gymnast
• 1991 - The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
• 1993 - Paul Grégoire dies (b. 1911). Archbishop of Montreal
• 1994 - José Evandro Pires de Carvalho (Evandro do Bandolim) dies (b. 1932). Brazilian musician.
• 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.
• 1997 - Samuel Fuller dies (b. 1912). American film director.
• 1999 - Miss Saigon closes in London after 4264 performances.
• 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)
• 2002 - Juan Antonio Bardem dies (b. 1922). Spanish director and screenwriter.
• 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.
• 2005 - The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
• 2005 - Al Lopez dies (b. 1908). Baseball player and manager.
• 2005 - Shamsher Singh Sheri dies (b. 1942). Indian revolutionary leader.
• 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;
• USA - National Candy Corn Day