On this day in History - Oct. 30

• 0637 - Antioch surrendered to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge.
• 0758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
• 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.
• 1485 - Henry VII of England crowned.
• 1500 - Portuguese King Manuel I marries Maria de Aragão, his second wife.
• 1501 – Ballet 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.
• 1502 - Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut for the second time.
• 1513 - Jacques Amyot was born (d. 1593). French writer.
• 1522 - Jean Mouton dies (b. c. 1459). 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).
• 1668 - Sophia Charlotte of Hanover was born (d. 1705). Queen in Prussia.
• 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 was born (d. 1885). Bishop of Montreal.
• 1809 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland dies (b. 1738). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 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.
• 1821 - Fyodor Dostoevsky was born (d. 1881). Russian writer.
• 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). Anglo-French 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.
• 1863 - Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
• 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.
• 1868 - António Cabreira was born in Tavira (d. 21 Nov 1953). Portuguese mathematician, journalist and publicist.
• 1871 - Buck Freeman was born (d. 1949). Baseball player.
• 1871 - Paul Valery was born (d. 1945). French poet.
• 1872 - John Chubb dies (b. 1816). English locksmith and safe maker.
• 1873 - Francisco I. Madero was born (d. 1913). President of Mexico (1911-1913).
• 1878 - Luís Guimarães Filho was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 19 Apr. 1940). Brazilian poet and diplomat.
• 1881 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts was born (d. 1941). American poet and author.
• 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.
• 1887 – Sukumar Ray, Bengali Writer (d. 1923)
• 1888 - Konstantinos Tsiklitiras was born (d. 1913). Greek athlete and Olympic champion.
• 1891 - Alfredo Pedro de Meneses Guisado was born in Lisbon (d. 2 Dec 1975). Portuguese poet and journalist.
• 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 - Domenico Menegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
• 1894 - Jean Rostand was born (d. 1977). French biologist.
• 1894 - Honoré Mercier dies (b. 1840). Politician, Premier of Quebec.
• 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 - 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 - Raul de Leoni was born in Petrópolis RJ (d. 1926). Brazilian poet (Luz mediterrânea).
• 1896 - Kostas Karyotakis was born (d. 1928). Greek poet.
• 1896 - Ruth Gordon was born (d. 1985). American 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.
• 1901 - José Leandro Andrade was born (d. 1957). Brazilian football player.
• 1905 - Csar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
• 1906 - Alexander Gode was born (d. 1970). German-American linguist.
• 1906 - Giuseppe Farina was born (d. 1966). Italian race car driver who was the first F1 World Champion.
• 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.
• 1908 - Patsy Montana was born. American country music singer and songwriter.
• 1908 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar was born (d. 1963). Indian politician.
• 1909 - Homi J. Bhabha was born (d. 1966). Indian physicist, nuclear scientist.
• 1910 - Miguel Hernández was born (d. 1942). Spanish poet.
• 1910 - Henry Dunant dies (b. 1828). Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1911 - Fancisco Clementino de San Tiago Dantas was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 6 Sep 1964). Brazilian journalist and politician.
• 1911 - Ruth Hussey was born (d. 2005). American actress.
• 1912 - James S. Sherman dies (b. 1855). Vice President of the United States.
• 1914 - Anna Wing waqs born. English actress.
• 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). American baseball player.
• 1917 - Bobby Bragan was born. American baseball player.
• 1917 - Maurice Trintignant was born (d. 2005). French race car driver.
• 1917 - Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov was born (d. 1994). Soviet field marshal.
• 1917 - Talbot Mercer Papineau dies (b. 1883). Quebecois lawyer and soldier.
• 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.
• 1922 - Benito Mussolini was made Prime Minister of Italy.
• 1922 - Jane White was born. American actress and singer.
• 1923 - Andrew Bonar Law dies (b. 1858). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1924 - Jean-Michel Charlier was born (d. 10 Jul 1989). Belgian cartoonist and ilustrator.
• 1925 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
• 1926 - Jacques Swaters was born. Belgian racing driver.
• 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.
• 1931 - Vince Callahan was born. Representative of the 34th district in the House of Delegates.
• 1932 - Barun De was born. Indian historian.
• 1932 - Louis Mallé 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 - Jim Perry was born. American baseball player.
• 1935 - Michael Winner was born. British film director.
• 1935 - Robert Caro was born. American biographer.
• 1936 - Polina Astakhova was born (d. 2005). Ukrainian gymnast.
• 1937 - Claude Lelouch was born. French film director.
• 1938 - Orson 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.
• 1939 – Edward Holland, Jr. was born. American singer.
• 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.
• 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 - Otis Williams was born. American singer.
• 1941 - Theodor W. Hänsch was born. German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1942 - António de Morais Barreto was born. Portugueses politician and sociologist.
• 1942 - Francisco Xavier Ferreira Marques dies in Salvador (b. in Itaparica on 3 Dec 1861). Brazilian journalist, politician and poet.
• 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.
• 1945 - Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
• 1946 – Chris Slade was born. Welsh drummer (Asia).
• 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.
• 1947 - Timothy B. Schmit was born. American musician (Eagles).
• 1948 - Rusty Goffe was born. British actor.
• 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.
• 1954 - Mario Testino was born. Peruvian-born English fashion photographer.
• 1956 - Juliet Stevenson was born. English actress.
• 1956 - Pio Baroja dies. Spanish writer.
• 1957 - Andy Archer was born. Scottish dramatist.
• 1957 - Kevin Pollak was born. American actor.
• 1957 - Fred Beebe dies (b. 1880). American baseball player.
• 1958 - Joe Delaney was born (d. 1983). American football player.
• 1958 - Ramona d'Viola was born. American cyclist.
• 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.
• 1960 - Lídia Brondi was born in Campinas, São Paulo. Brazilian actress.
• 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 - Because of "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.
• 1961 - Scott Garrelts was born. American baseball player.
• 1961 - Luigi Einaudi dies. Italian politician.
• 1962 - Courtney Walsh was born. West Indian cricketer.
• 1963 - Kristina Wagner was born. American actress.
• 1963 - Michael Beach was born. American actor.
• 1963 – Rebecca Heineman was born. Computer game programmer.
• 1964 - Howard Lederer was born. American poker player.
• 1964 – Humayun Kabir Dhali was born. Bangladeshi Writer & Journalist.
• 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 - The Zodiac killer kills his first victim, 18-year old Cheri Jo Bates, in Riverside, California.
• 1966 - Geert Blanchard was born. Belgian ice skyier.
• 1966 - Scott Innes was born. American voice actor.
• 1966 - Yórgos Theotokás dies (b. 1906). Greek novelist.
• 1967 - Martin Luther King, Jr., is arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, on charges stemming from demonstrations in 1963.
• 1967 - Brad Aitken was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1967 – Gavin Rossdale was born. English musician.
• 1968 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.
• 1968 - Jack Plotnick was born. American actor.
• 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 - Masanori Hikichi was born. Japanese composer.
• 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 - Ben Bailey was born. American host of the game show Cash Cab.
• 1970 - Ekaterini Voggoli was born. Greek discus thrower.
• 1970 - Maja Tatic was born. Bosnia singer.
• 1970 - Nia Long was born. American actress.
• 1970 - Tory Belleci was born. American TV Mythbuster.
• 1971 - Ahn Jae Wook was born. South Korean actor and singer.
• 1971 - Suzan van der Wielen was born. Dutch hockey-international.
• 1972 - US President Richard Nixon approves legislation to increase Social Security spending by US$5.3 billion.
• 1972 - A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago, Illinois kills 45 and injures 332.
• 1973 - The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time in history.
• 1973 - Adam Copeland was born. Canadian professional wrestler.
• 1973 - Michael Oakes was born. English footballer.
• 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.
• 1974 - The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
• 1975 - Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
• 1975 - Ian D'Sa was born. Guitarist/Vocalist for Canadian rock band Billy Talent.
• 1975 - Maria Thayer was born. American actress.
• 1975 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz dies (b. 1887). German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1976 - Maurice Taylor was born. American basketball player.
• 1976 - Stern John was born. Trinidadian footballer.
• 1977 - Eefke Mulder was born. Dutch hockey-international.
• 1977 - Jason Adelman was born. American actor.
• 1978 - Amanda Swafford was born. American model.
• 1978 - Martin Dossett was born. American football player.
• 1978 – Matthew Morrison was born. American actor.
• 1978 - Natália Lage was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1978 - Edgar Bergen dies (b. 1903). American ventriloquist.
• 1979 - Jason Bartlett was born. American baseball 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 - Choi Hong-man was born. South Korean kickboxer.
• 1980 – Kareem Rush was born. American basketball player.
• 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 - Ian Snell was born. American baseball player.
• 1981 - Ivanka Trump was born. American model, daughter of Donald Trump.
• 1981 - Jun Ji-hyun was born. South Korean actress.
• 1982 - Andy Greene was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1982 - Manny Parra was born. American baseball player.
• 1983 - The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
• 1983 - Iain Hume was born. Canadian football player.
• 1983 - Trent Edwards was born. American football player.
• 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.
• 1984 – Eva Marcille was born. American model and actress.
• 1984 – Tyson Strachan was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 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.
• 1986 - Thomas Morgenstern was born. Austrian ski jumper.
• 1987 - In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the PC-Engine.
• 1987 - Junaid Siddique was born. Bangladeshi cricketer.
• 1988 - Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.
• 1988 - Ayrton Senna wins in Suzuka, Japan, his first Formula 1 World Championship.
• 1988 - Janel Parrish was born. American actress.
• 1988 - T. Hee dies (b. 1911). American animator.
• 1989 - Nastia Liukin was born. American gymnast.
• 1989 - Seth Adkins was born. American actor.
• 1989 – Vanessa White was born. British singer (The Saturdays).
• 1989 - Adam Mitchell dies. Australian drummer.
• 1991 - The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
• 1992 – Tequan Richmond was born. American actor.
• 1993 – Greysteel 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.
• 1993 - Paul Grégoire dies (b. 1911). Archbishop of Montreal.
• 1994 - José Evandro Pires de Carvalho (Evandro do Bandolim) dies (b. 1932). Brazilian musician.
• 1995 - Over 80 people, including former U.S. Rep. Jim Jontz, arrested at Sugarloaf Mountain in southern Oregon during a massive direct action to prevent corporate clear cutting of old growth forests on public land.
• 1995 - Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote was 50.6% to 49.4%).
• 1996 – Odwalla company officials withdrew their products from over 4,600 stores after an outbreak of E. Coli in their apple juice, which in the end sickened over 60 people and killed one.
• 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 – The last Multics machine is shut down.
• 2000 - Steve Allen dies (b. 1921). American 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.
• 2003 - Wicked the Musical opened on Broadway at the George Gershwin Theatre.
• 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 (b. 1924). American 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 communist leader.
• 2006 - Nothingandall (blog) reaches 500.000 visitors.
• 2006 - Junji Kinoshita dies (b. 1914). Japanese playwright.
• 2006 - Clifford Geertz dies (b. 1926). American anthropologist.
• 2007 - Brazil is chosen by FIFA to organize WorldChampionship in 2014.
• 2007 - John Woodruff dies (b. 1915). American athlete.
• 2007 - Linda Stein dies (b. 1945). Ramones manager and real estate broker.
• 2007 - Robert Goulet dies (b. 1933). American entertainer.
• 2007 - Washoe dies (b. 1965). Chimpanzee trained in American Sign Language.
• 2008 - Pedro Pompilio dies (b. 1950). Argentinian businessman.
• 2009 - Claude Lévi-Strauss dies (b. 1908). French anthropologist.
  
• 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.
• International Orthopaedic Nurses Day.
• Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions in post-Soviet states.
• USA - Mischief Night in some areas (known as Devil's Night in Detroit).
• USA - National Candy Corn Day.