Today in History - History - October 30th

1944Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen

1974Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire ('The Rumble in the Jungle')

1966Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies Golf Open

1938Orson Welles panics the USA with broadcast of HG Welles' "War of the Worlds"

1629King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath

1077Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV gives the district of Stavoren to the bishop of Utrecht (Conrad, his former tutor)

1944Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" premieres in Washinton DC

1945Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a Montreal Royals

1953Dr Albert Schweitzer & Gen George Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize

1534English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Church in England - a role formerly held by the Pope

1735John Adams, Braintree (Quincy) Massachusetts, 2nd US President (1797-1801)

1960Diego Maradona, Buenos Aires, soccer player (World Cup-hand of god)

1885Ezra Loomis Pound, Hailey Idaho, poet (Cantos), (d. 1972)

1451Christopher Columbus, Genoa Italy on or just before this date. Explorer for Spain of the New World (D. 1506)

2007Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)

2000Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)

1893John Abbott, 3rd PM of Canada (C) (1891-92), dies of brain cancer at 72

1915Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada, dies of heart failure at 94