Today in History - History - October 30th

1974California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH)

1899British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown

1905George Bernard Shaw's "Mrs Warren's Profession" premieres in NYC

1939German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound & Charles Forbes aboard

1940Film premiere of "One Night in the Tropics" first film for Abbott and Costello Paterson New Jersey.

1966Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies Golf Open

1944Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen

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

1961Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square

1939USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews

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

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

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

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

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

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

2007Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)

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