Today in History - History - October 30th

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

1899British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown

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

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

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

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

1905"October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties and accepts the first Duma (Parliament)

1988Beth Daniel wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship

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

1944Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen

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)

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

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

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

2007Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)

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