Today in History - History - October 30th

1629King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath

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

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

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

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

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

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

1866Jesse James gang robs bank in Lexington Missouri ($2000)

2003"Wicked" premieres on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre starring Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth,

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

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

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

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)

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

2007Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)

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

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