Today in History - History - October 30th

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

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

1966Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies Golf Open

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

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

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

1899British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown

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

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

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

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)

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

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

2007Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)

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