Today in History - History - October 30th

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

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

1922Benito Mussolini forms government in Italy

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

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

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

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

1944Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen

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)

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