Today in History - History - October 30th

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

1899British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown

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

1944Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen

1966Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies Golf Open

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2007Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)

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

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

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