Today in History - History - October 30th

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

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

1944Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen

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

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

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

1922Benito Mussolini forms government in Italy

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

1629King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath

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

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

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)

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

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

2007Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)

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