Notable Historical Events on October 30th
October 30th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
637 |
Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge. |
701 |
John VI of Greece begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
942 |
Alberic nominates Pope Marinus II (Martinus III) |
1077 |
Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV gives the district of Stavoren to the bishop of Utrecht (Conrad, his former tutor) |
1137 |
Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily. |
1270 |
The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis ended by agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis. |
1340 |
Battle of Rio Salado Battle (or Tarifa): King Afonso IV of Portugal and King Alfonso XI of Castile defeat Sultan Abu al-Hasan 'Ali of Morocco and Yusuf I of Granada, last Marīnids invasion of Iberian Peninsula |
1389 |
French King Charles VI visits pope Clemens VII |
1468 |
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, occupies & plunders Liege |
1470 |
Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle. |
1485 |
Henry VII of England crowned at Westminster Abbey |
1489 |
Peace of Tours, between emperor Maximilian I & Flemings |
1502 |
Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut for the second time. |
1503 |
Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence against indians |
1534 |
English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Church in England - a role formerly held by the Pope |
1611 |
Gustaaf II Adolf (17) becomes king of Sweden |
1629 |
King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath |
1697 |
Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Dutch/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending Nine Year War |
1739 |
Great Britain declares war on Spain: War of Jenkin's Ear [NS=Oct 19] |
1768 |
First Methodist church in North American colonies initiated (Wesley Chapel, NYC) |
1772 |
Captain Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown |
1851 |
Alfred de Musset's "Bettine" premieres in Paris |
1864 |
Helena, Montana's capital, founded |
1866 |
Jesse James gang robs bank in Lexington Missouri ($2000) |
1868 |
John Menard of Louisiana is 1st African American elected to US Congress |
1871 |
Phila Athletics beat Chicago for 1st Natl Association baseball pennant |
1873 |
P T Barnum's circus, "Greatest Show on Earth", debuts (New York City) |
1883 |
Austria-Hungary, Germany and Romania sign military treaty |
1886 |
Great Britain and Germany agree boundaries in East Africa |
1888 |
John J Loud patents ballpoint pen |
1888 |
Ndebele-king Lobengula grants Cecil Rhodes, Mashonaland £100 per month |
1893 |
US Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 |
1894 |
Daniel Cooper patents time clock |
1894 |
Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in industrial production of pandoro (a traditional Italian sweet yeast bread). |
1896 |
Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator |
1899 |
Battle of Ladysmith, Natal: Boers beat lt-general White's army |
1899 |
British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown |
1900 |
First-ever US auto show opens in Madison Square Garden in NYC |
1901 |
Battle at Bakenlaagte: lt-col Benson's unit vs Boers |
1903 |
In violation of their promise to evacuate Manchuria, the Russian reoccupy Mukden and reinforce their troops in Manchuria |
1905 |
"October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties and accepts the first Duma (Parliament) |
1905 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Mrs Warren's Profession" premieres in NYC |
1911 |
Clark Griffith is named manager of Wash Senators |
1914 |
Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium), aka 'Wipers', begins |
1917 |
British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration |
1918 |
Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state |
1919 |
Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball |
1920 |
The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney. |
1922 |
Anxious to compete with the Yankees, the NY Giants pay $65,000 & 3 players for Jack Bentley (hits .349 & is 13-1 as pitcher in 1922) |
1922 |
Benito Mussolini forms government in Italy |
1925 |
KUT-AM in Austin TX begins radio transmissions |
1929 |
The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany. |
1930 |
Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship |
1931 |
W2XB TV channel 1 in NYC, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1938 |
Orson Welles panics the USA with broadcast of HG Welles' "War of the Worlds" |
1939 |
USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews |
1939 |
German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound & Charles Forbes aboard |
1940 |
Cole Porters musical "Panama Hattie" premieres in New York City |
1940 |
Film premiere of "One Night in the Tropics" first film for Abbott and Costello Paterson New Jersey. |
1941 |
USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though US is not in war |
1942 |
8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault |
1942 |
US aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea |
1943 |
Molotov-Eden-Cordell Hull accord over operations at UN |
1943 |
Soviet forces under Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin commenced offensive on the 4th Ukranian Front |
1944 |
Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" premieres in Washinton DC |
1944 |
Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen |
1944 |
Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau |
1944 |
Scots Highlanders liberate Waalwijk |
1944 |
Sweden announces intention to stay neutral & refuse sanctuary in WW II |
1944 |
Tholen Island freed |
1945 |
Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a Montreal Royals |
1945 |
US government announces end of shoe rationing |
1947 |
23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva |
1947 |
Darius Milhauds 3rd Symphony "Hymnus Ambrosianus," premieres in Paris |
1948 |
20 die & 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora, Pennsylvania |
1948 |
Operation Hiram: Israelis take control of Galilee |
1949 |
"Lost in the Stars" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 281 perfs |
1949 |
Kurt Weill & Maxwell Anderson's musical premieres in NYC |
1950 |
David Diamond's 3rd Symphony, premieres |
1950 |
Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican. |
1951 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1952 |
Clarence Birdseye sells first frozen peas |
1953 |
Dr Albert Schweitzer & Gen George Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize |
1954 |
US Defense Department announces elimination of all racially segregated regiments |
1954 |
1st use of 24-sec shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester vs Boston) |
1955 |
Imtiaz Ahmed scores 209 v NZ, the record for a no 8 batsman |
1956 |
Israel captures Egyptian military post at El-Thamad |
1956 |
Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group. They agree to stay until 1959, with an option to stay until 1961 |
1957 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow |
1957 |
Soviet Union launches Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika |
1957 |
WLWI (now WTHR) TV channel 13 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) 1st broadcast |
1957 |
WYTV TV channel 33 in Youngstown, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba |
1960 |
Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. |
1961 |
Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb named Tsar Bomba - most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated |
1961 |
UN unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general after the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash |
1961 |
Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square |
1962 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
1963 |
Morocco & Algeria sign cease fire |
1963 |
Sandy Koufax wins NL MVP award |
1964 |
Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam |
1965 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Las Cruces Golf Open |
1965 |
Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia |
1966 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies Golf Open |
1967 |
Arthur Allyn says White Sox will play 9 games in Milwaukee in 1968 |
1967 |
Ferdinand Bracke bicycles world record time (48,093 km) |
1967 |
USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch |
1968 |
Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics) |
1968 |
Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber) |
1968 |
Queen Juliana opens IJ tunnel in Amsterdam |
1968 |
Jack Lynch, Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach), meets with Harold Wilson, then British Prime Minister, in London, calling for the ending of partition as a means to resolve the unrest in Northern Ireland |
1969 |
WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester, NH (IND) 1st broadcast |
1970 |
KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
There are serious riots in the Catholic Ardoyne area of Belfast which last for three nights |
1970 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark meets with British Home Secretary Reginald Maulling to discuss matters related to reforms and security |
1972 |
Worst US rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago,Illinois |
1972 |
The Northern Ireland Office issues a discussion document 'The Future of Northern Ireland'; the paper states Britain's commitment to the union as long as the majority of people wish to remain part of the United Kingdom |
1972 |
Loyalist paramilitaries carry out a raid on Royal Ulster Constabulary station in County Derry, and steal 4 British Army Sterling sub-machine Guns |
1973 |
Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award |
1973 |
The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time. |
1974 |
California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH) |
1974 |
Catfish Hunter is named AL Cy Young Award |
1974 |
Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire ('The Rumble in the Jungle') |
1975 |
Giants pitcher John "the Count of" Montefusco wins NL Rookie of Year |
1975 |
John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals |
1975 |
King Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain |
1975 |
NY Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead" |
1976 |
"Going Up" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 49 performances |
1976 |
Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show |
1976 |
Rev Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ |
1977 |
Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07 |
1978 |
Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701-1 |
1978 |
Uganda troops attack Tanzania |
1979 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-203 |
1979 |
Richard Arrington, Jr. is elected the first African American mayor in Birmingham, Alabama |
1980 |
Honduras & El Salvador settle their boundary dispute |
1980 |
NASA launches Flt Satcom-4 |
1982 |
Portugal revises constitution |
1983 |
The first democratic elections are held in Argentina after seven years of military rule. |
1984 |
Tigers reliever Willie Hernandez wins AL Cy Young Award |
1985 |
22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched |
1986 |
Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modifications are made |
1987 |
In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine. |
1988 |
2 gambling clubs & 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot |
1988 |
Beth Daniel wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship |
1988 |
Jim Elliott (US) completes 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi |
1988 |
NY Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for 1st time |
1989 |
August A Busch III becomes CEO of St Louis Cards |
1989 |
Smith Dairy at Orrville Ohio, makes largest milk shake (1,575.2 gal) |
1990 |
Britain and France complete the "Chunnel" under the English Channel |
1991 |
Colombian government negotiate with M-19-guerrilla |
1991 |
Mark Sauer becomes CEO of Pittsburgh Pirates |
1991 |
Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain |
1992 |
MTA begins installing automated fare collection turnstiles |
1993 |
Toronto Maple Leafs lose 1st game of season after going 10-0-0 |
1994 |
Leftist coalition wins Marcedonia parliamentary election |
1994 |
Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel's Pentium-processor on Internet |
1994 |
US wins Nichirei LPGA Golf International |
1995 |
Quebec Referendum votes to remain part of Canada |
1996 |
Exxon confirms that it is in talks with state-owned Qatar General Petroleum Corporation concerning the application of new technology to convert natural gas to petroleum products |
1997 |
"The Cherry Orchard" opens at Martin Beck Theater, NYC |
1997 |
Shirley Allen, 51, held Illinois police off for 39 days captured |
2002 |
British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview begins transmitting in parts of the United Kingdom. |
2003 |
"Wicked" premieres on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre starring Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, |
2005 |
The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project. |
2012 |
Walt Disney purchases Lucasfilm Ltd and its rights for Star Wars and Indiana Jones for $4.05 billion |
2013 |
44 people are killed after a bus catches fire in Mahbubnagar, India |
2013 |
The Boston Red Sox defeat the St Louis Cardinals in game 6 to win the MLB 2013 World Series |
2014 |
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks win the 2014 Japan Series |
2015 |
22 dead as two boats sink in eastern Aegean Sea |
2015 |
27 dead, scores injured after fire breaks out at Romanian nightclub |
2016 |
Miami baseball star Fernandez was drunk, had cocaine in system at fatal crash |
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