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October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining.
Events
1400-1899
1900-1999
- 1905 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
- 1918 - The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East
- 1925 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
- 1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic.
- 1941 - World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
- 1944 - Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
- 1953 - Cold War: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
- 1961 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at over 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest nuclear device ever detonated.
- 1961 - Due to "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Josef Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
- 1966 - The Zodiac killer kills his first victim, 18-year old Cheri Jo Bates, in Riverside, California.
- 1968 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.
- 1970 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
- 1972 - US President Richard Nixon approves legislation to increase Social Security spending by US$5.3 billion.
- 1974 - "The Rumble in The Jungle": Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship.
- 1975 - Prince Juan Carlos becomes King of Spain after dictator Francisco Franco concedes that he is too ill to govern.
- 1980 - El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
- 1983 - The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
- 1987 - In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the PC-Engine.
- 1988 - Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.
- 1991 - The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
- 1995 - Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote was 50.6% to 49.4%).
- 1997 - British au pair Louise Woodward is found guilty of the baby-shaking death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.
2000-2099
Births
1700-1899
- 1735 - John Adams, American revolutionary leader and President of the United States (d. 1826)
- 1751 - Richard Sheridan, playwright (d. 1816)
- 1839 - Alfred Sisley, artist (d. 1899)
- 1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
- 1861 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (d. 1929)
- 1871 - Paul Valery, poet (d. 1945)
- 1882 - Günther von Kluge, German Field Marshal (d. 1944)
- 1882 - William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (d. 1959)
- 1885 - Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
- 1893 - Charles Atlas, bodybuilder (d. 1972)
- 1893 - Roland Freisler, German Nazi politician (d. 1945)
- 1896 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)
1900-1999
- 1915 - Fred Friendly, journalist (d. 1998)
- 1916 - Leon Day, baseballer (d. 1995)
- 1930 - Nestor Almendros, cinematographer (d. 1992)
- 1932 - Louis Malle, director (d. 1995)
- 1934 - Frans Brüggen, Dutch flutist, recorder player, and conductor
- 1937 - Claude Lelouch, director
- 1939 - Grace Slick, singer with Jefferson Airplane
- 1941 - Otis Williams, singer
- 1945 - Henry Winkler, actor
- 1951 - Harry Hamlin, actor
- 1956 - Juliet Stevenson, actress
- 1960 - Diego Maradona, Argentine football player
- 1962 - Courtney Walsh, cricketer
- 1966 - Scott Innes, comic voice actor, Scooby Doo
- 1967 - Gavin Rossdale, musician
- 1973 - Adam Copeland, professional wrestler
- 1978 - Martin Dossett, former NFL wide receiver
- 1989 - Seth Adkins, child actor
Deaths
1600-1899
1900-1999
- 1910 - Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross (b. 1828)
- 1912 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States
- 1915 - Charles Tupper, sixth prime minister of Canada
- 1918 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter
- 1968 - Rose Wilder Lane, author, reporter (b. 1886)
- 1968 - Ramon Novarro, actor
- 1969 - Pops Foster, jazz musician (b. 1892)
- 1978 - Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist
- 1988 - John Houseman, actor, director, teacher
2000-2099
Holidays
October 29 - October 31 - November 30 - September 30 - more historical anniversaries
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