October 30

October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining.

Events:

   * 1270 - Eighth Crusade is launched
   * 1470 - Henry VI of England returned to the throne after Earl of Warwick
     defeats Yorkists in battle
   * 1905 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution,
     creating a legislative assembly
   * 1925 - John Baird creates Great Britain's first television transmitter
   * 1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War
     of the Worlds
   * 1939 - Germany and USSR partition Poland
   * 1941 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet
     Union
   * 1953 - Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George Marshall win Nobel
     Peace Prize
   * 1963 - The first Lamborghini rolls off the assembly line
   * 1974 - "The Rumble in The Jungle": Muhammad Ali knocks out George
     Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing
     championship.
   * 1975 - Juan Carlos becomes King of Spain
   * 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 - First democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of
     military ruling.
   * 1995 - Quebec separatists lose secession election

Births:

   * 1735 - John Adams, American revolutionary leader and President of the
     United States (+ 1826)
   * 1751 - Richard Sheridan, playwright (+ 1816)
   * 1821 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (+ 1881)
   * 1839 - Alfred Sisley, artist (+ 1899)
   * 1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist
   * 1861 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (+ 1929)
   * 1882 - Bull Halsey, American admiral (+ 1959)
   * 1885 - Ezra Pound, American poet (+ 1972)
   * 1893 - Charles Atlas, bodybuilder (+ 1972)
   * 1893 - Roland Freisler, German politician
   * 1896 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (+ 1985)
   * 1915 - Fred Friendly, journalist (+ 1998)
   * 1930 - Nestor Almendros, cinematographer (+ 1992)
   * 1932 - Louis Malle, director (+ 1995)
   * 1937 - Claude Lelouche, 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, Argentinian football player
   * 1967 - Gavin Rossdale, musician

Deaths:

   * 1816 - Frederick I of WŸrttemberg
   * 1893 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third prime minister of Canada
   * 1910 - Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross
   * 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
   * 1968 - Ramon Novarro, actor
   * 1978 - Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist
   * 1988 - John Houseman, actor, director, teacher
   * 2000 - Steve Allen, comedian, author, and composer