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Birthday October 30, 1632 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright (Rivals, School for Scandal) |
Birthday October 30, 1735 John Adams is born |
Birthday October 30, 1735 John Adams, (F), 2nd pres (1797-1801) in Braintree, Mass |
Birthday October 30, 1871 Paul Valery, French poet, essayist, critic |
Birthday October 30, 1873 Francisco Madero, Mexican revolutionary, president (1911-13) |
Birthday October 30, 1885 Ezra Pound, in Hailey, Idaho |
Birthday October 30, 1896 Ruth Gordon, Mass (Rosemary's Baby, Harold & Maude) |
Birthday October 30, 1919 Jane Randolph, Sung backup for Tony Orlando |
Birthday October 30, 1932 Louis Malle, film director |
Birthday October 30, 1937 Claude Lelouch, Movie director |
Birthday October 30, 1939 Grace Slick, rock singer (Jefferson Starship), Chic |
Birthday October 30, 1943 Talia Shire, (Adrianne-Rocky) |
Birthday October 30, 1945 Henry Winkler, TV Actor (Fonz) |
Birthday October 30, 1945 Henry The Fonz Winkler is born |
History October 30, 1270 8th & last crusade is launched. |
History October 30, 1775 US Navy founded |
History October 30, 1775 Naval committee established by Congress |
History October 30, 1811 Sense and Sensibility is published |
History October 30, 1862 Ormsby MacKnight Mitchell dies |
History October 30, 1864 The city of Helena, Montana, is founded after miners discover gold |
History October 30, 1864 Helena Montana's capital founded. |
History October 30, 1890 Oakland, California, enacts anti-drug law |
History October 30, 1893 The World's Columbian Exposition closes in Chicago |
History October 30, 1905 Tsar Nicholas II grants Russia a constitution. |
History October 30, 1908 Queen of American high society dies |
History October 30, 1918 Ottoman Empire signs treaty with Allies |
History October 30, 1922 Mussolini forms cabinet in Italy |
History October 30, 1938 Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of War of the Worlds. |
History October 30, 1941 FDR approves Lend-Lease aid to the USSR |
History October 30, 1941 US Navy destroyer Reuben James torpedoed by Germany |
History October 30, 1944 Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring premieres at the Library of Congress |
History October 30, 1945 US govt announces end of shoe rationing. |
History October 30, 1953 Gen. George C. Marshall awarded Nobel Peace Prize. |
History October 30, 1953 Eisenhower approves NSC 162/2 |
History October 30, 1953 Dr. Albert Schweitzer received Nobel Peace Prize for 1952. |
History October 30, 1961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb |
History October 30, 1961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square. |
History October 30, 1965 Marines repel attack near Da Nang. |
History October 30, 1967 USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch |
History October 30, 1970 Heavy monsoon rains hit Vietnam |
History October 30, 1972 Worst US rail accident in 14 years occurred |
History October 30, 1974 Muhammad Ali wins the Rumble in the Jungle |
History October 30, 1974 Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire |
History October 30, 1975 Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain |
History October 30, 1975 NY Daily News ran headline `Ford to City: Drop Dead' |
History October 30, 1978 Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime 2 ^ 21701 - 1. |
History October 30, 1985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 9 is launched |
History October 30, 1985 space shuttle Challenger carries 8 crewmen (2 Germans 1 Dutch). |
History October 30, 1991 Perfect storm hits North Atlantic |
History October 30, 1995 Quebec separatists narrowly defeated |