Historical Events on October 30

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• 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)

• 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 (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

• 1503 Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence against Indians in the Americas
• 1611 Gustaaf II Adolf (17) becomes king of Sweden

• 1697 Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Dutch/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending the Nine Years' War
• 1739 Great Britain declares war on Spain: War of Jenkins' Ear [NS=Oct 19]
• 1766 St. Paul's Chapel in New York is consecrated
• 1768 First Methodist church in North American colonies initiated (Wesley Chapel, NYC)

• 1851 Alfred de Musset's "Bettine" premieres in Paris
• 1864 Helena, Montana's capital, founded
• 1864 Treaty of Vienna signed to end the Second Schleswig War - Denmark loses control of Schleswig to Prussia, and of Holstein to Austria

• 1868 John Menard of Louisiana is 1st African American elected to US Congress
• 1871 Philadelphia Athletics beat Chicago for 1st National Association baseball pennant

• 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

• 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).

• 1899 Battle of Ladysmith, Natal: Boers defeat the British, leading to the Siege of Ladysmith

• 1901 The Second Boer War: Battle at Bakenlaagte - British Army Lieutenant-Colonel Benson's rear guard is overwhelmed by Boer General Botha's troops
• 1903 In violation of their promise to evacuate Manchuria, the Russian reoccupy Mukden and reinforce their troops in Manchuria

• 1911 Clark Griffith is named manager of Washington Senators
• 1914 Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium), aka 'Wipers' during WWI begins

• 1918 Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state
• 1918 WWI: Turkey signs an armistice with the Allies, agreeing to end hostilities at noon on 31 October
• 1919 Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball
• 1920 The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.

• 1925 KUT-AM in Austin TX begins radio transmissions
• 1929 The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Germany
• 1930 Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship

• 1931 W2XB TV channel 1 in NYC, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting

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

• 1942 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault
• 1942 US aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea
• 1943 Allied Foreign Ministers Conference ends in Moscow between Vyacheslav Molotov of Russia, Britain's Antony Eden and Cordell Hull of the US
• 1943 Soviet forces under Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin commenced offensive on the 4th Ukrainian Front

• 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 (Netherlands) freed during WWII

• 1945 US government announces end of shoe rationing
• 1947 23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva

• 1948 20 die & 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora, Pennsylvania
• 1948 Operation Hiram: Israelis take control of Galilee
• 1950 David Diamond's 3rd Symphony premieres with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Munch

• 1951 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1953 Dr Albert Schweitzer and US Army General George Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
• 1954 1st use of 24-sec shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester vs Boston)
• 1954 US Defense Department announces elimination of all racially segregated regiments
• 1955 Businessman and horse breeder William Woodward, Jr. is shot dead by his wife Ann Cromwell after she mistook him for an intruder
• 1955 Imtiaz Ahmed scores 209 v NZ, the record for a no 8 batsman
• 1956 Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group. They agree to stay until 1959, with an option to stay until 1961
• 1956 Israel captures Egyptian military post at El-Thamad

• 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, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated
• 1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
• 1963 Morocco & Algeria sign cease fire

• 1964 Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam

• 1965 Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia
• 1967 Arthur Allyn says Chicago 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)

• 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
• 1972 Loyalist paramilitaries carry out a raid on Royal Ulster Constabulary station in County Derry, and steal 4 British Army Sterling sub-machine Guns
• 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 Worst US rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago, llinois

• 1974 "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" horror film premieres in Los Angeles

• 1974 Catfish Hunter is named AL Cy Young Award
• 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 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 and El Salvador sign a peace treaty ending the "Football War"
• 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 "Rockin' with the Rhythm" second studio album by The Judds is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1986)
• 1985 22nd NASA Space Shuttle Mission (61-A): Challenger 9 launches
• 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 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 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 Macedonian parliamentary election

• 1995 Québec votes in a referendum 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 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.
• 2002 Run-DMC founding member Jam Master Jay is shot and killed in his recording studio in NYC by a drug dealer [1]

• 2005 The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
• 2007 "Long Road Out of Eden" 7th studio album by the Eagles is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2008)

• 2013 44 people are killed after a bus catches fire in Mahbubnagar, India
• 2014 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks win the 2014 Japan Series
• 2015 Polish tennis star Agnieszka Radwańska wins the WTA Finals title at Kallang. Singapore; beats Czech Petra Kvitová 6–2, 4–6, 6–3
• 2016 6.6-magnitude earthquake hits central Italy - strongest in Italy for 36 years
• 2016 Canada and the EU sign free trade deal after opposition by Belgium
• 2016 Oakland Raiders break the single game record for most penalties in an NFL game gaining 23 in win over Tampa Bay Buccaneers

• 2017 US federal judge blocks President Trump's ban on transgender people in the military
• 2018 German ex-nurse Niels Högel admits in court to killing over 100 patients, making him one of the world's worst serial killers
• 2018 US Pentagon sends 5,200 troops to Mexican border in advance of migrant caravan from Central America
• 2018 WWF conservation group says "exploding human consumption" has caused a 60% decline in all wildlife between 1970 and 2014
• 2019 Kashmir officially loses their autonomous status, their flag and their constitution, as India brings it under federal control

• 2020 7.0 magnitude earthquake in the Aegean Sea kills at least 64 in Turkish city of Izmir and Greek Island of Samos
• 2020 New DNA study of dogs suggests they were human's first domesticated animal, 11,000 years ago at end of the Bronze Age [1]

• 2021 Grand Ole Opry broadcasts its 5000th Saturday night radio program, from Nashville, Tennessee [1]
• 2021 World Leader agree historic corporate tax agreement of at least 15% at G20 summit in Rome

• 2022 Indonesian medical tragedy as 157 children have now died from kidney injuries this year due to contaminated medicines according to authorities [1]

• 2022 Pedestrian suspension bridge in India collapses into the River Macchu in Morbi town, Gujarat, killing 135 people [1]
• 2022 Several thousand black-clad fascist sympathizers march to slain Italian dictator BenIto Mussolini's’s crypt in Predappio, Italy, commemorating 100th anniversary of his bloodless coup

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