October 30

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on October 30. From 1900 until now. October 30 is under the sign of Scorpio. Famous birthdays on this day include Ivanka Trump (1981), Arnaud Montebourg (1962) and Diego Maradona (1960). Several movies were released around October 30 over the years, such as Lazybones in 1925 directed by Frank Borzage and Battle Royale in 2000 directed by Kinji Fukasaku.
But much more happened on October 30 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

St. Marcel
Bl. John Slade
St. Theonestus
St. Talacrian
St. Herbert
St. Serapion
USA - Mischief Night in some areas (known as Devil's Night in Detroit)
St. Macarius
Also see October 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
St. Zenobius & Zenobia
St. Saturninus
St. Dorothy of Montau
St. Artemas
St. Arilda
St. Alfonso Rodrfguez
Calendar of Saints - October 30th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints: Bl. Angelus of Acri
St. Maximus
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Events

2018 2018 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Yutu causes landslides in the Philippines, leaving at least four people killed and thirty-one others trapped. (Reuters)
2017 Gaza–Israel conflict: The IDF destroys a partly-completed tunnel from the Gaza Strip border near the town of Khan Yunis that crossed into Israeli territory, killing seven Hamas militants. Several more died in the rescue efforts. (Reuters)
2016 Sinai insurgency: A military operation in North Sinai Governorate left 4 soldiers and 6 insurgents dead. (Al-Ahram)
2015 Syrian Civil War: At least 65 people are killed and 250 injured in Syrian government airstrikes targeting a marketplace in the city of Douma, Syria. (WSJ) (Reuters) (Al Jazeera via Yahoo!)American-led intervention in Syria: U.S. President Barack Obama is set to send Special Operations forces to regions in northern Syria under Kurdish control to help local forces fight the Islamic State. (New York Times) (Reuters)
2014 2014 Burkinabé uprising: Protestors demanding the resignation of President Blaise Compaoré set fire to parliament and other official buildings. The Chief of the Army dismisses the government and national assembly and announces a curfew and a transition time of one year. Compaoré fled to Dakar, Senegal. (Euro News)
2013 There are at least three dead and seven injured when a bomb explodes near the official residence of the Chief Minister of India's Manipur state Okram Ibobi Singh in the city of Imphal. (IBN) (NDTV)
2012 Syrian civil war:: Qatar says the government of Syria is waging a "war of extermination" against their own citizens. (Al Jazeera)At least 50 are killed throughout the country, according to an activist group. (CNN)
2011 A United States drone attack kills six militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan region. (AP via Google News)
2010 One person was killed and eight others were wounded when unknown assailants opened fire in Rawalpindi’s Civil Lines area of Pakistan. (dawn)
2009 The American Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation seizes nine failed banks, including Los Angeles-based California National Bank, the fourth-largest U.S. bank failure this year.
2008 The Philadelphia Phillies win the World Series of baseball, their first since 1980, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays four games to one. Game Five was suspended in the sixth inning on October 28 due to rain, with the score tied 2-2.
2007 An International Space Station solar wing relocated by the crew of STS-120 is torn during deployment. (spaceflightnow.com)
2006 The Esperanza Fire burns over 61 square miles of Cabazon, California mountain territory.
2005 The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
2004 Conflict in Iraq:: United States armed forces officials say that eight Marines have been killed and nine wounded near Falluja. (BBC) (Reuters)A car bomb kills seven and wounds 19 outside an office of Saudi owned Al-Arabiya television station in Baghdad. (Reuters) (BBC)
2003 A plastic toy gun, used as part of a Halloween costume, sparks a two-hour-long terrorism scare at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
2002 The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party chose former Vice President of the United States Walter Mondale as their candidate for the United States Senate seat of recently deceased Senator Paul Wellstone from Minnesota.
2001 Died: Famous Arab encyclopedist M. A. Benyounis died.
2000 The last Multics machine is shut down.
1997 Cherry Orchard, opens at Martin Beck Theater, New York City
1995 Quebec Referendum votes to remain part of Canada
1994 Leftist coalition wins Marcedonia parliamentary election
1993 Toronto Maple Leafs lose 1st game of season after going 10-0-0
1992 MTA begins installing automated fare collection turnstiles
1991 Colombian government negotiate with M-19-guerrilla
1990 England-France complete Chunnel
1989 August A Busch III becomes CEO of St. Louis Cardinals
1988 Beth Daniel wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
1987 In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine.
1986 Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modification are made
1985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A) - Challenger 9-launched
1984 Tigers reliever Willie Hernandez wins AL Cy Young Award
1983 The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
1982 Portugal revises constitution
1980 Honduras and El Salvador settle their boundary dispute
1979 Richard Arrington elected Mayor of Birmingham
1978 Uganda troops attack Tanzania
1977 Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07
1976 Going Up closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 49 performances
1975 Giants pitcher John the Count of Montefusco wins NL Rookie of Year
1974 California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 mph)
1973 The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
1972 45 die in a train crash in Chicago, Illinois
1971 Rev. Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party is founded in Northern Ireland.
1970 KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1969 WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester, NH (IND) 1st broadcast
1968 Jaqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios
1967 Arthur Allyn says White Sox will play 9 games in Milwaukee in 1968
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies Golf Open
1965 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Las Cruces Golf Open
1964 Tran Van Huong appointed Premier of South Vietnam
1963 Morocco and Algeria signs cease fire
1961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
1960 Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1957 Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika
1956 Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group They agree to stay until 1959, with an option to stay until 1961
1954 Linus Pauling won the Nobel prize in chemistry
1953 Dr Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize.
1952 Clarence Birdseye sells 1st frozen peas
1950 The Jayuya Uprising is started by Puerto Rican Nationalists against the United States.
1949 Lost in the Stars opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 281 performances
1948 Operation Hiram: Israelis take control of Galilee
1947 23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva
1945 Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a Montreal Royals
1944 Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau
1943 Italian director Federico Fellini marries actress Giulietta Masina
1942 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault
1941 USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though US is not in war
1940 Cole Porters musical Panama hattie, premieres in New York City
1939 German U-boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound and Charles Forbes aboard
1938 Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide (USA) panic. About a million radio listeners believe that a real Martian invasion is underway.
1931 W2XB TV channel 1 in NYC, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting
1930 Turkey and Greece sign a treaty of friendship.
1929 The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
1925 KUT-AM in Austin TX begins radio transmissions
1923 İsmet İnönü is appointed as the first prime minister of Turkey.
1922 Anxious to compete with the Yankees, the New York Giants pay $65,000 and 3 players for Jack Bentley (hits .349 and is 13-1 as pitcher in 1922)
1920 The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
1919 Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of the spitball.
1918 Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state.
1917 British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration
1914 Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium) begins
1911 Clark Griffith is named manager of Washingston Senators
1905 Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
1901 Battle at Bakenlaagte: Lieutenant Colonel Bensons unit vs. Boers
1900 1st-ever US auto show opens in Madison Square Garden in New York City
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