If you’re a history buff, this is the perfect place to find out what happened on this day in history – October 30.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1470 Wars of the Roses: Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle.
• 1502 Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut, India for the second time.
• 1503 Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence against Indians.
• 1697 Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Dutch/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending Nine Year War.
• 1772 Captain James Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Cape Town.
• 1866 Jesse James’ gang robs bank in Lexington, Missouri ($2000)
• 1868 John Menard of Louisiana is first African American elected to US Congress
• 1888 Ndebele king Lobengula grants Cecil Rhodes, Mashonaland £100 per month
• 1899 Battle of Ladysmith, Natal: Boers defeat the British, leading to the Siege of Ladysmith.
• 1899 British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Cape Town.
• 1901 Battle at Bakenlaagte: Lieutenant-Colonel Benson’s British unit vs Boers.
• 1905 “October Manifesto” Russian Tsar Nicholas IIgrants civil liberties and accepts the first Duma (Parliament).
• 1905 George Bernard Shaw’s “Mrs Warren’s Profession” premieres in NYC
• 1938 A radio broadcast of H. G. Wells “The War of the Worlds”, narrated by Orson Welles, allegedly causes a mass panic
• 1939 USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews.
• 1944 Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen.
• 1944 Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau.
• 1945 US government announces end of shoe rationing.
• 1947 23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva.
• 1950 Pope Pius XII witnesses “The Miracle of the Sun” while at the Vatican.
• 1952 Clarence Birdseye sells first frozen peas
• 1953 Dr Albert Schweitzer and Gen George Marshallwin Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika.
• 1960 Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
• 1968 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics).
• 1968 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber).
• 1970 There are serious riots in the Catholic Ardoyne area of Belfast which last for three nights.
• 1973 The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
• 1974 The Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in the 8th round in Kinshasa, Zaire.
• 1974 “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” horror film premieres in Los Angeles
• 1978 Uganda troops attack Tanzania
• 1987 “Faith” debut album by George Michael is released
• 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” seventh studio album by the Eagles is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2008).
• 2011 “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1” based on the book by Stephenie Meyer, directed by Bill Condon, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, premieres at the Rome Film Festival.
• 2012 Walt Disney purchases Lucasfilm Ltd and its rights for Star Wars and Indiana Jones for $4.05 billion
• 2013 44 people are killed after a bus catches fire in Mahbubnagar, India
• 2016 Canada and the EU sign free trade deal after opposition by Belgium
Source: www.onthisday.com
