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Events on the 30th of October in history

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30 Oct 0637 Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge.
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30 Oct 0701 John VI of Greece begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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30 Oct 0758 Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
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30 Oct 0942 Alberic nominates Pope Marinus II (Martinus III)
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30 Oct 1077 German King Henry IV gives away bisdom Utrecht county Staveren
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30 Oct 1137 Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
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30 Oct 1270 The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
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30 Oct 1270 8th & last crusade is launched
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30 Oct 1340 Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Marinid invasion at the Battle of Río Salado.
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30 Oct 1389 French King Charles VI visits Pope Clemens VII
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30 Oct 1468 Charles the Stout occupies and plunders Luik
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30 Oct 1485 King Henry VII Tudor crowned "Yeomen of the Guard"
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30 Oct 1485 King Henry VII of England is crowned.
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30 Oct 1489 Peace of Tours, between Emperor Maximilian I and Flemings
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30 Oct 1501 Ballet of Chestnuts: A banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.
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30 Oct 1503 Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence against indians
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30 Oct 1534 English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope.
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30 Oct 1611 Gustaaf II Adolf (17) becomes King of Sweden
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30 Oct 1629 King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath
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30 Oct 1657 Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios during the Anglo-Spanish War.
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30 Oct 1697 Germany signs French / English / Spanish / Netherlands / Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War
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30 Oct 1768 1st Methodist church in US initiated (Wesley Chapel, NYC)
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30 Oct 1772 Captain Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Cape Town
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30 Oct 1775 1st navy in US forms
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30 Oct 1806 Believing he is facing a much larger force, Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrendered the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers commanded by General Lassalle.
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30 Oct 1817 The independent government of Venezuela is established by Simón Bolívar.
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30 Oct 1831 In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
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30 Oct 1851 Alfred de Mussets "Bettine, " premieres in Paris
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30 Oct 1862 Dr Richard Gatling patents machine gun
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30 Oct 1863 Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
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30 Oct 1864 Second Schleswig War ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.
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30 Oct 1864 Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".
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30 Oct 1864 Helena, Montana's capital, founded
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30 Oct 1866 Jesse James gang robs bank in Lexington Missouri ($2000)
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30 Oct 1868 John Menard of Louisiana is 1st black elected to Congress
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30 Oct 1871 Philadelphia Athletics beat Chicago for 1st National Association baseball pennant
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30 Oct 1883 Austria-Hungary / Germany / Romania signs military treaty
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30 Oct 1886 Great-Britain / Germany divide boundaries in East-Africa
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30 Oct 1888 In London, Jack the Ripper murders his last victim
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30 Oct 1888 John J Loud patents ballpoint pen
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30 Oct 1888 Rudd Concession granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes led by Charles Rudd.
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30 Oct 1888 1st ballpoint pen patented
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30 Oct 1893 Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
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30 Oct 1894 Daniel Cooper patents time clock
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30 Oct 1894 Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
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30 Oct 1896 Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator
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30 Oct 1899 Battle at Ladysmith Natal: Boers beat Lieutenant General Whites army
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30 Oct 1899 British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Cape Town
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30 Oct 1900 1st-ever US auto show opens in Madison Square Garden in New York City
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30 Oct 1901 Battle at Bakenlaagte: Lieutenant Colonel Bensons unit vs. Boers
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30 Oct 1905 "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties
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30 Oct 1905 Tsar of Russia accepts 1st Duma (Parliament)
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30 Oct 1905 Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
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30 Oct 1911 Clark Griffith is named manager of Washingston Senators
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30 Oct 1914 Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium) begins
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30 Oct 1917 British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration
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30 Oct 1918 The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
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30 Oct 1918 Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state
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30 Oct 1919 Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of the spitball
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30 Oct 1920 The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
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30 Oct 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)
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30 Oct 1922 Mussolini forms government in Italy
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30 Oct 1922 Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
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30 Oct 1922 Mussolini forms cabinet in Italy
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30 Oct 1925 John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
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30 Oct 1925 KUT-AM in Austin TX begins radio transmissions
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30 Oct 1929 The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
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30 Oct 1930 Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship
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30 Oct 1931 W2XB TV channel 1 in NYC, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting
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30 Oct 1938 Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds"
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30 Oct 1938 Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
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30 Oct 1939 German U-boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound and Charles Forbes aboard
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30 Oct 1939 USSR and Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews
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30 Oct 1939 USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland
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30 Oct 1940 Cole Porters musical "Panama hattie, " premieres in New York City
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30 Oct 1941 World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
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30 Oct 1941 One thousand five hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.
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30 Oct 1941 USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though US is not in war
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30 Oct 1942 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault
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30 Oct 1942 Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.
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30 Oct 1943 Italian director Federico Fellini marries actress Giulietta Masina
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30 Oct 1943 Molotov-Eden-Cordell Hull accord over operations at UN
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30 Oct 1943 Soviet forces under Tolbuchin stick Sivash-bay about
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30 Oct 1944 Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau
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30 Oct 1944 Scottish Highlanders liberate Waalwijk
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30 Oct 1944 Sweden announces intention to stay neutral and refuse sanctuary in WWII
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30 Oct 1944 Tholen Island freed
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30 Oct 1944 Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.
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30 Oct 1944 Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen
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30 Oct 1945 Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a Montreal Royals
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30 Oct 1945 Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
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30 Oct 1945 US government announces end of shoe rationing
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30 Oct 1947 23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva
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30 Oct 1947 Darius Milhauds 3rd Symphony "Hymnus Ambrosianus, " premieres in Paris
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30 Oct 1947 The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
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30 Oct 1948 Operation Hiram: Israelis take control of Galilee
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30 Oct 1948 20 die & 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora Pennsylvania
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30 Oct 1949 "Lost in the Stars" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 281 performances
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30 Oct 1950 Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
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30 Oct 1952 Clarence Birdseye sells 1st frozen peas
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30 Oct 1953 Dr Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
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30 Oct 1953 Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
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30 Oct 1954 Linus Pauling won the Nobel prize in chemistry
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30 Oct 1954 US Armed Forces end segregation of races
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30 Oct 1954 Defense Department announces elimination of all segregated regiments
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30 Oct 1956 Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group They agree to stay until 1959, with an option to stay until 1961
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30 Oct 1956 Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad
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30 Oct 1957 Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika
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30 Oct 1957 WLWI (now WTHR) TV channel 13 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) 1st broadcast
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30 Oct 1957 WYTV TV channel 33 in Youngstown, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
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30 Oct 1960 Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
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30 Oct 1961 UN unanimously elects U Thant acting Secretary General of the UN
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30 Oct 1961 Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it remains the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
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30 Oct 1961 Because of "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker instead.
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30 Oct 1961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square
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30 Oct 1961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
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30 Oct 1963 Morocco and Algeria signs cease fire
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30 Oct 1963 Sandy Koufax wins NL MVP award
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30 Oct 1964 Tran Van Huong appointed Premier of South Vietnam
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30 Oct 1965 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Las Cruces Golf Open
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30 Oct 1965 English model Jean Shrimpton causes a global sensation by wearing a daring white minidress to Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia.
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30 Oct 1965 Vietnam War: Near Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas.
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30 Oct 1965 Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia
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30 Oct 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies Golf Open
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30 Oct 1967 Arthur Allyn says White Sox will play 9 games in Milwaukee in 1968
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30 Oct 1967 Ferdinand Bracke bicycles world record time (48,093 km)
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30 Oct 1967 USSR Kosmos 186 and 188 make 1st automatic docking and Venmera 13 launch
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30 Oct 1968 Jaqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios
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30 Oct 1968 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics)
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30 Oct 1968 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber)
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30 Oct 1968 Queen Juliana opens IJ tunnel in Amsterdam
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30 Oct 1969 WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester, NH (IND) 1st broadcast
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30 Oct 1970 KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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30 Oct 1970 In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes severe floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
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30 Oct 1972 45 die in a train crash in Chicago, Illinois
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30 Oct 1972 A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago kills 45 and injures 332.
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30 Oct 1972 Worst US rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago
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30 Oct 1973 The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
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30 Oct 1973 Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award
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30 Oct 1974 California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 mph)
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30 Oct 1974 Catfish Hunter is named AL Cy Young Award
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30 Oct 1974 The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
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30 Oct 1974 As a member of the California Angels, Major League Baseball player Nolan Ryan throws the fastest recorded pitch, at 100.9 miles per hour (162.4 kilometers per hour).
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30 Oct 1974 Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa, Za
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30 Oct 1975 Giants pitcher John "the Count of" Montefusco wins NL Rookie of Year
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30 Oct 1975 New York Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead"
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30 Oct 1975 Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
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30 Oct 1975 John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals
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30 Oct 1975 Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain
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30 Oct 1975 NY Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead"
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30 Oct 1976 "Going Up" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 49 performances
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30 Oct 1976 Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of the Today Show
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30 Oct 1976 Rev Joseph Evans elected president of the United Church of Christ
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30 Oct 1977 Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07
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30 Oct 1978 Uganda troops attack Tanzania
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30 Oct 1978 Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701-1
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30 Oct 1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-203
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30 Oct 1979 Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham
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30 Oct 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.
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30 Oct 1980 Honduras & El Salvador settle their boundary dispute
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30 Oct 1980 NASA launches Flt Satcom-4
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30 Oct 1982 Portugal revises constitution
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30 Oct 1983 The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
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30 Oct 1984 Tigers reliever Willie Hernandez wins AL Cy Young Award
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30 Oct 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
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30 Oct 1985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched
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30 Oct 1986 Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modification are made
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30 Oct 1987 In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which is later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.
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30 Oct 1988 Beth Daniel wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
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30 Oct 1988 New York Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for 1st time
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30 Oct 1988 2 gambling clubs & 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot
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30 Oct 1988 Jim Elliott (US) completes 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
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30 Oct 1989 August A Busch III becomes CEO of St. Louis Cardinals
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30 Oct 1989 Smith Dairy at Orrville Ohio, makes largest milk shake (1,575.2 gal)
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30 Oct 1990 England-France complete "Chunnel"
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30 Oct 1991 Colombian government negotiate with M-19-guerrilla
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30 Oct 1991 Mark Sauer becomes CEO of Pittsburgh Pirates
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30 Oct 1991 Singer Clint Black (34) weds actress Lisa Hartman (29)
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30 Oct 1991 The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
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30 Oct 1991 Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain
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30 Oct 1992 MTA begins installing automated fare collection turnstiles
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30 Oct 1993 Toronto Maple Leafs lose 1st game of season after going 10-0-0
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30 Oct 1993 The Troubles: The Ulster Defence Association, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary, carry out a mass shooting at a Halloween party in Greysteel, Northern Ireland. Eight civilians are murdered and thirteen wounded.
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30 Oct 1994 Leftist coalition wins Marcedonia parliamentary election
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30 Oct 1994 US wins Nichirei LPGA Golf International
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30 Oct 1995 Quebec Referendum votes to remain part of Canada
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30 Oct 1995 Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) to remain a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.
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30 Oct 1997 "Cherry Orchard, " opens at Martin Beck Theater, New York City
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30 Oct 1997 Shirley Allen, 51, held Illinois police off for 39 days captured
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30 Oct 2005 The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
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30 Oct 2013 45 people die after a bus fuel tank catches fire in the Indian city of Mahbubnagar.
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30 Oct 2014 Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
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