Today in History – October 30th

Published October 30, 2012 |

758, Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
1340, Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Marinid invasion at the Battle of Rio Salado.
1485, King Henry VII of England is crowned.
1735, John Adams, second President of the United States (d. 1826) was born.
1831, In Southampton Co, VA, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading bloodiest slave rebellion in US history
1863, Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
1864, Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at “Last Chance Gulch”.
1885, Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972) was born.
1893, John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821) died.
1894, Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
1905, Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia’s 1st constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
1912, James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855) died.
1915, Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821) died.
1915, Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998) was born.
1918, The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending WWI in the Middle East.
1920, The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
1922, Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
1925, John Logie Baird creates Britain’s 1st television transmitter.
1932, Louis Malle, French film director (d. 1995) was born.
1938, Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in the audience in the US.
1941, 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
1941, WWII: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves US $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
1944, Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1945, Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
1947, The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is founded.
1950, Pope Pius XII witnesses “The Miracle of the Sun” while at the Vatican.
1960, Michael Woodruff performs 1st successful kidney transplant in the UK at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1972, A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago, Illinois kills 45 and injures 332.
1973, The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for 1st time.
1974, The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
1975, Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain’s acting head of state, taking over for country’s ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
1983, 1st democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
1985, Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
2000, Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921) died.
2002, Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (b. 1965) died.
2007, Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933) died.

Chris Rivait

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