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October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 62 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
• 1137 – Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
• 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.
• 1340 – Battle of Rio Salado.
• 1470 – Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats the Yorkists in battle.
• 1485 – King Henry VII of England is crowned.
• 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.
• 1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
• 1863 – Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
• 1864 – Second war of Schleswig ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.
• 1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".
• 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 first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
• 1918 – The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War 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 first television transmitter.
• 1929 – The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
• 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.
• 1941 – World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
• 1941 – 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1960 – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
• 1961 – Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
• 1961 – Because of "violations of 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.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions is found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
• 1970 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
• 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 the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
• 1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
• 1974 – Nolan Ryan throws the fastest baseball pitch ever. It was recorded at 100.9 mph.
• 1975 – Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
• 1975 – The New York Daily News runs the “Ford to City: Drop Dead” headline.
• 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.
• 1983 – The first 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.
• 1987 – In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine.
• 1991 – The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
• 1993 – Greysteel massacre: The Ulster Freedom Fighters, a loyalist terrorist group, open fire on a crowded bar in Greysteel, Northern Ireland. Eight civilians are killed and thirteen wounded.
• 1995 – Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote is 50.6% to 49.4%).
• 1996 – Odwalla company officials withdrew their products from over 4,600 stores after an outbreak of E. Coli in their apple juice, which in the end sickened over 60 people and killed one.
• 2000 – The last Multics machine is shut down.
• 2002 – British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview begins transmitting in parts of the United Kingdom.
• 2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.

Births

• 1218 – Emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234)
• 1513 – Jacques Amyot, French writer (d. 1593)
• 1624 – Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693)
• 1668 – Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, queen in Prussia (d. 1705)
• 1735 – John Adams, second President of the United States (d. 1826)
• 1751 – Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright (d. 1816)
• 1762 – André Chénier, French writer (d. 1794)
• 1786 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871)
• 1799 – Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal (d. 1885)
• 1821 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
• 1839 – Alfred Sisley, Anglo-French artist (d. 1899)
• 1844 – Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
• 1847 – Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)
• 1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)
• 1861 – Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)
• 1871 – Paul Valéry, French poet (d. 1945)
• 1871 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)
• 1873 – Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (d. 1913)
• 1881 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941)
• 1882 – William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (d. 1959)
• 1882 – Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (d. 1944)
• 1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
• 1886 – Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
• 1887 – Sukumar Ray, Bengali Writer (d. 1923)
• 1888 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek Olympic champion (d. 1913)
• 1893 – Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (d. 1972)
• 1893 – Roland Freisler, German Nazi politician (d. 1945)
• 1894 – Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977)
• 1895 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964)
• 1895 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
• 1896 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)
• 1896 – Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)
• 1897 – Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
• 1898 – Bill Terry, baseball player (d. 1989)
• 1900 – Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
• 1906 – Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)
• 1906 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (d. 1966)
• 1907 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)
• 1908 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, An Indian politician (d. 1963)
• 1908 – Patsy Montana, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
• 1909 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)
• 1911 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Richard E Holz, American composer (d. 1986)
• 1914 – Anna Wing, English actress
• 1915 – Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)
• 1916 – Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995)
• 1917 – Bobby Bragan, American baseball player
• 1917 – Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (d. 1994)
• 1917 – Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Jane White, American actress and singer
• 1926 – Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver
• 1927 – Joe Adcock, American baseball player (d. 1999)
• 1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
• 1930 – Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992)
• 1930 – Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1956)
• 1931 – Vince Callahan, American politician
• 1932 – Louis Malle, French film director (d. 1995)
• 1932 – Barun De, Indian historian
• 1934 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician
• 1935 – Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer
• 1935 – Michael Winner, British film director
• 1935 – Jim Perry, American baseball player
• 1935 – Robert Caro, American biographer
• 1936 – Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
• 1936 – Dick Vermeil, American football coach
• 1937 – Claude Lelouch, French film director
• 1939 – Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, Nobel laureate
• 1939 – Grace Slick, American singer (Jefferson Airplane)
• 1939 – Edward Holland, Jr., American singer
• 1940 – Ed Lauter, American actor
• 1941 – Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1941 – Otis Williams, American singer
• 1943 – Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
• 1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor
• 1946 – Chris Slade, Welsh drummer (Asia)
• 1947 – Timothy B. Schmit, American musician (Eagles)
• 1948 – Rusty Goffe, British actor
• 1951 – Harry Hamlin, American actor
• 1953 – Charles Martin Smith, American actor
• 1954 – Mario Testino, Peruvian-born English fashion photographer
• 1956 – Juliet Stevenson, English actress
• 1957 – Kevin Pollak, American actor
• 1958 – Joe Delaney, American football player (d. 1983)
• 1958 – Stefan Dennis, Australian actor
• 1958 – Ramona d'Viola, American cyclist
• 1960 – Diego Maradona, Argentine footballer
• 1961 – Scott Garrelts, American baseball player
• 1961 – Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek economist and politician
• 1962 – Courtney Walsh, Jamaican West Indies cricketer
• 1963 – Michael Beach, American actor
• 1963 – Rebecca Heineman, Computer game programmer
• 1963 – Kristina Wagner, American actress
• 1964 – Howard Lederer, American poker player
• 1964 – Humayun Kabir Dhali, Bangladeshi Writer & Journalist
• 1965 – Gavin Rossdale, English musician
• 1966 – Scott Innes, American voice actor
• 1967 – Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Jack Plotnick, American actor
• 1969 – Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer
• 1970 – Maja Tatic, Bosnia singer
• 1970 – Tory Belleci, American TV Mythbuster
• 1970 – Nia Long, American actress
• 1970 – Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower
• 1970 – Ben Bailey, American host of the game show Cash Cab
• 1971 – Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and singer
• 1971 – Suzan van der Wielen, Dutch hockey-international
• 1973 – Adam "Edge" Copeland, Canadian wrestler
• 1973 – Silvia Corzo, Colombian newscaster
• 1973 – Michael Oakes, English footballer
• 1975 – Ian D'Sa, Guitarist/Vocalist for Canadian rock band Billy Talent
• 1975 – Maria Thayer, American actress
• 1976 – Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
• 1976 – Ümit Özat, Turkish footballer
• 1976 – Maurice Taylor, American Basketball Player
• 1977 – Jason Adelman, American actor
• 1977 – Eefke Mulder, Dutch hockey-international
• 1978 – Martin Dossett, American football player
• 1978 – Amanda Swafford, American model
• 1978 – Matthew Morrison, American actor
• 1979 – Jason Bartlett, American baseball player
• 1979 – Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress
• 1980 – Sarah Carter, Canadian actress
• 1980 – Kareem Rush, American basketball player
• 1980 – Choi Hong-man, South Korean kickboxer
• 1980 – John Foo, Irish martial artist and actor
• 1981 – Ayaka Kimura, Japanese actress
• 1981 – Ivanka Trump, American model
• 1981 – Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
• 1981 – Ian Snell, American baseball player
• 1981 – Joshua Jay, American close up magician
• 1982 – Andy Greene, American ice hockey player
• 1982 – Manny Parra, American baseball player
• 1983 – Iain Hume, Canadian footballer
• 1983 – Trent Edwards, American football player
• 1984 – Eva Marcille, American model and actress
• 1984 – Tyson Strachan, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper
• 1987 – Junaid Siddique, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1988 – Janel Parrish, American actress
• 1989 – Seth Adkins, American actor
• 1989 – Nastia Liukin, Russian/American gymnast
• 1989 – Vanessa White, British singer (The Saturdays)
• 1989 – Jay Asforis, American singer
• 1992 – Tequan Richmond, American actor

Deaths

• 1459 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (b. 1380)
• 1522 – Jean Mouton, French composer
• 1553 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)
• 1602 – Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
• 1611 – King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
• 1626 – Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580)
• 1632 – Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc (b. 1595)
• 1654 – Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633)
• 1680 – Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
• 1685 – Michel le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603)
• 1809 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
• 1816 – Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
• 1842 – Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (b. 1784)
• 1853 – Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786)
• 1883 – Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815)
• 1893 – John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
• 1894 – Honoré Mercier, politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
• 1899 – William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816)
• 1910 – Henry Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)
• 1912 – Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean miltary, participated on Battle of Huamachuco (b. 1840)
• 1912 – James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
• 1915 – Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
• 1917 – Talbot Mercer Papineau, Canadian lawyer and soldier (b. 1883)
• 1923 – Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
• 1957 – Fred Beebe, baseball player (b. 1880)
• 1961 – Luigi Einaudi, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1874)
• 1963 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, An Indian politician (b. 1908)
• 1966 – Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (b. 1906)
• 1968 – Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886)
• 1968 – Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (b. 1899)
• 1968 – Conrad Richter, American writer (b. 1890)
• 1969 – Pops Foster, American musician (b. 1892)
• 1975 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1979 – Sir Barnes Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (b. 1887)
• 1979 – Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
• 1985 – Kirby Grant, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1988 – T. Hee, American animator (b. 1911)
• 1993 – Paul Grégoire, Archbishop of Montreal (b. 1911)
• 1997 – Samuel Fuller, American film director (b. 1912)
• 2000 – Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)
• 2002 – Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (b. 1965)
• 2002 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2004 – Peggy Ryan, American actress (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (b. 1908)
• 2005 – Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (b. 1942)
• 2006 – Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Linda Stein, Ramones manager and real estate broker (b. 1945)
• 2007 – Washoe, chimpanzee trained in American Sign Language (b. 1965)
• 2007 – John Woodruff, American athlete (b. 1915)
• 2008 – Pedro Pompilio, Argentinian businessman (b. 1950)
• 2009 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist (b.1908)

Holidays and observances

• Calendar of Saints – October 30th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
  • Alonso Rodríguez
  • St. Artemas
  • St. Herbert
  • St. Marcellus the Centurion
  • St. Saturninus
  • Serapion of Antioch
• United States – Mischief Night in some areas (known as Devil's Night in Michigan)
• Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions in post-Soviet states

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth. ~ Malcolm Forbes

• selected by Kalki

2005

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. ~ John Adams (born 30 October 1735)

• proposed by Kalki

2006

The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical. ~ John Adams

• proposed by Kalki

2007

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ~ John Adams

• proposed by Kalki

2008

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, — by deeds, not years... ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

• proposed by Zarbon

2009

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ~ John Adams

• proposed by Kalki

2010 

Rank or add further suggestions…

Ranking system:

4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.

3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.

2 : Good - some desire to see it used.

1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.

0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

I turned myself from a 97 pound weakling into the World's Most Perfectly Developed Man. ~ Charles Atlas, born that day.

• 3 brings back memories of the old comic books with the cool comic book ads. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 19:54, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:50, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 1 (braggadocio, memorable tho it may be) ~ Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
• 1 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall.
~ Grace Slick (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 18:23, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:50, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall,
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.
~ Grace Slick (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 18:23, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:50, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

When logic and proportion have fallen softly dead,
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!",
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head! Feed your head!" ~
Grace Slick (date of birth)

• 3 ~ Kalki 18:23, 29 October 2005 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
• 1 Zarbon 05:50, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Wording may be a performance variant. This diff seems right to me, but I don't have the source. ~ Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.. ~ John Adams (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 18:23, 29 October 2005 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4. I rank this with about an equal preference to the Grace Slick quote which I am giving a 4 for this year.
• 1 Zarbon 05:50, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 I like this version's greater elaboration on what it was. ~ Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

OR, a very similar statement he made on another occasion:

As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people.

• 3 Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC) I rank this with about an equal preference to the Grace Slick quote which I am giving a 4 for this year, and perhaps prefer this slightly to the similar expression above, though eventually both could be used on different years, or perhaps even on the 4th of July or similarly significant dates.
• 3 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 This version would be a good admonition for July 4. ~ Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't want to do something for the sake of it. I am prepared to wait. If I wait until I am buried, too bad. ~ Michael Winner

• 2 Zarbon 04:12, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. ~ Paul Valéry

• 3 Zarbon 04:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 0 (Science is much misunderstood in popular culture today. This doesn't help.) ~ Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations. ~ Paul Valéry

• 2 Zarbon 04:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. ~ Paul Valéry

• 2 Zarbon 04:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

God created man, and finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a female companion so that he might feel his solitude more acutely. ~ Paul Valéry

• 3 because with all the company in the world, man is still alone. Beautiful. Zarbon 04:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ~ Paul Valéry

• 3 Zarbon 04:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 0 (unsourced) Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
• 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike — no bail, no demurrer. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

• 3 because this is magnificent and elegant. Beautiful to conjure death as a debt, paid in full and in the end. Zarbon 04:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

• 3 nice attachment to mythological character Cerberus and the changing of personality. Zarbon 04:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

• 3 because some things are best left unexplained. Zarbon 04:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

I know too well the poison and the sting
Of things too sweet. ~ Adelaide Anne Procter

• 3 because beauty is only skin deep. Zarbon 04:33, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 16:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 13:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Ningauble 13:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Virtue is not always amiable. ~ John Adams

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing. ~ John Adams

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. ~ John Adams

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many. ~ John Adams

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

We think ourselves possessed, or, at least, we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects, and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact! ~ John Adams

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Metaphysicians and politicians may dispute forever, but they will never find any other moral principle or foundation of rule or obedience, than the consent of governors and governed. ~ John Adams

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. ~ John Adams

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

You write with ease to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

• 2 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Man's social happiness all rests on us:
Through all the drama — whether damned or not —
Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Never say more than is necessary. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,
But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
~ Adelaide Anne Procter ~

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

I have sought, but I seek it vainly,
That one lost chord divine,
Which came from the soul of the Organ,
And entered into mine.

It may be that Death's bright angel
Will speak in that chord again,
It may be that only in Heaven
I shall hear that grand Amen.
~ Adelaide Anne Procter ~

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.

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Articles detailing events that are related to October 30. This may include the release of games or systems, the founding of a video game related company or some other important event.

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Game releases

• 2008
  • Atlantica Online for the PC worldwide
• 2007
  • Assault Heroes for Xbox Live Arcade worldwide
• 2006
  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories in North America
• 2001
  • 4x4 EVO 2 for the Xbox, PC and GCN in North America
  • Mega Man Battle Network for the GBA in Japan
• 1997
  • Aero Fighters Assault for the Nintendo 64

From Familypedia

October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 62 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 637 - Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge.
• 1137 - Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
• 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.
• 1340 - Battle of Rio Salado.
• 1470 - Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle.
• 1485 - Henry VII of England crowned.
• 1502 - Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut for the second time.
• 1831 - In Southampton County, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history.
• 1863 - Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
• 1864 - Second war of Schleswig ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.
• 1864 - Helena is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch."
• 1894 - Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
• 1905 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
• 1918 - The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War 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 first television transmitter.
• 1929 - The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
• 1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic in the United States.
• 1941 - World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
• 1941 - 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
• 1944 - Anne Frank is 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.
• 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.
• 1960 - Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
• 1961 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest nuclear device ever detonated. Nikita Kruschev announces that the scientists had planned to make it 100 megatons, but had reduced the yield to reduce fallout over the Soviet Union.
• 1961 - Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Josef 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.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
• 1970 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
• 1972 - A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago kills 45 and injures 332.
• 1973 - The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
• 1975 - Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
• 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.
• 1983 - The first 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.
• 1987 - In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine.
• 1987 - Creation of Anprotec, the Brazilian Association of Science Parks and Business Incubators, which nowadays comprises circa 400 business incubators and 50 science and technology parks initiatives.
• 1988 - Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for U.S. $13.1 billion.
• 1991 - The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
• 1995 - Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote was 50.6% to 49.4%).
• 2002 - British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview begins transmitting in parts of the United Kingdom.
• 2005 - The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
• 2007 - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay at 08:04:54 PM (PDT) local time.

Births

• 1218 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234)
• 1513 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (d. 1593)
• 1624 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693)
• 1668 - Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, queen in Prussia (d. 1705)
• 1735 - John Adams, President of the United States (d. 1826)
• 1751 - Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright (d. 1816)
• 1762 - André Chénier, French writer (d. 1794)
• 1786 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871)
• 1799 - Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal (d. 1885)
• 1821 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
• 1839 - Alfred Sisley, French artist (d. 1899)
• 1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
• 1847 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)
• 1857 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)
• 1861 - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)
• 1871 - Paul Valery, French poet (d. 1945)
• 1871 - Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)
• 1881 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941)
• 1882 - William Halsey, American admiral (d. 1959)
• 1882 - Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (d. 1944)
• 1885 - Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
• 1886 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
• 1888 - Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek athlete and Olympic champion (d. 1913)

• 1893 - Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (d. 1972)
• 1893 - Roland Freisler, German Nazi politician (d. 1945)
• 1894 - Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977)
• 1895 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964)
• 1895 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
• 1896 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)
• 1896 - Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)
• 1897 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
• 1898 - Bill Terry, baseball player (d. 1989)
• 1900 - Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
• 1906 - Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)
• 1906 - Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (d. 1966)
• 1907 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)
• 1908 - Patsy Montana, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
• 1909 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)
• 1911 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
• 1914 - Richard E Holz, American composer
• 1915 - Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)
• 1916 - Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995)
• 1917 - Bobby Bragan, American baseball player
• 1917 - Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (d. 1994)
• 1917 - Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (d. 2005)
• 1926 - Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver
• 1927 - Joe Adcock, American baseball player (d. 1999)
• 1928 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
• 1930 - Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992)
• 1930 - Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1956)
• 1931 - Vince Callahan, Representative of the 34th district in the House of Delegates
• 1932 - Louis Malle, French film director (d. 1995)
• 1934 - Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician
• 1935 - Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer
• 1935 - Michael Winner, British film director
• 1935 - Jim Perry, American baseball player
• 1935 - Robert Caro, American biographer
• 1936 - Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
• 1937 - Claude Lelouch, French film director
• 1939 - Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, Nobel laureate
• 1939 - Grace Slick, American singer (Jefferson Airplane)
• 1939 - Edward Holland, American singer
• 1940 - Ed Lauter, American actor
• 1941 - Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1941 - Otis Williams, American singer
• 1943 - Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
• 1945 - Henry Winkler, American actor
• 1947 - Timothy B. Schmit, American musician (Eagles)
• 1948 - Rusty Goffe, British actor
• 1951 - Harry Hamlin, American actor
• 1953 - Charles Martin Smith, American actor
• 1956 - Juliet Stevenson, English actress
• 1957 - Kevin Pollak, American actor
• 1957 - Andy Archer, Scottish dramatist
• 1958 - Joe Delaney, American football player (d. 1983)
• 1958 - Stefan Dennis, Australian actor
• 1958 - Ramona d'Viola, Cyclist
• 1960 - Diego Armando Maradona, Argentine footballer
• 1961 - Scott Garrelts, American baseball player
• 1962 - Courtney Walsh, West Indian cricketer
• 1963 - Michael Beach, American actor
• 1963 - Kristina Wagner, American actress
• 1964 - Howard Lederer, American poker player
• 1966 - Scott Innes, American voice actor
• 1967 - Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967 - Gavin Rossdale, English musician
• 1968 - Jack Plotnick, American actor
• 1969 - Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer
• 1970 - Maja Tatic, Bosnia singer
• 1970 - Nia Long, American actress
• 1970 - Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower
• 1971 - Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and singer
• 1973 - Adam "Edge" Copeland, Canadian wrestler
• 1973 - Silvia Corzo, Colombian newscaster
• 1976 - Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
• 1976 - Maurice Taylor, American Basketball Player
• 1977 - Jason Adelman, American actor
• 1977 - Charmian Faulkner, Missing Australian toddler
• 1978 - Martin Dossett, American football player
• 1979 - Jason Bartlett, American baseball player
• 1979 - Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress
• 1980 - Sarah Carter, Canadian actress
• 1980 - Choi Hong-man, South Korean kickboxer
• 1981 - Ivanka Trump, American model
• 1981 - Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
• 1981 - Ian Snell, American baseball player
• 1982 - Andy Greene, American ice hockey player
• 1982 - Manny Parra, American baseball player
• 1983 - Iain Hume, Canadian footballer
• 1984 - Eva Pigford, American model
• 1988 - Janel Parrish, American actress
• 1989 - Nastia Liukin, American gymnast
• 1989 - Seth Adkins, American actor

Deaths

• 1459 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (b. 1380)
• 1522 - Jean Mouton, French composer
• 1553 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)
• 1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
• 1611 - King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
• 1626 - Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580)
• 1632 - Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc (b. 1595)
• 1654 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633)
• 1680 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
• 1685 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603)
• 1809 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
• 1816 - Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
• 1842 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (b. 1784)
• 1853 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786)
• 1883 - Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815)
• 1893 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
• 1894 - Honoré Mercier, politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
• 1899 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816)
• 1910 - Henry Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)
• 1912 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
• 1915 - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
• 1923 - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
• 1957 - Fred Beebe, baseball player (b. 1880)
• 1966 - Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (b. 1906)
• 1968 - Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886)
• 1968 - Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (b. 1899)
• 1968 - Conrad Richter, American writer (b. 1890)
• 1969 - Pops Foster, American musician (b. 1892)
• 1975 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1978 - Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (b. 1903)
• 1979 - Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer (b. 1887)
• 1979 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
• 1985 - Kirby Grant, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1988 - T. Hee, American animator (b. 1911)
• 1993 - Paul Grégoire, Archbishop of Montreal (b. 1911)
• 1997 - Samuel Fuller, American film director (b. 1912)
• 2000 - Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)
• 2002 - Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (b. 1965)
• 2002 - Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2004 - Peggy Ryan, American actress (b. 1924)
• 2005 - Al Lopez, baseball player and manager (b. 1908)
• 2005 - Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (b. 1942)
• 2006 - Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
• 2006 - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
• 2007 - Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)
• 2007 - Linda Stein, Ramones manager and real estate broker (b. 1945)
• 2007 - Washoe, chimpanzee trained in American Sign Language (b. 1965)
• 2007 - John Woodruff, American athlete (b. 1915)

Holidays and observances

• Calendar of Saints - October 30th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
  • St. Artemas
  • St. Herbert
  • St. Marcellus the Centurion
  • St. Saturninus
  • St. Serapion
• USA - Mischief Night in some areas (known as Devil's Night in Michigan)
• International Orthopaedic Nurses Day
• Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions in post-Soviet states
• National Candy Corn Day
• National day of the cow, in Australia.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada