What Happened On October 30

10 odd things that happened on October 30

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  1858 Oddly true

  Approximately 20 people die in Bradford, England, UK, after being poisoned from ingesting sweets that had been accidentally adulterated with arsenic trioxide.

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  758 Oddly true

  Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.

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  2002 Oddly true

  After his terminal-cancer diagnosis, Warren Zevon made his last public appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, giving the advice to "enjoy every sandwich".

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  1983 First ever

  As the military dictatorship came to an end, Argentina's first democratic election in a decade resulted in Raúl Alfonsín being elected president.

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  1968 Oddly true

  A squad of 120 North Korean Army commandos landed in boats along a 25-mile long section of the eastern coast of South Korea in a failed attempt to overthrow the dictatorship of Park Chung Hee and reunify Korea.

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  1960 First ever

  At the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Michael Woodruff performed the first successful kidney transplantation in the United Kingdom.

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  2023 First ever

  First rescue of a prisoner during the Israeli invasion of Gaza.

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  2014 First ever

  Sweden becomes the first European Union member state to officially recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state.

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  2013 Oddly true

  Forty-five people are killed and seven injured after a bus catches fire in Mahabubnagar district, Andhra Pradesh (present-day Telangana), India.

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  1983 First ever

  The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held.

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Observed today

• Anniversary of the Declaration of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)
• Christian feast day: Ethelnoth (Egelnoth) the Good
• Christian feast day: Blessed Dominic Collins (Catholic, Ireland, Society of Jesus)
• Christian feast day: Gerard of Potenza
• Christian feast day: Blessed Maria Teresa of St. Joseph
• Christian feast day: John Wycliffe (Episcopal Church (USA))
• Christian feast day: Marcellus of Tangier
• Christian feast day: Saturninus of Cagliari
• Christian feast day: Serapion of Antioch
• Christian feast day: Talarican (Tarkin)
• Christian feast day: Theonistus
• Christian feast day: Zenobios and Zenobia
• Christian feast day: October 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions (former Soviet republics, except Ukraine)
• Thevar Jayanthi (Thevar community, India)
• Mischief Night (Ireland, Canada, United Kingdom, United States and other places)

• 2023First rescue of a prisoner during the Israeli invasion of Gaza. Wikipedia →
• 2022A pedestrian suspension bridge collapses in the city of Morbi, Gujarat, leading to the deaths of at least 135 people. Wikipedia →
• 2020A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, triggering a tsunami. At least 119 people die mainly due to collapsed buildings. Wikipedia →
• 2015A fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital of Bucharest kills sixty-four people and leaves more than 147 injured. Wikipedia →
• 2014Sweden becomes the first European Union member state to officially recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state. Wikipedia →
• 2014Four people are killed when a Beechcraft Super King Air crashes at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita, Kansas. Wikipedia →
• 2013Forty-five people are killed and seven injured after a bus catches fire in Mahabubnagar district, Andhra Pradesh (present-day Telangana), India. Wikipedia →
• 2005The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project. Wikipedia →
• 1995Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty. Wikipedia →
• 1991The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid Conference commences in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine. Wikipedia →
• 1985Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission. Wikipedia →
• 1983The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held. Wikipedia →
• 1983A magnitude 6.6 earthquake in the Turkish provinces of Erzurum and Kars leaves approximately 1,340 people dead. Wikipedia →
• 1980El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice. Wikipedia →
• 1975Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco. Wikipedia →
• 1975Forty-five people are killed when Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450 crashes into Suchdol, Prague, while on approach to Prague Ruzyně Airport (now Václav Havel Airport Prague) in Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic). Wikipedia →
• 1973The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time. Wikipedia →
• 1968A squad of 120 North Korean Army commandos land in boats along a 25-mile long section of the eastern coast of South Korea in a failed attempt to overthrow the dictatorship of Park Chung Hee and bring about the reunification of Korea. Wikipedia →
• 1961The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated. Wikipedia →
• 1959Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board. Wikipedia →
• 1956Hungarian Revolution: The government of Imre Nagy recognizes newly established revolutionary workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads anti-Soviet militias in an attack on the headquarters of the Hungarian Working People's Party. Wikipedia →
• 1953President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union. Wikipedia →
• 1948A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board. Wikipedia →
• 1947The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded. Wikipedia →
• 1944Holocaust: 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. Wikipedia →
• 1942World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559. Wikipedia →
• 1941President Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations. Wikipedia →
• 1941Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp. Wikipedia →
• 1938Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States. Wikipedia →
• 1920The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney. Wikipedia →
• 1918World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies. Wikipedia →
• 1918World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliaments. Wikipedia →
• 1905Tsar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, nominally granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar) Wikipedia →
• 1888The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes. Wikipedia →
• 1864Second War of Schleswig: The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria. Wikipedia →
• 1863Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes. Wikipedia →
• 1858Approximately 20 people die in Bradford, England, UK, after being poisoned from ingesting sweets that had been accidentally adulterated with arsenic trioxide. Wikipedia →
• 1836Louis Napoleon launches the unsuccessful Strasbourg Coup to overthrow the July Monarchy in France Wikipedia →
• 1831Nat Turner is arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history. Wikipedia →
• 1817Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela. Wikipedia →
• 1806War of the Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrenders the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers. Wikipedia →
• 1657Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios. Wikipedia →
• 1340Reconquista: Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion at the Battle of Río Salado. Wikipedia →
• 1270The Eighth Crusade ends by an agreement between Charles I of Anjou (replacing his deceased brother King Louis IX of France) and the Hafsid dynasty of Tunis, Tunisia. Wikipedia →
• 1137Ranulf of Apulia defeats Roger II of Sicily at the Battle of Rignano, securing his position as duke until his death two years later. Wikipedia →
• 758Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates. Wikipedia →
• 637Arab–Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge. Wikipedia →
• 130Emperor Hadrian establishes the city of Antinoöpolis on the Nile in honour of his companion Antinous, creating a new Hellenizing foundation in Roman Egypt. Wikipedia →