History Events on October 30

Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios.

#Anglo-Spanish_War_(1654-1660)

President Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.

#Franklin_D._Roosevelt

Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela.

#Simón_Bolívar

Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.

#Quebec

The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.

#Rudd_Concession

The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.

#Dresden_Frauenkirche

The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Zaire.

#The_Rumble_in_the_Jungle

Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from inside Lenin's tomb and buried nearby with a plain marker instead.

#Vladimir_Lenin

Reconquista: Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion at the Battle of Río Salado.

#Reconquista

Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.

#George_I_of_Greece

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

#1983_Argentine_general_election

Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.

#Sweden

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.

#Orson_Welles

King Henry VII of England is crowned, beginning the Tudor reign.

#Henry_VII_of_England

Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board.

#Piedmont_Airlines_Flight_349

Arab-Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge.

#Arab-Byzantine_wars

El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.

#El_Salvador

Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.

#Guangzhou

John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

#John_Logie_Baird

The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.

#Soviet_Union

The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.

#Communist_Party_of_Australia

Holocaust: 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.

#Anne_Frank

The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.

#Bosphorus_Bridge

Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color line.

#Jackie_Robinson

War 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.

#War_of_the_Fourth_Coalition

The 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.

#Eighth_Crusade

The Troubles: Loyalists carry out a mass shooting at a Halloween party in Greysteel, Northern Ireland, killing six Catholics and two Protestants.

#The_Troubles

Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.

#Space_Shuttle_Challenger

The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.

#Treaty_of_Vienna_(1864)

Hungarian Revolution: The government recognizes the new workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads an attack on the Communist Party headquarters.

#Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid Conference commences in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.

#Israeli-Palestinian_conflict

Sixty-four people are killed and more than 147 injuries after a fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital Bucharest.

Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.

President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is founded.

Second World War: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559.

Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Be??ec extermination camp.

First World War: 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

First World War: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies.

Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)

Nat Turner is arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.

Ranulf of Apulia defeats Roger II of Sicily at the Battle of Rignano, securing his position as duke until his death two years later.