What are the important events that happened on October 30? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 30: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 30 is the 304th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 62 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 17, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,837,440 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatetragon’ day.
Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 91 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,331 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 30 Historical Events
- 1340 –Battle of Rio Salado.
- 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 –Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at “Last Chance Gulch”.
- 1944 –Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1973 –The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
- 1983 –The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
Who were born on October 30?
- 1799 –Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal (d. 1885)
- 1871 –Paul Valéry, French poet (d. 1945)
- 1917 –Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (d. 1994)
- 1936 –Dick Vermeil, American football coach
- 1941 –Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1954 –Mahmoud El Khatib, Egyptian footballer
- 1960 –Diego Maradona, Argentine footballer
- 1966 –Scott Innes, American voice actor
- 1975 –Ian D'Sa, Canadian musician (Billy Talent)
- 1977 –Eefke Mulder, Dutch hockey-international
Who died on October 30?
- 1522 –Jean Mouton, French composer
- 1553 –Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)
- 1611 –King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
- 1654 –Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633)
- 1816 –Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
- 1842 –Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (b. 1784)
- 1917 –Talbot Mercer Papineau, Canadian lawyer and soldier (b. 1883)
- 1963 –U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (b. 1908)
- 2004 –Peggy Ryan, American actress (b. 1924)
- 2008 –Pedro Pompilio, Argentinian businessman (b. 1950)
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