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 303^rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 62 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 17, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 489,384 hours 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 ‘trihectatrigon’ 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 110 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 4,696 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 30 Historical Events

• 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.
• 1925 –
  John Logie Baird creates Britain’s first television transmitter.
• 1941 –
  1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
• 1941 –
  World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1972 –
  A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago, Illinois kills 45 and injures 332.
• 2000 –
  The last Multics machine is shut down.

Who were born on October 30?

• 1762 –
  André Chénier, French writer (d. 1794)
• 1821 –
  Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
• 1885 –
  Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
• 1896 –
  Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)
• 1914 –
  Richard E Holz, American composer (d. 1986)
• 1935 –
  Jim Perry, American baseball player
• 1935 –
  Robert Caro, American biographer
• 1939 –
  Edward Holland, Jr., American singer
• 1964 –
  Adnan Al Talyani , Emirates footballer
• 1981 –
  Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress

Who died on October 30?

• 1611 –
  King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
• 1632 –
  Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc (b. 1595)
• 1654 –
  Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633)
• 1816 –
  Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
• 1883 –
  Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815)
• 1912 –
  James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
• 1975 –
  Wilma McCann, first murder victim of Peter Sutcliffe, the “Yorkshire Ripper” (b. 1946/7)
• 2000 –
  Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)
• 2002 –
  Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2005 –
  Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (b. 1908)