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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1975 –
  Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain’s acting head of state, taking over for the country’s ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
• 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.
• 2005 –
  The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.

Who were born on October 30?

• 1908 –
  Patsy Montana, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
• 1914 –
  Richard E Holz, American composer (d. 1986)
• 1940 –
  Ed Lauter, American actor
• 1954 –
  Mario Testino, Peruvian-born English fashion photographer
• 1975 –
  Marco Scutaro, American Baseball player
• 1977 –
  Eefke Mulder, Dutch hockey-international
• 1979 –
  Jason Bartlett, American baseball player
• 1980 –
  Choi Hong-man, South Korean kickboxer
• 1983 –
  Iain Hume, Canadian footballer
• 1984 –
  Tyson Strachan, Canadian ice hockey player

Who died on October 30?

• 1553 –
  Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)
• 1912 –
  Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean military, participated on Battle of Huamachuco (b. 1840)
• 1917 –
  Talbot Mercer Papineau, Canadian lawyer and soldier (b. 1883)
• 1968 –
  Conrad Richter, American writer (b. 1890)
• 1968 –
  Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (b. 1899)
• 1975 –
  Martha Moxley, American murder victim (b. 1960)
• 1975 –
  Wilma McCann, first murder victim of Peter Sutcliffe, the “Yorkshire Ripper” (b. 1946/7)
• 1997 –
  Samuel Fuller, American film director (b. 1912)
• 2004 –
  Dame Phyllis Frost, Australian welfare worker and philanthropist (b. 1917)
• 2007 –
  Linda Stein, Ramones manager and real estate broker (b. 1945)