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, 1,730,246,400 seconds 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
- 1137 –Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
- 1470 –Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats the Yorkists in battle.
- 1894 –Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
- 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.
- 1960 –Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
- 1970 –In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
- 1973 –The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
- 1975 –Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain’s acting head of state, taking over for the country’s ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
Who were born on October 30?
- 1886 –Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
- 1895 –Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
- 1895 –Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964)
- 1908 –U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, An Indian politician (d. 1963)
- 1937 –Claude Lelouch, French film director
- 1943 –Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
- 1959 –Michael Fiedler, German footballer
- 1980 –John Foo, Irish martial artist and actor
- 1981 –Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
- 1983 –Iain Hume, Canadian footballer
Who died on October 30?
- 1853 –Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786)
- 1883 –Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815)
- 1894 –Honoré Mercier, politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
- 1910 –Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)
- 1917 –Talbot Mercer Papineau, Canadian lawyer and soldier (b. 1883)
- 1975 –Martha Moxley, American murder victim (b. 1960)
- 1987 –Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, author (b. 1904)
- 1988 –T. Hee, American animator (b. 1911)
- 1997 –Samuel Fuller, American film director (b. 1912)
- 2006 –Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
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