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Today in History ~ October 30
Events1270 - 8th & last crusade is launched
1485 - King Henry VII Tudor crowned, after defeating the forces of King Richard III at Bosworth Field
1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica
1503 - Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence against Indians
1534 - English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope
1629 - King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath
1768 - 1st Methodist church in US initiated (Wesley Chapel, NYC)
1772 - Capt Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown
1817 - Simon Bolivar established the independent government of Venezuela.
1866 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Lexington Missouri ($2000)
1873 - P T Barnum's circus, "Greatest Show on Earth," debuts (NYC)
1875 - Missouri's Constitution Ratified
1888 - In London, Jack the Ripper murders his last victim
1888 - John J Loud patents ballpoint pen
1893 - The Columbian Exposition closed in Chicago.
1894 - Daniel Cooper patents time clock
1899 - British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown
1905 - "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II accepts 1st Duma (Parliament) grants civil liberties
1905 - GB Shaw's "Mrs Warren's Profession," premieres in NYC
1914 - Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium) begins
1918 - Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state
1922 - Mussolini forms govt in Italy
1938 - Orson Welles presented his famous dramatization of "The War of the Worlds" on CBS’s "Mercury Theater" (The live drama, which employed fake news reports, panicked some listeners who thought its portrayal of a Martian invasion was true.) [H]
1939 - German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound & Charles Forbes aboard
1939 - USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews
1940 - Cole Porter musical "Panama Hattie," premieres in NYC
1942 - 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault
1943 - Molotov-Eden-Cordell Hull accord over operations at UN
1944 - Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring," premieres in Wash DC
1944 - Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen
1944 - Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau
1944 - Sweden announces intention to stay neutral & refuse sanctuary in WW II
1944 - The Martha Graham ballet "Appalachian Spring," with music by Aaron Copland, premiered at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with Graham in a leading role.
1945 - Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a Montreal Royals
1945 - US government announces end of shoe rationing
1948 - 20 die & 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora Pennsylvania
1949 - Kurt Weill & Maxwell Anderson's "Lost in the Stars" premieres in NYC
1952 - Clarence Birdseye sells 1st frozen peas
1953 - Dr Albert Schweitzer and Gen George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
1954 - Linus Pauling wins the Nobel prize in chemistry
1954 - US Armed Forces end segregation of races
1957 - Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika
1960 - Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba
1961 - Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square
1961 - UN unanimously elects U Thant acting UN Secretary General
1961 - The Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb with a force estimated at 58 megatons.
1965 - Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia
1968 - Jaqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios
1968 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber)
1972 - 45 people were killed when an Illinois Central Gulf commuter train collided with another train on Chicago's South Side.
1974 - Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire ("rumble in the jungle") to regain his world heavyweight title.
1975 - Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain
1975 - NY Daily News runs headline "Ford to NYC: Drop Dead"
1975 - As dictator Francisco Franco lie near death, Prince Juan Carlos assumed power in Spain.
1975 - The New York Daily News ran the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead" a day after President Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.
1978 - Uganda troops attack Tanzania
1979 - President Carter announced his choice of federal appeals judge Shirley Hufstedler to head the newly created Department of Education.
1983 - Rev. Jesse Jackson announced plans to become the first black to mount a full-scale campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1989 - August A Busch III becomes CEO of St Louis Cards
1989 - Smith Dairy at Orrville Ohio, makes largest milk shake (1,575.2 gal)
1990 - England-France complete "Chunnel"
1991 - The Middle East peace conference in Madrid, Spain, opened with addresses to the delegates by President George Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The participants included Israel, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestinians from the Israeli-occupied territories.
1992 - Muslim Slav, Croatian soldiers and civilians were driven from the strategic Bosnian town of Jajce in fierce street battles with Serbian forces.
1993 - The U.N. Security Council condemned Haiti's military leaders for preventing the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1994 - Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel's Pentium-processor on Internet
1995 - Quebec Referendum votes to remain part of Canada
1995 - By a vote of 50.6 percent to 49.4 percent, Federalists prevailed over separatists in Quebec in a secession referendum.
1996 - Michael Kahoe, who ran the FBI's violent crime division, pleaded guilty to obstructing justice, admitting he destroyed a report which detailed FBI misconduct in the 1992 Idaho standoff that killed Randy Weaver's wife and teenage son at Ruby Ridge..
1996 - After a four-hour trial, a Chinese court sentenced pro-democracy activist Wang Dan to 11 years in prison for "conspiring to subvert the Chinese government." (Wang was freed in April 1998 and sent into exile in the United States.)
1998 - The terrorist who hijacked a Turkish Airlines plane and the 39 people on board, was killed when anti-terrorist squads raided the plane.
2001 - Terrorist strikes, coupled with the parade of bleak corporate news and a slew of layoff announcements since Sept.11, slashed October's consumer confidence to its lowest level in more than 7 years.
2001 - Tropical storm Allison, which caused $5 billion in damage, was the costliest storm in the nation's history, according to an internal report released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Twenty-three people died in the storm.
Birthdays Today
1391 - Eduard, [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38)
1632 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright (School for Scandal)
1683 - George II, King of Great-Britain (1727-60)
1712 - Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, German painter
1735 - John Adams (2nd U.S. President [1797-1801], 1st Vice President; father of John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. President) born in Braintree, Mass.
1751 - Richard Sheridan (playwright: The Critic, School for Scandal, The Rivals)
1807 - James Samuel Wadsworth, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1821 - Fjodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Russian novelist (Idiot)
1839 - Alfred Sisley (artist: impressionist)
1843 - A G Henri Regnault, French water colors painter
1845 - Gustav Weber, composer
1864 - Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composer
1871 - Paul Valery, France, poet/essayist/critic (La Jeune)
1882 - William "Bull" F Halsey, US vice-admiral (WW II Pacific)
1885 - Ezra Loomis Pound, Hailey Idaho, poet (Cantos). Pound was of enormous creative intellect...but often got himself into trouble with his views on politics. During World War II, he was arrested for broadcasting fascist propaganda to the United States from Rome. Pound stood trial for this crime and was judged to be insane. He was incarcerated at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington from 1946 until his release in 1958.
1893 - Charles Atlas (Angelo Siciliano) (bodybuilder: 'the 97-lb. weakling who had sand kicked in his face' advertisement)
1894 - Peter Warlock, born Philip Heseltine, composer
1896 - Ruth Gordon (Jones) (Academy Award-winning actress: Rosemary's Baby [1968]; Every Which Way but Loose, Harold and Maude; screenplay writer [w/Garson Kanin]: Adam's Rib; Emmy Award-winning actress: Taxi: Sugar Mama [1/16/79])
1907 - Sue Carol (Evelyn Lederer) (actress: The Lone Star Ranger, Walking Back, Captain Swagger)
1913 - Ruth Hussey (O'Rourke) (actress: Stars and Stripes Forever, Northwest Passage, The Philadelphia Story, Madame X, Another Thin Man)
1915 - Fred Friendly (broadcast journalist; TV producer: CBS, PBS)
1917 - Bobby Bragan (baseball: Milwaukee Braves)
1918 - Robert Feller, MLB pitcher (Indians, led AL in strikeouts 7 times)
1918 - Ted Williams, hitter (Red Sox, AL MVP '46, '49; Trip Crown '42,'47)
1927 - Joe Adcock (baseball: Milwaukee Braves: individual record for total bases in a game [18]: 4 home runs and a double [7/31/54])
1929 - Joan Ganz Cooney, founder (Children's Television Workshop)
1932 - Louis Malle (director: Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, Aurevoir Les Enfants, Goodbye Children, Crackers, The Fire Within)
1933 - Michael S Dukakis, (Gov-D-Mass)/presidential candidate (D-1988)
1936 - Jim Perry (baseball: Minnesota Twins pitcher: Cy Young Award-winner [1970])
1938 - Claude Lelouch (Academy Award-winning director: A Man and a Woman [1966], Bolero, Another Man, Another Chance)
1939 - Eddie Holland (songwriter: writing team:Holland-Dozier-Holland: Where Did Our Love Go, Baby Love, Stop! In the Name of Love, I Hear a Symphony, You Keep Me Hangin' On, Reach Out, I'll Be There; team inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1990]); singer: Jamie)
1939 - Grace Slick (Wing) (singer: group: Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship: Somebody to Love, White Rabbit, Rejoice, Miracles, Count on Me, Runaway, We Built this City, Sara)
1941 - Jim Ray Hart (baseball)
1941 - Otis Williams (singer: group: The Temptations: I Can't Get Next to You, Cloud Nine, Runaway Child, Running Wild, Just My Imagination, Papa was a Rolling Stone, Masquerade)
1945 - Henry Winkler (actor: Happy Days, An American Christmas Carol, The Lords of Flatbush; TV coproducer: MacGyver; director: Cop and a Half, Memories of Me, A Smokey Mountain Christmas)
1946 - Glen Combs (basketball)
1947 - Timothy B. Schmit (musician: bass guitar, singer: group: Poco: Crazy Love, Heart of the Night; Eagles: Hotel California, Life in the Fast Lane, Heartache Tonight, The Long Run, I Can't Tell You Why)
1948 - J.D. Hill (football)
1950 - Levi Johnson (football)
1950 - Phil Chenier (basketball)
1951 - Greg Gantt (football)
1951 - Harry Hamlin (actor: L.A. Law, Studs Lonigan, Laguna Heat, Clash of the Titans, Dinner at Eight, Murder So Sweet, Under Investigation, Save Me)
1960 - Diego Maradona (soccer: Argentina: individual record for most games played in the finals [21 - 1982-94])
Famous deaths
1583 - Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect/painter/archaeologist, dies at 83
1632 - Henri de Montmorency, French duke/plotter, beheaded
1853 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (Potifar, Giacobbe), dies at 66
1885 - Gustav Adolf Merkel, composer, dies at 57
1968 - Conrad Richter, US writer (Light in the Forest), dies at 78
1988 - John Houseman, actor (Paper Chase), dies at 86
1993 - Hernan Heleno Castro, El Salvadorian guerilla leader, murdered
1995 - Terry Southern, writer (Candy, The Magic Christian), dies at 71
1997 - Sam Fuller, director/writer (Big Red One), dies at 86
2000 - Comedian, television host, author and composer Steve Allen dies of a heart attack in Encino, Calif., at age 78. [H]
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