About October 30
October 30, 2023 is the 303rd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 62 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Scorpio is the sun 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 103 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 30
- 1137 –Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
- 1226 –Tran Thu Do, head of the Tran clan of Vietnam, forces Ly Hue Tong, the last emperor of the Ly dynasty, to commit suicide.
- 1485 –King Henry VII of England is crowned.
- 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 –Second war of Schleswig ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.
- 1894 –Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
- 1918 –The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
- 1920 –The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
- 1925 –John Logie Baird creates Britain’s first television transmitter.
- 1942 –Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.
- 1950 –Pope Pius XII witnesses “The Miracle of the Sun” while at the Vatican.
- 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.
- 1961 –Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
- 1985 –Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
- 1987 –In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the PC Engine, which was later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.
- 2000 –The last Multics machine is shut down.
- 2005 –The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
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