About October 30

October 30, 2025 is the 303rd 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.

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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 110 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On October 30

  • 758 –
    Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
  • 1470 –
    Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats the Yorkists in battle.
  • 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 –
    Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at “Last Chance Gulch”.
  • 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.
  • 1929 –
    The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
  • 1938 –
    Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
  • 1947 –
    The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
  • 1950 –
    Pope Pius XII witnesses “The Miracle of the Sun” while at the Vatican.
  • 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.
  • 1974 –
    The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
  • 1975 –
    Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain’s acting head of state, taking over for the country’s ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
  • 1980 –
    El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
  • 1995 –
    Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote is 50.6% to 49.4%).
  • 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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