About October 30
October 30, 2024 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.
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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 91 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.
- 1270 –The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
- 1340 –Battle of Rio Salado.
- 1470 –Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats the Yorkists in battle.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1922 –Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
- 1925 –John Logie Baird creates Britain’s first television transmitter.
- 1941 –World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
- 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.
- 1945 –Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
- 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.
- 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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