October 30

Saturday 30, 2004:

A 163-metre high radio mast in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK collapses in a fire.

Wednesday 30, 2002:

British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview starts transmitting throughout parts of the United Kingdom

Tuesday 30, 2001:

Michael Jordan returns to the National Basketball Association with the Washington Wizards after 3 1/2 years (the Wizards lose 93-91 to the New York Knicks).

Thursday 30, 1997:

British au pair Louise Woodward is found guilty of the baby-shaking death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.

Monday 30, 1995:

Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote was 50.6% to 49.4%).

Wednesday 30, 1991:

The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.

Sunday 30, 1988:

Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.

Friday 30, 1987:

In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the PC-Engine.

Sunday 30, 1983:

The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.

Thursday 30, 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.

Thursday 30, 1975:

Prince Juan Carlos becomes King of Spain after dictator Francisco Franco concedes that he is too ill to govern.

Wednesday 30, 1974:

"The Rumble in the Jungle": Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship.

Monday 30, 1972:

US President Richard Nixon approves legislation to increase Social Security spending by US$5.3 billion.

Friday 30, 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.

Wednesday 30, 1968:

The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.

Sunday 30, 1966:

The Zodiac killer kills his first victim, 18-year old Cheri Jo Bates, in Riverside, California.

Saturday 30, 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 was found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.

Monday 30, 1961:

Due to "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Josef 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.

Friday 30, 1953:

Cold War: US 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.

Thursday 30, 1947:

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is founded.

Monday 30, 1944:

Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Thursday 30, 1941:

World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.

Sunday 30, 1938:

Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic.

Friday 30, 1925:

John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

Saturday 30, 1920:

The Communist Party of Australia founded in Sydney.

Wednesday 30, 1918:

The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East

Monday 30, 1905:

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.

Tuesday 30, 1894:

Domenico Menegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.

Sunday 30, 1864:

Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch."

Sunday 30, 1831:

In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history.

Sunday 30, 1470:

Henry VI of England returns to the throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle.

Sunday 30, 1340:

Battle of Rio Salado

Thursday 30, 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.

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