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| October 30th, 2005 (October 30 2005) | Event | The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project. | |
| October 30th, 2005 (October 30 2005) | Death | Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (born in 1908) | |
| October 30th, 2005 (October 30 2005) | Death | Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (born in 1942) | |
| October 30th, 1995 (October 30 1995) | Event | Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote was 50.6% to 49.4%). | |
| October 30th, 1985 (October 30 1985) | Event | Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission. | |
| October 30th, 1985 (October 30 1985) | Death | Kirby Grant, American actor (born in 1911) | |
| October 30th, 1975 (October 30 1975) | Event | Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain s acting head of state, taking over for the country s ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco. | |
| October 30th, 1975 (October 30 1975) | Birth | Ian D Sa, Guitarist/Vocalist for Canadian rock band Billy Talent | |
| October 30th, 1975 (October 30 1975) | Birth | Maria Thayer, American actress | |
| October 30th, 1975 (October 30 1975) | Death | Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1887) | |
| October 30th, 1965 (October 30 1965) | Event | 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. | |
| October 30th, 1945 (October 30 1945) | Event | Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier. | |
| October 30th, 1945 (October 30 1945) | Birth | Henry Winkler, American actor | |
| October 30th, 1935 (October 30 1935) | Birth | Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer | |
| October 30th, 1935 (October 30 1935) | Birth | Michael Winner, British film director | Michael Winner Quotes |
| October 30th, 1935 (October 30 1935) | Birth | Jim Perry, American baseball player | |
| October 30th, 1935 (October 30 1935) | Birth | Robert Caro, American biographer | |
| October 30th, 1925 (October 30 1925) | Event | John Logie Baird creates Britain s first television transmitter. | |
| October 30th, 1915 (October 30 1915) | Birth | Fred Friendly, American journalist (died in 1998) | |
| October 30th, 1915 (October 30 1915) | Death | Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (born in 1821) | |
| October 30th, 1905 (October 30 1905) | Event | Tsar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia s first constitution, creating a legislative assembly. | |
| October 30th, 1895 (October 30 1895) | Birth | Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (died in 1964) | |
| October 30th, 1895 (October 30 1895) | Birth | Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (died in 1973) | |
| October 30th, 1885 (October 30 1885) | Birth | Ezra Pound, American poet (died in 1972) | Ezra Pound Quotes |
| October 30th, 1735 (October 30 1735) | Birth | John Adams, President of the United States (died in 1826) | John Adams Quotes |
| October 30th, 1685 (October 30 1685) | Death | Michel le Tellier, French statesman (born in 1603) | |
| October 30th, 1485 (October 30 1485) | Event | Henry VII of England crowned. | |
