SomeFacts | October 30

On this day - October 30

130 — Emperor Hadrian establishes the city of Antinoöpolis on the ...

637 — Arab–Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun ...

758 — Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.

1137 — Ranulf of Apulia defeats Roger II of Sicily at the Battle of ...

1270 — The Eighth Crusade ends by an agreement between Charles I of ...

1340 — Reconquista: Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim ...

1657 — Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at ...

1806 — War of the Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a ...

1817 — Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of ...

1831 — Nat Turner is arrested for leading the bloodiest slave ...

1836 — Louis Napoleon launches the unsuccessful Strasbourg Coup to ...

1858 — Approximately 20 people die in Bradford, England, UK, after ...

1863 — Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne ...

1864 — Second War of Schleswig: The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by ...

1888 — The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of ...

1905 — Tsar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, nominally ...

1918 — World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state ...

1918 — World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros ...

1920 — The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.

1938 — Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. ...

1941 — Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by ...

1941 — President Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to ...

1942 — World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier ...

1944 — Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz ...

1947 — The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the ...

1948 — A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and ...

1953 — President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC ...

1956 — Hungarian Revolution: The government of Imre Nagy recognizes ...

1959 — Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to ...

1961 — The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful ...

1968 — A squad of 120 North Korean Army commandos land in boats along ...

1973 — The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the ...

1975 — Forty-five people are killed when Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight ...

1975 — Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, ...

1980 — El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute ...

1983 — A magnitude 6.6 earthquake in the Turkish provinces of Erzurum ...

1983 — The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years ...

1985 — Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its ...

1991 — The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid Conference ...

1995 — Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of ...

2005 — The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing ...

2013 — Forty-five people are killed and seven injured after a bus ...

2014 — Four people are killed when a Beechcraft Super King Air ...

2014 — Sweden becomes the first European Union member state to ...

2015 — A fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital of Bucharest ...

2020 — A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes the Aegean Sea between ...

2022 — A pedestrian suspension bridge collapses in the city of Morbi, ...

2023 — First rescue of a prisoner during the Israeli invasion of Gaza.