Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 30
This is a list of selected October 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Raúl Alfonsín
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George I of Greece in 1863
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Thevar Jayanthi in Tamil Nadu, India; | multiple issues |
| 1270 – An agreement between Charles I of Naples, King of Sicily, and Muhammad I al-Mustansir, ruler of the Hafsid dynasty in Ifriqiya, ended the Eighth Crusade and opened up free trade between the Christians and Tunis. | refimprove section |
| 1226 – Trần Thủ Độ, head of the Trần clan of Vietnam, forced Lý Huệ Tông, the last emperor of the Lý dynasty, to commit suicide. | date not certain (see Talk:Trần Thủ Độ) |
| 1485 – Having seized the English throne after the Wars of the Roses, Henry VII (pictured) was crowned at Westminster Abbey. | lots of CN tags (20) |
| 1905 – Russian Revolution: Tsar Nicholas II reluctantly signed the October Manifesto, establishing the State Duma as the elected legislature in the Russian Empire. | unreferenced section |
| 1918 – The Armistice of Mudros was signed in Greece, ending hostilities in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I and paving the way for the occupation of Istanbul and the subsequent partition of the Ottoman Empire. | Date not cited in the article |
| 1942 – Second World War: British sailors boarded German submarine U-559 as it was sinking and retrieved cryptographic materials that proved crucial to breaking the Enigma code. | unreferenced section |
| 1950 – Blanca Canales led the Jayuya Uprising against the U.S.-supported Puerto Rican government. | Unreliable sources |
| 1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the precursor to the World Trade Organization, was signed by 23 nations to reduce tariffs and other trade barriers. | refimprove, summarize section |
| 1961 – The Soviet hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, was set off over Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean as a test. | unreferenced section |
| 1973 – Istanbul's 1,510-metre (4,950 ft) long Bosphorus Bridge was completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus Strait. | refimprove |
| 1974 – In one of boxing's most famous fights, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman at The Rumble in the Jungle in Kinshasa, Zaire. | refimprove |
| 1983 – As the military dictatorship came to an end, Argentina's first democratic election in a decade resulted in Raúl Alfonsín being elected President of Argentina. | Unsourced section |
| 1995 – In a referendum, 50.58 percent of voters supported the province of Quebec remaining a part of Canada, narrowly averting a potential claim of Quebec sovereignty. | refimprove section |
| 1997 – Nineteen-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward was convicted of the involuntary manslaughter of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen in Newton, Massachusetts. | refimprove |
| 2015 – Improper usage of indoor pyrotechnics caused a nightclub fire in Bucharest that killed 64 and injured another 147. | section needs to be summarized |
| Hilja Riipinen |b|1883| | Birthday not cited |
| Makoto Kanoh |b|1950| | Stub |
| Florence Nagle |d|1988| | Deathday not cited |
Eligible
- 1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Believing that they were outnumbered, the German garrison at Stettin surrendered to a much smaller French force without a fight.
- 1863 – Seventeen-year-old Vilhelm, Prince of Denmark, arrived in Athens to become King George I of Greece (pictured).
- 1888 – King Lobengula of Matabeleland granted the Rudd Concession to agents of Cecil Rhodes, leading to the creation of the British South Africa Company.
- 1960 – At the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Michael Woodruff performed the first successful kidney transplantation in the United Kingdom.
- 1965 – English model Jean Shrimpton wore a controversially short minidress to Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia – a pivotal moment of the introduction of the miniskirt to women's fashion.
- 1966 – Singaporean leftist opposition leader Chia Thye Poh was detained under the Internal Security Act, which allows for preventive detention, and held for 32 years.
- Born/died this day: | Mary Hayley |b|1728| Angelica Kauffman |b|1741| André Chénier |b|1762| Ignace Bourget |b|1799| Adelaide Anne Procter |b|1825| Caroline Spencer |b|1861| António Cabreira |b|1868| Günther von Kluge |b|1882| Peter Warlock |b|1894| William H. Webb |d|1899|
Notes
- Marmaray appears on October 29, so Bosphorus Bridge should not appear in the same year
Monument to the Gozo luzzu disaster
- 1938 – CBS Radio broadcast the radio drama The War of the Worlds, causing panic among some listeners who believed that an actual Martian invasion was in progress.
- 1948 – A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsized and sank in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board (monument pictured).
- 1991 – The Madrid Conference, an attempt by the international community to revive the Israeli–Palestinian peace process through negotiations, convened.
- 1993 – The Troubles: Three members of the Ulster Defence Association opened fire in a crowded pub during a Halloween party, killing eight people and wounding nineteen others.
- 2002 – Warren Zevon made his last public appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, giving the advice to "enjoy every sandwich".
- Miloš Trifunović (b. 1871)
- Dave Gallaher (b. 1873)
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz (d. 1975)
- Jam Master Jay (d. 2002)
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