# What happened on October 30 in history?

**Date:** October 30  
**Events recorded:** 48  
**Years spanned:** 130 – 2023  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/october/30/

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## Featured Event

**2020** — A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, triggering a tsunami. At least 119 people die mainly due to collapsed buildings.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Aegean_Sea_earthquake)

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## Events on this date

- **130** — Emperor Hadrian establishes the city of Antinoöpolis on the Nile in honour of his companion Antinous, creating a new Hellenizing foundation in Roman Egypt. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD_130))
- **637** — Arab–Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Byzantine_wars))
- **758** — Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou))
- **1137** — Ranulf of Apulia defeats Roger II of Sicily at the Battle of Rignano, securing his position as duke until his death two years later. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulf_II_of_Alife))
- **1270** — The Eighth Crusade ends by an agreement between Charles I of Anjou (replacing his deceased brother King Louis IX of France) and the Hafsid dynasty of Tunis, Tunisia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Crusade))
- **1340** — Reconquista: Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion at the Battle of Río Salado. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista))
- **1657** — Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_War_(1654%E2%80%931660)))
- **1806** — War of the Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrenders the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Fourth_Coalition))
- **1817** — Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar))
- **1831** — Nat Turner is arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner))
- **1836** — Louis Napoleon launches the unsuccessful Strasbourg Coup to overthrow the July Monarchy in France ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_III))
- **1858** — Approximately 20 people die in Bradford, England, UK, after being poisoned from ingesting sweets that had been accidentally adulterated with arsenic trioxide. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford))
- **1863** — Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_I_of_Greece))
- **1864** — Second War of Schleswig: The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Schleswig_War))
- **1888** — The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudd_Concession))
- **1905** — Tsar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, nominally granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II))
- **1918** — World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I))
- **1918** — World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliaments. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lands_of_the_Crown_of_Saint_Stephen))
- **1920** — The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Australia))
- **1938** — Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles))
- **1941** — President Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt))
- **1941** — Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust))
- **1942** — World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1944** — Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank))
- **1947** — The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Agreement_on_Tariffs_and_Trade))
- **1948** — A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzzu))
- **1953** — President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower))
- **1956** — Hungarian Revolution: The government of Imre Nagy recognizes newly established revolutionary workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads anti-Soviet militias in an attack on the headquarters of the Hungarian Working People's Party. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956))
- **1959** — Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont_Airlines_Flight_349))
- **1961** — The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union))
- **1968** — A squad of 120 North Korean Army commandos land in boats along a 25-mile long section of the eastern coast of South Korea in a failed attempt to overthrow the dictatorship of Park Chung Hee and bring about the reunification of Korea. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_People's_Army))
- **1973** — The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosphorus_Bridge))
- **1975** — Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_I))
- **1975** — Forty-five people are killed when Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450 crashes into Suchdol, Prague, while on approach to Prague Ruzyně Airport (now Václav Havel Airport Prague) in Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inex-Adria_Aviopromet_Flight_450))
- **1980** — El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador))
- **1983** — The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Argentine_general_election))
- **1983** — A magnitude 6.6 earthquake in the Turkish provinces of Erzurum and Kars leaves approximately 1,340 people dead. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Erzurum_earthquake))
- **1985** — Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger))
- **1991** — The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid Conference commences in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict))
- **1995** — Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec))
- **2005** — The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frauenkirche%2C_Dresden))
- **2013** — Forty-five people are killed and seven injured after a bus catches fire in Mahabubnagar district, Andhra Pradesh (present-day Telangana), India. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Mahabubnagar_bus_accident))
- **2014** — Sweden becomes the first European Union member state to officially recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union))
- **2014** — Four people are killed when a Beechcraft Super King Air crashes at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita, Kansas. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_Super_King_Air))
- **2015** — A fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital of Bucharest kills sixty-four people and leaves more than 147 injured. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colectiv_nightclub_fire))
- **2020** — A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, triggering a tsunami. At least 119 people die mainly due to collapsed buildings. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Aegean_Sea_earthquake))
- **2022** — A pedestrian suspension bridge collapses in the city of Morbi, Gujarat, leading to the deaths of at least 135 people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Morbi_bridge_collapse))
- **2023** — First rescue of a prisoner during the Israeli invasion of Gaza. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_Ori_Megidish))

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## Notable births on October 30

- **2000** — **Giselle** — Japanese singer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giselle_(singer)))
- **1998** — **Cale Makar** — Canadian ice hockey player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cale_Makar))
- **1997** — **Tage Thompson** — American ice hockey player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tage_Thompson))
- **1996** — **Devin Booker** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_Booker))
- **1996** — **Dennis Gilbert** — American ice hockey player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Gilbert_(ice_hockey)))
- **1996** — **Kennedy McMann** — American actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_McMann))
- **1996** — **Kim Ji-sung** — South Korean actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ji-sung_(actress)))
- **1994** — **Mia Eklund** — Finnish tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Eklund))
- **1993** — **Marcus Mariota** — American football player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Mariota))
- **1992** — **Matt Parcell** — Australian rugby league player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Parcell))

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## Notable deaths on October 30

- **2024** — **Matt Peacock** — Australian journalist and author (born 1952) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Peacock))
- **2017** — **Kim Joo-hyuk** — South Korean actor (born 1972) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Joo-hyuk))
- **2015** — **Mel Daniels** — American basketball player and coach (born 1944) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Daniels))
- **2015** — **Al Molinaro** — American actor (born 1919) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Molinaro))
- **2015** — **Sinan Şamil Sam** — Turkish boxer (born 1974) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinan_%C5%9Eamil_Sam))
- **2015** — **Norm Siebern** — American baseball player and scout (born 1933) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Siebern))
- **2014** — **Elijah Malok Aleng** — Sudanese general and politician (born 1937) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Malok_Aleng))
- **2014** — **Renée Asherson** — English actress (born 1915) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Asherson))
- **2014** — **Juan Flavier** — Filipino physician and politician (born 1935) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Flavier))
- **2014** — **Ida Elizabeth Osbourne** — Australian actress and radio host (born 1916) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Elizabeth_Osbourne))

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