On this day: 30 October
Events, births and deaths on 30 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
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1 year ago2025
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10 years ago2016
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100 years ago1926
- Births · Jacques Swaters
- Births · Richard Hu
1000 years ago1026
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Events · 26
- 1340(Julian date)Battle of Río Salado — battle occurring in Spain on 30 October 1340
- 1657Battle of Ocho Rios — 1657 battle of the Anglo-Spanish War of 1654–60
- 1805Battle of Caldiero — 1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
- 1806Capitulation of Stettin — Surrender during the War of the Fourth Coalition
- 1836Skirmish of Strasbourg — failed coup d'etat by Napoleon III
- 18581858 Bradford sweets poisoning — arsenic poisoning in United Kingdom
- 1864Treaty of Vienna — 1864 peace treaty which ended the Second War of Schleswig
- 1888Rudd Concession — written concession for exclusive mining rights in Matabeleland, Mashonaland and other adjoining territories in what is today Zimbabwe
- 1918Armistice of Mudros — armistice ending the war between Ottoman Turkey and the Allies of World War I
- 1947General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade — multilateral agreement regulating international trade
- 19481948 Gozo luzzu disaster — capsizing of a fishing boat near Malta
- 1959Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 — Douglas DC-3 crash
- 1961Tsar Bomba — hydrogen aerial bomb tested in 1961 by the Soviet Union; most powerful nuclear weapon ever created
- 1965white shift dress of Jean Shrimpton — minidress worn by Jean Shrimpton in 1965
- 1975Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450 — charter flight which crashed in Prague
- 1983Erzurum earthquake of 1983 — 6.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Erzurum in eastern Turkey on October 30, 1983
- 19831983 Argentine general election — 1983 argentian general election
- 1991Madrid Conference of 1991 — Israeli-Palestinian peace conference
- 1993Greysteel massacre — 1993 mass shooting in Northern Ireland
- 19951995 Quebec referendum — historic vote on the independence of Quebec from Canada
- 2010Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear — television series
- 20132013 Mahabubnagar bus accident — motor vehicle incident in India
- 2015Colectiv nightclub fire — October 2015 fire in Bucharest, Romania
- 2020Aegean Sea earthquake of 2020 — 2020 earthquake
- 20222022 Morbi bridge collapse — bridge collapse in Gujarat, India
- 2023Rescue of Ori Megidish — hostage rescue during Israel-Hamas war
Births · 60
- 39 BCE(Julian date)Julia the Elder — daughter of Emperor Augustus (39 BC – AD 14)
- 1218(Julian date)Emperor Chūkyō — Emperor of Japan
- 1668Sophia Charlotte of Hanover — Prussian royal consort
- 1735John Adams — Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801 (1735–1826)
- 1741Angelica Kauffmann — Swiss artist (1741–1807)
- 1751Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Irish-British politician, playwright and writer (1751-1816)
- 1762André Chénier — French poet
- 1839Alfred Sisley — French, British painter (1839–1899)
- 1861
- 1871Paul Valéry — French poet, essayist, and philosopher (1871–1945)
- 1873Francisco I. Madero — Mexican revolutionary leader and president (1873-1913)
- 1882Günther von Kluge — German general (1882-1944)
- 1882William Halsey Jr. — United States admiral (1882–1959)
- 1885Ezra Pound — American poet and critic (1885–1972)
- 1893Roland Freisler — German jurist and politician (1893–1945)
- 1894Jean Rostand — French writer (1894–1977)
- 1895Gerhard Domagk — German bacteriologist (1895-1964)
- 1895Dickinson W. Richards — American physician, Nobel Prize recipient (1895-1973)
- 1896Ruth Gordon — American actress and writer (1896–1985)
- 1900Ragnar Granit — Finnish scientist (1900–1991)
- 1906Giuseppe Farina — Italian racecar driver (1906-1966)
- 1906Hermann Fegelein — German lieutenant general in the Waffen-SS (1906–1945)
- 1908Dmitriy Ustinov — Soviet military commander and politician (1908-1984)
- 1909Homi Jehangir Bhabha — Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)
- 1910Miguel Hernández — Spanish poet (1910–1942)
Deaths · 60
- 1282(Julian date)Ibn Khallikan — 13th century Muslim scholar and author
- 1459(Julian date)Poggio Bracciolini — Italian scholar, writer and humanist (1380–1459)
- 1466Johann Fust — German printer (1400–1466)
- 1522Jean Mouton — French composer
- 1611Charles IX of Sweden — King of Sweden in 1604–1611
- 1626Willebrord Snellius — Dutch astronomer and mathematician
- 1632Henri II de Montmorency — French admiral and noble (1595-1632)
- 1654Go-Kōmyō — emperor of Japan (1633–1654)
- 1680Antoinette Bourignon — 17th-century French-Flemish mystic
- 1685Michel Le Tellier — French statesman (1603-1685)
- 1757Osman III — 25th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1754–1757)
- 1757Edward Vernon — Royal Navy admiral (1684-1757)
- 1809William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland — British politician and prime minister (1738–1809)
- 1816Frederick I of Württemberg — last Duke of Würtemberg (1754-1816); then briefly Elector of Württemberg, and later King of Württemberg
- 1842Allan Cunningham — Scottish poet and author (1784–1842)
- 1853Pietro Raimondi — Italian composer (1786-1853)
- 1883Dayananda Saraswati — Indian social reformer (1824-1883)
- 1893John Abbott — 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (1821-1893)
- 1894Honoré Mercier — Canadian politician (1840-1894)
- 1903Ozaki Kōyō — Japanese writer (1868-1903)
- 1910Henry Dunant — Swiss businessman and co-founder of the Red Cross (1828-1910)
- 1912James S. Sherman — American politician and Vice President of the United States from 1909 to 1912 (1855–1912)
- 1915Charles Tupper — 6th Prime Minister of Canada (1821-1915)
- 1919Ella Wheeler Wilcox — American author and poet (1850–1919)
- 1923Bonar Law — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923
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