30 October

The 30t o October is the 303t day o the year (304t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 62 days bidin.

Events

Cairt o the results in the 1995 Quebec unthirldom referendum

2005: Kirk o Oor Lady, Dresden

• 1485 - Henry VII o Ingland is crouned.
• 1534 - Henry VIII o Ingland is made Heid o the Inglis Kirk.
• 1864 - The Seicont War o Schleswig ends: It results in defeat for Denmark, as Schleswig, Holstein an Lauenburg come unner Proushie an Austrick control.
• 1880 - Tegucigalpa becomes the caipital ceety o Honduras.
• 1922 - Victor Emmanuel III o Italy names Benito Mussolini as Prime meenister o Italy.
• 1925 - John Logie Baird creates the Unitit Kinrick's first telly transmitter.
• 1960 - Michael Woodruff cairies oot the first kidney transplant in the Unitit Kinrick at Edinburgh Ryal Infirmary.
• 1961 - The Soviet Union's "Tsar Bomba" hydrogen bomb test is cairiet oot ower Novaya Zemlya.
• 1972 - Twa commuter trains collide in Chicago, killin 45 fowk.
• 1974 - Boxin: Muhammad Ali defeats George Foreman in the "Rumble in the Jungle" in Kinshasa, then-Zaire.
• 1983 - A yirdquauk in Erzurum an Kars in Turkey kills 1,100 fowk.
• 1988 - Ayrton Senna wins the Formula Ane Warld Championship.
• 1991 - The Madrid Conference on Middle East peace begins.
• 1995 - Quebec's unthirldom referendum ends wi a narrow majority against unthirldom frae Canadae.
• 1997 - Mary McAleese is electit Preses o the Republic o Ireland.
• 2000 - The Somoni becomes the currency o Tajikistan.
• 2005 - Dresden's Frauenkirche (Kirk o Oor Lady) is reconsecratit.
• 2007 - Brazil wins the richt tae host the 2014 FIFA Warld Cup.
• 2014 - Swaden recognises the State o Palestine.
• 2015 - A fire at a nichtclub in Bucharest, Romanie, kills 64 fowk.
• 2019 - Chile withdraws as host o the December 2019 Internaitional climate chynge conference ower continuin protests in the kintra; Madrid offers tae host it instead.

Births

John Adams

• 1632 - Christopher Wren, Inglis airchitect (d. 1723)
• 1735 - John Adams, 2nt Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1826)
• 1830 - Eliza Brightwen, Scots naituralist (d. 1906)
• 1839 - Alfred Sisley, Inglis-French penter (d. 1899)
• 1851 - George Lennox Watson, Scots naval airchitect (d. 1904)
• 1873 - Francisco I. Madero, Preses o Mexico (d. 1913)
• 1885 - Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
• 1890 - Tommy Cairns, Scots fitbawer (d. 1967)
• 1895 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist (d. 1964)
• 1906 - Giuseppe Farina, Italian racin driver (d. 1966)
• 1909 - Jerry Dawson, Scots fitbawer (d. 1977)
• 1932 - Louis Malle, French film director, screenwriter an producer (d. 1995)
• 1935 - Michael Winner, Inglis film director (d. 2013)
• 1937 - Claude Lelouch, French film director
• 1939 - Grace Slick, American sangster, sangwriter, muisicker, airtist an model
• 1945 - Henry Winkler, American actor
• 1960 - Diego Maradona, Argentine fitbawer (d. 2020)
• 1981 - Ivanka Trumpov, American businesswoman an socialite
• 1989 - Nastia Liukin, Roushie-American gymnast

Daiths

• 1611 - Charles IX o Swaden (b. 1550)
• 1757 - Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1699)
• 1809 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke o Portland, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1738)
• 1842 - Allan Cunningham, Scots author (b. 1784)
• 1910 - Henry Dunant, Swiss foonder o the Internaitional Red Cross (b. 1828)
• 1923 - Bonar Law, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1858)
• 1975 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German pheesicist (b. 1887)
• 2009 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist (b. 1908)
• 2010 - Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (b. 1927)

Halidays

• Mischief Nicht (Unitit States)