| Date | Name | Location / Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary of the Declaration of the Slovak Nation |  | ||
| Arba'een | |||
| Mischief Night |  | ||
| National Speak Up For Service Day |  | ||
| National Publicist Day |  | ||
| National Candy Corn Day |  | ||
| Arbaeen |  | ||
| Municipal Election Day | |||
| Chelum | |||
| World Thrift Day |  | ||
| National Checklist Day |  | ||
| Create A Great Funeral Day |  | ||
Historical Events on October 30
- 1485: Henry VII is crowned King of England.
- 1657: During the Anglo-Spanish War, Spanish forces attempt to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios but fail.
- 1806: General Lasalle manages to get Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich von Romberg to surrender the city of Stettin – even though Lasalle only has a force of 800 men and Friedrich von Romberg had a force of over 5,000 men.
- 1894: A patent is given to Domenico Melegatti for his procedure in mass producing pandoro – an Italian sweet yeast bread.
- 1938: The now famous radio play of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds is broadcast by Orson Welles on this day.
- 1941: During World War II, $1 billion dollars in Lend-Lease Aid is approved for the Allied nations.
- 1941: The Nazis send over fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi in Western Ukraine to the Belzec Extermination Camp.
- 1944: Anne Frank and Margo Frank are deported to the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp from Auschwitz. Within the next year, right before the conclusion of World War II, they’ll both die from disease.
- 1945: Jackie Robinson signs a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers. This makes him the first African-American baseball player in history to play in the Major League Baseball.
- 1974: Muhammad Ali and George Foreman take part in a boxing match that is known as The Rumble in the Jungle in Kinshasa, Zaire. It’s Foreman’s first professional defeat and Ali regains the title of World Heavyweight Champion.
- 1985: The Space Shuttle Challenges takes off for mission STS-61.
Famous Birthdays on October 30
- American lawyer, politician and 2nd President of the United States, John Adams is born in 1735.
- French-English painter Alfred Sisley is born in 1839.
- French-Swiss physician and neurologist Georges Gilles de la Tourette is born in 1857.
- French poet Paul Valery is born in 1871.
- American poet and critic Ezra Pound is born in 1885.
- American author and poet Zoe Akins is born in 1886.
- Italian-American bodybuilder Charles Atlas is born in 1893.
- German bacteriologist, pathologist and Nobel Prize laureate, Gerhard Domagk is born in 1895.
- American physiologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate, Dickinson W. Richards is born in 1895.
- American singer-songwriter Grace Slick is born in 1939.
- English author Jean Chapman is born in 1939.
- American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate Leland H. Hartwell is born in 1939.