October 30 in history
Events on October 30
Notable events that happened on October 30 in past years.
- 2023
First rescue of a prisoner during the Israeli invasion of Gaza.
Wikipedia article: Rescue of Ori Megidish - 2015
A fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital of Bucharest kills sixty-four people and leaves more than 147 injured.
Wikipedia article: Colectiv nightclub fire - 2005
The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
Wikipedia article: Frauenkirche, Dresden - 1985
Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
Wikipedia article: Space Shuttle Challenger - 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 article: El Salvador - 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 article: Korean People's Army - 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 article: Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - 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 article: Anne Frank - 1941
Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.
Wikipedia article: The Holocaust - 1918
World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies.
Wikipedia article: World War I - 1864
Second War of Schleswig: The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.
Wikipedia article: Second Schleswig War - 1836
Louis Napoleon launches the unsuccessful Strasbourg Coup to overthrow the July Monarchy in France
Wikipedia article: Napoleon III - 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 article: War of the Fourth Coalition - 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.
- 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.
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