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What happened in history on this day: October 30?
On October 30 in ...
- 1864 - Helena, Montana's capital, is founded.
- 1893 - US Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890.
- 1893 - The World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, USA closes. A total of 27 million people visited over four months.
- 1912 - USS New York is launched.
- 1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide (USA) panic. About a million radio listeners believe that a real Martian invasion is underway.
- 1942 - R.E. Griffith opens the Hotel Last Frontier hotel/casino on the Los Angeles Highway, Nevada. This is Las Vegas' first themed resort, with an Old West theme.
- 1945 - US government announces end of shoe rationing.
- 1948 - 20 die and 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 1953 - Dr Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1954 - Defense Department announces elimination of all segregated regiments.
- 1972 - Worst US rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1975 - New York Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead".
- 1988 - Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.
- 1988 - Two gambling clubs and one player share US$61.38 million California lotto jackpot.
- 1992 - Disney releases the film Beauty and the Beast on videocassette. One million copies sell on the first day.
- 2006 - The Esperanza Fire burns over 61 square miles of Cabazon, California mountain territory.
- 2008 - The U.S. economy shrank by 0.3 percent in the third quarter (July-September), the most in seven years, with consumer spending during the quarter at the lowest in 28 years.
- 2008 - The Philadelphia Phillies win the World Series of baseball, their first since 1980, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays four games to one. Game Five was suspended in the sixth inning on October 28 due to rain, with the score tied 2-2.
- 2009 - The American Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation seizes nine failed banks, including Los Angeles-based California National Bank, the fourth-largest U.S. bank failure this year.
Births on October 30
- 1885 - Birth of Ezra Pound in Hailey, Idaho, USA; poet (Cantos).
- 1914 - Birth of Marion Ladewig in Michigan, USA; bowler (9 time woman bowler of year 1950-63).
- 1917 - Birth of Ruth Hussey in Providence, Rhode Island, USA; actress (Another Thin Man, Philadelphia Story).
- 1928 - Birth of William Campbell in Newark, New Jersey, USA; actor (Jerry - Cannonball, Luke - Dynasty).
- 1931 - Birth of Dick Gautier in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Hymie - Get Smart, Mr Terrific).
- 1939 - Birth of Grace Slick in Chicago, Illinois, USA; rock vocalist (Jefferson Airplane - "White Rabbit").
- 1940 - Birth of Ed Lauter in Long Beach, New York, USA; actor (Sheriff Cain - BJ and the Bear).
- 1945 - Birth of Henry Winkler in New York City, USA; actor (Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzerelli - Happy Days, Night Shift).
- 1946 - Birth of Andrea Mitchell in New York City, New York, USA; newscaster (NBC-TV, Summer Sunday USA).
- 1946 - Birth of Lynne Marta in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Love American Style).
- 1946 - Birth of Robert L "Hoot" Gibson in Cooperstown, New York, USA; US Navy/astronaut (STS 41B, 61C, 27).
- 1951 - Birth of Harry Hamlin in Pasadena, California, USA; actor (Michael Kuzak - L.A. Law).
- 1953 - Birth of Kathleen Cody in Bronx, New York, USA; actress (Charley and the Angel).
- 1954 - Birth of JoAnne Russell in Miami, Florida, USA; tennis player (Wimbeldon Double 1977).
- 1965 - Birth of Charnele Brown in East Hampton, New York, USA; actress (Kim - A Different World).
- 1969 - Birth of Brittany Gae Thompson in Portland, Oregon, USA; Miss Oregon-America (1991).
- 1981 - Birth of Ivanka Trump, daughter of Donald Trump; American model.
Deaths on October 30
- 1985 - Kirby Grant Hoon Junior, of Butte, Montana, actor (Sky King), dies in an auto accident at age 74.
- 1990 - Joseph Burrus, amateur magician in Fresno California, is crushed and dies after being bound in a plastic coffin and buried under seven tons of soil and concrete.
- 2000 - Death of Steve Allen at age 78 from ruptured blood vessel in his heart wall; American comedian, composer, talk show host (The Tonight Show), and author (born 1921).
- 2014 - Death of Thomas Menino, American politician, 53rd Mayor of Boston (born 1942).
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