30 October - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, on October 30, the day number in a year is 303 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 304. October 30 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
October 30 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 1226 | Tran Thu Do, head of the Tran clan of Vietnam, forced Ly HueTong, the last emperor of the Ly dynasty, to commit suicide. |
| 1501 | Cardinal Cesare Borgia held an infamous feast in the PapalPalace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans were in attendance for thesexual entertainment of the guests. |
| 1611 | Gustaf II Adolf became King of Sweden at the age of 17. |
| 1766 | St. Paul's Chapel in New York was consecrated. |
| 1768 | The first Methodist Church began in the North American colonies. |
| 1772 | Captain James Cook came to Capetown with a ship resolution. |
| 1806 | War of the Fourth Coalition-Believing they were massively out numbered, the 5,300-man German garrison at Stettin, Prussia (now Szczecin, Poland), surrendered to a much smaller French force without afight. |
| 1863 | Seventeen-year-old Danish Prince Vilhelm arrived in Athens tobecome George I King of Greece. |
| 1883 | The great thinker and social reformer Swami Dayanand Saraswati died. |
| 1888 | King Lobengula of Matabeleland granted the Rudd Concession toagents of Cecil Rhodes, setting in motion the creation of the British South Africa Company. |
| 1905 | Turkish Professional Sports Society Club, Galatasaray established in Istanbul. |
| 1909 | Homi Jahangir Bhabha, a prominent scientist of India, was born. Who envisioned India's nuclear power program. He is also known as the \ 'Architect of Indian Atomic Energy Program \'. |
| 1910 | Henry Dunnett, the founder of the International Red Cross Society, died. |
| 1925 | Television transmission took place in London for the first time. |
| 1938 | The radio drama The War of the Worlds, based on the science fiction novella by English writer H. G. Wells, frightened many listeners in the United States into believing that an actual Martian invasion wasin progress. |
| 1942 | Second World War-British sailors boarded German submarineU-559 as it was sinking and retrieved cryptographic materials thatproved crucial to breaking the Enigma code. |
| 1945 | India joined the United Nations. |
| 1956 | India's first five-star hotel 'Ashoka' opened. |
| 1960 | Sir Michael Woodruff first performed a kidney transplant from the body of a living human in a UK hospital. |
| 1961 | The World’s biggest bomb has been exploded by the Soviet Union, which is nearly 4,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. |
| 1961 | The Soviet hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weaponever detonated, was set off over Novaya Zemlya Island in the ArcticOcean as a test. |
| 1964 | The Star of India, a 563-carat sapphire, and 21 other rare gems, were found to be missing from the American Museum of Natural History in New York |
| 1965 | English model Jean Shrimpton wore a controversially shortminidress to Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia– a pivotal moment of the introduction of the miniskirt to women'sfashion. |
| 1973 | Istanbul's 1,510-metre (4,950 ft) long Bosphorus Bridge wascompleted, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over theBosphorus Strait. |
| 1975 | King Juan Carlos took power in Spain. |
| 1983 | Raúl Alfonsín became President of Argentina after thecountry's first democratic election following the end of the militarydictatorship. |
| 1983 | As the military dictatorship came to an end, Argentina's firstdemocratic election in a decade resulted in Raúl Alfonsín beingelected President of Argentina. |
| 1990 | India's famous and popular actor Vinod Mehra died. |
| 1991 | The Middle East peace conference commences in Madrid. It is the first time Israel is having a discussion with all its Arab neighbors including Palestinians about a peace plan for the Middle East. |
| 1993 | The Troubles-Three members of the Ulster Defence Associationopened fire in a crowded pub during a Halloween party, killing eightcivilians and wounding thirteen. |
| 1994 | The Left Alliance won in the parliamentary elections of the Balkan country Macedonia. |
| 1995 | In a referendum, 50.58 percent of voters supported the provinceof Quebec remaining a part of Canada, narrowly averting sovereignty. |
| 2006 | Super Typhoon Cimaron, the strongest storm to hit the Philippines in eight years, kills at least three people as it makes landfall in Luzon. |
| 2008 | A series of bomb blasts in Assam, India, kills at least 66 people and injures more than 470. |
| 2008 | Assam India), the capital city of Guwahati and 13 other locations in the blasts. More than 66 people died in it. |
| 2009 | NASA reveals that a partial parachute failure resulted in damage to the Ares I-X test booster upon splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean following its test flight on Wednesday. |
| 2010 | A large oil field is discovered off the coast of Brazil that could contain between 8 and 15 billion barrels. |
| 2012 | Aid workers and the United Nations raise concerns about rising food prices and increased cholera in Haiti, where Hurricane Sandy has killed at least 52 people. |
| 2013 | Turkey opens a sea tunnel that links Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul. |
| 2013 | 44 people died in a bus fire in Mahbubnagar in Telangana. |
| 2014 | Sweden officially acknowledges Palestine as an independent state. |
| 2016 | After Canada and the US, the opposition signed a free trade agreement with Belgium. |
Famous Birthdays of October 30:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1970 | Ekaterini Voggoli / Discus Thrower / Greece |
| 1909 | Homi J. Bhabha / Scientist / India |
| 1898 | Bill Terry / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1927 | Joe Adcock / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1897 | Rex Cherryman / Actor / United States of America |
| 1989 | Ashley Barnes / Footballer / Austria |
| 1969 | Snow / Singer / Canada |
| 1928 | Daniel Nathans / Academic / United States of America |
| 1917 | Nikolai Ogarkov / Field Marshal / Russia |
| 1973 | Silvia Corzo / Journalist / Colombia |
| 1932 | Barun De / Historian / India |
| 1968 | Ken Stringfellow / Writer / United States of America |
| 1930 | Christopher Foster / Academic / United Kingdom |
| 1929 | Olga Zubarry / Actress / Argentina |
| 1973 | Raci Şaşmaz / Actor / Turkey |
| 1990 | Suwaibou Sanneh / Sprinter / Gambia |
| 1915 | Fred W. Friendly / Journalist / United States of America |
| 1941 | Otis Williams / Writer / United States of America |
| 1992 | Matt Parcell / Rugby Player / Australia |
| 1905 | Johnny Miles / Runner / United Kingdom |
| 1986 | Thomas Morgenstern / Jumper / Austria |
| 1958 | Stefan Dennis / Actor / Australia |
| 1951 | Poncho Sanchez / Singer / United States of America |
| 1882 | Günther von Kluge / Field Marshal / Germany |
| 1981 | Jun Ji-hyun / Model / South Korea |
| 1986 | Keisuke Sohma / Actor / Japan |
| 1909 | Homi J. Bhabha / Academic / India |
| 1915 | Jane Randolph / Actress / United States of America |
| 1954 | T. Graham Brown / Writer / United States of America |
| 1963 | Mike Veletta / Cricketer / Australia |
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