Talk:October 30
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Selected anniversaries entry for this day. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before editing this entry. --mav 00:40, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
October 30: Double Ninth Festival in the Chinese calendar (2006)
- 1470 - Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick, restored Henry VI as the King of England during the Wars of the Roses.
- 1831 - African American slave Nat Turner was captured after leading a brutally suppressed slave rebellion.
- 1905 - Russian Revolution: Tsar Nicholas II (pictured) reluctantly signed the "October Manifesto", establishing the State Duma as the elected legislature in Imperial Russia.
- 1938 - The radio drama The War of the Worlds frightened many listeners in the United States into believing that an actual Martian invasion was in progress.
- 1961 - The Soviet hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba was detonated over Novaya Zemlya Island in the Arctic Sea as a test; with a yield of around 50 megatons, it was the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated.
Recent days: October 29 – October 28 – October 27
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Removed:
- 1270 - Crusades: The Eighth Crusade begins.
Could not be confirmed at October 30. --mav 23:48, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Removed:
Could not be confirmed at this date. Germany occupied Poland in early October though. --mav 23:48, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Moved and fixed:
- 1953 - Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize.
Nope. Schweitzer was awarded the Peace Prize on December 10 and Marshall was awarded one the next year. --mav 23:48, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
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- 1963 - The first Lamborghini rolls off the assembly line.
Could not be confired outside of 'this day in history'-type pages (very bad source). There were also some refs to the car being shown at the Turin auto show on this day... --mav 23:48, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Did War of the Worlds really cause "nationwide panic"? I understand those stories are mostly exaggerated at best [1] [2]. --Calieber 15:25, Oct 30, 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:October 30
Did you ever think about wikipedia's internal vanity calendar. A suggested Wikipedia:October 30 entry in below. mikka (t) 20:33, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Births
- User:Mikkalai (11:44, October 30, 2003 )
