Today History (30-October)

30th October  History in India

1883-30-October-  Swami Dayanand Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj, died.

1887-30-October-  Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali children's litterateur, was born.

1889-30-October-  Acharya Narendra Deo, educationist, freedom fighter & politician, was born at Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh.

1908-30-October-  Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Thevar, freedom fighter and social worker, was born at Pasumpon village, Tamil Nadu.

1909-30-October-  Indian nuclear physicist Homi Bhabha was created

1924-30-October-  Word Saving Day.

1947-30-October-  The government rejects Kashmir's decision to join India in Pakistan.

1949-30-October-  Pramond Venkatesh Devidas Mahajan was born in 

Mahaboobnagar (Andhra Pradesh)

1963-30-October-  Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Thevar, nationalist, freedom fighter and social worker, died at Madurai.

1966-30-October-  First meeting of the Shiv Sena at Shivaji Park.

1976-30-October-  Elections to the lower house of the Indian Parliament suspended again until early 1978.

1977-30-October-  One hundred thousand Tamil Hindu tea-pickers, who were expatriated from Sri Lanka, are shipped to Madras, South India.

1977-30-October-  Demonstrators and police clash in Madras as Indira Gandhi tours the country.

1990-30-October-  Several people died and many injured as security forces opened fire at a crowd marching towards Ram Janmabhumi/Babari Masjid.

1991-30-October-  Bansilal Ladda, veteran freedom fighter and law expert, passed away.

1991-30-October-  Norberto Carvalho, vetern freedom fighter of Goa freedom fight, passed away.

1992-30-October-  India and China decide to continue peace measures and open more points for border trade.

1994-30-October-  Swaran Singh, 87, former External Affairs minister, died.

1994-30-October-  India seeks Chinese support for Security Council membership.

1996-30-October-  CBI chargesheets Rao and six others including Buta Singh and Capt. Satish Sharma in the Rs. 3.5 cr. JMM MPs pay-off case.

1996-30-October-  Former PM Narasimha Rao appears before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at the Vigyan Bhawan Annexe.

1996-30-October-  Pop star Michael Jackson arrives in Bombay. 

1997-30-October-  Kerala Kaumudi's Kannur edition and Internet edition begin.

1999-30-October-  G.V.G. Krishnamurthy, former Election Commissioner, seeks enhanced security in the wake of threats to his life.

1999-30-October-  The Central Ministerial team led by Mr. Advani is prevented from 

making an on-the-spot assessment of the havoc wrecked by the super cyclone.

2000-30-October-  The 160-page CBI's report on cricket match-fixing names Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja, Ajay Sharma, Manoj Prabhakar and physiotherapist Dr. Ali Irani

30th October History in World

637-30-October – Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge.

758 -30-October– Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.

1137-30-October – Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.

1270 -30-October– The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily and the sultan of Tunis.

1340-30-October – Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Marinid invasion at the Battle of Río Salado.

1485-30-October – King Henry VII of England is crowned.

1501 -30-October– Ballet of Chestnuts.

1534-30-October–  English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Church in England

1817-30-October – The independent government of Venezuela is established by Simón Bolívar.

1831-30-October – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion.

1863 -30-October– Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.

1864-30-October – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".

1894-30-October – Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.

1899 Battle of Ladysmith, Natal: Boers defeat the British, leading to the Siege of Ladysmith.

1905-30-October – Czar Nicholas II of Russia issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma.

1918-30-October – The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.

1920-30-October – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.

1925-30-October – John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

1929-30-October – The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.

1965-30-October – Vietnam War: Near Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas.

1970-30-October – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes severe floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless.

1972-30-October – A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago kills 45 and injures 332.

1973-30-October – The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.

1974-30-October – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.

1975-30-October – Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.

1980-30-October – El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.

1983 -30-October– The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.

1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.

1987 -30-October– In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console

1993 -30-October– The Troubles: The Ulster Defence Association, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary

1995 -30-October– Quebec citizens narrowly vote in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.

2005 -30-October– The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.

2013 -30-October– Forty-five people die after a bus fuel tank catches fire in the Indian city of Mahabubnagar.

2014 -30-October– Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.

2015-30-October – 64 people are killed and more than 147 injuries after a fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital Bucharest.