About October 30
October 30, 2025 is the 303rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 62 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 110 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 30
- 1137 –Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
- 1270 –The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
- 1340 –Battle of Rio Salado.
- 1485 –King Henry VII of England is crowned.
- 1501 –Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.
- 1863 –Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
- 1864 –Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at “Last Chance Gulch”.
- 1918 –The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
- 1922 –Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
- 1944 –Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
- 1960 –Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
- 1961 –Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
- 1965 –Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions is found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
- 1972 –A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago, Illinois kills 45 and injures 332.
- 1973 –The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
- 1974 –The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
- 1980 –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.
- 1985 –Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
- 1991 –The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
- 2000 –The last Multics machine is shut down.
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