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30 October, 2005
The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
30 October, 2002
British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview starts transmitting throughout parts of the United Kingdom
30 October, 1995
Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote was 50.6% to 49.4%).
30 October, 1991
The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
30 October, 1988
Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.
30 October, 1987
In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the PC-Engine.
30 October, 1985
Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
30 October, 1983
The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
30 October, 1980
El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969s Football War before the International Court of Justice.
30 October, 1975
Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spains acting head of state, taking over for the countrys ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
30 October, 1973
The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time in history.
30 October, 1970
In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
30 October, 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 was found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
30 October, 1961
Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest nuclear device ever detonated. Nikita Kruschev announces that the scientists had planned to make it 100 megatons, but had reduced the yield so as to avoid breaking all the windows in Moscow. Because of "violations of Lenins precepts", it is decreed that Josef Stalins body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenins tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
30 October, 1960
Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
30 October, 1953
Cold War: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
30 October, 1950
Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican
30 October, 1947
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is founded.
30 October, 1944
Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
30 October, 1941
World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations. 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) were sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
30 October, 1938
Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wellss The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic.
30 October, 1929
The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
30 October, 1925
John Logie Baird creates Britains first television transmitter.
30 October, 1922
Benito Mussolini was made Prime Minister of Italy
30 October, 1920
The Communist Party of Australia founded in Sydney.
30 October, 1918
The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East
30 October, 1905
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russias first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
30 October, 1894
Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
30 October, 1864
Second war of Schleswig concluded. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration. Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch."
30 October, 1863
Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
30 October, 1831
In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history.
30 October, 1502
Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut for the second time.
30 October, 1470
Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle.
30 October, 1340
Battle of Rio Salado
30 October, 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.
30 October, 1137
Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
30 October, 637
Antioch surrendered to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge.

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