October 30

Listed below are 10 significant events that happened on October 30th.

Really good events about October 30th

  1. 1945 - Henry Winkler, or the Fonz, was born
  2. 1893 - Charles Atlas
  3. 1896 - Ruth Gordon
  4. 1880 or 1881 - Elizabeth Roberts born. (writer)
  5. 1939 - Grace Slick was born.

Now here are some events that occurred on October 30th.

  1. 1953 - Gen. George C. Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his contributions to the economic rehabilitation of Europe after WWII
  2. 1938 - Orson Welles presented his famous dramatization of H.G. Wells’ "The War of the Worlds" on CBS’s "Mercury Theater"
  3. 1974 - Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the 8th round at Kinshasa, Zaire, in the first heavyweight championship fight ever held in Africa
  4. 1925 - John Baird made the TV transmitter that beamed TV to London for the first time.
  5. 1990 - English Channel The island of Britain is connected with the European mainland for the first time since the Ice Age when engineers digging a tunnel under the English Channel meet, connecting England and France.
  6. 1986 - "Discover" magazine reported that almost 43 million tons of dust settle on the United States each year
  7. 1952 - Dr. Albert Schweitzer, missionary surgeon and founder of Lambaréné leper Hospital in République du Gabon, won the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work.
  8. 1960 - Dr. Robert C(hanning) Seamans was an aeronautical engineer who pioneered in the development of advanced systems of flight control, fire control, and guidance for modern aircraft.
  9. 1935 - Sol Tax American cultural anthropologist who founded the journal Current Anthropology
  10. 1967 - Ragnar Arthur Granit Finnish-born Swedish physiologist who was a corecipient (with George Wald and Haldan Hartline) of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his analysis of the internal electrical changes that take place when the eye is exposed to light.

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