Today In History - October 30

701 John VI begins his reign as the Catholic Pope
1270 The 8th (and final) crusade is launched
1864 Helena, Montana's capital, is founded
1888 The first ballpoint pen is patented
1905 "October Manifesto" grants some civil liberties
1918 Slovakia asks for the creation of Czechoslovakian state
1919 Baseball league presidents call for the abolishment of the 'spitball'
1922 Mussolini forms his cabinet in Italy
1930 Turkey and Greece sign a treaty of 'friendship'
1938 Orson Welles panics a nation with his radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds"
1939 The USSR and Germany agree on partitioning Poland
1941 The USS Reuben James is torpedoed by Germans
1944 Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen
1945 The US government announces the end of shoe rationing
1948 20 people die and 6,000 become ill due to smog in Donora, Pennsylvania
1953 Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George C. Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
1954 The Defense Department announces the elimination of all segregated regiments
1956 Israel captures the Egyptian military post at El-Thamad
1961 The Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square
1961 The Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
1965 A fireworks explosions kill 50 people in Cartagena, Colombia
1972 The worst US rail accident in 14 years: 45 people die in Chicago
1974 Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in the 8th round in Kinshasa, Zaire
1975 Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain
1975 The NY Daily News runs a headline: "Ford to City: Drop Dead"
1976 Jane Pauley becomes the news co-anchor of the Today Show
1976 Reverend Joseph Evans is elected the president of the United Church of Christ
1980 Honduras and El Salvador settle their boundary dispute
1980 NASA launches Flt Satcom-4
1991 The Mid-east peace conference begins in Madrid, Spain

1612 Paul Wirtz
1620 Michael de Ronghe
1712 Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
1735 Edward Miller
1735 John Adams
1741 Angelica Kauffmann
1829 Roscoe Conkling
1830 Francois Crepin
1830 John Stevens Bowen
1839 Alfred Sisley
1840 Carlotta Patti
1840 William G. Sumner
1843 A. G. Henri Regnault
1845 Gustav Weber
1848 Zinovi P. Rozhestvensky
1849 Johan Willem
1857 John H. Aberson
1861 Antoine Bourdelle
1864 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
1869 Lawrence Grant
1871 Paul Valery
1873 Francisco Madero
1879 Eily Malyon
1880 Abram F. Joffe
1881 Lena Christ, writer
1882 William "Bull" F. Halsey
1884 Rudolf Forster
1885 Ezra Pound
1887 Eduardo Ciannelli
1887 Georg Heym
1893 Charles Atlas
1893 Jan M. Romein
1893 Willi Apel
1894 Peter Warlock
1896 Anatoly Grigor'yevich Novikov
1896 Ruth Gordon
1899 Ernst H. Ridder van Rappard
1900 Augustin Lara
1902 Armin Kaufmann
1903 Konrad Friedrich Noetel
1904 Alfred Gradstein
1904 Paul D. Stoop
1905 Christian Darnton
1907 Albert Rice Leventhal
1907 Gyorgy Ranki
1907 Renzo Cesana
1908 Franco Margola
1908 Stuart Hamblen
1910 Miguel Hernadez Gilabert
1912 Preston Lockwood
1913 Joris Noe
1914 Marion Ladewig
1914 Marius Hendrikus Flothuis
1914 Patsy Montana Ruby Blevins
1915 Pierre Wissmer
1917 Ruth Hussey
1918 Robert Feller
1918 Ted Williams
1919 Jane Randolph
1921 Charles Bronson
1924 Hannelore Weygrand
1924 Serge Golovine
1925 Gus Savage
1925 Teo Macero
1927 Joe Adcock
1927 Joseph Wilbur Adcock
1928 Ernest Flatt
1928 Michael Andrews
1928 William Campbell
1929 Joan Ganz Cooney
1930 Clifford Brown
1930 Marilyn Alex
1931 David Wilson
1931 Dick Gautier
1931 John Macchia
1932 Louis Malle
1933 Ken Berry
1933 Michael S. Dukakis
1934 Hamilton Camp
1935 Michael Winner
1936 Jim Perry
1936 Roy Emerson
1937 Claude Lelouch
1937 Pat Williams
1939 Eddie Holland
1939 Grace Slick
1939 Norman West
1940 Ed Lauter
1940 Miguel Calderon-Gomez
1941 Otis Williams
1942 Sven-David Sandstrom
1943 Joanna Shimkus
1945 Glenn Poshard
1945 Henry Winkler
1946 Andrea Mitchell
1946 Chris Slade
1946 Ian McGeechan
1946 Lynne Marta
1946 Robert L. "Hoot" Gibson
1947 Chris Komar
1947 Timothy B. Schmidt
1949 David Green
1949 Larry Holmes
1949 Otis Williams
1950 John T. Doolittle
1950 Louise Duart
1950 Phil Chenier
1951 Frank Pallone
1951 Harry Hamlin
1953 Alexander Fedorovich Poleshchuk
1953 Charles Martin Smith
1953 Kathleen Cody
1953 Peter Hoekstra
1954 JoAnne Russell
1954 T. Graham Brown
1955 Shanna Reed
1956 Juliet Stevenson
1956 Leslie Webb
1956 Tim Roemer
1957 Aleksandr Ivanovich Lazutkin
1958 Kevin Pollak
1960 David Valle
1960 Diego A. Maradona
1960 Kim Thompson
1960 Monica Bellucci
1961 Hans Segers
1962 Courtney Walsh
1962 Danny Tartabull
1962 Mark Portugal
1963 Jerry de Borg
1963 Kristina Malandro Wagner
1963 Mike Veletta
1963 Todd Sand
1964 Sandra H. Magnus
1965 Charnele Brown
1965 Kevin Edwards
1967 Brenda Catherine Lawson
1967 Pat Elynuik
1967 Ty Detmer
1969 Brittany Gae Thompson
1969 Mayumi Hirase
1970 Dino Philyaw
1970 James Pedro
1970 Kevin Johnson
1970 Nia Long
1970 Patrice Tardif
1970 Stefan Gamlin
1970 Suvat Karadag
1970 Wim Bubberman
1971 Edward "Ted" Murphy
1972 Georgina Douglas
1972 Patrice Denis
1972 Trevor Wilmot
1973 Ellis Johnson
1973 Melissa Deanne Holiday
1975 Joanne Malar
1975 Stephanie Camp
1976 Maurice Taylor