THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2008

Today is Thursday, October 30, the 304th day of 2008. There are 62 days left in the year.

1888 _ First ballpoint pen patented

1905 _ ``October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties

1930 _ Turkey and Greece sign a treaty of friendship

1938 _ Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of ``War of the Worlds"

1939 _ USSR and Germany agree on partitioning Poland

1944 _ Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen

1945 _ U.S. government announces end of shoe rationing

1961 _ Soviet Union tests a 58-megaton hydrogen bomb

1974 _ Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa, Zaire

1991 _ Middle East peace conference begins in Madrid