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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2007

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  • Published Oct 29, 2007 5:29 pm KST
  • Updated Oct 29, 2007 5:29 pm KST

Today is Tuesday, October 30, the 303rd day of 2007. There are 62 days left in the year.

701 _ John VI begins his reign as Catholic pope

1270 _ The eighth and last crusade is launched

1918 _ Slovakia asks for creation of a Czechoslovakian state

1930 _ Turkey and Greece sign a treaty of friendship

1939 _ The USSR and Germany agree on partitioning Poland

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

1961 _ The Soviet Union tests a 58-megaton hydrogen bomb

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

1975 _ Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain

1991 _ A Middle East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain