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