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