Today is Saturday, October 30, the 303rd day of 2010. There are 62 days left in the year.
1270 ― Eighth and last crusade is launched
1905 ― ``October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties
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
1953 ― Dr. Albert Schweitzer and Gen. George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
1961 ― Soviet Union tests a 58-megaton hydrogen bomb
1974 ― Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa, Zaire lotto jackpot
1991 ― Middle East peace conference begins in Madrid, Spain