Today is Tuesday, October 30, the 304
th
day of 2012. There are 62 days left in the year.
1270 ― Eighth and last crusade is launched
1888 ― First ballpoint pen patented
1905 ― "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties
1922 ― Mussolini forms cabinet in Italy
1938 ― Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds"
1941 ― USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though U.S. is not in war
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