October 30: Day of the Week
October 30, 2022 is the 303rd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 62 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is domingo.
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Here’s the October calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
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October 30 Historical Event(s)
- 1137Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
- 1226Tran Thu Do, head of the Tran clan of Vietnam, forces Ly Hue Tong, the last emperor of the Ly dynasty, to commit suicide.
- 1894Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
- 1918The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
- 1922Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
- 1938Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
- 1965Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions is found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
- 1973The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
- 1985Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
- 2000The last Multics machine is shut down.
Who were born on October 30?
- 1861Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)
- 1871Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)
- 1885Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
- 1914Anna Wing, English actress
- 1915Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)
- 1922Jane White, American actress and singer (d. 2011)
- 1925Tommy Ridgley, American R&B singer (d. 1999)
- 1939Edward Holland, Jr., American singer
- 1970Tory Belleci, American television personality
- 1992Tequan Richmond, American actor
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