It happened on this day, October 30
Events:
1340 – The Battle of Turaif takes place near the Rio Salado between the Castilians and the Marinids, resulting in a massacre of Muslims. It is considered the last battle in which Moroccans participated officially and directly in Andalusia.
1910 – The blood libel events in Shiraz, which are acts of violence in the Jewish quarter of the city of Shiraz.
1928 – The first television broadcasts begin in the United Kingdom.
1953 – U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower formally approves a National Security Council document stating that the United States' nuclear arsenal must be preserved and expanded in order to confront the communist threat.
1980 – Former Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella is released from the house arrest imposed on him since the military coup perpetrated by Houari Boumediene.
1991 – The Madrid Middle East Peace Conference was held in the presence of delegations from Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and Israel, and under the supervision of the Soviet Union and the United States .
1994 – The first economic conference of Middle East countries was held in Casablanca with the participation of 60 countries.
1995 – A referendum was held in the Canadian province of Quebec on the independence of the province from Canada. The result resulted in a vote of 50.6% for remaining within the Canadian Federation and 49.4% for independence.
1996 – Release of Command & Conquer: Red Alert.
2004 – Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden appears in a video justifying the September 11 attacks.
2005 – Hurricane Beta formed over the Caribbean Sea after strengthening into a tropical storm.
2012 – Hurricane Sandy hits the eastern United States and Canada, killing at least 86 people.
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Births:
1735 – John Adams, President of the United States.
1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet and writer.
1895 – Gerhart Dommack, German doctor who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1939.
** Dickinson Richards, American doctor who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1956.
1900 – Ranjar Granit, Finnish scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1967.
1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1978
1931 – M. Yassin, Egyptian writer and political and social thinker.
1939 – Leland Hartwall, American scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2001.
1941 – Theodor Haensch, German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005.
1954 – Mahmoud Al-Khatib, former Egyptian footballer.
1958 – Inaam Al-Rubaie, Iraqi actress.
1960 – Diego Maradona, Argentine footballer and coach.
1964 – Adnan Al Taliani, Emirati footballer.
** Abdel Latif Mubarak, Egyptian poet.
1965 – Ali Salman, Bahraini political activist, Shia cleric and secretary general of the National Islamic Society Al-Wefaq.
1981 – Ivanka Trump is an American businesswoman (she is the daughter of the forty-fifth President of the United States, Donald Trump)
1982 – Abrar, Kuwaiti actress.
1983 – Diana Karazon, Jordanian singer.
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Death:
1459 – Poggio Bracciolini, Italian writer.
1626 – Wilbrord Snelius, Dutch mathematician.
1809 – William Cavendish Bentinck, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1910 – Jean-Henri Dunant, Swiss social activist and businessman who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.
1940 – Mgr Gregory Hajjar, bishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
1975 – Gustav Herz, German experimental physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925.
2006 – Prince Fahd bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General of Saudi Arabia.
2007 – Hamid Murad, Bahraini actor.
2009 – Frantisek Vesely, Czech footballer.
**Claude Lévi-Strauss, French sociologist.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression – an occasion in the countries of the former Soviet Union, with the exception of Ukraine.
