What are the important events that happened on October 30? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

October 30: Facts & Myths About This Day

October 30 is the 303^rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 62 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 17, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,363,040 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatrigon’ day.

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.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 110 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,696 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 30 Historical Events

• 1270 –
  The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
• 1485 –
  King Henry VII of England is crowned.
• 1501 –
  Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.
• 1905 –
  Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia’s first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
• 1922 –
  Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
• 1941 –
  World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
• 1961 –
  Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
• 1974 –
  The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
• 1983 –
  The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
• 1987 –
  In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the PC Engine, which was later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.

Who were born on October 30?

• 39 BC –
  Julia the Elder, the only child the Roman Emperor Augustus (d. AD 14)
• 1908 –
  U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, An Indian politician (d. 1963)
• 1930 –
  Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1956)
• 1932 –
  Barun De, Indian historian
• 1941 –
  Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1956 –
  Juliet Stevenson, English actress
• 1960 –
  Diego Maradona, Argentine footballer
• 1961 –
  Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek economist and politician
• 1978 –
  Martin Dossett, American football player
• 1981 –
  Ivanka Trump, American model

Who died on October 30?

• 1757 –
  Edward Vernon, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1684)
• 1893 –
  John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
• 1912 –
  James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
• 1957 –
  Fred Beebe, baseball player (b. 1880)
• 1966 –
  Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (b. 1906)
• 1968 –
  Conrad Richter, American writer (b. 1890)
• 1975 –
  Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1985 –
  Kirby Grant, American actor (b. 1911)
• 2004 –
  Dame Phyllis Frost, Australian welfare worker and philanthropist (b. 1917)
• 2005 –
  Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (b. 1942)