10-30-2005, 07:13 AM
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October 30th
1831 ~ Nat Turner was arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in U.S. history.
1839 ~ Birthday of Alfred Sisley, one of the creators of French Impressionism.
1885 ~ Birthday of Ezra Pound, Poet.
1918 ~ World War I: The Ottoman Empire signed an armistice with the Allies, ending the war in the Middle East.
1938 ~ Orson Welles’ broadcast of The War of the Worlds caused a panic.
1939 ~ Birthday of Grace Slick, singer with Jefferson Airplane.
1961 ~ The Soviet Union detonated the 58 megaton hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba.
1968 ~ The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, released.
1974 ~ Muhammad Ali beat George Foreman to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship.
1995 ~ Quebec separatists lost a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote was 50.6% to 49.4%).
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