10-30-2004, 05:25 AM
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October 30th
1470 ~ Henry VI of England returned to the throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle.
1831 ~ Escaped slave Nat Turner was captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history.
1885 ~ Birthday of Ezra Pound, Poet.
1938 ~ Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's “The War of the Worlds”, causing a panic.
1939 ~ Birthday of Grace Slick, singer with Jefferson Airplane.
1961 ~ The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb "Tsar Bomba" over Novaya Zemlya; with a yield greater than 50 megatons, it is still the largest nuclear device ever detonated.
1968 ~ The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, released.
1975 ~ Prince Juan Carlos becomes King of Spain after dictator Francisco Franco concedes that he is too ill to govern.
1995 ~ Quebec separatists narrowly lost a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote was 50.6% to 49.4%).
1997 ~ British au pair Louise Woodward found guilty of the baby-shaking death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.
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