Hankering For History: Events that happened today in history, October 30th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on October 30th!

1270	The Seventh Crusade ends by the Treaty of Barbary.
1485	Henry VII of England crowned.
1697	The Treaty of Ryswick ends the war between France and the Grand Alliance.
1735	John Adams, the second president of the United States, was born in Braintree, Mass.
1838	Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Lorian County, Ohio becomes the first college in the U.S. to admit female students.
1885	Poet Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho.
1899	Two battalions of British troops are cut off, surrounded and forced to surrender to General Petrus Joubert’s Boers at Nicholson’s Nek.
1905	The czar of Russia issues the October Manisfesto, granting civil liberties and elections in an attempt to avert the burgeonng supprot for revolution.
1918	Turkey signs an armistice with the Allies, agreeing to end hostilities at noon, October 31.
1922	Mussolini sends his black shirts into Rome. The Fascist takeover is almost without bloodshed. The next day, Mussolini is made prime minister. Mussolini centralized all power in himself as leader of the Fascist party and attempted to create an Italian empire, ultimately in alliance with Hitler’s Germany.
1925	Scotsman John L. Baird performs first TV broadcast of moving objects.
1938	H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds is broadcast over the radio by Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre. Many panic believing it is an actual newscast about a Martian invasion.
1941	The U.S. destroyer Reuben James, on convoy duty off Iceland, is sunk by a German U-boat with the loss of 96 Americans.
1950	The First Marine Division is ordered to replace the entire South Korean I Corps at the Chosin Reservoir area.
1953	George C. Marshall, who, as secretary of state following World War II, engineered a massive economic aid program for Europe, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1961	The Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb.
1974	Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, to regain his world heavyweight title.
1975	The New York Daily News ran the headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead” a day after President Gerald R. Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.
1991	BET Holdings Inc., becomes the first African-American company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
1997	A jury in Cambridge, Mass., convicted British au pair Louise Woodward of second-degree murder in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. The judge later reduced the verdict to manslaughter and set Woodward free.
2003	Lebron James made his NBA debut with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
2005	Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.