October 30
Today in America's Present Past
1451 | Christopher Columbus was born.
1735 | POTUS: President John Adams was born.
1838 | Civil Rights: Haun’s Mill massacre.
1866 | Outlaw Jesse James robs bank in Lexington, Missouri.
1881 | Poet Elizabeth Madox Roberts was born.
1882 | Admiral William Halsey Jr. was born.
1888 | John J. Loud patented the ballpoint pen.
1885 | Poet Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was born.
1893 | Body builder Charles Atlas was born.
1899 | Entrepreneur William Henry Webb died.
1907 | Publisher Albert Rice Leventhal was born.
1912 | Politician James S. Sherman died.
1913 | Civil Rights: Indianapolis streetcar strike starts.
1915 | Entrepreneur Verne Winchell was born.
1919 | Poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox died.
1921 | Film: “The Sheik” debuted.
1935 | Historian Robert Caro was born.
1938 | Radio: H. G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds,” narrated by Orson Welles, debuted causing mass panic.
1939 | Entertainer Eddie Holland was born in Detroit, Michigan.
1939 | Aviator Emily Howell Warner was born.
1945 | WWII: The government ends shoe rationing.
1945 | Actor Henry Winkler was born.
1946 | Journalist Andrea Mitchell was born.
1950 | Civil Rights: San Juan Nationalist revolt starts.
1953 |Albert Schweitzer and General George Marshall win the Nobel Peace Prize.
1954 | POTUS: Republican President Eisenhower announced the elimination of all racially segregated military units.
1968 | Writer Conrad Richter died.
1968 | Author Rose Wilder Lane died.
1972 | Architect Philip H. Frohman died.
1974 | Film: “Texas Chain Saw Massacre” debuted.
1974 | Boxer Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman.
1989 | Chemist Max Tishler died.
1992 | Scientist Ernest H. Volwiler died.
1995 | Writer Terry Southern died.
2000 | Entertainer Steve Allen died.
2002 | Run-DMC founding member Jam Master Jay is murdered.
2007 | Entertainer Robert Goulet died.
2018 | Outlaw Whitey Bulger died.
2019 | Boxing promoter Don Fraser died.