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10-30-2007, 05:11 AM
jseal
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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.
1922
~
Benito Mussolini became Prime Minister of Italy.
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
".
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%
2005
~
The reconsecration of the Dresden Frauenkirche, which was destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II.
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