Today in History
30 October
257 births · 100 deaths · 48 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1927
Joe Adcock
American baseball player and manager (1927–1999)
Notable Births
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Giselle (singer)
b. 2000
Japanese singer and rapper (born 2000)
Cale Makar
b. 1998
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1998)
Tage Thompson
b. 1997
American ice hockey player (born 1997)
Devin Booker
b. 1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
Dennis Gilbert (ice hockey)
b. 1996
American ice hockey player (born 1996)
Martin Dossett
b. 1978
American gridiron football player (born 1978)
Scott Garrelts
b. 1961
American baseball player
Joe Adcock
b. 1927
American baseball player and manager (1927–1999)
Notable Deaths
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Kim Joo-hyuk
d. 2017
South Korean actor (1972–2017)
Mel Daniels
d. 2015
American basketball player and coach (1944–2015)
Al Molinaro
d. 2015
American actor (1919–2015)
Norm Siebern
d. 2015
American baseball player (1933–2015)
Renée Asherson
d. 2014
British actress (1915–2014)
Juan Flavier
d. 2014
Filipino physician and politician (1935–2014)
Ida Elizabeth Osbourne
d. 2014
Australian actress and radio broadcaster
Frank Wess
d. 2013
American jazz saxophonist (1922–2013)
On This Day in History
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2023
First rescue of a prisoner during the Israeli invasion of Gaza.
Rescue of Ori Megidish
2022
A pedestrian suspension bridge collapses in the city of Morbi, Gujarat, leading to the deaths of at least 135 people.
2022 Morbi bridge collapse
2020
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, triggering a tsunami. At least 119 people die mainly due to collapsed buildings.
2020 Aegean Sea earthquake
2015
A fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital of Bucharest kills sixty-four people and leaves more than 147 injured.
Colectiv nightclub fire
2014
Sweden becomes the first European Union member state to officially recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state.
European Union
2014
Four people are killed when a Beechcraft Super King Air crashes at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita, Kansas.
Beechcraft Super King Air
2013
Forty-five people are killed and seven injured after a bus catches fire in Mahabubnagar district, Andhra Pradesh (present-day Telangana), India.
2013 Mahabubnagar bus accident
2005
The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
Frauenkirche, Dresden