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October 30

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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

78 years ago

Born this day

1735

John Adams

Died aged 90

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Tolui

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Famous births25

1683 · 342 yrs

George II of Great Britain

George II (George Augustus; German: Georg August; 30 October / 9 November 1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 (O.S.) until his death in 1760.

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1735 · 290 yrs

John Adams

John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was a Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain.

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1741 · 284 yrs

Angelica Kauffmann

Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann ( KOWF-mən; 30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffman was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter.

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ArtDied aged 66

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1751 · 274 yrs

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester.

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LiteratureDied aged 64

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1839 · 186 yrs

Alfred Sisley

Alfred Sisley (French:; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter, born in Paris to British expatriate parents.

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ArtDied aged 59

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1871 · 154 yrs

Paul Valéry

Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (French:; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events.

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LiteratureDied aged 73

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1873 · 152 yrs

Francisco I. Madero

Francisco Ignacio Madero González (Spanish pronunciation:; 30 October 1873 – 22 February 1913) was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer, politician, and statesman who served as the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed and assassinated in a coup d'état in February 1913.

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ActivismDied aged 39

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1882 · 143 yrs

Günther von Kluge

Günther Adolf Ferdinand von Kluge (30 October 1882 – 19 August 1944) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) during World War II. Kluge held commands on the Eastern and Western Fronts, until his suicide in connection with the 20 July plot.

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1885 · 140 yrs

Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and The Cantos (c.

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1895 · 130 yrs

Gerhard Domagk

Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk (German pronunciation:; 30 October 1895 – 24 April 1964) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist. He is credited with the discovery of sulfonamidochrysoidine (KL730) as an antibiotic for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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1895 · 130 yrs

Dickinson W. Richards

Dickinson Woodruff Richards Jr. (October 30, 1895 – February 23, 1973) was an American physician and physiologist.

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1896 · 129 yrs

Ruth Gordon

Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985) was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and novelist, widely known for a career that spanned seven decades, beginning by performing on Broadway at age 19.

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Famous deaths13

1232 · 793 yrs

Tolui

Tolui (c. 1191 – 1232) was the youngest son of Genghis Khan and Börte. A prominent general during the early Mongol conquests, Tolui was a leading candidate to succeed his father after his death in 1227 and ultimately served as regent of the Mongol Empire until the accession of his brother Ögedei two years later.

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Notable PeopleDied aged 41

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1611 · 414 yrs

Charles IX of Sweden

Charles IX, also Carl (Swedish: Karl IX; 4 October 1550 – 30 October 1611), reigned as King of Sweden from 1604 until 1611. He was the youngest son of King Gustav I (r.

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RoyaltyDied aged 61

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1757 · 268 yrs

Osman III

Osman III (Ottoman Turkish: عثمان ثالث Osmān-i sālis;‎ 2 January 1699 – 30 October 1757) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1754 to 1757.

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1910 · 115 yrs

Henry Dunant

Henry Dunant (French pronunciation:; born Jean-Henri Dunant; 8 May 1828 – 30 October 1910), also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss humanitarian, businessman, social activist, and co-founder of the Red Cross. His humanitarian efforts won him the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.

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BusinessDied aged 82

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1912 · 113 yrs

James S. Sherman

James Schoolcraft Sherman (October 24, 1855 – October 30, 1912) was the 27th vice president of the United States, serving from 1909 until his death in 1912, under President William Howard Taft.

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PoliticsDied aged 57

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1923 · 102 yrs

Bonar Law

Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a British Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923. He was the first prime minister born outside of Britain or Ireland, and the shortest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century.

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PoliticsDied aged 65

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1956 · 69 yrs

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja y Nessi (28 December 1872 – 30 October 1956) was a Spanish writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98. He was a member of an illustrious family.

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LiteratureDied aged 83

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1961 · 64 yrs

Luigi Einaudi

Luigi Numa Lorenzo Einaudi (Italian:; 24 March 1874 – 30 October 1961) was an Italian politician, economist and banker who served as the president of Italy from 1948 to 1955 and is considered one of the founding fathers of the Italian Republic.

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PoliticsDied aged 87

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1975 · 50 yrs

Gustav Ludwig Hertz

Gustav Ludwig Hertz (German:; 22 July 1887 – 30 October 1975) was a German experimental physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Franck "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom."

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1987 · 38 yrs

Joseph Campbell

Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion.

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2009 · 16 yrs100 Club

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss ( klawd LAY-vee STROWSS; French:; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology.

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2010 · 15 yrs

Harry Mulisch

Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch (Dutch pronunciation:; 29 July 1927 – 30 October 2010) was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections.

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Events5

1697 · 328 yrs

Treaty of Ryswick

The Peace of Ryswick, or Rijswijk, were a series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Rijswijk between 20 September and 30 October 1697. They ended the 1688 to 1697 Nine Years' War between France and the Grand Alliance, which included the Dutch Republic, the Holy Roman Empire, England, Scotland, and Spain.

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Politics

1918 · 107 yrs

Armistice of Mudros

The Armistice of Mudros (Ottoman Turkish: موندروس متارکه‌نامه‌سی; Turkish: Mondros Mütarekesi) ended hostilities in the Middle Eastern theatre between Ottoman Empire and the Allies of World War I.

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History

1941 · 84 yrs

Siege of Sevastopol

The siege of Sevastopol, also known as the defence of Sevastopol (Russian: Оборона Севастополя, romanized: Oborona Sevastopolya) or the Battle for Sevastopol (German: Schlacht um Sewastopol; Romanian: Bătălia de la Sevastopol; Russian: Битва за Севастополь, romanized: Bitva za Sevastopol'), was a military engagement…

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War

1947 · 78 yrs

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is a legal agreement between many countries, whose overall purpose was to promote international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas.

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Politics

2020 · 5 yrs

Aegean Sea earthquake of 2020

An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.0 occurred on 30 October 2020 about 14 km (8.7 mi) northeast of the Greek island of Samos.

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