Today in History for 30th October 2016:
Historical Events
1899 – Battle of Ladysmith, Natal: Boers defeat the British, leading to the Siege of Ladysmith
1944 – Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau
1947 – 23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva
1978 – Uganda troops attack Tanzania
1988 – Jim Elliott (US) completes 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
1994 – Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel’s Pentium-processor on Internet
Famous Birthdays
1848 – Zinovi P Rozhestvensky, Russian vice-admiral
1912 – Preston Lockwood, English actor (Jeeves and Wooster), born in West Ham, Essex
1929 – Joan Ganz Cooney, founder (Children’s Television Workshop)
1936 – Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
1946 – Andrea Mitchell, newscaster (NBC-TV, Summer Sunday USA), born in NYC, New York
1975 – Stephanie Camp, Rapid City SD, Miss America-SD (1997)
Famous Deaths
1915 – Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada, dies of heart failure at 94
1953 – Emmerich Kálmán, Hungarian composer of operettas, dies at 71
1984 – Mario Gallo, actor (Delvecchio), dies at 61
1996 – Leon Lewis, US radio talk show host (WMCA, 1970-80), dies at 81
2006 – Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
2009 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and ethnologist (b.1908)