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Old 10-30-2006, 03:02 PM
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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.

1918 ~ The Ottoman Empire signed an armistice with the Allies, ending World War I in the Middle East.

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.

1968 ~ The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Anthony Hopkins & Timothy Dalton was released.

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%
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