10-29-2011, 07:14 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.
1961 ~ The Soviet Union detonated the 58 megaton hydrogen bomb "Tsar Bomba". Interestingly, the last B53 bomb, an American thermonuclear weapon of that era, was dismantled just this week.
1945 ~ Jackie Robinson signs with the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
1974 ~ Muhammad Ali beat George Foreman to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship.
1987 ~ Death of Joseph Campbell, Comparative Mythologist.
2003 ~ Wicked opened on Broadway.
2005 ~ The reconsecration of the Dresden Frauenkirche, which was destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II.
2007 ~ Death of Washoe, chimpanzee trained in American Sign Language.
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