This day in #History 3010

This day in #history 3010

October 30th

1470 – Henry VI of England returns to the English
throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in
battle.

1485 – Henry VII of England crowned at Westminster
Abbey, London

1489 – Peace of Tours , between emperor Maximilian I
& Flemings

1502 – Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut for the
second time .

1503 – Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence
against indians

1534 – English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy ,
making King Henry VIII head of the English church –
a role formerly held by the Pope

1611 – Gustaaf II Adolf ( 17) becomes king of Sweden

1629 – King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert
Heath

1697 – Germany signs French/ English /Spanish/
Neth/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War

1772 – Capt Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown

1775 – 1 st navy in US forms

1851 – Alfred de Mussets ” Bettine, ” premieres in
Paris

1864 – Helena , Montana ‘s capital, founded

1868 – John Menard of Louisiana is 1 st black
elected to Congress

1883 – Austria -Hungary /Germany/ Romania signs
military treaty

1886 – Great -Britain /Germany divide boundaries in
East Africa

1888 – John J Loud patents ballpoint pen

1888 – Ndebele – king Lobengula grants Cecil Rhodes ,
Mashonaland £100 per month

1893 – Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver
Purchase Act of 1890

1894 – Daniel Cooper patents time clock

1894 – Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.

1896 – Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator

1905 – ” October Manifesto ” Russian Tsar Nicholas II
grants civil liberties

1905 – Tsar of Russia accepts 1 st Duma
(Parliament)

1911 – Clark Griffith is named manager of Wash
Senators

1914 – Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium) begins

1917 – British government gives final approval to
Balfour Declaration

1918 – Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian
state

1922 – Benito Mussolini forms government in Italy

1953 – Dr Albert Schweitzer & Gen George C Marshall
win Nobel Peace Prize

1968 – Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis
Alvarez (bubble chamber)

1995 – Quebec Referendum votes to remain part of
Canada