📜 This Day in History

October 30

• 1806War of the Fourth Coalition: Believing that they were outnumbered, the German garrison at Stettin surrendered to a much smaller French force without a fight.
• 1938CBS Radio broadcast "The War of the Worlds", a radio drama that newspapers accused of tricking Americans into believing there was an actual Martian invasion.
• 1965English model Jean Shrimpton wore a controversially short minidress to Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia – a pivotal moment of the introduction of the miniskirt to women's fashion.
• 1983As the military dictatorship came to an end, Argentina's first democratic election in a decade resulted in Raúl Alfonsín being elected president.
• 2001Michael Jackson released Invincible, his final studio album and the most expensive album ever produced.
• 2020A magnitude-7.0 earthquake occurred in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, triggering a tsunami and causing 119 deaths.

Born on this day

• 1735John Adams, American lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the United States (died 1826)
• 1871Paul Valéry, French poet and philosopher (died 1945)
• 1885Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (died 1972)
• 1960Diego Maradona, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2020)