October 30: What happened on this day in history?
October 30 has been the scene of many important events in the past. So, what significant developments took place in Turkey and the world on this day? What were the events that went down in history on October 30? Here are the details...
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1757 - Accession of Ottoman Sultan Mustafa III to the throne.
1873 - The humor newspaper Hayal, published by Teodor Kasap, began publication.
1905 - Aspirin was offered for sale for the first time.
1918 - The Republic was declared in Czechoslovakia.
1918 - The Armistice of Mudros was signed between the defeated Ottoman Empire and the Allied powers of World War I.
1919 - The political humor magazine Diken, published by Sedat Simavi, began publication.
1920 - Liberation of Kars: The army under the command of Eastern Front Commander Kâzım Karabekir Pasha achieved a great victory.
1920 - The Communist Party of Australia was founded in Sydney.
1923 - Mustafa Kemal Pasha appointed İsmet Pasha (İnönü) as Prime Minister.
1937 - The new Ankara Railway Station was opened with a ceremony.
1942 - The British army launched an offensive against the German army at El Alamein.
1956 - The United Kingdom and France notified Israel and Egypt to leave the Suez Canal within 12 hours.
1960 - The first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom was performed by Michael Woodruff.
1961 - The Soviet Union tested a 58-megaton Hydrogen bomb on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. This was the most powerful man-made explosion to have occurred on Earth. Nikita Khrushchev reported that this test, codenamed "Tsar Bomba," was actually planned to be 100 megatons, but they limited the power due to fears of fallout.
1961 - Turkey and Germany signed an official labor recruitment agreement.
1970 - The most severe monsoon rains in Vietnam in the last six years: 293 people died, 200 thousand people were left homeless.
1973 - The Bosphorus Bridge was opened by President Fahri Korutürk.
1974 - Muhammad Ali became the world heavyweight boxing champion again by defeating George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire.
1978 - A person named Duran Bircan in Denizli murdered his own mother and his niece, whom he had set his sights on. He was executed during the September 12 period.
1980 - Bülent Ecevit resigned from the chairmanship of the CHP.
1980 - El Salvador and Honduras signed a peace treaty ending their border disputes. The two countries had engaged in a five-day war in 1969 following a national football match between them, which went down in history as the "Football War."
1983 - 1,330 people died and 534 were injured in an earthquake that occurred in Erzurum and Kars.
1983 - The first democratic elections were held in Argentina after seven years of military regime.