So you want to have a drink but you aren't sure why? Here are some GREAT reasons to call your friends over and have a party.

October 30th


- Christian Feast Day:
- Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions (former Soviet republics, except Ukraine)
- Mischief Night (United States)
Devil's Night (Michigan)
- Thevar Jayanthi (Thevar community)

October 30th


- 2005 - The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
- 2002 - British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview begins transmitting in parts of the United Kingdom.
- 2000 - The last Multics machine is shut down.
- 1995 - Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote is 50.6% to 49.4%).
- 1993 - Greysteel massacre: The Ulster Freedom Fighters, a loyalist terrorist group, open fire on a crowded bar in Greysteel, Northern Ireland. Eight civilians are killed and thirteen wounded.
- 1991 - The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
- 1987 - In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine.
- 1985 - Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
- 1983 - The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
- 1980 - El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
- 1975 - Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
- 1974 - The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
- 1973 - The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
- 1972 - A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago, Illinois kills 45 and injures 332.
- 1970 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions is found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
- 1961 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
- 1961 - Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
- 1960 - Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
- 1953 - Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
- 1950 - Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
- 1947 - The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
- 1945 - Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
- 1944 - Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
- 1941 - World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
- 1941 - 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
- 1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
- 1929 - The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
- 1925 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
- 1922 - Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
- 1920 - The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
- 1918 - The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
- 1905 - Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
- 1894 - Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
- 1864 - Second war of Schleswig ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.
- 1864 - Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".
- 1863 - Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
- 1831 - In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
- 1501 - Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.
- 1485 - King Henry VII of England is crowned.
- 1470 - Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats the Yorkists in battle.
- 1340 - Battle of Rio Salado.
- 1270 - The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
- 1226 - Tran Thu Do, head of the Tran clan of Vietnam, forces Ly Hue Tong, the last emperor of the Ly dynasty, to commit suicide.
- 1137 - Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
- 758 - Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.

October 30th


- 1992 - Tequan Richmond, American actor
- 1989 - Seth Adkins, American actor
- 1989 - Nastia Liukin, Russian/American gymnast
- 1989 - Vanessa White, British singer (The Saturdays)
- 1989 - Jay Asforis, American singer
- 1988 - Janel Parrish, American actress
- 1987 - Junaid Siddique, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1986 - Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper
- 1984 - Eva Marcille, American model and actress
- 1984 - Tyson Strachan, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984 - Isaac Ross, New Zealand All Black rugby player
- 1983 - Iain Hume, Canadian footballer
- 1983 - Trent Edwards, American football player
- 1982 - Andy Greene, American ice hockey player
- 1982 - Manny Parra, American baseball player
- 1981 - Ayaka Kimura, Japanese actress
- 1981 - Ivanka Trump, American model
- 1981 - Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
- 1981 - Ian Snell, American baseball player
- 1981 - Joshua Jay, American close up magician
- 1980 - Kareem Rush, American basketball player
- 1980 - Choi Hong-man, South Korean kickboxer
- 1980 - John Foo, Irish martial artist and actor
- 1980 - Sarah Carter, Canadian actress
- 1979 - Jason Bartlett, American baseball player
- 1979 - Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress
- 1978 - Martin Dossett, American football player
- 1978 - Amanda Swafford, American model
- 1978 - Matthew Morrison, American actor
- 1978 - Derren Witcombe, New Zealand All Black rugby player
- 1977 - Jason Adelman, American actor
- 1977 - Eefke Mulder, Dutch hockey-international
- 1976 - Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
- 1976 - Ümit Özat, Turkish footballer
- 1976 - Maurice Taylor, American Basketball Player
- 1975 - Marco Scutaro, American Baseball player
- 1975 - Ian D'Sa, Guitarist/Vocalist for Canadian rock band Billy Talent
- 1975 - Maria Thayer, American actress
- 1973 - Adam "Edge" Copeland, Canadian wrestler
- 1973 - Silvia Corzo, Colombian newscaster
- 1973 - Michael Oakes, English footballer
- 1971 - Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and singer
- 1971 - Suzan van der Wielen, Dutch hockey-international
- 1970 - Maja Tatic, Bosnia singer
- 1970 - Tory Belleci, American TV Mythbuster
- 1970 - Nia Long, American actress
- 1970 - Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower
- 1970 - Ben Bailey, American host of the game show Cash Cab
- 1969 - Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer
- 1968 - Jack Plotnick, American actor
- 1967 - Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1966 - Scott Innes, American voice actor
- 1965 - Gavin Rossdale, English musician
- 1964 - Howard Lederer, American poker player
- 1964 - Humayun Kabir Dhali, Bangladeshi Writer & Journalist
- 1963 - Michael Beach, American actor
- 1963 - Rebecca Heineman, Computer game programmer
- 1963 - Kristina Wagner, American actress
- 1962 - Courtney Walsh, Jamaican West Indies cricketer
- 1961 - Scott Garrelts, American baseball player
- 1961 - Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek economist and politician
- 1960 - Diego Maradona, Argentine footballer
- 1959 - Michael Fiedler, German footballer
- 1958 - Joe Delaney, American football player (d. 1983)
- 1958 - Stefan Dennis, Australian actor
- 1958 - Ramona d'Viola, American cyclist
- 1957 - Kevin Pollak, American actor
- 1956 - Juliet Stevenson, English actress
- 1954 - Mario Testino, Peruvian-born English fashion photographer
- 1953 - Charles Martin Smith, American actor
- 1953 - Pete Hoekstra, Dutch-American politician
- 1951 - Harry Hamlin, American actor
- 1948 - Rusty Goffe, British actor
- 1947 - Timothy B. Schmit, American musician (Eagles)
- 1946 - Chris Slade, Welsh drummer (Asia)
- 1945 - Henry Winkler, American actor
- 1943 - Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
- 1941 - Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1941 - Otis Williams, American singer
- 1940 - Ed Lauter, American actor
- 1939 - Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, Nobel laureate
- 1939 - Grace Slick, American singer (Jefferson Airplane)
- 1939 - Edward Holland, Jr., American singer
- 1937 - Claude Lelouch, French film director
- 1936 - Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
- 1936 - Dick Vermeil, American football coach
- 1935 - Robert Caro, American biographer
- 1935 - Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer
- 1935 - Michael Winner, British film director
- 1935 - Jim Perry, American baseball player
- 1934 - Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician
- 1932 - Louis Malle, French film director (d. 1995)
- 1932 - Barun De, Indian historian
- 1931 - Vince Callahan, American politician
- 1930 - Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992)
- 1930 - Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1956)
- 1928 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
- 1927 - Joe Adcock, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1926 - Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver
- 1922 - Jane White, American actress and singer
- 1917 - Bobby Bragan, American baseball player (d. 2010)
- 1917 - Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (d. 1994)
- 1917 - Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (d. 2005)
- 1916 - Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995)
- 1915 - Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)
- 1914 - Richard E Holz, American composer (d. 1986)
- 1914 - Anna Wing, English actress
- 1911 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1909 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)
- 1908 - U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, An Indian politician (d. 1963)
- 1908 - Patsy Montana, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
- 1907 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)
- 1906 - Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)
- 1906 - Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (d. 1966)
- 1900 - Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
- 1898 - Bill Terry, baseball player (d. 1989)
- 1897 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
- 1897 - Agustín Lara, Mexican composer (d. 1970)
- 1896 - Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)
- 1896 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)
- 1895 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964)
- 1895 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
- 1894 - Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977)
- 1893 - Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (d. 1972)
- 1893 - Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (d. 1945)
- 1888 - Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek Olympic champion (d. 1913)
- 1887 - Sukumar Ray, Bengali Writer (d. 1923)
- 1886 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
- 1885 - Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
- 1882 - William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (d. 1959)
- 1882 - Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (d. 1944)
- 1881 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941)
- 1873 - Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (d. 1913)
- 1871 - Paul Valéry, French poet (d. 1945)
- 1871 - Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)
- 1861 - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)
- 1857 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)
- 1847 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)
- 1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
- 1839 - Alfred Sisley, Anglo-French artist (d. 1899)
- 1821 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
- 1799 - Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal (d. 1885)
- 1786 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871)
- 1762 - André Chénier, French writer (d. 1794)
- 1751 - Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright (d. 1816)
- 1735 - John Adams, second President of the United States (d. 1826)
- 1668 - Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, queen in Prussia (d. 1705)
- 1624 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693)
- 1513 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (d. 1593)
- 1218 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234)