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Events on October 30

• 1811 Friedrich Koenig is granted a patent for the cylinder quick press.
• 1864 With the signing of the Treaty of Vienna, Austria, Prussia, and Denmark end the Second Schleswig War. The defeated Denmark renounces the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg.
• 1903 Elektra, the tragedy by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, premieres at the Kleines Theater in Berlin. Richard Strauss is also present at the premiere.
• 1938 The 23-year-old Orson Welles causes unease among radio listeners in the eastern states of the United States with his frighteningly realistic radio play War of the Worlds.
• 1941 The Nazi leadership in Germany introduces a program called Iron Savings for savers in order to absorb excess purchasing power among the population and, with tax benefits as an incentive, create a source of funding for war spending.
• 1961 The Federal Republic of Germany and Turkey conclude the recruitment agreement, which constitutes the legal basis for Turkish immigration to Germany. The agreement concluded between Germany and Italy in 1955 served as the model.
• 1963 1. FC Nürnberg parts ways with coach Herbert Widmayer. This is the first coach dismissal in the history of the German Football Bundesliga.
• 1985 As participants in the Space Shuttle mission STS-61-A, Ernst Messerschmid and Reinhard Furrer fly into space aboard Challenger as the second West German astronauts following Ulf Merbold (STS-9).
• 1989 The German television service discontinues Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler's Monday program The Black Channel.
• 2005 The Frauenkirche in Dresden, which was completely destroyed by the air raids on Dresden during the Second World War and had served as an anti-war memorial during the GDR era, is reconsecrated after several years of reconstruction.
• 2008 Berlin Tempelhof Airport is closed at 24:00 amid protests from several hundred airport supporters, after a Ju 52 and a Douglas DC-3-type "raisin bomber" left the airport at 23:55 as the last aircraft.
• 2009 Christine Lieberknecht is elected Minister-President of the Free State of Thuringia by the Thuringian state parliament. Lieberknecht is thus the first female CDU politician in Germany to become Minister-President and the first woman to head a state government in the new federal states.

Born on October 30

• 1862 Friedrich Meinecke, German historian and university professor
• 1881 Lena Christ, German writer
• 1893 Roland Freisler, German judge and president of the People's Court
• 1931 Ruth Klüger, German literary scholar, writer, and Holocaust survivor
• 1941 Theodor Hänsch, German physicist, pioneer of laser spectroscopy, and Nobel laureate
• 1960 Diego Maradona, Argentine football player and manager
• 1962 Stefan Kuntz, German football player and manager
• 1971 Fredi Bobič, German football player
• 1981 Ivanka Trump, American political adviser
• 2002 Lilly Liefers, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „30. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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