TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2018 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1817 - The independent government of Venezuela was established by Simon Bolivar.

1890 - Oodnadatta, in far north South Australia, is surveyed and declared a township, ahead of becoming a significant railway terminus. 1938 - Orson Welles’ The

War of the Worlds aired on radio. The belief that the realistic radio dramatisation was a live news event about a Martian invasion caused panic among listeners.

1943 - In Moscow, a declaration was signed by the Governments of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and China called for an early establishment of an international organisation to maintain peace and security. The goal was supported on December 1, 1943, at a meeting in Tehran.

1944 - WWII Holocaust diarist, Anne Frank, is deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

1961 - The Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb with a force of approximately 58 megatons.

1961 - The Soviet Party Congress unanimously approved an order to remove Joseph Stalin’s body from Lenin’s tomb.

1975 - Prince Juan Carlos assumed power in Spain as dictator Francisco Franco was near death.

1982 - Portugal’s constitution was revised for the first time since it was ratified on April 25, 1976.

1984 - In Poland, police found the body of kidnapped pro-Solidarity priest Father Jerry Popieluszko. His death was blamed on four security officers.

1995 - Federalist prevailed over separatists in Quebec in a referendum concerning secession from the federation of Canada.

1998 - The terrorist who hijacked a Turkish Airlines plane and the 39 people on board was killed when anti-terrorist squads raided the plane.