Daily Calendar – October 30

The 304th day of the year; 62 days remain until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Commemoration of our Father among the Saints, Joseph the Catholicos, the Wonderworker (1770); the Prophet Hosea (820 BC); the Venerable Martyr Andrew of Crete (767); the Unmercenary Martyr-brothers Cosmas and Damian of Arabia, along with their companions, the Martyrs Leontius, Anthimus, and Eutropius (287 or 330); and the Righteous Lazarus—who lay in the tomb for four days—Bishop of Kition (translation of his holy relics, 898).

Born:

1735 – John Adams, President of the United States; died in 1826.

1741 – Angelica Kauffman, German painter and graphic artist; died in 1807.

1751 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, English playwright, theatre figure, and public figure; died in 1816. 1821 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, a great Russian writer; died in 1881.

1839 – Alfred Sisley, a French Impressionist; died in 1899.

1871 – Paul Valéry, a French poet; died in 1945.

1872 – Giorgi Tumanishvili, a scientist and engineer; died in 1937.

1930 – Otar Lortkipanidze, an archaeologist and Doctor of Historical Sciences; died in 2002.

1943 – Giorgi Levashov-Tumanishvili, a film director.

Died:

1911 – Nikoloz Tskhvedadze, a public figure, educator, and publicist; born in 1845.

1824 – Charles Robert Maturin, an English writer; born in 1782.

1910 – Henry Dunant, a Swiss philanthropist and founder of the Red Cross; born in 1828.

1953 – Imre Kálmán, a Hungarian composer; born in 1882.

Events:

1270 — The last Crusade began.

1888 — John Loud patented the ballpoint pen.

1918 — The Armistice of Mudros was signed between Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire. The armistice provided for the withdrawal of Ottoman troops from Transcaucasia, Iran, and Arab territories.

1918 — Czechoslovakia was proclaimed a democratic republic.

1918 — The State Museum of Oriental Art was founded in Moscow.

1952 — England tested its first atomic bomb.

1968 — Lars Onsager and Luis Alvarez were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.