October 30 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for October 30
In the headlines today:

2001	Basketball legend Michael Jordan returns to the NBA after nearly 3-1/2 years, earning 19 points as his Washington Wizards fall to the New York Knicks, 93-91.
1999	A fire in an illegal night club in Inchon, South Korea, claims 55 lives.
1990	Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein states that his country is preparing for war with the US.
1975	With Spanish dictator Francisco Franco near death, Prince Juan Carlos assumes power.
1972	Two trains collide on Chicago's South Side, killing 45 people.
1961	The USSR tests a hydrogen bomb with an estimated force of nearly 60 megatons.
1945	India joins the United Nations.
1938	Orson Welles broadcasts a dramatization of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, causing panic throughout the US.
1918	The Republic of Czechoslovakia is proclaimed.
1912	US Vice President John Sherman dies in office.
1611	King Charles IX of Sweden dies.