Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1. | 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. | Glenn Miller & His Orchestra with Marion Hutton | The Chestnut Tree | The Great Glenn Miller |
2. | 1864 | Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch". | Unwed Sailor | Golden Cities | The Faithful Anchor |
3. | 1894 | Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially. | On!Air!Library | Bread | On!Air!Library |
4. | 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. | Prefuse 73 | Radio Attack (Pt2-Re-Edit) | Urban Renewal Program |
5. | 1945 | Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier. | Os Mutantes | Tecnicolor | Tecnicolor |
6. | 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. | The Animals | Bury My Body | Best of the Animals |
7. | N/A | Mischief Night (United States) Devil's Night (Michigan) | The Traveling Wilburys | The Devil's Busy | Traveling Wilburys Complete Collection |
(Historical facts about October 30 are from Wikipedia.)
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