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October 30:

Television and web series
 * 2008 - The last episode of Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction, a science fiction action-comedy machinima series, is released on the Rooster Teeth website

Deaths
 * 1997 - Sydney Newman (b. 1917), a Canadian film and television producer who played a pioneering role in green-lighting production of The Avengers and Doctor Who