User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/October 30

October 30

 * 1137 - Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
 * 1340 - Battle of Rio Salado.
 * 1864 - Second war of Schleswig ends: Duke Frederick and the Danish Crown recognize Prussia's and Austria's annexation of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg.
 * 1918 - The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
 * 1953 - Cold War: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
 * 1961 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest nuclear device ever detonated. Nikita Khrushchev announces that the scientists had planned to make it 100 megatons, but had reduced the yield so as to avoid breaking all the windows in Moscow.