Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 30

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 * 1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Believing that they were outnumbered, the German garrison at Stettin surrendered to a much smaller French force without a fight.
 * 1863 – Seventeen-year-old Vilhelm, Prince of Denmark, arrived in Athens to become King George I of Greece (pictured).
 * 1888 – King Lobengula of Matabeleland granted the Rudd Concession to agents of Cecil Rhodes, leading to the creation of the British South Africa Company.
 * 1960 – At the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Michael Woodruff performed the first successful kidney transplantation in the United Kingdom.
 * 1965 – English model Jean Shrimpton wore a controversially short minidress to Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia – a pivotal moment of the introduction of the miniskirt to women's fashion.
 * 1966 – Singaporean leftist opposition leader Chia Thye Poh was detained under the Internal Security Act, which allows for preventive detention, and held for 32 years.
 * Born/died this day: | Mary Hayley |b|1728| Angelica Kauffman |b|1741| André Chénier |b|1762| Ignace Bourget |b|1799| Adelaide Anne Procter |b|1825| Caroline Spencer |b|1861| António Cabreira |b|1868|  Günther von Kluge |b|1882| Peter Warlock |b|1894|  William H. Webb |d|1899|