October
30
World
Thrift Day
In India, World Thrift Day was also celebrated on October 31
but after the death of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on the same
day in 1984, it is since celebrated on October 30.
World Thrift
Day is observed on October 31 every year. The first International
Thrift Congress was held in Milan, Italy in 1924. The congress
passed a resolution declaring October 31 as the World Thrift
day. It was a day “devoted to the promotion of savings all over
the world”. It is a worldwide celebration well supported by
savings and responsible retail banks, schools, women’s associations,
sports bodies, cultural organizations and professional agencies
etc. The day reminds us of importance of consistently saving
in order to have a safety net. With such consistent savings,
we can guard against unexpected risk events. Savings can also
help us in achieving our goals such as starting a business,
getting good education, healthcare treatments or owning a home
etc.
World Thrift
Day is celebrated in various forms. Brochures, leaflets and
posters are distributed to masses emphasizing the importance
of thrift/saving. Press articles and educational films are also
made to highlight and promote savings in many parts of the world.
Saving campaigns are organized in the schools because it is
very important to inculcate this habit in kids since beginning.
Children are informed and educated about virtues of thrift and
how it can help them in future. Kids are encouraged to use savings
bank passbooks and money boxes etc.
Credit must
be given to retail banks that have undertaken serious efforts
to encourage savings by employing several methods. For instance,
they have made it easier for everyone to open an account and
deposit the money. Consumers are informed about importance of
a formal savings account. In fact, most of the bank accounts
in the world are saving accounts. Saving is one of the most
vital skills to possess.
Events
758 – Guangzhou
is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
1137 – Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger
II of Sicily.
1226 – Tran Thu Do, head of the Tran clan of Vietnam, forces
Ly Hue Tong, the last emperor of the Ly dynasty, to commit suicide.
1270 – The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement
between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France,
who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
1340 – Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Marinid invasion
at the Battle of Río Salado.
1470 – Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after
Earl of Warwick defeats the Yorkists in battle.
1485 – King Henry VII of England is crowned.
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.
1806 – Believing he was facing a much larger force, Prussian
Lieutenant General Friedrich von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men,
surrendered the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers commanded
by General Lassalle.
1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner
is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion
in United States history.
1863 – Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his
throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
1864 – Second war of Schleswig ends. Denmark renounces all claim
to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian
and Austrian administration.
1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover
gold at "Last Chance Gulch".
1894 – Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to
be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
1905 – Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution,
creating a legislative assembly.
1918 – The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies,
ending the First World War in the Middle East.
1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
1922 – Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
1929 – The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart,
Germany.
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.
1941 – World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S.
$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
1941 – 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent
by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen
assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving
material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma
code.
1944 – Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from
Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract
for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which
is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is
founded.
1950 – Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun"
while at the Vatican.
1953 – Cold War: U.S. 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.
1960 – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney
transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1961 – Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen
bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield,
it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear
or otherwise.
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.
1965 – Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines
repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces,
killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions
is found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold
drinks to the Marines the day before.
1970 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six
years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless
and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
1972 – A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago, Illinois
kills 45 and injures 332.
1973 – The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed,
connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus
for the first time.
1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad
Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
1975 – Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state,
taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco
Franco.
1980 – El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the
border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the
International Court of Justice.
1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven
years of military rule are held.
1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A,
its final successful mission.
1987 – In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment
system, the PC Engine, which was later sold in other markets
under the name TurboGrafx-16.
1991 – The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
1993 – Greysteel massacre: The Ulster Freedom Fighters, a loyalist
terrorist group, open fire on a crowded bar in Greysteel, Northern
Ireland. Eight civilians are killed and thirteen wounded.
1995 – Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a
mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote is 50.6%
to 49.4%).
2000 – The last Multics machine is shut down.
2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing
of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year
rebuilding project.
Holidays
and observances
Anniversary
of the Declaration of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)
Christian Feast Day:
Alonso Rodríguez
Herbert
Marcellus of Tangier
Saturninus of Cagliari
Serapion of Antioch
October 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions (former
Soviet republics, except Ukraine)
Mischief Night (United States)
Devil's Night (Michigan)
Thevar Jayanthi (Thevar community)
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