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Sense and Sensibility / October Manifesto / Bosphorus Bridge

On This Day (October 30): Your quick daily trip back in time.

Fatih Taskiran
October 30, 2025

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Good morning — it’s Thursday, October 30. Today we're talking about Sense and Sensibility, Mrs. Warren's Profession, the October Manifesto, the Bosphorus Bridge opening, and more — swift, precise, and mindful.

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🚀 Time Machine

-1340

King Afonso IV of Portugal and King Alfonso XI of Castile defeated Moroccan Sultan Abu al-Hasan during the last Marinid invasion.

-1811

Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility was published anonymously. The British public only knew that it was written "by a lady."

-1899

The Boers defeat the British at the Battle of Ladysmith, leading to the Siege of Ladysmith in Natal.

-1905

Tsar Nicholas II granted civil liberties and accepted the first Duma (Parliament) in the "October Manifesto“.

-1905

Mrs. Warren's Profession, a play about prostitution by George Bernard Shaw, performed in New York, faced police interruption and arrests in New York for violating the Comstock laws.

-1917

The British government approves the Balfour Declaration.

-1918

Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire signed an armistice ending Ottoman involvement in the First World War.

-1973

The Bosphorus Bridge opened in Istanbul, Turkey, connecting Europe and Asia for the first time.

-1974

Muhammad Ali, 32, regains the heavyweight title using the "rope-a-dope" tactic in "The Rumble in the Jungle" in Kinshasa, Zaire.

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