October 30

October 30, 1928

Birth of Sir Charles Brett, architectural historian

October 30, 1925

First moving image on a television screen when John Logie Baird transmitted the image.

October 30, 1892

Eoin O'Duffy, revolutionary and organizer of the infamous Blueshirts, was born in Castleblayney, County Monaghan.

October 30, 1865

Róis Ní Ógáin (Rose Mabel Young), Gaelic scholar and editor of Duanaire Gaedhilge, is born

October 30, 1822

Caledonian Canal opened.

October 30, 1816

Sir Richard Quain, physician to Queen Victoria, is born in Mallow, Co. Cork

October 30, 1751

Birth in Dublin of dramatist and orator, Richard Brinsley Sheridan