Today is Saturday, October 30, the 303rd day of 2010. There are 62 days left in the year.

On this date

In 1270, the eighth and last Crusade is launched.

In 1697, France signs the Peace of Ryswick, ending the War of the Grand Alliance between France on one side and England, the Netherlands, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire on the other.

In 1974, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, known as the "Rumble in the Jungle" to regain his world heavyweight title in one of boxing's greatest upsets.

In 1992, heavy fighting breaks out in Luanda, the capital of Angola, between the government and the Union for the Total Independence of Angola or UNITA. The conflict rages for three days, claiming at least 1,000 lives, until both sides establish a truce November 1.

In 1999, the last Indonesian troop ship sails out of East Timor, ending a bloody 24-year military engagement in the now independent nation. Some 200,000 East Timorese and 5,000 Indonesian troops have perished since the Indonesian invasion of the former Portuguese colony on December 7, 1975.

Thought for Today

"When love is not madness, it is not love." — Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish dramatist (1600-1681).