CNN Interactive - Almanac - October 30, 1998

President Clinton is tentatively scheduled to make a campaign appearance in New York.
Defense Secretary William Cohen is scheduled to begin a weeklong trip to Hawaii, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea.
Representatives of the United Nations, UNICEF, World Bank and World Health Organization to launch a new international campaign to fight malaria, which kills more than one million people each year.

On Saturday, October 31, an executive body of Northern Irish Catholics and Protestants is scheduled to hold an inaugural summit with the Irish.
On Sunday, November 1, America's Community Bankers will hold its 1998 convention and director's conference in Chicago with former Sen. Bob Dole scheduled as guest speaker.
On Monday, November 2, negotiators from around the world gather for a global warming conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
On Tuesday, November 3, general elections are to be held across the U.S.
On Wednesday, November 4, Prime Minister Janez Drnovsek of Slovenia is scheduled to meet with President Clinton in Washington.

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In 1735, John Adams, first vice-president and second president of the United States, was born.
In 1918, the Slovaks agreed to a union with the Czechs under the name of Czechoslovakia.
In 1918, Turkey signed an armistice which ended its participation in World War I.
In 1930, a treaty of friendship between Turkey and Greece was signed at Ankara.
In 1938, "The War of the Worlds," a book by H.G. Wells that was dramatized by Orson Welles, was broadcast on the radio.
In 1974, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in Kinshaha, Zaire, and regained the world heavyweight boxing title.
In 1975, Prince Juan Carlos assumed the role of Spain's acting head of state after General Francisco Franco fell ill.
In 1988, over 6,500 couples from the Unification Church were married in Seoul in a service conducted by the church's Korean leader, Sun Myung Moon.
In 1990, China announced the results of a nationwide census which showed its population totalled 1.13 billion people.
In 1997, Belfast lawyer Mary McAleese was elected president of Ireland.