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The European storm petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) is a small, square-tailed seabird with a fluttering flight. It is black except for a white rump and a white band under its wings. Most birds breed on islands off western Europe, with a separate subspecies occurring in the Mediterranean. The storm petrel lays a single white egg in a burrow. The adults share incubation and feeding the chick. This bird is oceanic outside the breeding season, wintering off the western coasts of Africa. It feeds on small fish, and can find oily edible items by smell. The chick is fed with an oily liquid regurgitated by the adults. Silent at sea, the storm petrel has a chattering call given during courtship, and the male has a purring song. The storm petrel cannot survive where rats or cats have been introduced, and it is killed by large birds such as gulls. It is classified by the IUCN as being of least concern. Folklore claiming that the bird can foretell or cause bad weather has led to its use as a symbol by some revolutionary groups. (Full article...)

T-bone steak

• ... that it was illegal to sell a T-bone steak (example pictured) in Great Britain between 1997 and 1999?
• ... that Batman and the Joker parade down the street daily at Warner Bros. Movie World?
• ... that Rear Admiral Timothy S. Matthews received an award from the Association of Old Crows?
• ... that a conservation professor who appeared in Extinction: The Facts described it as "surprisingly radical" for a David Attenborough documentary?
• ... that Pope Francis's encyclical Fratelli tutti is the first to be signed outside Rome?
• ... that American composer Norma Wendelburg studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Vienna Academy of Music on two Fulbright scholarships?
• ... that 47 people, including bystanders and an amateur reporter,
  Margot
  in August 2020?
• ... that a monumental plaque to Italian physician Giovanni Bianchi states: Nascitur infelix, vixit infelicior, obiit infelicissime (He was born unhappy, he lived more unhappy, he died maximally unhappy)?

Corey Seager

• At least 41 people are killed and 81 others are missing after
  Typhoon Molave
  hits the Philippines and Vietnam.
• In baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Tampa Bay Rays to win the World Series (MVP Corey Seager pictured).
• In Australian rugby league, the Melbourne Storm defeat the Penrith Panthers to win the NRL Grand Final.
• Wavel Ramkalawan becomes the first opposition candidate to be elected President of Seychelles since independence in 1976.

October 30: Mischief Night

French troops capturing Stettin

• 1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Believing that they were outnumbered, the German garrison at Stettin surrendered (depicted) to a much smaller French force without a fight.
• 1950 – Blanca Canales led the Jayuya Uprising against the U.S.-supported Puerto Rican government.
• 1960 – Michael Woodruff performed the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
• 1993 – The Troubles: Three members of the Ulster Defence Association opened fire in a crowded pub during a Halloween party, killing eight people and wounding nineteen others.