Today is Wednesday, October 30, the 304th day of the year 2024. There are 62 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On October 30, 1974, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a scheduled 15-round fight known as the “Rumble in the Jungle”, in Kinshasa, Congo (then Zaire), to regain his world title. heavy weights.
Also on this date:
In 1912, Vice President James S. Sherman, running for a second term with President William Howard Taft, died six days before Election Day.
In 1938, the radio play “War of the Worlds,” starring Orson Welles, was broadcast on the CBS radio network.
In 1961, the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb, the “Tsar Bomba”, with an estimated force of around 50 megatons (more than 3,500 times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima).
In 1972, 45 people were killed when an Illinois Central Gulf commuter train was struck from behind by another train on Chicago’s South Side.
In 1975, the New York Daily News headlined “Ford to City: Drop Dead” a day after President Gerald R. Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout for New York City.
In 1995, by a very close vote of 50.6 percent to 49.4 percent, the federalists prevailed over the separatists in a referendum on the secession of Quebec.
In 2005, the late Rosa Parks became the first woman to lie in honor in the rotunda of the United States Capitol; President George W. Bush and congressional leaders stopped to lay wreaths near the civil rights icon’s casket.
In 2013, the Boston Red Sox won their third World Series championship in 10 seasons, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 6-1 in Game 6 at Fenway Park.
In 2018, notorious gangster James “Whitey” Bulger was found beaten to death in a West Virginia federal prison; the 89-year-old former Boston crime boss and longtime FBI informant had been transferred there hours earlier.
Today’s birthdays:
- Author Robert Caro is 89 years old.
- Football Hall of Fame coach Dick Vermeil is 88 years old.
- Rock singer Grace Slick is 85 years old.
- Songwriter Eddie Holland is 85 years old.
- R&B singer Otis Williams (The Temptations) is 83 years old.
- Actor Henry Winkler is 79 years old.
- Roadcast reporter Andrea Mitchell is 78 years old.
- Country/rock musician Timothy B. Schmit (The Eagles) is 77 years old.
- Actor Harry Hamlin is 73 years old.
- Country singer T. Graham Brown is 70 years old.
- Actor Kevin Pollak is 67 years old.
- Actor Michael Beach is 61 years old.
- Musician Gavin Rossdale (Bush) is 59 years old.
- Actress Nia Long is 54 years old.
- Actor Matthew Morrison is 46 years old.
- Business executive and former presidential advisor Ivanka Trump is 43 years old.
- Olympic gold medalist gymnast Nastia Liukin is 35 years old.
- NBA guard Devin Booker is 28 years old.
- NHL defenseman Cale Makar is 25 years old.
