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October 30
1534 - The English passed the Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English Church.
1735 - John Adams, the second president of the United States, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts.
1912 - Vice President James S. Sherman, running for a second term in office with President William Howard Taft, died six days before Election Day. (Sherman was replaced with Nicholas Murray Butler, but Taft, the Republican candidate, ended up losing in an Electoral College landslide to Democrat Woodrow Wilson.)
1938 - The radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, starring Orson Welles, caused nationwide panic among listeners who believed the portrayal of a Martian invasion of Earth was true.
1953 - Gen. George C. Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize for originating the Marshall Plan, a massive economic aid program for post-World War II Europe.
1961 - The Soviet Union detonated its first hydrogen bomb.
1961 - The Soviet Party Congress unanimously approved a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin’s body from Lenin’s tomb.
1972 - Forty-five people were killed when an Illinois Central Gulf commuter train was struck from behind by another train on Chicago’s South Side.
1975 - The New York Daily News ran the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead" a day after President Gerald Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.
1979 - President Carter announced his choice of federal appeals judge Shirley Hufstedler to head the newly created Department of Education.
1985 - Schoolteacher-astronaut Christa McAuliffe witnessed the launch of the space shuttle Challenger, the same craft that would carry her and six other crew members to their deaths in January 1986.
1995 - By a razor-thin vote of 50.6 percent to 49.4 percent, Federalists prevailed over separatists in a Quebec secession referendum in Canada.
1997 - A jury in Cambridge, Massachusetts convicted British au pair Louise Woodward of second-degree murder in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. (The judge later reduced the verdict to manslaughter and set Woodward free.)
2001 - Ukraine destroyed its last nuclear missile silo, fulfilling a pledge to give up the vast nuclear arsenal it had inherited after the breakup of the former Soviet Union.
2005 - Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks became the first woman to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C.
2009 - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was confronted repeatedly by Pakistanis as she ended a tense three-day tour of the country, chastised by one woman who said a U.S. program using aerial drones to target terrorists amounted to “executions without trial.”
2014 - Israel closed all access to Jerusalem’s most sensitive religious site, revered by Jews as the Temple Mount and Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, in a rare move that ratcheted up tensions after the attempted assassination of a Jewish religious activist and the killing of a Palestinian suspect in the case by security forces.
2018 - Notorious gangster James “Whitey” Bulger was found beaten to death at a federal prison in West Virginia; the 89-year-old former Boston crime boss and longtime FBI informant had been transferred there hours earlier.
Birthdays
21 - Tallia Storm (singer)
23 - Devin Booker (basketball player)
26 - Marcus Mariota (football player)
30 - Nastia Liukin (gymnast)
30 - Vanessa White (singer)
31 - Becca Tilley (reality star)
31 - Janel Parrish (actress)
32 - Nicole Williams (model)
32 - Ashley Graham (model)
35 - Eva Marcille (model)
38 - Jun Ji-hyun (actress)
38 - Ivanka Trump (daughter of President Donald Trump)
41 - Matthew Morrison (actor)
42 - Gretchen Rossi (reality star)
46 - Adam "Edge" Copeland (professional wrestler)
49 - Nia Long (actress)
74 - Henry Winkler (actor)
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Today in Sports History - October 30
1919 - Major League Baseball ruled that spitballs and shineballs were illegal.
1954 - The 24-second shot clock was used for the first time in the NBA in a game between Rochester and Boston.
1974 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels throws the then fastest recorded pitch at 100.9 mph.
1974 - Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, famously referred to as the "Rumble in the Jungle", to regain his world heavyweight championship.
1992 - Magic Johnson played his last game in the NBA before retiring for the second and last time.
1993 - The Toronto Maple Leafs lose for the first time after starting the season 10-0-0.
1997 - Violet Palmer became the first woman to officiate an NBA game. The game was between the Dallas Mavericks and the Vancouver Grizzlies.
2001 - President George W. Bush threw out the first pitch in Game 3 of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks at Yankee Stadium.
2001 - Michael Jordan returned to the NBA as a player with the Washington Wizards after a three and a half year retirement. The Wizards lost 93-91 to the New York Knicks in his return game.
2003 - LeBron James made his NBA debut with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
2013 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in six games to win the World Series.
1534 - The English passed the Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English Church.
1735 - John Adams, the second president of the United States, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts.
1912 - Vice President James S. Sherman, running for a second term in office with President William Howard Taft, died six days before Election Day. (Sherman was replaced with Nicholas Murray Butler, but Taft, the Republican candidate, ended up losing in an Electoral College landslide to Democrat Woodrow Wilson.)
1938 - The radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, starring Orson Welles, caused nationwide panic among listeners who believed the portrayal of a Martian invasion of Earth was true.
1953 - Gen. George C. Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize for originating the Marshall Plan, a massive economic aid program for post-World War II Europe.
1961 - The Soviet Union detonated its first hydrogen bomb.
1961 - The Soviet Party Congress unanimously approved a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin’s body from Lenin’s tomb.
1972 - Forty-five people were killed when an Illinois Central Gulf commuter train was struck from behind by another train on Chicago’s South Side.
1975 - The New York Daily News ran the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead" a day after President Gerald Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.
1979 - President Carter announced his choice of federal appeals judge Shirley Hufstedler to head the newly created Department of Education.
1985 - Schoolteacher-astronaut Christa McAuliffe witnessed the launch of the space shuttle Challenger, the same craft that would carry her and six other crew members to their deaths in January 1986.
1995 - By a razor-thin vote of 50.6 percent to 49.4 percent, Federalists prevailed over separatists in a Quebec secession referendum in Canada.
1997 - A jury in Cambridge, Massachusetts convicted British au pair Louise Woodward of second-degree murder in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. (The judge later reduced the verdict to manslaughter and set Woodward free.)
2001 - Ukraine destroyed its last nuclear missile silo, fulfilling a pledge to give up the vast nuclear arsenal it had inherited after the breakup of the former Soviet Union.
2005 - Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks became the first woman to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C.
2009 - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was confronted repeatedly by Pakistanis as she ended a tense three-day tour of the country, chastised by one woman who said a U.S. program using aerial drones to target terrorists amounted to “executions without trial.”
2014 - Israel closed all access to Jerusalem’s most sensitive religious site, revered by Jews as the Temple Mount and Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, in a rare move that ratcheted up tensions after the attempted assassination of a Jewish religious activist and the killing of a Palestinian suspect in the case by security forces.
2018 - Notorious gangster James “Whitey” Bulger was found beaten to death at a federal prison in West Virginia; the 89-year-old former Boston crime boss and longtime FBI informant had been transferred there hours earlier.
Birthdays
21 - Tallia Storm (singer)
23 - Devin Booker (basketball player)
26 - Marcus Mariota (football player)
30 - Nastia Liukin (gymnast)
30 - Vanessa White (singer)
31 - Becca Tilley (reality star)
31 - Janel Parrish (actress)
32 - Nicole Williams (model)
32 - Ashley Graham (model)
35 - Eva Marcille (model)
38 - Jun Ji-hyun (actress)
38 - Ivanka Trump (daughter of President Donald Trump)
41 - Matthew Morrison (actor)
42 - Gretchen Rossi (reality star)
46 - Adam "Edge" Copeland (professional wrestler)
49 - Nia Long (actress)
74 - Henry Winkler (actor)
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Today in Sports History - October 30
1919 - Major League Baseball ruled that spitballs and shineballs were illegal.
1954 - The 24-second shot clock was used for the first time in the NBA in a game between Rochester and Boston.
1974 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels throws the then fastest recorded pitch at 100.9 mph.
1974 - Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, famously referred to as the "Rumble in the Jungle", to regain his world heavyweight championship.
1992 - Magic Johnson played his last game in the NBA before retiring for the second and last time.
1993 - The Toronto Maple Leafs lose for the first time after starting the season 10-0-0.
1997 - Violet Palmer became the first woman to officiate an NBA game. The game was between the Dallas Mavericks and the Vancouver Grizzlies.
2001 - President George W. Bush threw out the first pitch in Game 3 of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks at Yankee Stadium.
2001 - Michael Jordan returned to the NBA as a player with the Washington Wizards after a three and a half year retirement. The Wizards lost 93-91 to the New York Knicks in his return game.
2003 - LeBron James made his NBA debut with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
2013 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in six games to win the World Series.
