HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY
Today’s highlight:
On Oct. 30, 1735 (New Style calendar), the second president of the United States, John Adams, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts.
On this date:
1912: Vice President James S. Sherman, running for a second term of office with President William Howard Taft, died six days before Election Day.
1944: The Martha Graham ballet “Appalachian Spring,” with music by Aaron Copland, premiered at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with Graham in a leading role.
1945: The U.S. government announced the end of shoe rationing, effective at midnight.
1953: Gen. George C. Marshall was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Albert Schweitzer received the Peace Prize for 1952.
1961: The Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb, the “Tsar Bomba,” with a force estimated at about 50 megatons.
1972: 45 people were killed when an Illinois Central Gulf commuter train was struck from behind by another train on Chicago’s South Side.
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.
1975: The New York Daily News ran the headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead” a day after President Gerald R. 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 Jan.
1986. 2002: Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell), a rapper with the hiphop group Run-DMC, was killed in a shooting in New York. He was 37.
Ten years ago: A federal jury in Miami convicted the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor in the first case brought under a 1994 U.S. law allowing prosecution for torture and atrocities committed overseas. Charles McArthur Emmanuel was later sentenced to 97 years in prison. Five years ago: President Barack Obama claimed “full responsibility” for fixing his administration’s troubled health insurance website, while on Capitol Hill, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius apologized to frustrated people trying to sign up, declaring that she was accountable for the failures but also defended the historic health care overhaul. The government said the deficit for the 2013 budget year totaled $680.3 billion, down from $1.09 trillion in 2012.
One year ago: Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a former Manafort business associate, Rick Gates, were indicted on felony charges including conspiracy against the United States as Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election revealed its first targets. A former Trump campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, admitted he lied to the FBI about his contacts with Russians. A federal judge in Washington barred the Trump administration from proceeding with plans to exclude transgender people from military service.