TODAY in HISTORY
Today is Tuesday, October 30, the 303rd day of 2018. There are 62 days left in the year.
1735 The second President of the United States, John Adams, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts. 1912 Vice- president James S. Sherman, running for a second term of 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.) 1944 The Martha Graham ballet “Appalachian Spring”, with music by Aaron Copland, premiered at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, with Graham in a leading role.
1945 The US 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.
The Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb, the “Tsar Bomba”, with a force estimated at about 50 megatons. 1961 The Soviet Party Congress unanimously approved a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin’s body from Lenin’s tomb. 1972 Forty- five 5 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 January 1986.
1995 By a razor- thin vote of 50.6 per cent to 49.4 per cent, Federalists prevailed over separatists in a Quebec secession referendum.