TODAY IN HISTORY

On Oct. 30, 1885, poet Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho.

In 1912, Vice President James S. Sherman, running for a second term of office with President William

Howard Taft, died six days before Election Day.

In 1938, the radio play “The War of the Worlds,” starring Orson Welles, aired.

In 1961, the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb, the “Tsar Bomba,” with a force estimated at about 50 megatons. Also, the Soviet Party Congress approved a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin’s

body from Lenin’s tomb.

In 1974, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout to regain his world heavyweight title.

In 2001, Ukraine destroyed its last nuclear missile silo, fulfilling a pledge to give up the nuclear arsenal it inherited after the breakup of the former Soviet Union.