October 30
1534 - The English Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Church of England.
1912 - Vice President James S. Sherman, running for a second term of office with President William Howard Taft, died six days before Election Day.
1938 - The radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds," starring Orson Welles, caused nationwide panic among listeners who believed an alien invasion was actually taking place.
1953 - Gen. George C. Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize for originating the Marshall Plan.
1961 - The Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb, the "Tsar Bomba," with a force estimated at 50 megatons (over 3,500 times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II.)
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 R. Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.
1995 - By a razor-thin vote of 50.6 percent to 49.4 percent, Federalists prevailed over separatists in a referendum on Quebec seceding from Canada.
2005 - The late Rosa Parks became the first woman to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda; President George W. Bush and congressional leaders paused to lay wreaths by the casket of the civil rights icon.
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 just hours earlier.
Birthdays
26 - Ananya Panday (actress)
28 - Devin Booker (basketball player)
33 - Georgina Mazzeo (model)
35 - Nastia Liukin (gymnast)
37 - Ashley Graham (model)
40 - Eva Marcille (model)
43 - Ivanka Trump (daughter of President Donald Trump)
46 - Matthew Morrison (actor)
47 - Gretchen Rossi (reality star)
51 - Adam "Edge" Copeland (professional wrestler)
54 - Nia Long (actress)
61 - Michael Beach (actor)
67 - Kevin Pollak (actor)
70 - T. Graham Brown (singer)
73 - Harry Hamlin (actor)
78 - Andrea Mitchell (broadcast journalist)
79 - Henry Winkler (actor)
85 - Grace Slick (singer)
88 - Dick Vermeil (football coach)
89 - Robert Caro (author)
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Today in Sports History - October 30
1919 - Major League Baseball outlawed spitballs and shineballs.
1945 - Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a contract with the Montreal Royals, the top minor league affiliate of the Dodgers.
1954 - The 24-second shot clock is used for the first time in the NBA.
1974 - Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round in Kinshasa, Zaire (the "Rumble in the Jungle") to regain the world heavyweight championship.
1992 - Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers played his last game in the NBA before retiring for the second and last time.
2001 - In New York City, President George W. Bush threw out the first pitch at Game 3 of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
2001 - Michael Jordan returned to the NBA as a player with the Washington Wizards after a 3 1/2 year retirement.
2013 - The Boston Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in six games to win their third World Series in ten years.
2016 - The Oakland Raiders break the single game record for most penalties in an NFL game with 23 in a win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
2019 - The Washington Nationals defeat the Houston Astros in seven games to win their first World Series.
2023 - According to Forbes, former basketball player Magic Johnson becomes the fourth athlete to become a billionaire, joining Michael Jordan, LeBron James and Tiger Woods.
