Today is Wednesday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2002. There are 62 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2002. There are 62 days left in the year. On this date in 1938, the radio play "The War of the Worlds," starring Orson Welles, airs on CBS. (The live drama, which employed fake news reports, panicked some listeners who thought its portrayal of a Martian invasion was true.)
In 1735, the second president of the United States, John Adams, is born in Braintree, Mass. In 1885, poet Ezra Pound is born in Hailey, Idaho. In 1944, the Martha Graham ballet "Appalachian Spring," with music by Aaron Copland, premieres at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with Graham in a leading role. In 1945, the U.S. government announces the end of shoe rationing. In 1961, the Soviet Union tests a hydrogen bomb with a force estimated at 58 megatons. In 1961, the Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb. In 1972, 45 people are killed when an Illinois Central Gulf commuter train collides with another train in Chicago's South Side. In 1979, President Carter announces his choice of federal appeals judge Shirley Hufstedler to head the newly created Department of Education. In 1995, by a vote of 50.6 percent to 49.4 percent, Federalists prevail over separatists in Quebec in a secession referendum. In 2000, comedian, television host, author and composer Steve Allen dies in Encino, Calif., at age 78.
October 30, 1977: The Youngstown area drops from the third largest industrial region in Ohio in 1947 to seventh by 1972, statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Census show.
While some steel mills are curtailing operations, U.S. Steel Corp. continues preliminary studies for a huge new mill near Conneaut.
Bishop James W. Malone of the Youngstown Catholic Diocese is among 10 bishops and cardinals being considered for the presidency of the National Council of Catholic Bishops and the United States Catholic Conference.
October 30, 1962: Mrs. Nancy Beckett Thoua, 67, of Iddings Ave., Warren, dies in a Pueblo, Colo., hospital of injuries received in an auto accident near Pueblo while she was on her honeymoon.
The Mahoning County Board of Elections files a lawsuit asking the Common Pleas Court to determine the amount the board should get from the county above the 1962 appropriation so that it can finish out the year. The board has asked for $44,758 more.
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October 30, 1952: Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. plans to build a 76-oven by-products coke plant at its Campbell Works at an estimated cost of $10 million.
The Slumber Shop, 2812 Market St., is destroyed by a fire that was apparently smoldering for several hours before it erupted. The loss is estimated at $60,000.
Holy Trinity English Lutheran Church observes the 30th anniversary of the ordination of its pastor, the Rev. George D. Keister.
October 30, 1927: To show that his prohibition against "hip liquor" at football games is no idle threat, Trumbull Sheriff John J. Smith arrests a 28-year-old New Castle man for having a pint of liquor at the Sharpsville-Sharon game at Masury Field.
Duquesne University of Pittsburgh captures a hard game from Dike Beede's Westminster gridders, 10-0, in New Wilmington.
The Women's Athletic Association is organized at the Young Women's Christian Association with Miss Mary Russell as president, Miss Lucy Louise Evans as director of recreation and Katherine Kennedy Thomas as director of basketball activities.