Years Ago

October 30, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Saturday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2010. There are 62 days left in the year.

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1893: The U.S. Senate gives final congressional approval to repealing the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890.

1938: The radio play “The War of the Worlds,” starring Orson Welles, airs on CBS. (The live drama, which employed fake breaking news reports, panicked some listeners who thought the portrayal of a Martian invasion was real.)

1945: The U.S. government announces the end of shoe rationing, effective at midnight.

1961: The Soviet Union tests a hydrogen bomb, the “Tsar Bomba,” with a force estimated at about 50 megatons.

The Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin’s body from Lenin’s tomb.

1974: Muhammad Ali knocks 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.

1979: President Jimmy Carter names federal appeals judge Shirley Hufstedler to head the newly created Department of Education.

1985: Schoolteacher-astronaut Christa McAuliffe witnesses the launch of the space shuttle Challenger, the same craft that carried her and six other crew members to their deaths in January 1986.

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1985: The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio says Ohio Edison will have to wait until its Perry Nuclear Power Plant begins producing power before it can pass along costs to Ohio electricity consumers.

Speaking at a celebration marking the 40th anniversary of the United Nations, Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, says the UN has done little to end the nuclear arms race.

1970: Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel appears before 500 area Republicans at a breakfast at the Hotel Ohio in support of Robert A. Taft Jr.’s campaign for the state Senate.

Lykes-Youngstown directors drop a bombshell on the Youngstown area business community, announcing that the company will not pay a dividend in the first quarter of 1971.

The Youngstown Diocese has established a committee on school financing in response to complaints from parish priests that it is becoming increasing difficult to meet assessments to support the six diocesan high schools.

1960: Vice Adm. H.G. Rickover, known as “father of the atomic Navy,” says the United States has let its great material wealth delude it into a dangerous sense of complacency, especially in its failure to support education.

The Vindicator’s second half poll predicts a victory by Democrat John F. Kennedy over Vice President Richard M. Nixon in Trumbull County, but not by as wide a margin as Truman carried the county in 1948.

1935: The Youngstown Metropolitan Area Citizens Committee and a group of church leaders vote separately to find Park Commissioner Lionel Evans and former police prosecutor W.B. Spagnola “best qualified” in a crowded race for mayor, which also includes Councilman Michael Kirwan and Fire Chief Harry Callan.

Secretary of State Henry Morganthau declares the new dollar bill that will be released in November is “the handsomest ever” and will feature a picture of the great seal on both sides.

While Judge George Gessner is working on a decision on the legality of “mint-vending” slot machines, a new line of machines known as “Wagon Wheels” are showing up in Youngstown.