YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2015. There are 62 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1735: The second president of the United States, John Adams, is born in Braintree, Mass.

1864: Helena, Mont., is founded.

1921: The silent -film classic “The Sheik,” starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres in Los Angeles.

1938: The radio play “The War of the Worlds,” starring Orson Welles, airs on CBS.

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

1953: Gen. George C. Marshall is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Albert Schweitzer receives the Peace Prize for 1952.

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.

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.

1997: A jury in Cambridge, Mass., convicts British au pair Louise Woodward of second-degree murder in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. (The judge, Hiller B. Zobel, later reduced the verdict to manslaughter and set Woodward free.)

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1990: Larry Diemand, manager of the Youngstown Municipal Airport, says the airport has the capacity to do a lot more business than the 100,000 passengers a year it is serving.

Sun Television and Appliances Inc., a Columbus-based retailer, says it will open two stores in the Mahoning Valley, one in Boardman and one in Warren at the site of the former Living Room restaurant.

Campbell Memorial High School’s football team caps an undefeated season winning the Associated Press Division IV statewide poll.

1975: By a 4-3 vote, Youngstown City Council adopts a resolution endorsing the Plaza East Industrial Development Program that would cost about $2.4 million, half of which would come from the federal government.

Retired world championship pocket billiards player Willie Mosconi, who won the championship 15 times and was a technical adviser on the movie “The Hustler,” appears at the Strouss department store downtown, at Eastwood Mall and at Southern Park Mall.

Stephen Bondor Sr., who worked as a custodian at The Vindicator until he was 82, dies at age 90. He leaves six sons, all of whom became registered engineers.

1965: A 22-year-old Youngstown University coed who was abducted while walking to a night class is found beaten and locked in the trunk of a car at East Wood and North Walnut streets.

Mary L. McFarland, the first female employee to serve 50 years at U.S. Steel Corp. Youngstown plant, is given a gold watch during a luncheon.

Nativity of Christ Orthodox Catholic Church observes its golden jubilee.

1940: Dr. Samuel Sokal, a writer and leader in the Zionist movement who returned from a visit to Palestine and Europe, will speak at the Jewish Community Center.

The T.H. Enterprise Co. takes over the old National Tire and Rubber Co. and will begin work on a process to convert waste paper into pulp.

Robert T. Beal of the National Defense Advisory Commission surveys plants in the New Castle area with an eye toward utilizing some of them in defense projects.

Youngstown police block attempts by nonstriking employees to break through a United Rubber Workers Union picket line at the Republic Rubber Co.’s Albert Street plant.