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Today is Sunday, Oct. 30, the 304th day of 2016. There are 62 days left in the year.

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

1766: St. Paul’s Chapel, Manhattan’s oldest surviving house of worship, is consecrated in the Episcopal Diocese of New York.

1864: Helena, Mont., is founded.

1900: The first-ever automobile show in the nation opens at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

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 as part of “The Mercury Theater on the Air” on CBS. (The broadcast, which employed a series of fake news reports about a Martian invasion, was said to have panicked some listeners, although how many has never been definitively established.)

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.

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.

1975: The New York Daily News runs 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.

1996: After a four-hour trial, a Chinese court sentences pro-democracy activist Wang Dan to 11 years in prison for “conspiring to subvert the Chinese government.” (Wang was freed in April 1998 and sent into exile in the United States.)

2011: Britain’s Sunday Telegraph publishes an interview with Syrian President Bashar Assad, who warned that a western intervention in Syria would lead to an “earthquake” that “would burn the whole region.”

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain’s campaign denies a Politico report that he’d been twice accused of sexual harassment while he was the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. (This and other allegations, all denied by Cain, prompted his withdrawal from the White House race.)

2015: The United States escalates its fight against the Islamic State in Syria, pledging the first open deployment of military boots on the ground.

A fire breaks out at a nightclub in Bucharest, Romania, killing 64 people.

Character actor Al Molinaro, 96, dies in Glendale, Calif.

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1991: Lawrence County commissioners say they were shocked to receive a $230,000 bill for court- appointed attorneys, some representing unpaid bills that are five years old.

The 160-year-old Strock Stone House, tucked away on the banks of the Meander Reservoir, is now a part of the Austintown Parks system and will be open for tours.

Enrollment in the federal food stamp program is at record levels with nearly one in 10 Americans receiving food assistance from the government, the Department of Agriculture reports.

1976: Speaking in Youngs-town, Marvin Weinstock, a candidate for United Steel Workers International vice president, calls for a 6-hour work day in the coke plants and the nation’s steel mills.

Two brothers are being held under police guard at South Side Hospital after having been shot by the police as they allegedly fled a burglary at 420 Falls Ave.

Atty. Lawrence J. Seidita, who has been an assistant prosecutor for the city of Youngstown, joins the staff of Mahoning County Prosecutor Vincent E. Gilmartin.

1966: A two-day program will be held in honor of the inauguration of Dr. Albert Pugsley as second president of Youngstown University. A highlight of the inauguration at Stambaugh Auditorium will be an address by Dr. Milton Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins University.

Immaculate Conception Parish opens a Catholic Information Bureau in a storefront at 1828 Jacobs Road to serve residents of the area, including those who use the McGuffey Center across the street.

J.M. Rosenbaum, Youngs-town representative of Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., gains national recognition for his sales record of personal production for September. He ranked first in the nation in number of policies sold.

1941: Despite Youngstown Mayor William Spagnola’s warning that civil service employees are not allowed to participate in political activity, some city departments are actively preparing propaganda against a city charter amendment on partisan primaries.

Dr. Charles Brown, an archeologist who says he got his degree from “Mother Earth,” spent 45 years learning how 20,000 years of humanity made light. His collection of lamps is on display on McKelvey’s fourth floor.

The Cavanaugh Company’s fall sale features floor lamps of many styles priced from $12.50 to $25.