Today is Tuesday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2018. There are 62 days left in the year.

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2018. 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.

1912: Vice President James S. Sherman, running for a second term of office with President William Howard Taft, dies six days before Election Day.

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.

1945: Shoe rationing in the U.S. ends.

1972: Forty-five people are killed when an Illinois Central Gulf commuter train is struck from behind by another train on Chicago’s South Side.

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.

1995: By a razor-thin vote of 50.6 percent to 49.4 percent, Federalists prevail over separatists in a Quebec secession from Canada referendum.

2002: Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell), a rapper with the hip-hop group Run-DMC, is killed in a shooting in New York. He was 37.

2008: President Barack Obama takes “full responsibility” for fixing his administration’s troubled health insurance website.

2017: Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a former Manafort business associate, Rick Gates, are indicted on felony charges including conspiracy against the U.S.

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1993: Vince Ryan, 33, of Canfield fought since April 13 to survive a five-organ transplant, but dies of multiple infections in Presbyterian University Hospital in Pittsburgh.

Youngstown Superintendent Alfred Tutela says he is looking for a new job because he fears the Youngstown board is not willing to make the changes necessary.

Ohio Gov. George Voinovich pushes the button to start production at Exal Corp., which manufactures aluminum aerosol cans on 30 acres of land off Poland Avenue formerly occupied by LTV Corp.

1978: A $300,000 fire destroys the old Joseph Supermarket building on the south side of New Castle, Pa. It was built in 1918 in what was known as the Jacob Levine block.

During the dedication of a new arts and sciences building, William J. Lyden, chairman of the Youngstown State University board of trustees, predicts YSU will play a dramatic role in the economic recovery of the Mahoning Valley.

Rabbi Alexander Schindler, past president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, tells several hundred people at Rodef Sholom Temple that the prospects are excellent that a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt will be concluded by the end of the year.

1968: Police Chief John Terlecky tells a neighborhood meeting at Greater Friendship Baptist Church that police patrols of Hillman Street bars showed no underage drinking.

Struthers city police believe the arrest of six boys, age 15 to 17, solve the thefts of up to 49 stereos and tapes from parked cars over five months.

1943: Charles G. Watson, president of Youngstown Welding & Engineering Co., announces his company will receive another Army-Navy Double “E” flag for its outstanding war production.

Sgt. Nicholas Morgan of Warren is decorated for the third time, the latest being the Oak Leaf Cluster to his Air Medal. Morgan is an engineer and top turret gunner on the bomber “Miss Oklahoma Sooner.”

A youthful burglar who wore a nightgown over his clothing walked into home of Mrs. Douglass Forsyth on Alameda Avenue and grabbed two purses containing $22. Mrs. Forsyth gave chase and managed to grab the nightgown, which had been taken from her laundry.