Today is Thursday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2025. There are 62 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
Today in history:<\/p>\n
On Oct. 30, 1975, the New York Daily News ran the headline \u201cFord to City: Drop Dead,\u201d a day after President Gerald R. Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City, which was on the verge of bankruptcy. The city ultimately evaded bankruptcy despite weathering a severe fiscal crisis.<\/p>\n
Also on this date:<\/p>\n
In 1912, Vice President James S. Sherman, running for a second term of office with Republican President William Howard Taft, died six days before Election Day. (Taft was defeated by Democrat Woodrow Wilson in the election).<\/p>\n
In 1938, the radio play \u201cThe War of the Worlds,\u201d starring Orson Welles, aired on the CBS Radio Network. The broadcast panicked some listeners in its portrayal of an invasion by Martians.<\/p>\n
In 1961, the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb, the \u201cTsar Bomba,\u201d with a force estimated at about 50 megatons (over 3,500 times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima). It remains the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated.<\/p>\n
In 1972, an Illinois Central Gulf commuter train was struck by another train on Chicago\u2019s South Side, killing 45 people and injuring about 350.<\/p>\n
In 1974, Muhammad Ali, 32, knocked out George Foreman, 25, in the eighth round of a scheduled 15-round bout known as the \u201cRumble in the Jungle,\u201d in Kinshasa, Congo (then Zaire), to regain his world heavyweight title.<\/p>\n
In 1995, voters in the province of Quebec narrowly defeated a referendum that called for sovereignty with a new economic and political partnership with Canada.<\/p>\n
In 2005, the late Rosa Parks was the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda; Parks became a civil rights icon by refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white passenger in 1955.<\/p>\n
In 2018, gangster James \u201cWhitey\u201d Bulger was found beaten to death at a federal prison in West Virginia; the 89-year-old former Boston crime boss and longtime FBI informant had been transferred there just hours earlier.(Three inmates entered plea deals and were convicted in Bulger\u2019s killing).<\/p>\n
In 2023, the United Auto Workers said it reached a tentative deal with General Motors, capping a whirlwind few days in which GM, Ford and Stellantis agreed to terms that would end the union\u2019s targeted strikes over six week.(UAW members later ratified the contracts).<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/p>\n
Author Robert Caro is 90.
\nFootball Hall of Fame coach Dick Vermeil is 89.
\nRock singer Grace Slick is 86.
\nSongwriter Eddie Holland is 86.
\nR&B singer Otis Williams (The Temptations) is 84.
\nActor Henry Winkler is 80.
\nBroadcast journalist Andrea Mitchell is 79.
\nCountry\/rock musician Timothy B. Schmit (The Eagles) is 78.
\nActor Harry Hamlin is 74.
\nCountry singer T. Graham Brown is 71.
\nActor Kevin Pollak is 68.
\nActor Michael Beach is 62.
\nMusician Gavin Rossdale (Bush) is 60.
\nActor Nia Long is 55.
\nActor Matthew Morrison is 47.
\nBusiness executive and former presidential adviser Ivanka Trump is 44.
\nOlympic gold medal gymnast Nastia Liukin is 36.
\nNBA guard Devin Booker is 29.
\nNHL defenseman Cale Makar is 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Thursday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2025. There are 62 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14809,4741,9,24,55,54,56,14808,3646],"class_list":["post-22298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-drop-dead-headline","tag-gerald-ford","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-october-30-history","tag-today-in-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}