Updated October 29, 2012, 2:29 pm
On Oct. 30, 1974, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, to regain his world heavyweight title.
On Oct. 30, 1915, Fred Friendly, the pioneering American broadcast journalist , was born. Following his death on March 3, 1998, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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1735 John Adams, the second president of the United States, was born in Braintree, Mass. 1885 Poet Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho. 1953 George C. Marshall, who, as secretary of state following World War II, engineered a massive economic aid program for Europe, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1961 The Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb. 1974 Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, to regain his world heavyweight title. 1975 The New York Daily News ran 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. 1997 A jury in Cambridge, Mass., convicted British au pair Louise Woodward of second-degree murder in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. The judge later reduced the verdict to manslaughter and set Woodward free. 2003 Lebron James made his NBA debut with the Cleveland Cavaliers. 2005 Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Current Birthdays
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Actor Matthew Morrison (“Glee”) turns 34 years old today.
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Soccer player and coach Diego Maradona turns 52 years old today.
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1936 Dick Vermeil, Football coach, turns 76 1939 Eddie Holland, Songwriter, turns 73 1939 Grace Slick, Rock singer (Jefferson Airplane/Starship), turns 73 1945 Henry Winkler, Actor (“Happy Days”), turns 67 1947 Timothy B. Schmit, Rock musician (The Eagles), turns 65 1951 Harry Hamlin, Actor (“L.A. Law”), turns 61 1953 Pete Hoekstra, U.S. congressman, R-Mich., turns 59 1957 Kevin Pollak, Actor, turns 55 1967 Gavin Rossdale, Rock musician (Bush), turns 45 1970 Nia Long, Actress, turns 42 1978 Gael Garcia Bernal, Actor (“The Motorcycle Diaries”), turns 34 1989 Nastia Liukin, Olympic gold-medal gymnast, turns 23 Historic Birthdays
Fred Friendly 10/30/1915 – 3/3/1998 American broadcast journalist.Go to obituary »
90 John Adams 10/30/1735 – 7/4/1826
Second president of the United States (1797-1801)59 Alfred Sisley 10/30/1839 – 1/29/1899
French Impressionist painter64 Louis Winslow Austin 10/30/1867 – 6/27/1932
American physicist76 William F. Halsey Jr. 10/30/1882 – 8/16/1959
American naval commander; led World War II Pacific naval campaigns87 Ezra Loomis Pound 10/30/1885 – 11/1/1972
American poet and literary critic79 Charles Atlas 10/30/1892 – 12/24/1972
Italian-born American bodybuilder; co-created mail-order bodybuilding course77 Dickinson Woodruff Richards 10/30/1895 – 2/23/1973
American Nobel Prize-winning physiologist (1956)88 Ruth Gordon 10/30/1896 – 8/28/1985
American actress71 Daniel Nathans 10/30/1928 – 11/16/1999
American Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist (1978)63 Louis Malle 10/30/1932 – 11/23/1995
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