Today’s highlights

On Oct. 30, 1974, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a scheduled 15-round bout known as the “Rumble in the Jungle,” in Kinshasa, Congo, to regain his world heavyweight title.

On this date

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

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

1961: The Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb, the “Tsar Bomba,” with a force estimated at about 50 megatons (over 3,500 times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima).

2005: The late Rosa Parks became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda; President George W. Bush and congressional leaders paused to lay wreaths by the casket of the civil rights icon.

2018: Notorious gangster James “Whitey” 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.

Today’s birthdays

Rock singer Grace Slick is 85. Songwriter Eddie Holland is 85. R&B singer Otis Williams is 83. Actor Henry Winkler is 79. Broadcast journalist Andrea Mitchell is 78. Country/rock musician Timothy B. Schmit (The Eagles) is 77. Actor Kevin Pollak is 67. A Musician Gavin Rossdale (Bush) is 59. Actor Nia Long is 54. Business executive and former presidential adviser Ivanka Trump is 43.