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 CBS.

1945

The U.S. government announced the end of shoe rationing, effective at midnight.

1961

The Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb, the “Tsar Bomba,” with a force estimated at about 50 megatons.

1974

Muhammad Ali knocked 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.

2001

Ukraine destroyed its last nuclear missile silo, fulfilling a pledge to give up the vast nuclear arsenal it had inherited after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Birthdays

Movie director Claude Lelouch is 86. Actor Henry Winkler is 78. Broadcast journalist Andrea Mitchell is 77. Country/rock musician Timothy B. Schmit (The Eagles) is 76. Actor Harry Hamlin is 72. Actor Matthew Morrison is 45. Business executive and former presidential adviser Ivanka Trump is 42. Actor Fiona Dourif is 42. NHL defenseman Cale Makar is 25.