Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
In Kinshasa before a billion viewers, an aging underdog leaned on the ropes, let Foreman punch himself out, then knocked him cold.
On October 30, 1961, the USSR detonated the 50-megaton Tsar Bomba over the Arctic, the most powerful explosion humans have ever set off.
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles dressed an alien invasion as breaking news on CBS, and the legend of nationwide panic was born.
