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October 30

4 sourced moments from October 30 in history: Russia's October Manifesto Promised Civil Liberties (1905); Orson Welles aired War of the Worlds as fake news bulletins (1938); The 50-megaton Tsar Bomba is still the biggest bomb ever (1961), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on October 30

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1974 Sports · Combat Sports

Ali shocked Foreman in the "Rumble in the Jungle"

In Kinshasa before a billion viewers, an aging underdog leaned on the ropes, let Foreman punch himself out, then knocked him cold.

1961 Science · Physics

The 50-megaton Tsar Bomba is still the biggest bomb ever

The Soviet Tsar Bomba of 30 October 1961 was 1,570 times Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, yet its designers deliberately made it unusually clean.

1938 Language & Communication · Media & Communication

Orson Welles aired War of the Worlds as fake news bulletins

On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles dressed an alien invasion as breaking news on CBS, and the legend of nationwide panic was born.

1905 Society & Economy · Politics & Law

Russia's October Manifesto Promised Civil Liberties

Crippled by a nationwide general strike, Tsar Nicholas II reluctantly signed away a slice of his absolute power in a single page.