"On Oct. 30, 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, which was on the verge of bankruptcy. The city ultimately evaded bankruptcy despite weathering a severe fiscal crisis. Also on this date: In 1912, Vice President James S. Sherman, running for a second term of office with Republican President William Howard Taft, died six days before Election Day."
"In 1938, the radio play The War of the Worlds, starring Orson Welles, aired on the CBS Radio Network. The broadcast panicked some listeners in its portrayal of an invasion by Martians. In 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). It remains the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated."
Oct. 30 has seen consequential events across decades. In 1975 New York City faced near-bankruptcy after President Gerald R. Ford said he would veto a federal bailout, prompting the New York Daily News headline Ford to City: Drop Dead; the city ultimately avoided bankruptcy. In 1912 Vice President James S. Sherman died six days before Election Day. In 1938 Orson Welles's radio play The War of the Worlds panicked some listeners. In 1961 the Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever tested. Other notable events include fatal train collisions, Muhammad Ali's 1974 victory, Quebec's 1995 referendum, Rosa Parks lying in honor in 2005, and Whitey Bulger's 2018 death.
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