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2A Daily News – Wednesday, October 30, 2013 Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2013. There are 62 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 30, 1938, the radio play ''The War of the Worlds,'' starring Orson Welles, aired on CBS. (The live drama, which employed fake breaking news reports, panicked some listeners who thought the portrayal of a Martian invasion was real.) On this date: In 1735, the second president of the United States, John Adams, was born in Braintree, Mass. In 1885, poet Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho. In 1921, the silent film classic ''The Sheik,'' starring Rudolph Valentino, premiered in Los Angeles. In 1945, the U.S. government announced the end of shoe rationing, effective at midnight. In 1961, the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb, the ''Tsar Bomba,'' with a force estimated at about 50 megatons. The Soviet Party Congress unanimously approved a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb. In 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. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter announced his choice of federal appeals judge Shirley Hufstedler to head the newly created Department of Education. Ten years ago: The House approved an $87.5 billion package for Iraq and Afghanistan. Four construction workers were killed when an Atlantic City casino parking garage collapsed. Five years ago: A federal jury in Miami convicted the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor in the first case brought under a 1994 U.S. law allowing prosecution for torture and atrocities committed overseas. (Charles McArthur Emmanuel was later sentenced to 97 years in prison.) Today's Birthdays: Actor Dick Gautier is 76. Movie director Claude Lelouch is 76. Rock singer Grace Slick is 74. Songwriter Eddie Holland is 74. Rhythm-andblues singer Otis Williams (The Temptations) is 72. Actor Henry Winkler is 68. Broadcast journalist Andrea Mitchell is 67. Rock musician Chris Slade (Asia) is 67. Country/rock musician Timothy B. Schmit (The Eagles) is 66. Actor Leon Rippy is 64. Actor Harry Hamlin is 62. Actor Charles Martin Smith is 60. Country singer T. Graham Brown is 59. Actor Kevin Pollak is 56. Actor Michael Beach is 50. Rock singer-musician Gavin Rossdale (Bush) is 46. Thought for Today: ''When love is not madness, it is not love.'' — Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish dramatist (1600-1681). Shasta College Humanities Through Film class presents SHASTA SCARES N O V E M B E R 1 ST A FREE night of frightfully fun films and activities for all ages MOVIES TO BE SHOWN Thirteen Ghosts Stephen King's-"Silver Bullet" It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Young Frankenstein Dora's Halloween Parade •Film showings •Costume contest/parade •Kids games •Bring a pre carved pumpkin to enter our jack-o-lantern contest •Refreshments m s start at 7p at Film rt ctivities sta A 6:30pm Tehama Campus Located at the Shasta College Tahama Campus in Red Bluff