In 1974, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire (zah-EER’), known as the “Rumble in the Jungle,” to regain his world heavyweight title. In 1972, 45 people were killed when an Illinois Central Gulf commuter train was struck from behind by another train on Chicago’s South Side. The Soviet Party Congress unanimously approved a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin’s body from Lenin’s tomb.

In 1961, the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb, the “Tsar Bomba,” with a force estimated at about 50 megatons. government announced the end of shoe rationing, effective at midnight. In 1938, the radio play “The War of the Worlds,” starring Orson Welles, aired on CBS.

(Sherman was replaced with Nicholas Murray Butler, but Taft, the Republican candidate, ended up losing in an Electoral College landslide to Democrat Woodrow Wilson.) Sherman, running for a second term of office with President William Howard Taft, died six days before Election Day.

In 1885, poet Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho. Bush and congressional leaders paused to lay wreaths by her casket. Capitol, where the civil rights icon became the first woman to lie in honor in the Rotunda President George W. 30, 2005, the body of Rosa Parks arrived at the U.S.

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