1961 - Soviet Union tests a 58-megaton hydrogen bomb named Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated
1988 - Brazilian McLaren driver Ayrton Senna wins the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, his record 8th Grand Prix win of the season, and clinches his first Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship
1992 - MTA begins installing automated fare collection turnstiles in New York City
1997 - Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona announces his retirement from football on his 37th birthday
2014 - Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks win the 2014 Japan Series
1576 - Enrico Caterino Davila, Italian writer (Storia delguerre civili Francia), born in Padua, Italy (d. 1631)
1840 - William Graham Sumner, American sociologist (Folkways), born in Paterson, New Jersey (d. 1910)
1917 - Bobby Bragan, American baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves) and utility (Philadelphia Phillies, Brooklyn Dodgers), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 2010)
1942 - Sven-David Sandström, Swedish composer (Jeppe: The Cruel Comedy), born in Motala, Sweden (d. 2019)
1954 - T. Graham Brown, American country music singer ("Come As You Were"), born in Arabi, Georgia
1912 - Jan Karol Gall, Polish conductor and composer of mostly vocal pieces (Mizerna, cicha), dies at 55
1972 - Alan Roth, American orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 68
2002 - William Mitchell, British physicist, dies at 77
2006 - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (symbolic anthropology), dies at 80
2018 - María Irene Fornés, Cuban-American playwright (Fefu and Her Friends, Enter the Night), dies at 88
Broadcast on October 30, 1938, the radio dramatization of a Martian invasion caused panic.