On this day in sport - October 30
1937: A crowd of 68,029 - the highest recorded for a non top-flight league match - watched Aston Villa's Second Division game against Coventry.
1974: Muhammad Ali became the second boxer, after Floyd Patterson, to regain the world heavyweight title when he knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round in the 'Rumble in the Jungle' in Kinshasa, Zaire.
2003: The Football Association suspended four Arsenal players and handed out fines totalling £275,000 for indiscipline in a Premiership match against Manchester United at Old Trafford in September which ended goalless.
Colin Montgomerie clinched his eighth Order of Merit title at Valderrama in 2005
2005: Golfer Colin Montgomerie clinched his eighth European Order of Merit title after finishing joint third in the Volvo Masters at Valderrama.
2006: Craig Levein was appointed manager of Dundee United after Craig Brewster left the Tannadice club 'by mutual and amicable agreement'.
2007: Glenn Roeder was appointed manager of Championship side Norwich.
2007: Brazil were confirmed as the hosts for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
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