30 October 2016

History for the day: 1938: Welles scares nation

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Oct
30
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1938
Welles scares nation
Orson Welles causes a nationwide panic with his broadcast of "War of the Worlds"-a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth. Orson Welles was only 23 years old when his Mercury Theater company decided to update H.G. Wells' 19th-century science fiction novel War of the Worlds for... read more »
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