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Events on Sunday 30 October 1938 1
1938The War of the Worlds radio broadcastOrson Welles dramatises a Martian invasion on CBS radioThe Mercury Theatre on the Air presented H. G. Wells's novel as a series of realistic news bulletins. Newspapers reported widespread panic among listeners, and the broadcast made Orson Welles famous.