Non-musical history for today: They have landed!!! 1938—Orson Welles broadcasted a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States. Radio was still in its infancy at that point, and people hadn’t grown weary of broadcast media. So, they fell for it.
Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for October 30.
Recorded in the Omniverus Podcast Studios at Liberty Plaza.
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