
First broadcast: Oct 30, 1938
Adaptations: War of the Worlds (1988)

Photo of Orson Welles meeting with reporters in an effort to explain that no one connected with the War of the Worlds radio broadcast had any idea the show would cause panic.
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(1938) Martian spaceships land in Grover’s Mill, New Jersey.
Also on this day,
1864 | Last Chance Gulch is renamed to something fit for a capital
Also on this day,
1864 | Last Chance Gulch is renamed to something fit for a capital
Four prospectors from Georgia have dubbed a gold-producing site near Prickly Pear Creek in Montana Territory, ‘Last Chance Gulch.’ But three months later, the population has swelled to more than 200 and a more refined name is called for. ‘Pumpkinville’ is dismissed in favor of ‘Helena.’1974 | Ali and Foreman ‘Rumble in the Jungle’
Former heavyweight boxing champ Muhammad Ali challenges reigning champ George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaïre, for a $5 million purse. In the heavily promoted fight, Ali introduces his ‘rope-a-dope’ style, taking punches against the ropes to wear Foreman down before Ali knocks him out in the eighth round.1991 | ‘Perfect Storm’ hits peak as a monster storm churns in the North Atlantic
A meeting of two weather systems turns malevolent as Hurricane Grace rotates north off the US Eastern Seaboard and is pulled into a nor’easter moving down from Canada. The resulting monster cyclone packs waves exceeding 100 feet, low pressure of 972 millibars, and 70-mph gales.
Today in History 10/30/17

Start date: Oct 29, 1974
Fighters: Muhammad Ali · George Foreman
Venue: Kinshasa
This is a poster for The Rumble in the Jungle. The poster art copyright is believed to belong to the distributor of the boxing event, the publisher of the boxing event or the graphic artist.
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