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Orson Welles performed the radio novel 'War between Worlds' in the United States amid an alien invasion

86
years ago

30 October 1938,

In the US, Orson Welles performed the radio novel War between Worlds, spreading during an alien invasion. Thousands of citizens believed it. It is a fact widely used to talk about media power. The Vitorian free radio Hala Bedi did the same by spreading the leak from the Garoña nuclear power plant, associating the same effect.

On this day
1969Francoist police shot Josu Murueta to death in protest against pollution in Erandio
1977For the first time in 1936, people shot by Francoists at the Hernani cemetery were publicly honored.
1982The union Euskal Herriko Laborarien Batasuna was created by the farmers of the French Basque Country: ELB
1995Second referendum on the independence of Québec

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1938-04-11
Francoist military police arrested about 30 people in the Catachu bar raid in Pamplona
1938-05-04
The Vatican slipped in favor of Franco, praising the “National Crusade”
1938-05-14
Fascist farewell of the English football team in Berlin
1938-05-22
795 prisoners escaped Ezcaba prison in Europe's largest flight
1938-05-29
In Estella Casimira Andiarena screamed “Down the arms!” in the middle of a military holiday
1938-05-30
The Spanish military governor prohibited the churches of Hego Euskal Herria from making preaches in Euskera
1938-06-27
Tenants in East London’s Stepney Workers District started an income strike
1938-07-25
The Battle of the Ebro begins, the longest and most violent battle of the 1936 War
1938-08-31
The director of the Urola train, Ramón Pagola, published the tickets in Euskera
1938-10-21
Fine of 500 pesetas for calling your son on “Jontxu” street
1938-10-30
Orson Welles performed the radio novel 'War between Worlds' in the United States amid an alien invasion
1938-11-09
In Germany and Austria the Nazis made a pogroma against the Jews 'Night of broken crystals'
1938-11-16
End of the Battle of the Ebro
1938-11-26
Basque Boys football team, made up of Basque refugee children fleeing war, played the first friendly match in Wales
1938-11-28
A person was arrested at Café Iruña for not being raised with the Spanish hymn and making a fascist greeting

This month's anniversaries:
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5
years ago
2019-10-22
Women of the Spanish football league called indefinite strike
5
years ago
2019-10-14
Barcelona International Airport Block by Tsunami Democràtic
5
years ago
2019-10-07
The Extinction Rebellion movement calls the day of disobedience
10
years ago
2014-10-11
About 100,000 people from all over Ireland joined Dublin against the privatization of water services
10
years ago
2014-10-10
In Deusto they organized the Askegune to denounce the intention to arrest two young strikers
20
years ago
2004-10-01
Torturator Enrique Rodríguez Galindo, five of the 75-year-old prison sentence
25
years ago
1999-10-25
Ten members of Itoiz Solidarios hanged in London's giant noria
30
years ago
1994-10-03
ETB broadcast of the first episode of the 'Goenkale' series
35
years ago
1989-10-19
Fire at the Vandellòs I nuclear power plant in Tarragona
35
years ago
1989-10-18
The Leitzaran Highway Coordinator started an indefinite camp
40
years ago
1984-10-12
Margaret Thatcher was saved from the IRA attack shortly after
50
years ago
1974-10-29
Etarra Iñaki Iparragirre and civil guard Jerónimo Vera died in a shooting in Pasaia
50
years ago
1974-10-09
Oskar Schindler dies in Sweden
55
years ago
1969-10-30
Francoist police shot Josu Murueta to death in protest against pollution in Erandio
55
years ago
1969-10-08
The Tupamanos stole some 40,000 pesos and spread them among the poor in the city in Uruguay
80
years ago
1944-10-07
Hundreds of Auschwitz prisoners rebelled against the Nazis
85
years ago
1939-10-19
Aquiles Cuadra was shot by Francoists
90
years ago
1934-10-19
Spanish army reduced the Asturian Revolution with huge repression
90
years ago
1934-10-09
Armed workers shot in the port of Pasaia with the Turmoil Guard and the Civil Guard
90
years ago
1934-10-08
The Civil Guard shot Emilio Iguzkiza in Altsasu with her 14-month-old son in arms
90
years ago
1934-10-06
Lluis Companys proclaimed the Republic of Catalonia from the balcony of the Generalitat
90
years ago
1934-10-06
Shootings between strikers in the Mining Area and the Spanish army during the October Revolution
90
years ago
1934-10-05
The October Revolution begins, with special impact on Eibar, Arrasate and the Left Margin of Bizkaia
90
years ago
1934-10-05
The Arrasate strikers took the people during the October Revolution and arrested the authorities
95
years ago
1929-10-29
There was the 'Krak 29' in the American stock market.
95
years ago
1929-10-24
Craca starts at 29 and as a consequence the Great Depression
95
years ago
1929-10-18
Women in Canada acquired legal status
110
years ago
1914-10-21
The thumb Pierre Etxeberri was shot by the French army, I. Accused of deserting the World War
135
years ago
1889-10-18
Death in New York Antonio Meucci, a man who invented the phone but didn't take credit