Source: Good News Network
80 years ago today, “The War of the Worlds” radio drama was broadcast on CBS nationwide, and its unique format of news reporting unintentionally sent the country into a panic. Upwards of a million people actually believed alien Martians had landed. It was the Halloween episode of The Mercury Theatre on the Air produced, directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, adapted from the H.
G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds.Many had tuned in late and missed the announcement that this was a dramatic play. Instead, they heard what sounded like a news bulletin: “Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our evening of dance music to bring you a special bulletin…at 20 minutes before eight… several explosions of incandescent gas… traveling from the planet Mars.” WATCH a PBS video… (1938)
More Good News from this Date:
- Russia’s first constitution and legislative assembly established by the Tsar (1905)
- 100 years ago today, the Ottoman Empire signed an armistice ending WW I in Middle East (1918)
- El Salvador and Honduras signed a peace treaty over border dispute (1980)
- First democratic elections in Argentina after 7 years of military rule (1983)
- The Madrid…
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