{"id":41664,"date":"2018-10-30T08:05:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T13:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=41664"},"modified":"2018-10-30T08:03:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T13:03:29","slug":"this-day-in-history-orson-welles-broadcasts-war-of-the-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=41664","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Orson Welles broadcasts &#8220;War of the Worlds&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>October 30<\/h4>\n<p>1534<br \/>\nThe English parliament passed the Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church.<\/p>\n<p>1938<br \/>\nRadio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, starring Orson Welles, caused nationwide panic among listeners.<\/p>\n<p>1944<br \/>\nMartha Graham&#8217;s ballet Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron Copland, premiered.<\/p>\n<p>1953<br \/>\nGen. George C. Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize for originating the Marshall Plan.<\/p>\n<p>1974<br \/>\nMuhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire (&#8220;rumble in the jungle&#8221;) to regain his world heavyweight title.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>Ezra Pound<br \/>\n1885\u20131972, American poet, critic, and translator, born in Hailey, Idaho, graduated Hamilton College, 1905, M.A. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1906.<\/p>\n<p>John Adams<br \/>\nU.S. president (1735)<\/p>\n<p>Alfred Sisley<br \/>\nlandscape painter (1839)<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Gordon<br \/>\nactress and playwright (1896)<\/p>\n<p>Fred W. Friendly<br \/>\nbroadcaster and author (1915)<\/p>\n<p>Louis Malle<br \/>\ndirector (1932)<\/p>\n<p>Diego Maradona<br \/>\nsoccer player (1960)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 30 1534 The English parliament passed the Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church. 1938 Radio broadcast of The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11733],"tags":[69,103,1495,290],"class_list":["post-41664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dayinhistory","tag-fhsu","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-tigermedianet","tag-tmn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41665,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41664\/revisions\/41665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}