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October 30
1938. Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, creating anxiety and, in some cases, outright panic in parts of the US that Earth is being invaded by Martians. The realism of the attack was heightened by the fact that parts of the show were broadcast as pretend news reports, and it ran without commercial break.
1945. Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers to break baseball's color barrier.
1961. The Soviet Union detonates the most powerful explosive device ever detonated -- the 58 megaton hydrogen "Tsar Bomba".
1974. The Rumble in the Jungle, a boxing match between former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and then heavyweight champion George Foreman, takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire. Using his rope-a-dope technique, Ali wins by knockout in the eighth round.
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