On this day in literature
October 30
In literary history
- 1938Orson Welles broadcast The War of the Worlds as a run of news bulletins. The panic that made it famous barely happened; the newspapers, which had been losing advertising to radio all through the Depression, found the story useful and ran it anyway.
Writers born on October 30
- Ezra Pound (1885),
- Ágota Kristóf (1935),
- Robert Caro (1935)