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October 30th in Astronomy and Space Science
Invention1938Orson Welles broadcasts a dramatized version of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. The broadcast describes an on-going Martian invasion in Grovers Mill, New Jersey. Over 6 million people heard the broadcast and despite repeated announcements that it was a dramatization, roughly 1.2 million people believed it to be true.
Unmanned Spaceflight1981USSR launches the Venera 13 spacecraft. On 1 March 1982, it lands in a ancient volcanic region of Venus and sends back color television pictures of the surface and sky.
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