A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Oct. 30, 1938, the radio play “The War of ...

On this day, October 30th, we take a moment to reflect on the significant historical events that have shaped our world across ...

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The New Jersey "Martian invasion" broadcast is part of American folklore. But some, even then, saw it as a fearful prediction of America today.

There were often special radio shows broadcast across the country and one that perhaps caused the most confusion and mass hysteria was The War of the Worlds. On October 30, 1938, CBS Radio aired a ...

Many Americans were at home that evening, listening to the radio.

When the Mercury Theater broadcast an adaptation of “The War of the Worlds,” its devotion to realism blurred the boundary ...

In 1961, the massive, 50 megaton hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba was detonated by the Soviet Union over Novaya Zemlya. In 1972, two ...

When a mysterious capsule lands in Surrey, George and Amy are caught in a Martian invasion, fighting for their love and their ...

A detectorist is searching for the family of a First World War veteran after unearthing a silver medal in a field in Diss once awarded to one ...