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October 30

October 30

Events on This Day

  • 1811

    202 years ago

    Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility is published anonymously.

  • 1938

    75 years ago

    Orson Welles causes a nationwide panic with his War of the Worlds radio broadcast.

    Read more at History.com

  • 1969

    44 years ago

    A court rules that the inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, found in Senator Ted Kennedy's car in a pond, will be held privately.

  • 2003

    10 years ago

    Lebron James begins playing with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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