The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
October 30 Literary Facts
Richard Brinsley Sheridan is born
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Gertrude Atherton is born
Paul Valéry is born
Zoë Akins is born
Timothy Findley is born
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Rudolfo Anaya is born
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Orson Welles’s Halloween Eve radio broadcast describing in realistic fashion a Martian invasion of the Earth, based upon H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds, terrifies many radio listeners throughout the United States
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Pío Baroja dies
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Michael Cristofer’s drama The Shadow Box is first performed
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