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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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