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TIL In 1938, Orson Welles on Halloween night, broadcast live an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel War of the Worlds over the CBS Radio Network. The episode is famous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was really taking place.

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