OCTOBER 30
2005:Civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who was arrested 50 years earlier for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, is the first woman and second African American to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
1831: Escaped slave Nat Turner is captured in Southampton County, Va., and arrested for leading a bloody slave rebellion that killed more than 55 whites in August of that year. In the aftermath of the revolt, an even greater number of blacks were killed in retaliation by white mobs and militias.
1938: Hundreds of thousands of radio listeners panic when they tune in to the CBS broadcast of "War of the Worlds," starring Orson Welles, believing that the dramatic radio play's news reports of a Martian invasion are real.
1831: Escaped slave Nat Turner is captured in Southampton County, Va., and arrested for leading a bloody slave rebellion that killed more than 55 whites in August of that year. In the aftermath of the revolt, an even greater number of blacks were killed in retaliation by white mobs and militias.
1938: Hundreds of thousands of radio listeners panic when they tune in to the CBS broadcast of "War of the Worlds," starring Orson Welles, believing that the dramatic radio play's news reports of a Martian invasion are real.
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