OCTOBER 30
1944:Aaron Copland's score for the ballet Appalachian Spring debuts at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with choreography by Martha Graham. Appalachian Spring would be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1945.
1864: The Montana town of Helena is founded by miners trying to strike it rich at Last Chance Gulch. The name "Helena" beats out competing suggestions to call the town "Pumpkinville" or "Squashtown," in honor of the Halloween holiday the following day.
1938: Orson Welles panics countless radio listeners with his radio play adaptation of H.G. Wells's 1898 science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds. Thousands of people turning into Mercury Theatre on the Air on CBS believe that the pseudo-newscast is broadcasting a real-time report of the Earth under attack from Mars.
1982:Ali vs Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle"
1964:Roy Orbison's 'Pretty Woman' single reaches gold, selling 500,000 copies
1960:Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1922:Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
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