2 April 2011—April Fools—a day late.
HistoryLink.org- the Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History
To celebrate April Fool's Day, HistoryLink.org takes a look back at some of the more notorious hoaxes that Washingtonians have fallen for over the years. We begin in 1938, when more than a few radio listeners thought that Planet Earth was under attack by invaders from Mars. This was especially true in the town of Concrete, which -- purely by happenstance -- suffered a power outage during the middle of Orson Welles's War of the Worlds broadcast. Panic ensued.
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