Although the current story is that many were fooled and panicked, in reality very few people were fooled. Because of the realistic nature of the "news," there was a public outcry the next day, calling for regulation by the FCC. Wells' novel, the show began with simulated "breaking news" of an invasion by Martians.
In 1938, he was 73 years old when on October 30th, a Sunday, The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast Orson Welles' special Halloween show The War of the World's. These are concepts that are still used by modern psychology. Although he was a medical doctor, he was fascinated with the psyche and hypothesized the existence of the id, the ego, the superego, the libido, the unconscious, the Oedipus complex, and more. Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud in May of 1856, is the "father of psychoanalysis". In 1900, Hugo was 35 years old when the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud published his book (written in 1899) "The Interpretation of Dreams". Twenty-seven years later, the Barnum and Bailey would merge with another circus, Ringling Brothers. Bailey signed a contract in Bridgeport, CT, creating the Barnum & Bailey Circus. In 1880, he was just 15 years old when on August 26th, P. Duties soon expanded to murder, bank robbery, and illegal gambling - and, after the assassination of President McKinley in 1901, presidential protection. The first duty of the Secret Service was investigating counterfeit money.
In 1865, in the year that Hugo Meyer was born, on July 5th, the U.S. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Hugo's lifetime.