Today in History - November 3, 1928
Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka born in Japan. (Manga artist Goseki Kojima was also born on this day, but he could only come up with Kozure Okami.)
Today in History - October 30, 1938
Orson Welles broadcasts H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds, causing panic.
(illus. by Jorge Pinto)
Today in History - October 16, 1900
Artist Edward Ardizzone born to Italian diplomats in French Indo-China.
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Chinese artist Chen Wenling critiques the global financial crisis in What You See Might Not Be Real, on display at a Beijing gallery. The bull is said to represent Wall Street, while the man pinned to the wall represents jailed financier Bernard Madoff.
