Orson Welles broadcasts "The War of the Worlds," buffalo wings are born, Ali and Foreman square off in the "Rumble in the Jungle," and Michael Jordan returns to the NBA, all on this day.
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1939: Singer Grace Slick, best known as the lead singer for the rock band Jefferson Airplane, and later incarnations of the band as Jefferson Starship and Starship, is born under the birth name Grace Barnett Wing in Evanston, Ill.