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- 0445 BC - Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 9:1, NLTse).
- 0475 Romulus Augustulus was proclaimed Roman Emperor.
- 1517 Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church-Protestant Reformation
- 1517 Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
- 1587 Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.
- 1759 Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred
- 1793 Execution of the Girondins at Paris, during the Reign of Terror
- 1815 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents miner's safety lamp
- 1822 Emperor Agustn de Iturbide attempted to dissolve the Mexican Empire.
- 1861 American Civil War: Citing failing health, Union General Winfield Scott resigns as Commander of the United States Army.
- 1863 The Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato.
- 1864 Nevada admitted as 36th state
- 1864 Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
- 1876 A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 human deaths.
- 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- 1908 4th Olympic games end in London
- 1912 Dominican Republic becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1912 The Musketeers of Pig Alley, directed by D.W. Griffith, debuts as the first gangster film.
- 1917 Major George R. Pearkes (5th Cdn. Mounted Rifles) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium
- 1918 Banat Republic founded
- 1922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy
- 1924 World Savings Day was announced in Milano/Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
- 1926 Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.
- 1936 The Boy Scouts of the Philippines was formed.
- 1938 Great Depression: In an effort to try restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
- 1938 Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic in the United States.
- 1940 Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into the Warsaw Ghetto
- 1941 After 14 years of work, drilling is completed on Mount Rushmore.
- 1941 World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII.
- 1943 World War II: F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar guided interception.
- 1950 Collazo and Torresola attempt to kill Truman in Washington, DC
- 1952 First thermonuclear bomb detonated-Marshall Islands
- 1952 Visitor posting - October 31 1952 Mohsen Hamedi was born.
- 1956 Britain and France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal
- 1956 Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service
- 1956 First American to land an airplane at South Pole-Rear Adm GJ Dufek
- 1957 Visitor posting - Patti M. Johnson was born in Northern Wisconsin - USA
- 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
- 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR.
- 1959 Visitor posting - Kari M Steege was born in Cheyenne Wyoming
- 1961 In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Tomb.
- 1963 Ed Sullivan witnesses the Beatles and their fans at London Airport
- 1963 Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now Pepsi Coliseum) explosion in Indianapolis kills 74 people during an ice skating show. The mammoth explosion injured 400. A faulty propane tank connection in a concession stand was blamed.
- 1963 Leaking propane gas explodes, kills 64 at "Holiday on Ice" (Indiana)
- 1964 Barbra Streisand's "People," album goes #1 for 5 weeks
- 1964 Visitor posting - John & Judy Courtier were married in Lansing Michigan
- 1965 Canadian National introduces "Rapido" passenger service between Montreal and Toronto. This was extended to Quebec in the following year.
- 1967 Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as First pres of S Vietnam 2nd Republic
- 1968 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
- 1968 Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.
- 1969 George Harrison's "Something" is released in UK
- 1970 Number one hit on UK music charts - Matthew's Southern Comfort - Woodstock
- 1975 Queen released their hit single, Bohemian Rhapsody. It spent 9 weeks at number 1 on the UK charts.
- 1978 Visitor posting - Miriam R. Diebold marries John Lawrence Jr. of Elyria, Ohio.
- 1980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m)
- 1981 Visitor posting - Frank Iero was born! - USA
- 1983 Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour premieres on NBC
- 1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards (riots soon broke out in New Delhi and nearly 2,000 innocent Sikhs were killed).
- 1984 Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as the ship caught fire
- 1986 The 5th congress of the Communist Party of Sweden is inaugurated. During the course of the congress the party name is changed to the Solidarity Party and the party ceases to be a communist party.
- 1988 First Monday Night NFL game in Indianapolis, Colts beat Denver 55-23
- 1988 Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia
- 1991 A three day long snow and ice storm, dubbed the Halloween Blizzard, begins over portions of the Upper Midwest of the United States.
- 1991 Visitor posting - famous birthday - the infamous baby blue spider was born
- 1994 An American Eagle ATR-72 crashes in Roselawn, Indiana, after circling in icy weather, killing 68 passengers and crew.
- 1996 A Brazilian TAM Fokker F100 crashes into several houses in So Paulo, Brazil killing 98 including 2 on the ground.
- 1996 Jean Chrtien becomes UN special envoy to the African Great Lakes.
- 1996 Visitor posting - October 31st, 1996 - Truc Linda Phan was born in Vietnam, on Halloween. She came to America when she was just 3 years old.
- 1997 19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward, convicted by a Cambridge, Massachusetts, jury of second-degree murder the day before, is sentenced to life in prison.
- 1999 EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board.
- 2000 A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 operating as Flight 006 collides with construction equipment upon takeoff in Taipei, Taiwan killing 79 passengers and 4 crew members
- 2000 A chartered Antonov An-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50
- 2000 The last Multics machine was shut down.
- 2001 Visitor posting - October 31st 2001 Michael & Vanessa Bond were married
- 2003 A bankruptcy court approves MCI's reorganization plans, essentially clearing the telecommunications company to exit bankruptcy.
- 2003 Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, marking an end to Mahathir's 22 years in power.
- 2004 Passenger airline service ends at Mirabel International Airport in Montreal, Canada.
- 2008 Visitor posting - Francisco & Jennifer Alcala get married in Fayetteville, NC - USA
- 2009 A video of the kidnapped Irish priest Father Michael Sinnott is released by his captors in the Philippines. The kidnappers want a $2 million (€1.36 million) ransom. It is the first evidence that Sinnott is still alive since his abduction on 11 October.
- 2009 More than 50 people are arrested in the Russian capital Moscow after holding an "unsanctioned" human rights rally.
- 2009 Niger's opposition leader Mahamadou Issoufou returns to the country to face charges of money laundering
- 2009 Visitor posting - Pat motherway and dylan mairs get ingaged and plan to start a family - USA
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