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Today in History
31 October
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| 1424 Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, king of Poland/Hungary was born | ||
| 1517 Martin Luther posted his 95 theses, an attack on various ecclesiastical abuses, on the door of Wittenberg Palace, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation in Germany. | ||
| 1541 Michelangelo Buonarroti's paints "last judgement" in 16th Chapel | ||
| 1552 Emperor Karel & Markgraaf Albecht strike siege for Metz | ||
| 1596 English/French/Dutch delegates sign anti-Spanish "Drievoudig Covenant" | ||
| 1617 Laurens Reael resigns as governor-general of East-Indies | ||
| 1714 Georg Ludwig van Hannover crowned as English King George I | ||
| 1740 William Paca, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence) was born | ||
| 1750 Leonor de Almeida marquesa de Alorna, Portuguese poet was born | ||
| 1759 Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred | ||
| 1785 George F Kersting, German painter was born | ||
| 1793 Execution of Girondins at Paris, during Reign of Terror | ||
| 1794 John Dalton 1st lecture to Manchester Literary/Philosophical Society | ||
| 1795 John Keats, London, England, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn) was born | ||
| 1808 Holland Brigade battle at Durango, Spain | ||
| 1815 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents miner's safety lamp | ||
| 1837 Collision of river boat Monmouth & Trement on Miss; 300 die | ||
| 1847 Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (2-fasenmotor) was born | ||
| 1854 Georg A Erman, German Egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt) was born | ||
| 1864 Nevada was admitted to the union as the 36th state of the United States | ||
| 1868 Standard uniform approved for postal carriers | ||
| 1876 Cyclone hits Bengal, about 200,000 die | ||
| 1876 Eduard van Oort, zoologist (Ornithology of Netherlands) was born | ||
| 1888 John Boyd Dunlop took out a patent for his pneumatic bicycle tire. | ||
| 1905 Great revolutionary demonstration for amnesty in St Petersburg | ||
| 1908 4th Olympic games ends in London | ||
| 1914 Great Britain & France declare war on Turkey | ||
| 1917 In the third battle of Gaza, Australians and New Zealanders captured Beersheba from the Turks. | ||
| 1918 Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in US in 1 week | ||
| 1918 Count Istvan Tisza, Hungarian premier until his resignation in 1917, was assassinated by disaffected soldiers after being held responsible for the country's plight in World War I. | ||
| 1920 Romania annexes Bessarabia | ||
| 1922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy | ||
| 1925 Cossack officer Reza Chan replaces sultan Ahmad Shah in Persia | ||
| 1932 Greek govt of Venizelos falls | ||
| 1937 Spanish govt moves from Valencia to Barcelona | ||
| 1940 The Battle of Britain, the struggle between Germany and Britain over air control of the English Channel, was officially designated to have ended. | ||
| 1940 Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into Warsaw Ghetto | ||
| 1941 Mount Rushmore is completed | ||
| 1941 Prior to US in WW II, Germany torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James | ||
| 1942 94 U boats sunk this month (619,000 ton) | ||
| 1944 Chief of staff Kruls names De Quay chairman of Universal Commission | ||
| 1950 Collazo & Torresola attempt to kill Truman in Washington, DC | ||
| 1951 Second Chamber accept plan-Schuman | ||
| 1952 The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb at the Elugelab Atoll in the Eniwetok Proving Grounds in the Pacific Marshall Islands. | ||
| 1954 Algerian Revolution against French begins | ||
| 1956 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole-Rear Adm GJ Dufek | ||
| 1956 Britain & France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal | ||
| 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US | ||
| 1959 USSR & Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam | ||
| 1960 Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 10,000 die | ||
| 1961 Federal judge rules that Birmingham, Alabama, laws against integrated | ||
| 1961 Russia's de-Stalinization program reached a climax when his body was removed from the mausoleum in Red Square and re-buried. | ||
| 1968 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam | ||
| 1974 Britain, France and the United States vetoed a motion at the United Nations to expel South Africa. | ||
| 1975 Bob Geldof 1st appearance with Boomtown Rats | ||
| 1978 Iranian oil workers go on strike | ||
| 1978 People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South) adopts constitution | ||
| 1980 Polish government recognizes Solidarity | ||
| 1980 Senegal routes troops to Gambia due to Libyan threat | ||
| 1983 Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia | ||
| 1984 Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by three Sikh members of her bodyguard while she was walking in the garden of her New Delhi home. | ||
| 1988 Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia | ||
| 1989 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island | ||
| 1989 Turgat Ozal elected president of Turkey | ||
| 1991 Palestinians attend US mideast peace talks in Madrid | ||
| 1992 Don Keller makes his 18,000th sky diver | ||
| 1992 Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359 years | ||
| 1993 25 people killed during Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match | ||
| 1993 Rapper Tupac Shakur charged with aggravated assault | ||
| 1994 American Eagle ATR-72 crash down at Gary, Indiana: 68 killed | ||