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October 31 is the 304th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 61 days remain until the end of the year.

Events
Pre-1600475Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor. • 683 – During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba catches fire and is burned down. • 802 – Empress Irene is deposed and banished to Lesbos. Conspirators place Nikephoros, the minister of finance, on the Byzantine throne. • 932Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir is killed while fighting against the forces of general Mu'nis al-Muzaffar. Al-Muqtadir's brother al-Qahir is chosen to succeed him. • 1517Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. • 1587Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575. 1601–19001822 – Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Congress of the Mexican Empire. • 1837 – Approximately 300 Muscogee die in the steamboat Monmouth disaster on the Trail of Tears in the United States. • 1863 – The New Zealand Wars resume as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron begin their Invasion of the Waikato. • 1864Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state. • 1895 – The strongest earthquake in the Midwestern United States since 1812 strikes near Charleston, Missouri, causing damage and killing at least two. 1901–present1903 – The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team. • 1907 – The Parliament of Finland approved the Prohibition Act, but the law was not implemented because it was not ratified by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. • 1913 – Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across United States. • 1913 – The Indianapolis Streetcar Strike and subsequent riot begins. • 1917World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history". • 1918 – World War I: The Aster Revolution terminates the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, and Hungary achieves full sovereignty. • 1922Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy. • 1923 – The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia. • 1924World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks). • 1938Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public. • 1940World War II: The Battle of Britain ends, causing Germany to abandon Operation Sea Lion. • 1941 – After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed. • 1941 – World War II: The destroyer is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 U.S. Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII. • 1943 – World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a United States Navy or Marine Corps aircraft. • 1956Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal. • 1956 – Hungarian Revolution of 1956: A Revolutionary Headquarters is established in Hungary. Following Imre Nagy's announcement of October 30, banned non-Communist political parties are reformed, and the MDP is replaced by the MSZMP. József Mindszenty is released from prison. The Soviet Politburo makes the decision to crush the Revolution. • 1961 – In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Mausoleum, and is buried near the Kremlin Wall under a plain white marker. • 1963Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion: A gas explosion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum in Indianapolis kills 81 people and injures another 400 during an ice show. • 1968Vietnam 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. • 1968 – Great Drought of 1968: Amidst a collapse of hydropower President of Chile Eduardo Frei Montalva decrees the establishment of daylight saving time. • 1973 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in the exercise yard. • 1979Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashes on landing in Mexico City, killing 73 people. • 1984 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards. Riots break out in New Delhi and other cities and around 3,000 Sikhs are killed. • 1994American Eagle Flight 4184 crashes near Roselawn, Indiana killing all 68 people on board. • 1996TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 crashes in São Paulo, Brazil, killing 99 people. • 1998Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors. • 1999Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted. • 1999 – EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Nantucket, killing all 217 people on board. • 2000Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then. • 2000 – Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashes on takeoff from Taipei, killing 83. • 2002 – A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer. • 2003Mahathir 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. • 2011 – The global population of humans reaches seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as the Day of Seven Billion. • 2014 – During a test flight, the VSS Enterprise, a Virgin Galactic experimental spaceflight test vehicle, suffers a catastrophic in-flight breakup and crashes in the Mojave Desert, California. • 2015Metrojet Flight 9268 is bombed over the northern Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board. • 2017A truck drives into a crowd in Lower Manhattan, New York City, killing eight people. • 2020Berlin Brandenburg Airport opens its doors after nearly 10 years of delays due to construction issues and project corruption. ==Births==
Births
Pre-16001345Ferdinand I, king of Portugal (died 1383) • 1391Edward, King of Portugal (died 1438) • 1424Władysław III, king of Poland (died 1444) • 1445Hedwig, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (died 1511) • 1472Wang Yangming, Chinese Neo-Confucian scholar (died 1529) • 1542Henriette of Cleves, Duchess of Nevers, Countess of Rethel (died 1601) • 1599Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English politician (died 1680) 1601–19001620John Evelyn, English gardener and author (died 1706) • 1632Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (died 1675) • 1636Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (died 1679) • 1638Meindert Hobbema, Dutch painter (died 1709) • 1686Senesino, Italian singer and actor (died 1758) • 1692Anne Claude de Caylus, French archaeologist and author (died 1765) • 1694Yeongjo of Joseon (died 1776) • 1705Pope Clement XIV (died 1774) • 1711Laura Bassi, Italian physician, physicist, and academic (died 1778) • 1714Hedvig Taube, Swedish courtier (died 1744) • 1724Christopher Anstey, English author and poet (died 1805) • 1729Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta, Spanish cleric, Archbishop of Mexico, Viceroy of New Spain (died 1800) • 1737James Lovell, American educator and politician (died 1789) • 1760Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist and printmaker (died 1849) • 1795John Keats, English poet (died 1821) • 1809Edmund Sharpe, English architect, architectural historian, railway engineer, and sanitary reformer (died 1877) • 1815Thomas Chapman, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of Tasmania (died 1884) • 1815 – Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic (died 1897) • 1825Charles Lavigerie, French-Algerian cardinal and academic (died 1892) • 1831Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist, physiologist, and anthropologist (died 1910) • 1835Adelbert Ames, American general and politician, 27th Governor of Mississippi (died 1933) • 1835 – Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (died 1923) • 1835 – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1917) • 1838Luís I of Portugal (died 1889) • 1847Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist and engineer (died 1897) • 1848Boston Custer, American soldier (died 1876) • 1849Marie Louise Andrews, American story writer and journalist (died 1891) • 1851Louise of Sweden (died 1926) • 1856Charles Leroux, American balloonist and skydiver (died 1889) • 1858Saint Geevarghese Mar Dionysius of Vattasseril, Indian Orthodox Saint (died 1934) • 1860Juliette Gordon Low, American scout leader, founded the Girl Scouts of the United States of America (died 1927) • 1860 – Andrew Volstead, American politician (died 1947) • 1868John Weir Troy, American journalist, and politician, 5th Governor of the Territory of Alaska (died 1942) • 1875Eugene Meyer, American businessman and publisher (died 1954) • 1875 – Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian lawyer, freedom fighter and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India (died 1950) • 1876Natalie Clifford Barney, American poet and playwright (died 1972) • 1879Karel Hašler, Czech actor, director, and composer (died 1941) • 1880Julia Peterkin, American author (died 1961) • 1880 – Mikhail Tomsky, Soviet politician, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (died 1936) • 1881Toshizō Nishio, Japanese general (died 1960) • 1883Marie Laurencin, French painter and illustrator (died 1956) • 1883 – Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player, cricketer, and soldier (died 1915) • 1887Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (died 1975) • 1887 – Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player and lacrosse player (died 1970) • 1888Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet and author (died 1944) • 1892Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player and author (died 1946) • 1895B. H. Liddell Hart, English soldier, historian, and theorist (died 1970) • 1896Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (died 1977) • 1897Constance Savery, English author (died 1999) • 1900Asbjørg Borgfelt, Norwegian sculptor (died 1976) 1901–present1902Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet (died 1987) • 1902 – Julia Lee, American blues singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1958) • 1902 – Abraham Wald, Jewish-Hungarian mathematician and economist (died 1950) • 1907Edgar Sampson, American musician and composer (died 1973) • 1908Muriel Duckworth, Canadian activist (died 2009) • 1912Dale Evans, American singer-songwriter and actress (died 2001) • 1912 – Ollie Johnston, American animator and voice actor (died 2008) • 1914John Hugenholtz, Dutch engineer and designer (died 1995) • 1915Jane Jarvis, American pianist and composer (died 2010) • 1916Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg (died 2012) • 1917William H. McNeill, Canadian-American historian and author (died 2016) • 1917 – Gordon Steege, Australian soldier and pilot (died 2013) • 1918Ian Stevenson, American psychiatrist and academic (died 2007) • 1919Daphne Oxenford, English actress (died 2012) • 1919 – Magnus Wenninger, American mathematician and author (died 2017) • 1920Dick Francis, Welsh-Caymanian jockey and author (died 2010) • 1920 – Joseph Gelineau, French priest and composer (died 2008) • 1920 – Helmut Newton, German-Australian photographer (died 2004) • 1920 – Fritz Walter, German footballer (died 2002) • 1922Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (died 2005) • 1922 – Illinois Jacquet, American saxophonist and composer (died 2004) • 1922 – Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (died 2012) • 1925Lawrence A. Cremin, American historian and author (died 1990) • 1925 – John Pople, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004) • 1925 – Robert B. Rheault, American colonel (died 2013) • 1926Jimmy Savile, English radio and television host (died 2011) • 1928Andrew Sarris, American critic and educator (died 2012) • 1929William Orchard, Australian water polo player and psychiatrist (died 2014) • 1929 – Bud Spencer, Italian swimmer, actor, and screenwriter (died 2016) • 1930Michael Collins, American general, pilot, and astronaut (died 2021) • 1930 – Booker Ervin, American saxophonist (died 1970) • 1931Dan Rather, American journalist • 1935Dale Brown, American basketball player and coach • 1935 – Ronald Graham, American mathematician and theorist (died 2020) • 1935 – David Harvey, English-American geographer and academic • 1936Michael Landon, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1991) • 1937Tom Paxton, American folk music singer-songwriter and guitarist • 1941 – Sally Kirkland, American actress (died 2025) • 1947 – Frank Shorter, American runner and sportscaster • 1950 – Jane Pauley, American journalist • 1963 – Dermot Mulroney, American actor • 1967 – Adam Schlesinger, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (died 2020) • 1968Antonio Davis, American basketball player and sportscaster • 1970Linn Berggren, Swedish singer-songwriter • 1975 – Fabio Celestini, Swiss footballer and manager • 1975 – Keith Jardine, American mixed martial artist and actor • 1975 – Johnny Whitworth, American actor and producer • 1976Guti, Spanish footballer • 1976 – Piper Perabo, American actress and producer • 1986Chris Alajajian, Australian race car driver • 1986 – Christie Hayes, Australian actress and producer • 1987Nick Foligno, Canadian ice hockey player • 1987 – Jean-Karl Vernay, French race car driver • 1988Cole Aldrich, American basketball player • 1988 – Sébastien Buemi, Swiss race car driver • 1988 – Jack Riewoldt, Australian footballer • 1988 – Lizzy Yarnold, British skeleton racer • 1989Scott McGough, American baseball player • 1990JID, American rapper • 1992Vanessa Marano, American actress • 1997 – Sydney Park, American actress and comedian • 2005Leonor, Princess of Asturias ==Deaths==
Deaths
Pre-1600932Al-Muqtadir, Abbasid caliph (born 895) • 994Wolfgang of Regensburg, German bishop and saint (born 934) • 1005Abe no Seimei, Japanese astrologer (born 921) • 1034Deokjong, Korean ruler (born 1016) • 1147Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, son of Henry I of England (born 1100) • 1214Eleanor of England, queen consort of Castile (born 1163) • 1320Ricold of Monte Croce, Italian Dominican missionary (born 1242) • 1335Marie of Évreux, Duchess Consort of Brabant (born 1303) • 1448John VIII Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (born 1390) • 1517Fra Bartolomeo, Italian artist (born 1472) • 1589Peter Stumpp, German farmer and alleged serial killer (born 1535) 1601–19001641Cornelis Jol, Dutch admiral (born 1597) • 1659John Bradshaw, English lawyer and judge, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1602) • 1661Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman politician, 109th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1575) • 1723Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1642) • 1732Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy (born 1666) • 1733Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (born 1676) • 1744Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (born 1694) • 1768Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian violinist and composer (born 1690) • 1786Princess Amelia of Great Britain (born 1711) • 1806Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese artist and printmaker (born ca. 1753) • 1820John Lynch, American city founder and abolitionist (born 1740) • 1860Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Scottish-English admiral and politician (born 1775) • 1869Charles A. Wickliffe, American politician, 14th Governor of Kentucky (born 1788) • 1879Jacob Abbott, American author and academic (born 1803) • 1879 – Joseph Hooker, American general (born 1814) • 1884Marie Bashkirtseff, Ukrainian-Russian painter and sculptor (born 1858) 1901–present1905Bryan O'Loghlen, Irish-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Victoria (born 1828) • 1913William Evans-Gordon, English soldier and politician (born 1857) • 1916Charles Taze Russell, American minister (born 1852) • 1916 – Huang Xing, Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman (born 1874) • 1918Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (born 1890) • 1920Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian businessman (born 1854) • 1925Max Linder, French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1883) • 1925 – Mikhail Frunze, Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917 (born 1885) • 1925 – Thomas Henry Tracy, Canadian architect and alderman (born 1848) • 1926Harry Houdini, American magician and stuntman (born 1874) • 1929António José de Almeida, Portuguese physician and politician, 6th President of Portugal (born 1866) • 1931Octave Uzanne, French journalist and author (born 1851) • 1939Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist, author, and educator (born 1884) • 1944Joseph Hubert Priestley, British botanist (born 1883) • 1952Chit Hlaing, Burmese lawyer and politician (born 1879) • 1959Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic (born 1885) • 1960H. L. Davis, American author and poet (born 1894) • 1963Mesut Cemil, Turkish cellist and composer (born 1902) • 1964Tuomas Bryggari, Finnish politician (born 1881) • 1972Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1916) • 1973Malek Bennabi, Algerian philosopher and author (born 1905) • 1975Sachin Dev Burman, Indian composer and singer (born 1906) • 1977C. B. Colby, American author and illustrator (born 1904) • 1980Jan Werich, Czech actor and playwright (born 1905) • 1983George Halas, American football player and coach (born 1895) • 1983 – Lu Jiaxi, Chinese self-taught mathematician (born 1935) • 1983 – Sharof Rashidov, Uzbek politician, CPSU Politburo candidate member (born 1917) • 1984Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1900) • 1984 – Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (born 1917) • 1985Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (born 1907) • 1985 – Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor and singer (born 1913) • 1986Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896) • 1988John Houseman, Romanian-born American actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1902) • 1988 – Alfred Pellan, Canadian painter and academic (born 1906) • 1991Joseph Papp, American stage director and producer (born 1921) • 1992Gary Rippingale, English ice hockey player (born 1974) • 1993Federico Fellini, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1920) • 1993 – River Phoenix, American actor and singer (born 1970) • 1995Rosalind Cash, American actress and singer (born 1938) • 1996Marcel Carné, French director and screenwriter (born 1906) • 1997George Roth, American gymnast (born 1911) • 1998Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1935) • 1998 – María de la Purísima Salvat Romero, Spanish nun and saint (Roman Catholic Church) (born 1926) • 1999Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (born 1975) • 2000Ring Lardner, Jr., American journalist and screenwriter (born 1915) • 2000 – Kazuki Watanabe, Japanese songwriter and guitarist (born 1981) • 2001Régine Cavagnoud, French skier (born 1970) • 2002Lionel Poilâne, French banker and businessman (born 1945) • 2002 – Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, President of Greece (born 1903) • 2002 – Raf Vallone, Italian footballer and actor (born 1916) • 2003Richard Neustadt, American political scientist and historian (born 1919) • 2005Hal Anger, American biophysicist and engineer (born 1920) • 2005 – Amrita Pritam, Indian author and poet (born 1919) • 2006P. W. Botha, South African soldier and politician, State President of South Africa (born 1916) • 2006 – Peter Fryer, English journalist and author (born 1927) • 2007Erdal İnönü, Turkish physicist and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1926) • 2008Studs Terkel, American historian and author (born 1912) • 2009Mustafa Mahmud, Egyptian physician and author (born 1921) • 2009 – Tom Wheatcroft, English businessman, founded the Donington Grand Prix Exhibition (born 1922) • 2009 – Qian Xuesen, Chinese aerodynamicist and academic (born 1911) • 2010Ted Sorensen, American lawyer, 8th White House Counsel (born 1928) • 2011Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1941) • 2011 – Roberto Lippi, Italian race car driver (born 1926) • 2012Gae Aulenti, Italian architect and designer (born 1927) • 2012 – John Fitch, American race car driver and engineer (born 1917) • 2012 – John H. Reed, American soldier and politician, 67th Governor of Maine (born 1921) • 2013Chris Chase (aka Irene Kane), American actress and author (born 1924) • 2013 – Gérard de Villiers, French journalist and author (born 1929) • 2013 – Trevor Kletz, English chemist and author (born 1922) • 2013 – Johnny Kucks, American baseball player (born 1933) • 2013 – Andres Narvasa, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 19th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (born 1928) • 2013 – Bobby Parker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937) • 2014David Manker Abshire, American commander and diplomat, United States Permanent Representative to NATO (born 1926) • 2014 – Michael Alsbury, American engineer and pilot (born 1975) • 2014 – Brad Halsey, American baseball player (born 1981) • 2014 – Hitoshi Motoshima, Japanese educator and politician (born 1922) • 2015Gus Savage, American businessman and politician (born 1925) • 2018Willie McCovey, American baseball player (born 1938) • 2020Sean Connery, Scottish actor (born 1930) • 2020 – MF Doom, British-American rapper and record producer (born 1971) • 2021Peter Philpott, Australian cricketer (born 1934) • 2023Ken Mattingly, American astronaut (born 1936) ==Holidays and observances==
Holidays and observances
• Christian feast day: • Alphonsus RodriguezAmpliatusBeguErc of Slane (in Cornwall) • Foillan (in Namur) • Martin Luther (Anglican Communion) • Paul Shinji Sasaki and Philip Lindel Tsen (Episcopal Church) • Quentin • Blessed Theodore Romzha (Ruthenian Catholic Church) • Wolfgang of RegensburgOctober 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)Día de la Canción Criolla (Peru) • Earliest day on which All Saints Day can fall, while November 6 is the latest; celebrated on Saturday between October 31 and November 6 (Finland, Sweden) • Halloween and related celebrations: • Allantide (Cornwall) • Halloween (Ireland, Canada, United Kingdom, United States and other places) • Hop-tu-Naa (Isle of Man) • Samhain in the Northern Hemisphere, Beltane in the Southern Hemisphere; begins on sunset of October 31 (Gaels, Welsh people and Neopagan Wheel of the Year) • The first day of the Day of the Dead, celebrated until November 2 (Mexico) • Girl Scouts Founders Day (United States) • King Father's Birthday (Cambodia) • National Unity Day (India) • Reformation Day (Slovenia, parts of Germany, Chile, various Protestant churches with a particular emphasis in Lutheran and Reformed ones) ==References==
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