Notable Historical Events on October 31st
October 31st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
445 |
Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 9:1, NLTse). |
BC AD | |
802 |
Empress Irene of Byzantium driven out |
1517 |
Martin Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church - precipitates the Protestant Reformation |
1541 |
Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes painting The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican |
1552 |
Emperor Karel & Markgraaf Albecht strike siege of Metz |
1587 |
Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575. |
1596 |
English/French/Dutch delegates sign anti-Spanish "Drievoudig Covenant" |
1617 |
Laurens Reael resigns as governor-general of East-Indies |
1759 |
Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred |
1793 |
Execution of Girondins at Paris during Reign of Terror |
1794 |
John Dalton's first lecture to Manchester Literary/Philosophical Society |
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 |
1846 |
Donner party, unable to cross the Donner Pass, construct a winter camp |
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 of the Union |
1868 |
Standard uniform approved for US postal carriers |
1871 |
Founding of Netherland Protestant Union in Dokkum |
1876 |
Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876 ravages British India (Modern-day Bangladesh), resulting in over 200,000 human deaths. |
1881 |
Metropolitan club plays its last game of its non-league season They win 80 of 151 games (18-43 versus NL teams) |
1887 |
Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov's "Capriccio Espagnol" premieres in St Petersburg |
1888 |
Scottish vet John Boyd Dunlop patents pneumatic bicycle tyre |
1892 |
Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. |
1900 |
AL pres Ban Johnson writes to NL pres Nick Young seeking peace |
1905 |
Great revolutionary demonstration for amnesty in St Petersburg |
1906 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar & Cleopatra" premieres in NYC |
1907 |
Calgary City Rugby Football Club's 1st game defeating Strathcona Rugby Foot-ball Club 15-0 at Calgary |
1908 |
4th Olympic games ends in London |
1913 |
1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway is dedicated |
1914 |
Great Britain & France declare war on Turkey |
1916 |
Clare Kummer's "Good Gracious Annabelle" premieres in NYC |
1917 |
Eugene O'Neill's "In the Zone" premieres in NYC |
1917 |
World War I: Battle of Beersheba in southern Palestine- "last successful cavalry charge in history" |
1918 |
Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in US in 1 week |
1918 |
Short-lived Banat Republic founded in territory where Romania, Hungary and Serbia meet |
1920 |
Romania annexes Bessarabia |
1921 |
Federation Sportive Feminine International forms (1st woman track & field association) |
1922 |
Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy |
1922 |
Karel & Josef Capék's "World We Live In" premieres in NYC |
1923 |
160 consecutive days of 100 degrees F begin at Marble Bar, Australia |
1924 |
World Savings Day was announced in Milan, Italy, by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks). |
1925 |
Cossack officer Reza Chan replaces sultan Ahmad as Shah of Persia |
1932 |
Greek government of Venizelos falls |
1936 |
The Boy Scouts of the Philippines was formed. |
1937 |
Spanish government moves from Valencia to Barcelona |
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. |
1939 |
27 U boats sunk this month (135,000 ton) |
1940 |
63 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton) |
1940 |
Battle of Britain, fought between the RAF and Luftwaffe over the English Channel and southern England, ends |
1940 |
Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into Warsaw Ghetto |
1941 |
13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton) |
1941 |
Mount Rushmore Monument is completed |
1941 |
Prior to US joining WW II, Germany torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James |
1941 |
Clothing factory fire in Huddersfield, England kills 49 |
1942 |
94 U boats sunk this month (619,000 ton) |
1942 |
9th day of the Battle of El Alamein |
1943 |
Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Bkln (48-10) |
1943 |
World War II: F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception. |
1944 |
Chief of staff Kruls names De Quay chairman of Universal Commission |
1949 |
"Regina" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 86 performances |
1949 |
Dutch Nazi Henri 'Hakkie' Holdert, director of Amsterdam paper De Telegraaf and member of the SS, sentenced to 12 years imprisonment |
1949 |
WOC (now KWQC) TV channel 6 in Davenport, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1950 |
Collazo & Torresola attempt to kill Harry Truman in Washington, DC |
1951 |
French Second Chamber accepts the Schuman Plan |
1952 |
1st thermonuclear bomb detonated at Marshall Islands |
1953 |
TV broadcasting begins in Belgium |
1954 |
Algerian Revolution against French begins |
1954 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Texas Golf Open |
1954 |
KREM TV channel 2 in Spokane, WA (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
Mgr Alfrink appointed archbishop of Utrecht |
1956 |
Rear Adm GJ Dufek becomes 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole |
1956 |
Britain & France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal |
1956 |
Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service |
1957 |
"Jamaica" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 558 performances |
1959 |
Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to USA |
1959 |
USSR & Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam |
1960 |
Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 10,000 die |
1961 |
Hurricane Hattie, kills 400 in British Honduras |
1961 |
Federal judge rules that Birmingham, Alabama, laws against integrated playing fields are illegal |
1963 |
Ed Sullivan witnesses Beatles & their fans at London Airport |
1963 |
J. Edgar Hoover's last meeting with President John F Kennedy |
1963 |
Leaking propane gas explodes kills 64 at 'Holiday on Ice' (Indiana) |
1964 |
Barbra Streisand's "People" album goes #1 for 5 weeks |
1967 |
KIMO TV channel 13 in Anchorage, AK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st President of South Vietnam 2nd Rep |
1967 |
SF's Mike McCormick wins NL Cy Young Award |
1968 |
Linda Eastman moves to UK permanently |
1968 |
Milwaukee Bucks win their 1st game beating Detroit 138-118 (6th game) |
1968 |
President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam |
1968 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1969 |
George Harrison's "Something" is released in UK |
1969 |
Race riot in Jacksonville Florida |
1971 |
"On the Town" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 65 performances |
1971 |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) explode a bomb at the Post Office Tower in London |
1972 |
Gaylord Perry wins AL Cy Young award |
1972 |
2 Catholic children (6 and 4) playing on the street are killed in a Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) car bomb attack on a bar in Ship Street, Belfast |
1973 |
Tom Seaver wins NL Cy Young Award |
1973 |
Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers escape from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin using a hijacked helicopter |
1974 |
Ted Bundy victim Laura Aime disappears in Utah |
1974 |
Dutch Marines end hostage crisis in Scheveningen prison |
1975 |
Bob Geldof's first appearance with Boomtown Rats |
1976 |
Javed Miandad, 206 v NZ, age 19 yrs 141 days (29 fours 1 six) |
1978 |
Iranian oil workers go on strike |
1978 |
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South) adopts constitution |
1979 |
Mike Flanagan, wins AL Cy Young Award |
1979 |
US DC-10 crashes at Mexico-City, 74 killed |
1980 |
Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m) |
1980 |
Polish government recognizes Solidarity trade union |
1980 |
Senegal routes troops to Gambia due to Libyan threat |
1981 |
1st live US radio drama in 25 years (Halloween Story on NBC) |
1982 |
"Rock 'n Roll!: The 1st..." closes at St James NYC after 9 perfs |
1982 |
Pope John Paul II becomes first pontiff to visit Spain |
1983 |
Paul McCartney releases "Pipes of Peace" album |
1983 |
Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia |
1984 |
Howard Goodall & Melvyn Bragg's musical "Hired Man" premieres in London |
1984 |
Puerto Rican tanker 'San Francisco' explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire |
1984 |
Indian PM Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her bodyguards Satwant Singh and Beant Singh at her home in New Delhi |
1985 |
Last day in Test cricket for Zaheer Abbas |
1987 |
1st jockey to win 9 races in 1 day (Chris Antley at Belmont) |
1987 |
A pair in Coventry, England, ties world record for longest singles tennis match at 80 hrs 21 minutes |
1988 |
19°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct |
1988 |
1st Monday Night NFL game in Indianapolis, Colts beat Denver 55-23 |
1988 |
Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia |
1989 |
AR Gurney's "Love Letters" premieres in NYC |
1989 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1989 |
Turgat Ozal elected president of Turkey |
1989 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1990 |
Pakistan make 3-0 drubbing of NZ, Waqar Younis 29 series wkts |
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 |
1992 |
Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: A P Indy, Fraise, Gilded Time, Liza, Lure, Paseana, Thirty Slews at Gulfstream Park |
1993 |
"Wonderful Tennessee" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 9 perfs |
1993 |
25 people killed during Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match |
1993 |
Germany unemployment hits country record of 3.5 million |
1993 |
Rapper Tupac Shakur charged with aggravated assault |
1993 |
US wins Nichirei International LPGA Golf Tournament |
1994 |
American Eagle ATR-72 crash down at Gary, Indiana: 68 killed |
1995 |
NHL NJ Devils agree to stay in NJ |
1996 |
Transportes Aéreos Regionais (TAM) Flight 402, a Fokker F100, crashes into several houses in São Paulo, Brazil killing 98 including 2 on the ground. |
1997 |
British au pair Louise Woodward, 19, sentenced to life for the death of Matthew Eappen 8½ months (judge changes to time served) |
1998 |
Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors. |
1999 |
Roman Catholic Church and Lutheran Church leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, ending a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation. |
1999 |
Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted. |
1999 |
EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board. |
2000 |
The last Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) machine was shut down. |
2000 |
A chartered Antonov An-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50 |
2000 |
A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 operating as Flight 006 collides with construction equipment upon takeoff in Taipei, Taiwan killing 79 passengers and four crew members |
2002 |
A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas formally indicted former Enron Corp. 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. |
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. |
2010 |
Belgium leaves the recession with 0.5% growth in the third quarter |
2011 |
The world population reaches 7 billion inhabitants according to the United Nations |
2012 |
The New York stock exchange opens after being closed for two days after Hurricane Sandy |
2014 |
2014 baseball HOF inductees: Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Frank Thomas, Bobby Cox, Tony La Russa and Joe Torre |
2015 |
Russian passenger plane crashes in Sinai with 224 people on board |
2015 |
World Series: Mets pick up must-win victory over Royals, win 9-3 |
2015 |
Rugby World Cup 2015: All Blacks overcome Wallabies to make history |
2016 |
Cubs stay alive with win over Indians |
2016 |
Car strikes 22 pedestrians in parking lot after NASCAR race at Martinsville |
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