Historical events on this day

31 Oct 637

Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge

31 Oct 701

John VI of Greece begins his reign as Catholic Pope

31 Oct 942

Alberic nominates Pope Marinus II (Martinus III)

31 Oct 1137

Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.

31 Oct 1270

The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis ended by agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.

31 Oct 1340

Battle of Rio Salado Battle (or Tarifa) King Afonso IV of Portugal and King Alfonso XI of Castile defeat Sultan Abu al-Hasan Ali of Morocco and Yusuf I of Granada last Marnids invasion of Iberian Peninsula

31 Oct 1389

French King Charles VI visits pope Clemens VII

31 Oct 1468

Charles the Bold Duke of Burgundy occupies & plunders Liege

31 Oct 1470

Wars of the Roses Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle

31 Oct 1485

Henry VII of England crowned at Westminster Abbey

31 Oct 1489

Peace of Tours between emperor Maximilian I & Flemings

31 Oct 1503

Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence against indians

31 Oct 1611

Gustaaf II Adolf (17) becomes king of Sweden

31 Oct 1697

Germany signs FrenchEnglishSpanishDutchBrandenburgs peace treaty ending Nine Year War

31 Oct 1739

Great Britain declares war on Spain War of Jenkins Ear [NSOct 19]

31 Oct 1766

St. Pauls Chapel in New York is consecrated

31 Oct 1768

First Methodist church in North American colonies initiated (Wesley Chapel NYC)

31 Oct 1851

Alfred de Mussets Bettine premieres in Paris

31 Oct 1864

Helena Montanas capital founded

31 Oct 1868

John Menard of Louisiana is 1st African American elected to US Congress

31 Oct 1871

Philadelphia Athletics beat Chicago for 1st National Association baseball pennant

31 Oct 1873

P T Barnums circus Greatest Show on Earth debuts (New York City)

31 Oct 1883

Austria-Hungary Germany and Romania sign military treaty

31 Oct 1886

Great Britain and Germany agree boundaries in East Africa

31 Oct 1888

John J Loud patents ballpoint pen

31 Oct 1893

US Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890

31 Oct 1894

Daniel Cooper patents time clock

31 Oct 1894

Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in industrial production of pandoro (a traditional Italian sweet yeast bread).

31 Oct 1896

Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator

31 Oct 1899

Battle of Ladysmith Natal Boers defeat the British leading to the Siege of Ladysmith

31 Oct 1901

Battle at Bakenlaagte Lieutenant-Colonel Bensons British unit vs Boers

31 Oct 1903

In violation of their promise to evacuate Manchuria the Russian reoccupy Mukden and reinforce their troops in Manchuria

31 Oct 1911

Clark Griffith is named manager of Washington Senators

31 Oct 1914

Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium) aka Wipers during WWI begins

31 Oct 1918

Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state

31 Oct 1918

WWI Turkey signs an armistice with the Allies agreeing to end hostilities at noon on 31 October

31 Oct 1919

Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball

31 Oct 1920

The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.

31 Oct 1922

Anxious to compete with the Yankees the NY Giants pay 65000 & 3 players for Jack Bentley (hits .349 & is 13-1 as pitcher in )

31 Oct 1925

KUT-AM in Austin TX begins radio transmissions

31 Oct 1929

The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Germany

31 Oct 1930

Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship

31 Oct 1931

W2XB TV channel 1 in NYC NY (NBC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1939

German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill Dudley Pound & Charles Forbes aboard

31 Oct 1940

Cole Porters musical Panama Hattie premieres in New York City

31 Oct 1942

8th day of battle at El Alamein new Australian assault

31 Oct 1942

US aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea

31 Oct 1943

Soviet forces under Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin commenced offensive on the 4th Ukranian Front

31 Oct 1944

Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau

31 Oct 1944

Scots Highlanders liberate Waalwijk

31 Oct 1944

Sweden announces intention to stay neutral & refuse sanctuary in WW II

31 Oct 1944

Tholen Island (Netherlands) freed during WWII

31 Oct 1945

US government announces end of shoe rationing

31 Oct 1947

23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva

31 Oct 1947

Darius Milhauds 3rd Symphony Hymnus Ambrosianus premieres in Paris

31 Oct 1948

20 die & 6000 made ill by smog in Donora Pennsylvania

31 Oct 1948

Operation Hiram Israelis take control of Galilee

31 Oct 1949

Lost in the Stars opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 281 performances

31 Oct 1949

Kurt Weill & Maxwell Andersons musical premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1950

David Diamonds 3rd Symphony premieres

31 Oct 1950

Pope Pius XII witnesses The Miracle of the Sun while at the Vatican

31 Oct 1951

US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

31 Oct 1952

4th NASCAR Sprint Cup Tim Flock wins

31 Oct 1954

US Defense Department announces elimination of all racially segregated regiments

31 Oct 1954

1st use of 24-sec shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester vs Boston)

31 Oct 1955

Imtiaz Ahmed scores 209 v NZ the record for a no 8 batsman

31 Oct 1955

7th NASCAR Sprint Cup Tim Flock wins

31 Oct 1955

Businessman and horse breeder William Woodward Jr. is shot dead by his wife Ann Cromwell after she mistook him for an intruder

31 Oct 1956

Israel captures Egyptian military post at El-Thamad

31 Oct 1956

Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group. They agree to stay until 1959 with an option to stay until 1961

31 Oct 1957

Soviet Union launches Sputnik II carrying a dog named Laika

31 Oct 1957

WLWI (now WTHR) TV channel 13 in Indianapolis IN (ABC) 1st broadcast

31 Oct 1957

WYTV TV channel 33 in Youngstown OH (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1960

Guatemalas La Hora reports plan for invasion on Cuba

31 Oct 1960

Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

31 Oct 1960

12th NASCAR Sprint Cup Rex White wins

31 Oct 1961

Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb named Tsar Bomba the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated

31 Oct 1962

US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island

31 Oct 1963

Morocco & Algeria sign cease fire

31 Oct 1963

Sandy Koufax wins NL MVP award

31 Oct 1964

Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam

31 Oct 1965

Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Las Cruces Golf Open

31 Oct 1965

Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena Colombia

31 Oct 1966

16th NASCAR Sprint Cup David Pearson wins

31 Oct 1967

Arthur Allyn says White Sox will play 9 games in Milwaukee in 1968

31 Oct 1972

The Northern Ireland Office issues a discussion document The Future of Northern Ireland the paper states Britains commitment to the union as long as the majority of people wish to remain part of the United Kingdom

31 Oct 1954

Colonel Nasser disbands Muslim Brotherhood

31 Oct 1908

The English Newspaper the Daily Telegraph prints an interview with Germanys Emperor Wilhelm II who characterises himself as personally friendly to Britain but suggests the German people are hostile causing uproar in both countries

31 Oct 1795

Pinckneys Treaty [Treaty of San Lorenzo] signed by Spain and US establishing the southern boundary of the US and giving Americans right to navigate the Mississippi River

31 Oct 1997

Microsoft argues it should be free from government interference

31 Oct 1973

President Nixon releases first White House tapes on Watergate scandal

31 Oct 1946

1st trial against nazi war criminals in Nuremberg

31 Oct 1972

Loyalist paramilitaries carry out a raid on Royal Ulster Constabulary station in County Derry and steal 4 British Army Sterling sub-machine Guns

31 Oct 1954

Sweden begins experimental TV

31 Oct 1911

Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game

31 Oct 1806

The French Army enters in Berlin

31 Oct 1997

US releases a redesigned 50 bill

31 Oct 1973

Wings release Helen Wheels

31 Oct 1947

Under the Counter closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 27 performances

31 Oct 1973

Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award

31 Oct 1955

Belgium signs accord for 5 day work week (45 hours)

31 Oct 1913

Krazy Kat comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal

31 Oct 1810

United States annexes West Florida from Spain

31 Oct 1999

Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan and 6 other members.

31 Oct 1974

Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBAs Cavaliers & MISLs Crunch

31 Oct 1947

Sam Breadon sells Cards to Robert Hannegan & Fred Saigh for 4M

31 Oct 1974

Catfish Hunter is named AL Cy Young Award

31 Oct 1955

Emile Zatopek runs world record 15 mile (11401) & 25000m (11636)

31 Oct 1914

German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea

31 Oct 1830

Major-General Baron D Chasse bombs Antwerp (Belgium revolution)

31 Oct 1999

New York Yankees beat Atlanta 4-1 in Game 4 at Yankee Stadium to sweep Braves and retain Baseball World Series Yankees closer Mariano Rivera MVP

31 Oct 1975

Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball

31 Oct 1948

Special Council of Annulment convicts F Weinreb for collaboration

31 Oct 1974

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre horror film premieres in Los Angeles

31 Oct 1956

NBC anchors Chet Huntley and David Brinkley first team up in The HuntleyBrinkley Report

31 Oct 1914

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity founded at Howard University incorporates

31 Oct 1838

Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.

31 Oct 2001

Breeders Cup Horse Racing Belmont Park winners Tiznow Johannesburg Unbridled Elaine Fantastic Light Val Royal Banks Hill Tempera Squirtle Squirt

31 Oct 1975

Mary Bea Porter wins LPGA Golf Inns of America

31 Oct 1950

Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life

31 Oct 1975

Giants pitcher John the Count of Montefusco wins NL Rookie of Year

31 Oct 1956

International zone of Tangier returns to Morocco

31 Oct 1915

Richard Strauss Alpensymfonie premieres in Berlin

31 Oct 1863

Dutch railway to Harlingen opens

31 Oct 2002

Anaheim beats San Francisco Giants 4-1 in Game 7 at Edison Field to win Angels first Baseball World Series Anaheim 1st baseman Troy Glaus MVP

31 Oct 1976

Transkei gains independence not recognized outside of South Africa

31 Oct 1950

Jean Anouilhs La Repetition ou LAmour Pani premieres in Paris

31 Oct 1975

John Bucyk Boston became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals

31 Oct 1956

Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran

31 Oct 1916

Australian government holds a national referendum seeking support for the proposal of compulsory conscription it is rejected

31 Oct 1864

Battle of Boydton Plank Road VA (Burgess Mill Southside Railroad)

31 Oct 2002

The British ITV Network airs a regional service for the last time in England and Wales LWT loses its identity completely

31 Oct 1976

Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic

31 Oct 1951

Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom

31 Oct 1975

King Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain

31 Oct 1957

Hand grenade explodes in Israels Knesset (Parliament)

31 Oct 1918

Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up

31 Oct 1864

Second Battle of Fair Oaks Va near Richmond

31 Oct 2004

The Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the first time in 86 years

31 Oct 1977

5th & final test of space shuttle Enterprise

31 Oct 1952

First Dutch edition of childrens magazine Donald Duck

31 Oct 1975

NY Daily News runs headline Ford to City Drop Dead

31 Oct 1958

Dr F Mason Sones is first doctor to perform a coronary angiogram

31 Oct 1921

Amsterdams Tuschinski movie theater opens

31 Oct 1864

Confederate ship Albemarle torpedoed and sunk by a spar torpedo mounted on a steam launch

31 Oct 2004

Boston beats St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 in Game 4 at Busch Stadium to sweep Cardinals and win Red Sox first Baseball World Series since 1918 Boston outfielder Manny Ramirez MVP

31 Oct 1977

Dr Clifford R Wharton Jr named chancellor of State University of New York

31 Oct 1952

French president inaugurates Donzre-Mondragonstuw Dam

31 Oct 1976

Going Up closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 49 performances

31 Oct 1959

10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is announced

31 Oct 1921

First American gubernatorial recall election is held in South Dakota. Governor Lynn Frazier loses to Ragnvald A. Nestos.

31 Oct 1884

Architect Henry Hardenberghs Dakota-complex opens in NYC

31 Oct 2005

Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.

31 Oct 1977

Last natural case of smallpox discovered in Merca district Somalia. Considered the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox the most spectacular success of vaccination

31 Oct 1952

Nazar Mohammad scores Pakistans 1st Test century 124 v India

31 Oct 1976

Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show

31 Oct 1960

Chartered C46 carrying Cal States football team crashes kills 16

31 Oct 1922

First US coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game

31 Oct 1893

Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Georgia & Charleston South Carlolina

31 Oct 2006

St. Louis beats Detroit Tigers 4-2 in Game 5 at Busch Stadium to win Cardinals 10th Baseball World Series Cards infielder David Eckstein MVP

31 Oct 1978

Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named joint winners of Nobel Peace Prize

31 Oct 1953

Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes 26 die

31 Oct 1976

Rev Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ

31 Oct 1961

13th NASCAR Sprint Cup Ned Jarrett wins

31 Oct 1922

Benito Mussolini takes control of Italys government

31 Oct 1896

1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP)

31 Oct 2007

Breeders Cup Horse Racing Monmouth Park Day 2 winners Indian Blessing War Pass Lahudood Midnight Lute Kip Deville Ginger Punch English Channel Curlin

31 Oct 1978

Independent Counsel Act is signed into law.

31 Oct 1953

KIEM TV channel 3 in Eureka CA (NBCCBSABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1977

Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 5407

31 Oct 1963

Meet the Beatles booklet is published

31 Oct 1924

French-Russian trade agreement signed

31 Oct 1904

First section of New York subway - Lower Manhattan to Broadway Harlem opened by Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) fare one nickel

31 Oct 2008

The banking group BNP Paribas states that Australia is in a risky position with regards to the global financial crisis as foreign liabilities accounted for 60% of the nations GDP

31 Oct 1979

Park Chung-hee President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President Kim is executed the following May.

31 Oct 1955

Austria resumed its sovereignty after departure of last Allied occupation forces for 1st time since German occupation of 1938

31 Oct 1978

Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime 2 21701-1

31 Oct 1964

Bobby Simpson completes cricket century in each innings v Pakistan

31 Oct 1924

White Sox beat NY Giants 8-4 in Dublin less than 20 fans attend

31 Oct 1907

The first trial of the so called Eulenberg Affair which will rock the highest circles of Germany ends

31 Oct 2011

The Royal Australian Navy announces that they discovered the wreck of a World War II submarine in Simpson Harbour Papua New Guinea during Operation RENDER SAFE - it is likely to be Japanese.

31 Oct 1980

10th NYC Womens Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 22541.3

31 Oct 1955

Branch Rickey steps down as GM of the Pirates

31 Oct 1978

Uganda troops attack Tanzania

31 Oct 1964

Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY

31 Oct 1927

Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia

31 Oct 1914

British battleship Audacious sunk by mine

31 Oct 2011

MLB World Series Game 6 St. Louis Cardinal 3B David Freese hits game-tying 2 run triple with 2 outs in the 9th and then hits walk-off home run in the 11th

31 Oct 1980

11th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 20941

31 Oct 1955

Tappan sells 1st microwave oven

31 Oct 1979

NASA launches space vehicle S-203

31 Oct 1964

Town of Karmiel founded in Galilee

31 Oct 1927

KLM-plane Homing Pigeon leaves Neth-Indies after 1st regular flight

31 Oct 1915

Andrew Fisher is replaced as Labour Prime Minister by William Billy Hughes who will advocate a more active role for Australians in the war

31 Oct 2012

46 people are killed and 123 injured in Iraq after a series of attacks and bombs

31 Oct 1980

St Louis Cards sack Balt Colt QBs an NFL record tying 12 times

31 Oct 1956

White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him

31 Oct 1979

Richard Arrington Jr. is elected the first African American mayor in Birmingham Alabama

31 Oct 1964

The United Republic of Tanganyika & Zanzibar renamed The United Republic of Tanzania

31 Oct 1928

Indonesian child laws enforced in Bahasa Indonesia

31 Oct 1916

Battle of Segale Negus Mikael marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.

31 Oct 2012

Thousands demonstrate in Madrid against proposed budget cuts

31 Oct 1981

LA Dodgers beat NY Yankees 4 games to 2 in 78th World Series

31 Oct 1957

Russian minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed

31 Oct 1980

Honduras and El Salvador sign a peace treaty ending the Football War

31 Oct 1965

US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians

31 Oct 1928

Indian freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai injured leading silent protest against visiting British commission in Lahore (dies of injuries 17th November)

31 Oct 1917

20000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York US

31 Oct 2013

38 people are killed in a series of car bombings in Bagdhad Iraq

31 Oct 1982

Steve Carlton became 1st pitcher to win 4 Cy Young awards

31 Oct 1960

1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale NYC

31 Oct 1980

NASA launches Flt Satcom-4

31 Oct 1966

Lunar Orbiter 1 crashes on moon 6.7N 162E

31 Oct 1929

Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64

31 Oct 1919

Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim

31 Oct 2013

18 people are killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan

31 Oct 1982

US budget deficit reaches more than 110 trillion for fiscal year

31 Oct 1960

Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses

31 Oct 1982

Portugal revises constitution

31 Oct 1966

National Organization of Women founded

31 Oct 1934

Brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game

31 Oct 1920

League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva

31 Oct 2013

Giorgi Margvelashvili wins the Georgian Presidential election in a landslide victory

31 Oct 1983

Hugh Whitemores Pack of Lies premieres in London

31 Oct 1962

110th member of UN admitted (Uganda)

31 Oct 1983

The first democratic elections are held in Argentina after seven years of military rule.

31 Oct 1967

Danny Abramowicz begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions

31 Oct 1935

Sidney Kingsleys Dead End premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1920

Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh KDKA begins

31 Oct 2013

German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel wins the Indian Grand Prix at the Buddh International Circuit to clinch his 4th straight World Formula 1 Drivers title 6th consecutive GP victory

31 Oct 1984

Stephanie Fae Beauclair (Baby Fae) gets baboon heart transplant lives 21 days

31 Oct 1962

1st Belgian nuclear reactor begins operation

31 Oct 1984

Tigers reliever Willie Hernandez wins AL Cy Young Award

31 Oct 1967

MacDermot Ragni & Rados musical Hair premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1938

Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona)

31 Oct 1922

1st commemoration of Navy Day (USA)

31 Oct 2013

American Serena Williams wins her 4th season ending tennis title beats Li Na of China 26 63 60 in the WTA Championship final in Istanbul Turkey

31 Oct 1985

Hurricane Juan kills 97 in US

31 Oct 1963

Anti-Kennedy WANTED FOR TREASON pamphlets scattered in Dallas

31 Oct 1985

22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched

31 Oct 1967

London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.

31 Oct 1939

Anti-German demonstrationsstrikes in Czechoslovakia

31 Oct 1922

Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws

31 Oct 2014

Montevallo debut album by Sam Hunt is released (American Country Countdown Award Digital Album of the Year 2016 Billboard Album of the Year 2015)

31 Oct 1985

On a poor call in 6th game umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals the World Series

31 Oct 1963

Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden

31 Oct 1985

Rockin with the Rhythm 2nd studio album by The Judds is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1986)

31 Oct 1968

USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR

31 Oct 1939

Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland

31 Oct 1924

The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union

31 Oct 2016

6.6-magnitude quake hits central Italy - strongest earthquake in Italy for 36 years

31 Oct 1985

CBS premiere of fact based TV film Children of the Night based on sociology student Lois Lees expose on female crime and inconsistent enforcement of prostitution laws in Los Angeles

31 Oct 1964

Dutchman Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner

31 Oct 1986

Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modifications are made

31 Oct 1969

Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation at once

31 Oct 1940

Greece successfully resists Italys attack

31 Oct 1925

Water skis patented by Fred Waller

31 Oct 2017

First operation to separate conjoined twins joined at the head in India completed in New Delhi

31 Oct 1986

Into the Light closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 6 performances

31 Oct 1964

Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Ladies Golf Open

31 Oct 1987

In Japan NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system the TurboGrafx-16 known as PC Engine.

31 Oct 1969

Tom Seaver voted NL Cy Young Award

31 Oct 1942

6th day battle at El Alamein British offensive under Montgomery

31 Oct 1927

Queen Wilhelmina opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen

31 Oct 2017

Catalan parliament meets and unilaterally declares independence from Spain

31 Oct 1986

French McLaren driver Alain Prost retains his World Formula 1 Drivers Championship with victory in season ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide wins title by 2 points from Nigel Mansell

31 Oct 1964

The Wrong Way Run Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in wrong direction for a safety (NFLs 1 blooper)

31 Oct 1988

2 gambling clubs & 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot

31 Oct 1969

USSR performs underground nuclear test

31 Oct 1942

Train crashes into bus killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)

31 Oct 1931

Chuhei Numbu of Japan sets then long jump record at 26 2

31 Oct 2018

Gunman shoots and kills 11 people and injures six at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in an anti-Semitic attack

31 Oct 1987

Dow Jones down 156.83 points

31 Oct 1964

Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan for the 1st time

31 Oct 1988

Jim Elliott (US) completes 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi

31 Oct 1970

WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus GA (NBC) 1st broadcast

31 Oct 1943

German submarine U-220 sunk by US aircraft in the Atlantic

31 Oct 1935

SDAP & NVV launchs Plan for Work in Utrect Netherlands

31 Oct 2018

EPL club Leicester Citys billionaire Thai owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash in the carpark outside the clubs King Power Stadium following 1-1 draw against West Ham United

31 Oct 1987

Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads

31 Oct 1964

15th Formula One WDC John Surtees wins by one point

31 Oct 1988

NY Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for 1st time

31 Oct 1970

The Electoral Reform Society calls for the introduction of Proportional Representation (PR) in elections in Northern Ireland

31 Oct 1944

Russia & Bulgaria sign weapons pact

31 Oct 1938

DuPont announces its new synthetic polyamide fiber will be called nylon

31 Oct 2018

Australian 7-year old mare Winx wins unprecedented fourth consecutive Cox Plate at Moonee Valley in Melbourne her record 29th-straight win and her 22nd Group 1 racing success

31 Oct 1988

US-Soviet effort to free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic Barrow AK

31 Oct 1964

English driver John Surtees finishes 2nd behind American Dan Gurney in season ending Mexican Grand Prix at Autdromo Hermanos Rodrguez to clinch his first World Championship of Drivers title edges Graham Hill by 1 point

31 Oct 1989

August A. Busch III becomes CEO of St Louis Cards

31 Oct 1972

Don Cockroft of Cleveland Browns kicks 57-yard field goal

31 Oct 1946

German rocket engineers begin work in USSR

31 Oct 1941

Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan

31 Oct 740

An earthquake strikes Constantinople causing damage to city walls and buildings

31 Oct 1992

The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.

31 Oct 1965

Rolling Stones release Get Off of My Cloud

31 Oct 1989

Smith Dairy at Orrville Ohio makes largest milk shake (1575.2 gal)

31 Oct 1972

Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open

31 Oct 1948

Flag of Israel is adopted

31 Oct 1941

Nazis directs gypsy ghetto in Belgrade

31 Oct 1366

Comet 55P U1 (Tempel-Tuttle) approaches 0.0229 AUs of Earth

31 Oct 1992

London Ambulance Service thrown into chaos after implementation problems with a new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system

31 Oct 1966

6 youths sentenced in Johnson murderer in Amsterdam

31 Oct 1990

Britain and France complete the Chunnel under the English Channel

31 Oct 1974

Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application

31 Oct 1949

Georges Bidault elected president of France

31 Oct 1942

5th day of battle at El Alamein heavy battlesAustralian advance

31 Oct 1387

Amsterdam buccaneer Herman of Kuinre sign peace

31 Oct 1993

NFL announces new expansion team Carolina Panthers in Charlotte

31 Oct 1968

Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler

31 Oct 1991

Colombian government negotiate with M-19-guerrilla

31 Oct 1975

Bostons Fred Lynn is the overwhelming choice as AL Rookie of Year

31 Oct 1951

Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina wins FIA World Championship of Drivers by taking out the Spanish Grand Prix at Pedralbes in an Alpha Romeo wins by 6 points from Alberto Ascari of Italy

31 Oct 1942

US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz

31 Oct 1407

Mobs attack Jewish community of Krakw

31 Oct 1993

NJ Devils lose 2-0 to Montreal after winning 1st 7 games of

31 Oct 1968

Longest Olympic field hockey game The Netherlands beats Spain 1-0 in 2h25m (6 OT)

31 Oct 1991

Mark Sauer becomes CEO of Pittsburgh Pirates

31 Oct 1975

USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern KazakhSemipalitinsk USSR

31 Oct 1953

Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record)

31 Oct 1944

Hertogenbosch & Tilburg freed from nazi occupation

31 Oct 1492

Lead (graphite) pencils first used

31 Oct 1994

Jordan & Israel sign peace accord

31 Oct 1968

US mens basketball team beats Yugoslavia 65-50 to win the gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics 7th straight basketball title for the Americans

31 Oct 1991

Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain

31 Oct 1975

Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe kills first victim Wilma McCann

31 Oct 1953

Red Barber resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees

31 Oct 1944

Tito reaches free Belgrade

31 Oct 1524

Spanish troops give Milan to France

31 Oct 1995

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.

31 Oct 1968

Czech gymnast Vra slavsk wins the uneven bars and vault gold medals at the Mexico City Olympics her 6th & 7th career gold medals and her 4th at these Games

31 Oct 1992

MTA begins installing automated fare collection turnstiles

31 Oct 1977

Act opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 233 performances

31 Oct 1954

Major league owners vote down sale of As to a Philadelphia syndicate

31 Oct 1945

Carib Song closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 36 performances

31 Oct 1529

Sir Thomas More appointed Lord Chancellor of England

31 Oct 1996

Breeders Cup Horse Racing Woodbine Racetrack winners Lit de Justice Storm Song Jewel Princess Da Hass Boston Harbor Pilsudski Alphabet Soup

31 Oct 1968

American swimmer Claudia Kolb wraps up the womens individual medley double in Mexico City winning the 400m IM in Olympic record 508.5 she also won the 200m IM in OR 224.7

31 Oct 1993

Toronto Maple Leafs lose 1st game of season after going 10-0-0

31 Oct 1977

Texas Russell Erideben kicks his 3rd 60 yard field goal of the season

31 Oct 1954

N Richard Nash Rainmaker premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1945

1st edition of Elseviers Weekly newspaper (Elseviers Magazine)

31 Oct 1667

Arung Palakkas occupies Makassar (Goa)

31 Oct 1996

New York beats Atlanta Braves 3-2 in Game 6 at Yankee Stadium to win 23rd Baseball World Series Bronx Bombers reliever John Wetteland MVP

31 Oct 1968

East German swimmer Roland Matthes wins the 200m backstroke gold medal in Olympic record 209.6 at the Mexico City Games wraps up backstroke double

31 Oct 1994

Leftist coalition wins Macedonian parliamentary election

31 Oct 1979

Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time)

31 Oct 1955

Egypt and Saudi Arabia sign defense treaty

31 Oct 1946

Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%)

31 Oct 1674

Prince Willem III occupies Grave

31 Oct 1997

Bill Glasson wins Las Vegas Golf Invitational

31 Oct 1970

Austrian driver Jochen Rindt wins World F1 Drivers title by 5 points from Jacky Ickx after Mexican GP only season World Championship awarded posthumously after Rindts death in Italian GP practice at Monza

31 Oct 1994

Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intels Pentium-processor on Internet

31 Oct 1979

Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open

31 Oct 1956

Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Luctuosissimi eventus

31 Oct 1947

WMAR TV channel 2 in Baltimore MD (NBC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1749

Georgia Colony reverses itself & rules slavery is legal

31 Oct 1997

Florida beats Cleveland Indians 3-2 in Game 7 at Pro Player Stadium Miami for Marlins first Baseball World Series Florida pitcher Livn Hernndez MVP

31 Oct 1971

Belgium & Peoples Republic of China establish diplomatic relations

31 Oct 1994

US wins Nichirei LPGA Golf International

31 Oct 1981

Bill Giles becomes CEO of Philadelphia Phillies

31 Oct 1957

WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee WI (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1948

Israel recaptures Nizzanim in Negev

31 Oct 1774

First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia

31 Oct 1997

Jacques Villeneuve finishes 3rd in European Grand Prix at Jerez Spain first Canadian to win World F1 Drivers Championship wins by 39 points from Michael Schumacher

31 Oct 1971

General Meeting of UN agrees to admit Peoples Republic of China

31 Oct 1995

Qubec votes in a referendum to remain part of Canada

31 Oct 1982

Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking later acquitted

31 Oct 1958

Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (avg went from .230 to .322)

31 Oct 1948

Lopold Sdar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS).

31 Oct 1774

Minutemen organized in US colonies

31 Oct 1999

Britains House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britains upper chamber of Parliament.

31 Oct 1971

United Nations votes to expel the Chinese Nationalist ruled Taiwan and admit the Communist Peoples Republic of China

31 Oct 1996

Exxon confirms that it is in talks with state-owned Qatar General Petroleum Corporation concerning the application of new technology to convert natural gas to petroleum products

31 Oct 1983

550000 Dutch demonstrate against cruise missile

31 Oct 1959

Buffalo Bills enter AFL

31 Oct 1950

Paul Crestons 3rd Symphony Triumph of St Joan premieres

31 Oct 1787

Federalist Papers published calls for ratification of United States Constitution

31 Oct 2000

Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Cte dIvoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Gu. Bret Hart retires.

31 Oct 1971

A man dies two days after being shot during an Irish Republican Army attack on the British Army in Belfast

31 Oct 1997

The Cherry Orchard opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC

31 Oct 1983

Notre Dames Gil Fenerty rushes for 337 yards & 6 touchdowns

31 Oct 1959

Jean Genets Les Negres premieres in Paris

31 Oct 1952

My Darlin Aida opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 89 performances

31 Oct 1795

The Directoire a five-man revolutionary government of France is created

31 Oct 2001

The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.

31 Oct 1972

Eddy Merckx (Belgium) covers 30 miles 1258 yards in 1 hr

31 Oct 1997

Shirley Allen 51 held Illinois police off for 39 days captured

31 Oct 1984

Orlando Pizzolato (21453) & Greta Weitz (22930) win NY Marathon

31 Oct 1961

Fiorello closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC starring Tom Bosley after 796 performances and a Pulitzer Prize

31 Oct 1954

WISN TV channel 12 in Milwaukee WI (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1822

King Willem I requires inhabitants of Brussels to use Dutch language

31 Oct 2002

Moscow Theatre Siege ends Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days before

31 Oct 1972

Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Kenneth J Arrow & John R Hicks

31 Oct 2002

British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview begins transmitting in parts of the United Kingdom.

31 Oct 1985

Cards Joaquin Andujar suspended for 10 games for bumping an ump

31 Oct 1961

Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets

31 Oct 1954

Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.

31 Oct 1825

Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opens

31 Oct 2002

Breeders Cup Horse Racing Arlington Park winners Volponi Vindication Azeri High Chaparral Starine Storm Flag Flying Domedriver Orientate

31 Oct 1973

Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship

31 Oct 2004

Breeders Cup Horse Racing Lone Star Park winners Ghostzapper Wilko Ashado Better Talk Now Oujja Board Sweet Catomine Singletary Speightstown

31 Oct 1985

Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.

31 Oct 1962

Jo Weatherly in a Pontiac finishes 2nd to Rex White in season-ending Dixie 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway to clinch his 1st of 2 consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Championships

31 Oct 1955

Argentine peso devalued

31 Oct 1830

Belgian rebels occupy Antwerp

31 Oct 2003

The Cedar Fire the second-largest fire in Californian history kills 15 people consumes 250000 acres (1000 km) destroys 2200 homes around San Diego

31 Oct 1973

Cubs trade Ferguson Jenkins to Rangers for Bill Madlock & Vic Harris

31 Oct 2005

The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.

31 Oct 1986

Kirk Muller scores NJ Devil record 6 point beat Penguins 8-6

31 Oct 1962

NY Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash Redskins (49-34)

31 Oct 1955

Satomi Myodo renews Zen nun vows & takes Buddhist name of Daien Myodo

31 Oct 1850

Robert McClure sights the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time (from Banks Island towards Melville Island)

31 Oct 2005

Chicago beats Houston 1-0 in Game 4 at Minute Maid Park to sweep Astros and win White Sox first Baseball World Series in 88 years Chicago outfielder Jermaine Dye MVP

31 Oct 1973

SF Giants trade Willie McCovey to San Diego Padres for pitcher Mike Caldwell

31 Oct 2007

Long Road Out of Eden 7th studio album by the Eagles is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2008)

31 Oct 1986

Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt is arrested at US-Mexico border for drugs

31 Oct 1962

Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated

31 Oct 1957

Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey

31 Oct 1858

Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine

31 Oct 2007

Breeders Cup Horse Racing Monmouth Park Day 1 winners Maryfield Nownownow Corinthian

31 Oct 1974

US Air Force fires 1st ICBM

31 Oct 2011

Czech tennis star Petra Kvitov beats Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 75 46 63 in the WTA Championship decider in Istanbul Turkey

31 Oct 1986

West Indies all out for 53 v Pakistan (Abdul Qadir 6-16)

31 Oct 1965

Gateway Arch (630 (190m) high) completed in St Louis Missouri

31 Oct 1957

WOWL TV channel 15 in Florence AL (NBCCBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1859

The steam clipper Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey north Wales with 459 dead

31 Oct 2012

64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes

31 Oct 1974

Dmitri Shostakovich 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad

31 Oct 2013

44 people are killed after a bus catches fire in Mahbubnagar India

31 Oct 1987

Dont Get God Started opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 86 performances

31 Oct 1965

Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion

31 Oct 1957

WPTA TV channel 21 in Fort Wayne IN (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1861

Pony Express (Missouri to California) ends after 19 months

31 Oct 2012

41 people are killed and 50 injured by a suicide bombing of a mosque in Maymana Afghanistan

31 Oct 1974

Wings release Juniors Farm

31 Oct 2013

Boston Red Sox decisively beat St Louis Cardinals 6-1 in Game 6 at Fenway Park to win the Baseball World Series Boston slugger David Ortiz MVP

31 Oct 1987

Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title

31 Oct 1966

Belgiums Gaston Roelants runs 12-45 miles in 1 hour

31 Oct 1958

General Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as President of Pakistan

31 Oct 1863

International conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields - beginning of the Red Cross

31 Oct 2012

China blocks the New York Times from searches and social media in response to an investigation into Premier Wen Jiabao

31 Oct 2014

Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks win the Japan Series

31 Oct 1988

2000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics

31 Oct 1970

NBA Cleveland Cavaliers 1st home game lose to San Diego 110-99

31 Oct 1958

WEDU TV channel 3 in Tampa-St Petersburg FL (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1863

Football Association forms in England standardizing soccer splitting with rugby

31 Oct 2012

Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in the Bahamas killing 2 people and causing over 300 million in damage

31 Oct 2015

Breeders Cup Horse Racing Keeneland Racetrack Day 1 winners Hit It A Bomb Liams Map Catch A Glimpse Stopchargingmaria

31 Oct 1988

China announces a herbal male contraceptive

31 Oct 1970

USUSSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts

31 Oct 1959

Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2000 in Western Mexico

31 Oct 1864

Union troops ambush & kill Bloody Bill Anderson near Albany Missouri

31 Oct 2013

St Louis Cardinals defeat Boston Red Sox to lead the MLB World Series 2-1

31 Oct 2015

Polish tennis star Agnieszka Radwaska wins the WTA Finals title at Kallang. Singapore beats Czech Petra Kvitov 62 46 63

31 Oct 1988

Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi

31 Oct 1971

Great Britain becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit

31 Oct 1960

AL admits LA & Washington to the league

31 Oct 1868

White terrorists kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish La

31 Oct 2014

Dilma Rousseff is re-elected President of Brazil

31 Oct 2016

Canada and the EU sign free trade deal after opposition by Belgium

31 Oct 1988

First scheduled Soviet shuttle launch (postponed)

31 Oct 1972

Mother Earth closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 12 performances

31 Oct 1960

Singer Ben E. King records Spanish Harlem & Stand By Me

31 Oct 1869

1st American steeplechase horserace (Westchester NY)

31 Oct 2014

American tennis star Serena Williams beats Simona Halep of Romania 63 60 to successfully defend her WTA Finals title in Kallang Singapore

31 Oct 2016

Slovak tennis star Dominika Cibulkov beats Germanys Angelique Kerber 6-3 6-4 to win the WTA Finals title decider in Kallang Singapore

31 Oct 1989

Colleen Walker wins LPGA Nichirei Golf International

31 Oct 1973

Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record)

31 Oct 1961

1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test

31 Oct 1876

US President sends federal troops to Southern Carolina

31 Oct 2015

Spectre 24th James Bond film directed by Sam Mendes and starring Daniel Craig premieres in London

31 Oct 2017

Kenyan election rerun President Uhuru Kenyatta declared the winner with 38% turnout

31 Oct 1989

NYC MTA opens 63rd street extension to subway

31 Oct 1974

1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian & Westfall

31 Oct 1961

American Basketball League starts play

31 Oct 1887

Detroit (NL) beats St Louis (AA) 10 games to 5 in World Series

31 Oct 2015

World Health Organization classifies processed meat as carcinogenic

31 Oct 2017

US federal judge blocks President Trumps ban on transgender people in the military

31 Oct 1989

Ozzie Newsome ends NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions

31 Oct 1974

Luna 23 launched (landing on Moon)

31 Oct 1961

Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become 102nd & 103rd members of UN

31 Oct 1896

Abyssinia & Italy sign peace treaty

31 Oct 2015

7.5 magnitude earthquake hits northern Pakistan and Afghanistan killing over 300

31 Oct 539

BC King Cyrus the Great of Persia marches into Babylon freeing Jewish captives and allowing them to return home

31 Oct 1990

30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria

31 Oct 1975

Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games

31 Oct 1961

USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya & Sary Shagan USSR

31 Oct 1901

First recorded use of getaway car occurs after holding up a shop in Paris

31 Oct 2017

US President Donald Trump declares the opioid crisis a public health emergency

31 Oct 1268

Conradin the last legitimate male heir of the German Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings and Holy Roman Emperors is executed with Frederick I Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily

31 Oct 1991

Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as NY Yankee manager

31 Oct 1975

Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for Zoo

31 Oct 1962

Beyond the Fringe opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 performances

31 Oct 1903

Yerba Buena is first Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay

31 Oct 2017

Explosion and fire at a fireworks factory in Tangerang Indonesia kills 47 and injuries dozens

31 Oct 1390

First trial for witchcraft in Paris.

31 Oct 1993

Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86

31 Oct 1975

Venezuela and foreign oil companies agree on nationalization as of January 1 1976

31 Oct 1962

Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba

31 Oct 1905

First Soviet (workers council) formed St Petersburg Russia

31 Oct 2017

Oldest-known tsunami victim revealed by sediment discovered in 6000 year-old skull by scientists near Aitape Papua New Guinea

31 Oct 1467

Battle of Brusthem Charles the Bold defeats Liege

31 Oct 1993

The Sign single released in Europe by Ace of Base

31 Oct 1976

Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (NY Yankees)

31 Oct 1962

The plane of Enrico Mattei Italian oil industrys most powerful figure crashes in mysterious circumstances

31 Oct 1905

Union of Sweden & Norway ends

31 Oct 2018

Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc arrested for sending 14 pipe bombs to prominent US Democrats

31 Oct 1508

Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre

31 Oct 1994

Antonov AN-12 having an accident at Ust-Ilimsk Kaluga 21 killed

31 Oct 1976

Train collision at Goes Neth 7 die

31 Oct 1963

Bob Simpson completes 359 for NSW v Qld at Gabba

31 Oct 1909

It Hirobumi Resident-General of Korea and former Japanese Prime Minister shot and killed by Korean nationalist in Harbin China

31 Oct 2018

Irish singer Sinad OConnor announces she has converted to Islam

31 Oct 1552

Tsar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle

31 Oct 1994

NY Lotto pays 60 million

31 Oct 1978

Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (61020)

31 Oct 1964

Ben Franklin in Paris opens at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 215 performances

31 Oct 1911

Philadelphia As beat NY Giants 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series

31 Oct 2018

Longest Baseball World Series game by both innings and time LA Dodgers beat Boston Red Sox 3-2 in the 18th inning (7 hours 20 mins) in Game 3 at Dodger Stadium with Max Muncy walk-off homer

31 Oct 1591

Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX

31 Oct 1994

National Museum of American Indian opens (NYC)

31 Oct 1978

NBCs premiere of Kiss acting debut Kiss Meets The Phantom of the Park TV film

31 Oct 1964

Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans & 800 Belgians

31 Oct 1912

Serbian troops over run Skopje (Uskup)

31 Oct 625

Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic Pope

31 Oct 1665

Battle of Mbwila [Ambuila] Portuguese forces defeat forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King Antonio I of Kongo Nvita a Nkanga

31 Oct 1995

Fool Moon opens at Ambassador Theater NYC

31 Oct 1979

Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin

31 Oct 1965

WCFT TV channel 33 in Tuscaloosa AL (CBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1912

Woolwich Foot Tunnel under the Thames river in England opens

31 Oct 1131

Crowning of Louis VII the Young King of France

31 Oct 1692

Court of Oyer and Terminer convened for Salem witch trials dissolved

31 Oct 1995

Sunday NY News increases price from 1.00 to 1.25

31 Oct 1981

Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia

31 Oct 1966

China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

31 Oct 1913

Jos Victoriano Huerta Mrquez elected president of Mexico

31 Oct 1147

King Afonso I of Portugal occupiers Lisbon

31 Oct 1709

England & Netherlands sign anti-French Barrieretraktaat

31 Oct 1995

US beats Japan 19-17 at Nichirei International LPGA Golf Tournament

31 Oct 1981

NY Yankee George Frazier loses 3 World Series games

31 Oct 1966

UN deprives South Africa of Namibia

31 Oct 1917

Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military

31 Oct 1147

Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum

31 Oct 1727

Severe earthquake in New England

31 Oct 1997

Iraqs Revolution Command Council announces that it will no longer allow US citizens and US aircraft to serve with UN arms inspection teams

31 Oct 1982

NASA launches RCA-E

31 Oct 1966

USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

31 Oct 1917

World War I Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers.

31 Oct 1241

Goffredo Castiglioni elected as Pope Coelestinus IV (-Nov 10 )

31 Oct 1792

Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.

31 Oct 1998

Apartheid In South Africa the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.

31 Oct 1982

Spains socialists wincommunists lose elections

31 Oct 1967

4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records

31 Oct 1918

Cecil Chubb gives prehistoric monument Stonehenge to the British nation

31 Oct 1315

Adam Banastre Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw led an attack on Liverpool Castle

31 Oct 1794

French troops occupies Venlo

31 Oct 1998

En route Adana to Ankara Turkish Airlines flight with crew of 6 and 33 passengers hijacked by Kurdish militant orders pilot fly to Switzerland. Pilot lands in Ankara tricking hijacker he was landing in Sofia to refuel.

31 Oct 1984

14th NYC Womens Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 22930

31 Oct 1967

Expo 67 closes in Montreal Canada

31 Oct 1918

Soldiers revolt at Harskamp Veluwe

31 Oct 1415

Battle of Agincourt Henry Vs forces defeat larger French army and the longbow defeats the armoured knight

31 Oct 1811

1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans

31 Oct 1998

Hurricane Mitch the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history made landfall in Honduras.

31 Oct 1984

15th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 21453

31 Oct 1967

NLF leaves Peoples Republic of South-Yemen

31 Oct 1919

B C Hilliams musical Buddies premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1415

John IV van Bourgondy becomes Duke of Brabant and Limburg

31 Oct 1814

Demologos 1st steam-powered warship is launched

31 Oct 1998

ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission.

31 Oct 1985

Ravi Ratnayeke takes 8-83 for Sri Lanka v Pakistan

31 Oct 1969

Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to John Tinbergen

31 Oct 1921

Solomon Porter Hood named US minister to Liberia

31 Oct 1577

Pope Gregory XIII asks renewal of ecclesiastical hymns

31 Oct 1833

1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded

31 Oct 1999

Deadliest Indian Ocean tropical super cyclone hits Odisha India death toll 9885 wind speed of 300 mph

31 Oct 1986

KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM changes call letters to KKOB

31 Oct 1969

St Vincent & Grenadines gains associated status with Britain

31 Oct 1923

Dutch second Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote)

31 Oct 1596

Spanish fleet sails from Lisbon to Ireland

31 Oct 1859

Spain declares war on Morocco

31 Oct 2001

ExxonMobil announces that a consortium it leads will spend 4 billion over 5 years to develop large offshore oil and natural gas fields in Russias far eastern Sakhalin region

31 Oct 1986

KOB-TV in Albuquerque NMs final transmission

31 Oct 1970

Light Lively & Yiddish opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 87 performances

31 Oct 1923

Dutch Government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns

31 Oct 1621

Governor Bradford head of the colony of American Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day

31 Oct 1863

International Committee of Red Cross forms as result Geneva held conference (Nobel 1917 1944 1963)

31 Oct 2002

Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno a fire destroys a luxurious department store with 1500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.

31 Oct 1986

The centennial of the Statue of Libertys dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.

31 Oct 1971

Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic of Zaire

31 Oct 1926

Arthur Goodrichs Caponsacchi premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1666

Brandenburg Brunswick Denmark and The Netherlands form anti-French Quadruple Alliance

31 Oct 1864

Greek parliament accept new Constitution

31 Oct 2004

In Rome 25 European heads of state sign a Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe

31 Oct 1988

Jurors award 147000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister

31 Oct 1971

Gerard Newe becomes the first Catholic to serve in any Northern Ireland government since 1920 Newe was appointed to try to improve community relations

31 Oct 1926

Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 Belga)

31 Oct 1671

Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus satellite of Saturn

31 Oct 1867

Mail packets Rhone & Wye capsize off St Thomas Virgin Islands

31 Oct 2005

29 October Delhi bombings kill more than 60.

31 Oct 1989

Oakland As beat San Francisco 9-6 at Candlestick Park to sweep Giants in earthquake affected Bay Bridge Baseball World Series As pitcher Dave Stewart MVP

31 Oct 1972

Golden Gate National Recreation Area created

31 Oct 1931

Eugene ONeills Mourning Becomes Electra premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1747

British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre

31 Oct 1872

J S Risdon patents metal windmill

31 Oct 2005

Breeders Cup Horse Racing Belmont Park winners Saint Liam Stevie Wonderboy Pleasant Home Shirocco Intercontinental Folklore Artie Schiller Silver Train

31 Oct 1992

Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world

31 Oct 1972

OPEC approves plan providing for 25 percent government ownership of all Western oil interests operating within Kuwait Qatar Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia

31 Oct 1933

French government of Serraut forms

31 Oct 1760

George III becomes King of Great Britain

31 Oct 1881

Judge (U.S. magazine) first published.

31 Oct 2007

Argentina elects its first female president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

31 Oct 1993

Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99-years

31 Oct 1973

1st time Islanders beat Rangers-3-2

31 Oct 1934

While Washington Seantors player-manager Joe Cronin honeymoons with Mildred Robertson owner Clark Griffiths niece and adopted daughter he is sold to Red Sox

31 Oct 1812

US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian

31 Oct 1889

NY Giants (NL) beat Bkln (AA) in world series 6 games to 3

31 Oct 2008

Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines creating the worlds largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.

31 Oct 1993

Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns

31 Oct 1973

Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds) beats Virginia Tech 77-6

31 Oct 1939

Polish Jews forced into obligatory work service

31 Oct 1828

St Katharine Docks opens in London England

31 Oct 1889

Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia

31 Oct 2008

Philadelphia beats Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 in Game 5 at Citizens Bank Park for Phillies second Baseball World Series in their 126-year history Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels MVP

31 Oct 1994

Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth for 3rd time

31 Oct 1974

French runner Chantal Langlac sets female world marathon record (24624) in Neuf-Brisach France

31 Oct 1940

The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.

31 Oct 1854

The infamous Charge of Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War over 100 killed

31 Oct 1889

Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver BC

31 Oct 2008

Quantum of Solace 22nd James Bond film starring Daniel Craig and Olga Kurylenko premieres in London

31 Oct 1995

Atlanta Braves beat Cleveland Indians 1-0 in Game 6 at AtlantaFulton County Stadium to win their 3rd Baseball World Series Braves starter Tom Glavine MVP

31 Oct 1977

Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped

31 Oct 1941

Second meeting of partisans Tito & Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia

31 Oct 1854

Prince Menshikov of Crimea occupies British base at Balaclava

31 Oct 1894

First election of Hawaiian Republic

31 Oct 2011

Record-breaking snowstorm in the northeastern United States leaves nearly 2 million residents without power for more than 36 hours.

31 Oct 1995

Breeders Cup Horse Racing Belmont Park winners Cigar Desert Stormer Inside Information My Flag Northern Spur Ridgewood Pearl Unbridleds Song

31 Oct 1977

NASA launches space vehicle S-200

31 Oct 1942

Second day of Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal

31 Oct 1859

Merchant vessel Royal Charter runs aground at Liverpool 459 die

31 Oct 1901

In Amherst Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.

31 Oct 2012

Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey resulting in 110 deaths and 50 billion in damage and forces the New York stock exchange to close

31 Oct 1995

11th Rugby League World Cup Australia beats England 16-8

31 Oct 1979

Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds

31 Oct 1942

Fourth day of battle at El Alamein Australian breakthrough

31 Oct 1861

First Battle of Springfield [Zagonyis Charge] fought in Springfield Missouri Union victory (US Civil War)

31 Oct 1904

First intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder Texas)

31 Oct 2012

Publishing companies Penguin and Random House merge to form the worlds largest publisher

31 Oct 1996

Goa upset Karnataka to win their 1st Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever

31 Oct 1979

St Vincent & Grenadines becomes independent of UK (National Day)

31 Oct 1942

Battle of Santa Cruz Japanese naval offensive against US forces near Solomon Islands

31 Oct 1861

Telegraph message sent from St Louis to San Francisco

31 Oct 1905

Hottentot chief Hendrik Witbooi fatally injured

31 Oct 2014

San Francisco beats Kansas City Royals 3-2 in Game 7 at Kauffman Field KC to win Giants 3rd Baseball World Series in 5 years SF starter Madison Bumgarner MVP

31 Oct 1997

NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner & Violet Palmer as 1st women to officiate a major-league all-male sports league

31 Oct 1979

Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide

31 Oct 1943

World War II First flight of the Dornier Do 335 Pfeil.

31 Oct 1861

Toronto Stock Exchange created

31 Oct 1910

Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game

31 Oct 2015

China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years

31 Oct 1998

An Air China (Mainland China) jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.

31 Oct 1980

Astros owner John McMullen replaces GM Tal Smith with Al Rosen

31 Oct 1947

Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India

31 Oct 1864

Battle of Marais Des Cygnes River Kansas (Mine Creek)

31 Oct 1913

Floods in El Salvador kill thousands.

31 Oct 2015

Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) is elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives succeeding John Boehner (R-Ohio)

31 Oct 2005

Plame affair Lewis Libby Vice-president Dick Cheneys chief of staff is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.

31 Oct 1980

Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph

31 Oct 1947

The British military occupation ends in Iraq.

31 Oct 1870

Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore

31 Oct 1914

Turkish warships storm Black Sea

31 Oct 2017

British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton finishes a distant 9th in Mexican Grand Prix at Autdromo Hermanos Rodrguez good enough to clinch his 4th World F1 Drivers Championship

31 Oct 2006

Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest outside of Kiev Ukraine with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s - early 1940s.

31 Oct 1981

Andrew Young former UN Ambassador elected mayor of Atlanta Georgia

31 Oct 1950

630 Dutch volunteers depart for Korea

31 Oct 1870

Postcards first used in USA

31 Oct 1915

Aristide Briand becomes Prime Minister of France for the 3rd time

31 Oct 2017

Danish tennis star Caroline Wozniacki beats American Venus Williams 6-4 6-4 to win the WTA Finals title decider in Kallang Singapore

31 Oct 2007

Boston Red Sox beats Colorado 4-3 in Game 4 at Coors Field Denver to sweep the Rockies and win their 2nd Baseball World Series in 4 years Boston 3rd baseman Mike Lowell MVP

31 Oct 1981

The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.

31 Oct 1950

Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president

31 Oct 1884

1st World Series OK by AA Providence (NL) sweeps NY Mets (AA) in 3

31 Oct 1918

German sailors refuse to obey orders to fight British naval forces and lead a revolt in the naval ports of Wilhelmshaven beginning the German Revolution

31 Oct 2018

Far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro wins Brazils presidential election defeating Fernando Haddad

31 Oct 2007

Bee Movie premieres in the US and the UK

31 Oct 1982

China announces its population has reached 1 billion plus people

31 Oct 1950

South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary

31 Oct 1885

John Brahms 4th Symphony in E premieres

31 Oct 1920

Ed Barrow appointed GM of NY Yankees

31 Oct 2018

New mega airport opened in Istanbul by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan planning to be world busiest with 90 million passengers by 2021

31 Oct 2008

In the UK 500000 mortgage holders are left in negative equity after house prices drop 15% since the previous summer

31 Oct 1982

IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics

31 Oct 1951

Emile Zatopek runs world record 30000m 25000m & 15 miles

31 Oct 1891

1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) ends

31 Oct 1921

The Link River Dam a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project is completed.

31 Oct 2018

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announces she will not seek re-election in 2021 and step down as party leader

31 Oct 2009

The 28 October Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.

31 Oct 1984

France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

31 Oct 1952

Pakistans 1st Test Cricket win Fazal Mahmood 12 wkts v India

31 Oct 1893

Battle of Shangani Matabeleland Dr Jameson beats Ndebeles

31 Oct 1923

GibbsGreyWoods revue Runnin Wild (introducing Charleston) opens on Broadway New York City

31 Oct 2018

Japanese Princess Ayako of Japan marries commoner Kei Moriya at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo giving up her royal status

31 Oct 2009

NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.

31 Oct 1984

Wash States Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing

31 Oct 1953

Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field Australia

31 Oct 1900

Great Britain annexes the former Boer South African Republic renaming it the Transvaal Colony

31 Oct 1923

Army move SPDKPD-government to German part of Saxon

31 Oct 2018

World Scrabble Championship won for the fourth time by New Zealand Malaysian Nigel Richards with the word groutier (bad-tempered)

31 Oct 2011

St. Louis beats Texas Rangers 6-2 in Game 7 at Busch Stadium to win Cardinals 11th Baseball World Series Cards 3rd baseman David Freese MVP

31 Oct 1985

15th NYC Womens Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 22834

31 Oct 1954

Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine

31 Oct 1901

Joseph Chamberlain British Colonial Affairs Secretary makes an anti-German speech in Edinburgh when word reaches Germany leads to widespread agitation against the British and breakdown of negotiations for Anglo-German alliance

31 Oct 1923

Textile strike against lower wages begins in Enschede Netherlands

31 Oct 2018

New research says cacao tree first used in Ecuador by Mayo Chinchipe culture 5000 years ago not in central America as previously thought

31 Oct 2012

Syrian ceasefire collapses and 128 people are killed in ongoing civil war violence

31 Oct 1985

16th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 21134

31 Oct 1954

Trieste returned to Italy.

31 Oct 1902

Santa Maria Guatemala hit by Earthquake killing an estimated 6000 people

31 Oct 1923

Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire)

31 Oct 969

Byzantine troops occupy Antioch (in modern Syria)

31 Oct 2012

15 people are killed and 33 injured by a series of Baghdad car bombings

31 Oct 1985

Anthony Carter begins NFL streak of 100 consecutive game receptions

31 Oct 1955

First edition of Village Voice (NYC) published

31 Oct 1905

1st College Football Crab Bowl Classic Navy beats Maryland 17-0 in Annapolis

31 Oct 1923

Mustafa Kemal officially confirms Turkey as a republic (Trkiye Cumhuriyeti) commemorated today annually as the Republic Day of Turkey

31 Oct 1061

Emperor disposes of bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II

31 Oct 2012

San Francisco beats Detroit 4-3 in 10 innings in Game 4 at Comerica Park sweep Tigers 4-0 for Giants 2nd Baseball World Series in 3 years SF 3rd baseman Pablo Sandoval MVP

31 Oct 1985

Billy Martin is fired by Yankees for 4th time

31 Oct 1955

British troops occupy Saudi Arabian oil field at Boeraimi

31 Oct 1906

US inventor Lee de Forest patents Audion a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio & broadcasting

31 Oct 1924

Dixie to Broadway opens at Broadhurst Theater

31 Oct 1422

Charles Vs son succeeds him as king Charles VII of France

31 Oct 2012

Pablo Sandoval is named MLB World Series MVP.

31 Oct 1985

Hurricane Juan ravages US Gulf states & east coast 49 die

31 Oct 1956

UNs International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved

31 Oct 1907

Frederik of Oaths disbands mental home colony Walden

31 Oct 1924

Labour party loses British parliamentary election

31 Oct 1467

Battle at Brustem Charles the Stoute beats the Luikenaars

31 Oct 2012

American Serena Williams wins her 3rd season ending tennis title beats Maria Sharapova of Russia 64 63 in the WTA Championship decider in Istanbul Turkey

31 Oct 1985

KC Royals beat St Louis Cards 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series

31 Oct 1956

Vietnam promulgates its constitution

31 Oct 1911

Londons last horse drawn omnibus made its way from London Bridge Station to Moorgate

31 Oct 1929

Black Tuesday Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the Great Depression

31 Oct 1516

Battle of Yaunis Khan Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza

31 Oct 2015

Longest ever 1st game of Baseball World Series (5h 9min) Kansas City Royals defeat New York Mets 5-4 also joint longest by innings

31 Oct 1985

Thieves steal 9 paintings including 5 Monets & 2 Renoirs

31 Oct 1958

PanAm flies first transatlantic jet from New York to Paris

31 Oct 1915

James L Curtis named US Minister for Liberia

31 Oct 1930

1st Eastern Canada night CF game Oshawa vs Toronto Balmy Beach

31 Oct 1531

Battle of Amba Sel Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmads control.

31 Oct 2015

World Heath Organization ranks Tuberculosis alongside HIV as worlds deadliest infectious diseases killing 1.2 million (2014)

31 Oct 1986

NY Mets beat Boston Red Sox 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series

31 Oct 1960

AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins & announces franchises in LA & Washington D.C. for 1961

31 Oct 1917

Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd

31 Oct 1931

Lefty Grove As pitcher who won 31 games is named the ALs MVP

31 Oct 1538

The first university in the New World the Universidad Santo Toms de Aquino is established on Hispaniola

31 Oct 2015

Research indicating Plague dates back to the Bronze age in skeletons 5783 years old published by University of Copenhagen team in Cell

31 Oct 1986

British government deregulates financial markets in a Big Bang enhancing Londons status as a financial capital while increasing income inequality

31 Oct 1961

First test flight of Saturn launch vehicle

31 Oct 1918

Canadian steamship Princess Sophia hits a reef off Alaska 398 die

31 Oct 1932

French liner Normandie is launched

31 Oct 1574

Prince Willem of Orange installs university

31 Oct 2015

Third Republican presidential candidates debate run by CNBC in Boulder Colorado

31 Oct 1987

Lucas Mangopes Democratic Party wins Bophuthatswana elections

31 Oct 1962

The Beatles record Please Please Me & Ask Me Why

31 Oct 1923

Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal

31 Oct 1939

Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)

31 Oct 1595

Battle at Giurgevo Zsigmond Bathory of Transylvania beats Turks

31 Oct 2016

Disney and Alessia Cara release the sing How Far Ill Go for the film Moana

31 Oct 1987

Peter Shaffers Lettice & Lovage premieres in London

31 Oct 1963

US performs underground nuclear test at Fallon Nevada

31 Oct 1925

Lester Patrick takes over NY Rangers

31 Oct 1939

NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3

31 Oct 1628

Hugenot bulwark La Rochelle surrenders to Cardinal Richelieu

31 Oct 2017

Twin car bomb attacks in Mogadishu Somalia kill at least 27 Islamist militant group al-Shabab claim responsibility

31 Oct 1987

South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution

31 Oct 1964

Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.

31 Oct 1925

Rightist German ministers disavows Treaty of Locarno

31 Oct 1940

Secretary of War Henry L Stimson draws the 1st number - 158 - in the 1st peacetime military draft in US history

31 Oct 1636

Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts founded

31 Oct 2017

As a result of the independence crisis the Spanish government imposes direct rule on Catalonia dismisses its government and calls for new elections in December

31 Oct 1988

Les Miserables opens at Forrest Theatre Philadelphia

31 Oct 1965

Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace

31 Oct 1926

Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach & gm of NY Rangers

31 Oct 1941

Cole Porters musical Lets Face It premieres in New York City

31 Oct 1646

First Protestant church assembly for American Indians established in Massachusetts

31 Oct 2018

Michael D. Higgins is re-elected Irish president

31 Oct 1988

ET released to home video (14 million presold)

31 Oct 1965

Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang

31 Oct 1930

1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center

31 Oct 1942

Seventh day of battle at El Alamein Montgomery assault

31 Oct 1664

The Duke of York and Albanys Maritime Regiment of Foot later to be known as the Royal Marines is established.

31 Oct 2018

Political crisis in Sri Lanka after President Sirisena sacks Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe and the cabinet suspends parliament for two weeks with one man killed in protests

31 Oct 1988

Larry Flynt paid hitman 1M to kill Hefner Guccione & Sinatra

31 Oct 1966

First Pacific communications satellite launched Intelsat 2

31 Oct 1930

1st scheduled transcontinental air service began

31 Oct 1942

Alaska highway completed

31 Oct 1740

Ivan VI becomes Tsar of Russia [OSOct 17]

31 Oct 2018

British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton finishes 4th in the Mexican Grand Prix at Autdromo Hermanos Rodrguez to clinch his 5th World Formula 1 Drivers title

31 Oct 1990

Michael Feinstein in Concert closes at Golden NYC after 30 performances

31 Oct 1966

US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken 43 die

31 Oct 1932

Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant

31 Oct 1942

Branch Rickey named presidentGM of Brooklyn Dodgers

31 Oct 1746

Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao demolished by earthquake 18000 die

31 Oct 2018

Boston Red Sox beats LA Dodgers 5-1 in Game 5 at Dodger Stadium to win 9th Baseball World Series in franchise history

31 Oct 1990

Breeders Cup Horse Racing Belmont Park winners Bayakoa Fly So Free In The Wings Meadow Star Royal Academy Safely Kept Unbridled

31 Oct 1967

Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne

31 Oct 1935

Hurricane-produced floods kill 2000 in Jeremie & Jacmel Haiti

31 Oct 1942

Nazis murder 16000 Jews in Pinsk Soviet Union

31 Oct 1790

New York gives up claims to Vermont for 30000

31 Oct 2018

Ukrainian tennis star Elina Svitolina registers biggest win of her career when she rallies for a 3-6 6-2 6-2 triumph over American Sloane Stephens in a classic WTA Finals title decider in Singapore

31 Oct 1990

Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republics first president.

31 Oct 1968

First European satellite launched Esro 1 at Cape Kennedy

31 Oct 1937

Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money

31 Oct 1943

Three allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3

31 Oct 1834

The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.

31 Oct 625

Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

31 Oct 1991

Andre Hellers Wonderhouse closes at Broadhurst NYC after 9 performances

31 Oct 1968

KMIR TV channel 36 in Palm Springs CA (NBC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1937

Casey Stengel signs to manage Boston Bees

31 Oct 1944

1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda Netherlands

31 Oct 1846

Pioneers suffer blizzard in Sierra Nevada 42 die

31 Oct 710

Saracen invasion of Sardinia

31 Oct 1991

Homecoming opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 49 performances

31 Oct 1968

Soviet Union launches spacecraft Soyuz 3

31 Oct 1938

Japanese troops occupies Hankou & Wuhan

31 Oct 1944

Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland

31 Oct 1848

The first railroad in Spain - between Barcelona and Matar - is opened.

31 Oct 939

Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England

31 Oct 1991

John Brodie wins Security Pacific Senior Golf Classic

31 Oct 1968

The Soviet Union wraps up the volleyball double at the Mexico City Olympics both mens & womens teams take gold at the end of their respective round-robin competitions

31 Oct 1938

The Archbishop of Dubuque Francis J. L. Beckman denounces Swing music as a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people warning that it leads down a primrose path to hell.

31 Oct 1945

First ballpoint pen goes on sale manufactured by Biro

31 Oct 1858

R. H. Macy & Co opens 1st store (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts 11.06

31 Oct 1275

Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam

31 Oct 1991

Minnesota Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 in Game 7 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome win 2nd Baseball World Series since move to Minneapolis Twins pitcher Jack Morris MVP

31 Oct 1968

Japanese gymnasts sweep the medals in the mens floor exercise competition at the Mexico City Olympics Sawao Kato wins his 3rd gold of the Games ahead of team mates Akinori Nakayama and Takeshi Kat

31 Oct 1939

William Saroyans Time of Your Life premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1945

Happy Chandler resigns as US Senator remains as baseball commish

31 Oct 1863

Battle at Wauhatchie Georgia 865 killed or injured

31 Oct 1523

English troops occupy Montalidier France

31 Oct 1992

Don Baylor appointed 1st manager of Colorado Rockies

31 Oct 1968

Japanese gymnast Akinori Nakayama wins 3 individual gold medals on the one day (horizontal bar rings & parallel bars) at the Mexico City Olympics with team victory 4 gold for the Games

31 Oct 1940

Benjamin O Davis Sr. becomes 1st African American general in US Army

31 Oct 1967

Ferdinand Bracke bicycles world record time (48093 km)

31 Oct 1947

Belgium Luxembourg & Netherlands form Benelux Union

31 Oct 1864

Second Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War) Newton County Missouri

31 Oct 1553

Condemned as a heretic Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva

31 Oct 1992

Fox is to launch Tuesday night network TV rescheduled to Decemeber

31 Oct 1968

Charlie Hickcox wins his 3rd gold medal of the Mexico City Olympics when he leads the US mens 4 x 100m medley relay team with team mates Don McKenzie Doug Russell & Ken Walsh to world record 354.9

31 Oct 1940

Duke Latouche & Felters musical premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1967

USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch

31 Oct 1947

Trial of art forger Han van Meegeren begins in Amsterdam

31 Oct 1864

Second Battle at Fair Oaks Virginia ends with 1554 casualties

31 Oct 1605

Spanish army under General Spinola occupies Wachtendonk

31 Oct 1992

Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of JRR Tolkien

31 Oct 1968

Striker Antal Dunai scores twice as Hungary outclasses Bulgaria 4-1 to take the mens football gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics

31 Oct 1941

16000 Jews massacred in Odessa Ukraine

31 Oct 1968

Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics)

31 Oct 1948

Israeli forces liberate Meron & Gush-Halev

31 Oct 1864

Battle of Wauhatchie TN

31 Oct 1627

English assault on French Il de R

31 Oct 1992

Tipper Gore (wife of future VP) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she wouldnt have to watch it blink

31 Oct 1968

Italian diver Klaus Dibiasi wins first of 3 consecutive mens 10m platform gold medals when he comfortably beats lvaro Gaxiola of Mexico at the Mexico City Olympics

31 Oct 1941

Germany attacks Moscow

31 Oct 1968

Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber)

31 Oct 1948

Safsaf massacre Israeli defence forces attack Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee

31 Oct 1867

Maimonides College in Pennsylvania is first Jewish college in the US

31 Oct 1651

English troops occupy Limerick Ireland

31 Oct 1993

Howard Sterns radio show begins broadcasting in El Paso Texas

31 Oct 1969

WHMA (now WJSU) TV channel 40 in Anniston AL (CBS) 1st broadcast

31 Oct 1942

3rd day of battle at El Alamein British offensive

31 Oct 1968

Queen Juliana opens IJ tunnel in Amsterdam

31 Oct 1949

White Sox trade Joe Tipton to As for Nellie Fox

31 Oct 1882

Athletics reveal 22000 profit in their 1st season in the American Association

31 Oct 1676

Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw

31 Oct 1995

Contract finalizing Cleveland Browns move to Balt is signed

31 Oct 1970

Doonesbury comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers

31 Oct 1942

Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins

31 Oct 1969

WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester NH (IND) 1st broadcast

31 Oct 1950

British Chancellor of the Exchequer (Minister of Finance) Stafford Cripps resigns

31 Oct 1890

Last NL-AA World Series game Bkln ties Louisville 3 games & 1 tie

31 Oct 1688

King James II dismisses premier Robert Spencer

31 Oct 1995

Meyrick Pringle takes cricket hat-trick in England tour game at Soweto

31 Oct 1970

Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam

31 Oct 1943

Burma railroad completed & opens

31 Oct 1970

KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick WA (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1950

Wally Triplett avgs 735 yards on 3 kickoff returns

31 Oct 1891

Quake strikes Mino-Owari Japan kills 7300

31 Oct 1702

British troops plunder St Augustine Florida

31 Oct 1995

Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.

31 Oct 1971

UN votes to replace Taiwan with China

31 Oct 1944

Battle at Cape Engano 4 Japanese ships sink

31 Oct 1970

There are serious riots in the Catholic Ardoyne area of Belfast which last for three nights

31 Oct 1950

Cleveland Browns Marion Motley sets record for highest avg gain in a game with 17.1 (10 attempts) Cleveland 45 Pittsburgh 7

31 Oct 1900

After over 5 months second Olympic games in Paris France close

31 Oct 1775

US Navy forms as the Continental Navy

31 Oct 1996

US beats Japan 21-14 at Nichirei International Golf Tournament

31 Oct 1971

An Assembly attended only by Nationalist politicians and acting as an alternative to Stormont meet in Dungiven Castle

31 Oct 1944

Battle at Samar-island

31 Oct 1970

Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark meets with British Home Secretary Reginald Maulling to discuss matters related to reforms and security

31 Oct 1950

2nd NASCAR Sprint Cup Bill Rexford wins

31 Oct 1904

St Louis police try a new investigation method - fingerprints

31 Oct 1780

Samuel Williams and the first U.S. astronomical expedition to record an eclipse of the sun observes the event at Penobscot Bay

31 Oct 1997

Dow Jones crashes record 554 pts to 7161

31 Oct 1972

Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin

31 Oct 1944

Battle in Straits of Surigao Japanese fleet destroyed

31 Oct 1972

Worst US rail accident in 14 years 45 die in Chicago llinois

31 Oct 1953

A Baltimore group purchases St Louis Browns

31 Oct 1906

Belgian-British Union Minire du Haut Katanga mining company created in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo

31 Oct 1787

Federalist letters start appearing in New York newspapers

31 Oct 1997

Intel Corp buys Digital Equipment for 700 million

31 Oct 1973

Israeli forces reach Suez trapping Egyptian army

31 Oct 1944

Gas output stopped in Amsterdam

31 Oct 1903

First trotter to run a mile under 2 minutes (Lou Dillon 158.1)

31 Oct 2016

Suicide bomb kills 61 and injures 117 at a police training academy in Quetta Pakistan ISIS claims responsibility

31 Oct 1977

Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces discovery of a 3.4-billion year old one-celled fossil the earliest life form

31 Oct 1965

Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion passing 450000 kilometers from the sun.

31 Oct 1926

Hurricane in Cuba kills 600

31 Oct 1903

George Sutton becomes billards champion

31 Oct 2017

Dog doping scandal confirmed by officials of Iditarod Alaskan dog sled race after dogs test positive for a banned substance

31 Oct 1977

Despite not driving in season ending Japanese Grand Prix Austrian Niki Lauda wins his second World Formula 1 Drivers title by 17 points from Jody Scheckter of South Africa

31 Oct 1966

116 children and 28 adults died as a coal waste heap slid and engulfed a school in Aberfan South Wales

31 Oct 1929

Bayshore Highway opens (San Francisco)

31 Oct 1908

Billy Murray hits the charts with Take Me Outto the Ball Game

31 Oct 2017

Crown prince Mohammed bin Salman vows to return Saudi Arabia to moderate Islam after announcing 500bn independent economic zone

31 Oct 1978

CBS raises LP prices to 8.98

31 Oct 1967

Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat

31 Oct 1930

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes premieres on NBC radio

31 Oct 1909

Italy and Russia sign the Racconigi Pact in which both nations promise to support the status quo in the Balkans

31 Oct 2018

Pipe bombs sent to prominent US Democrats including the Obamas Clintons John Brennan and CNN but safely defused

31 Oct 1978

China & Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension

31 Oct 1967

Tens of thousands of anti-Vietnam War protesters march on the Pentagon besieging the military headquarters for two days

31 Oct 1930

British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land

31 Oct 1913

Joe Tinker fired as Cincinnati Reds manager

31 Oct 2018

Largest jackpot in US history at 1.6 billion won by one person in Southern Carolina

31 Oct 1979

Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper a Minn marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches

31 Oct 1969

Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)

31 Oct 1931

Frankie Frisch of the Cards named MVP

31 Oct 1916

Moroccan troops capture Ft Douaumont

31 Oct 2018

Kenyan marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge named UN Person of the Year for setting a new marathon world record and for his work with AIDSHIV in Kenya

31 Oct 1980

Tintypes opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 93 performances

31 Oct 1969

Leonard Gershs Butterflies are Free premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1932

Journalist Robert Trout joins CBS

31 Oct 1917

Battle at Caporetto German & Austria smash Italian army

31 Oct 2018

Scientists confirm East Island in Hawaii half a mile long has been wiped out after contact with Hurricane Walaka

31 Oct 1980

McCosker (168) & Dyson (152) make 319 opening stand cricket NSW v WA

31 Oct 1969

Maj Gen Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali

31 Oct 1934

Richard Strauss completes his opera Die Schweigsame Frau

31 Oct 1922

German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925

31 Oct 2018

EU directive bans single-use plastics by 2021

31 Oct 1980

Soviet PM Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin due to illness

31 Oct 1970

777 Unification church couples wed in Korea

31 Oct 1935

400000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid

31 Oct 1922

Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State

31 Oct 425

Valentinian III is elevated to Roman Emperor at the age of 6

31 Oct 1981

US national debt hits 1 trillion

31 Oct 1970

Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways

31 Oct 1935

Anti-fascist Peoples Front forms in Brussels

31 Oct 1923

General Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship

31 Oct 502

The Synodus Palmaris called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great discharges Pope Symmachus of all charges thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.

31 Oct 1983

13th NYC Womens Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 22700

31 Oct 1970

Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh

31 Oct 1936

Carl Hubbell 26-6 edges out Dizzy Dean 24-13 for MVP honors in NL

31 Oct 1924

Christian General Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing

31 Oct 585

Burgundy king Guntram opens synod of Mcon (Mastico)

31 Oct 1983

14th NYC Marathon won by Rod Dixon in 20859

31 Oct 1970

Bernadette Devlin is released from prison having served four months of her six month sentence for riotous behaviour

31 Oct 1936

Spanish government moves to Barcelona

31 Oct 1924

Nobel prize for physiology or medicine awarded to Dutchman Willem Einthoven for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram

31 Oct 787

Byzantine empress Irene recovers Iconclastic cult at Nicaea

31 Oct 1983

400000 demonstrate in Brussels against cruise missile

31 Oct 1971

To Live Another Summer opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 173 performances

31 Oct 1939

All the Things You Are recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orch

31 Oct 1929

Black Thursday start of stock market crash Dow Jones down 12.8%

31 Oct 1086

Battle of az-Zallaqah Army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI

31 Oct 1983

Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut

31 Oct 1971

William H Rehnquist & Lewis F Powell nominated to US Supreme Court by Nixon following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan

31 Oct 1939

Pope Pius XII publishes his 1st encyclical Summi pontificatus

31 Oct 1929

Rudy Vallees The Fleishmanns Yeast Hour begins broadcasting on NBC radio

31 Oct 1091

Tornado (possible T8F4) strikes the heart of London killing two and demolishing the wooden London Bridge

31 Oct 1984

Cubs Rick Sutcliffe selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young

31 Oct 1972

Dude closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 16 performances

31 Oct 1940

Cheese rationed in Netherlands

31 Oct 1929

Belgian princess Marie-Jose & Italian crown prince Umberto get engaged assassination attempt on Umberto fails

31 Oct 1157

The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country.

31 Oct 1984

NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine

31 Oct 1972

Man of La Mancha closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 140 performances

31 Oct 1940

Greenhouse rationing begins in Netherlands

31 Oct 1931

George Washington Bridge linking New York City and New Jersey dedicated opens the next day

31 Oct 1229

Otto II becomes earl of Gelre

31 Oct 1984

STS 51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad

31 Oct 1972

Pacific Paradise closes at Palace Theater NYC after 5 performances

31 Oct 1941

Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia

31 Oct 1932

British government signs trade treaty with USSR

31 Oct 1588

Remnants of Medina Sidonias Spanish Armada returns to Santander

31 Oct 1987

Dutch government gives Fokkers Aircraft 212 million credit

31 Oct 1973

As manager Dick Williams quits after As beat Mets in World Series

31 Oct 1942

Durham Manifesto calls for fundamental changes in race relations

31 Oct 1935

Judge Landis fines umpire George Moriarty Cubs manager Charlie Grimm & Chicago players W English B Jurges & B Herman for actions in World Series

31 Oct 1641

Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of - Catholic uprising in Ulster

31 Oct 1988

Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid

31 Oct 1973

Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.

31 Oct 1944

Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland Ohio explode 135 die 3600 homeless

31 Oct 1938

US forbids child labor in factories

31 Oct 1644

Sea battle of Fehmarn Sont Adm Thijssen beats Denen

31 Oct 1988

Robert Borks supreme court nomination rejected by US Senate

31 Oct 1973

23rd NASCAR Sprint Cup Benny Parsons wins

31 Oct 1944

Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala

31 Oct 1939

Benny Goodman records Lets Dance

31 Oct 1668

Jews of Barbados forbidden to engage in retail trade

31 Oct 1989

Browns Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass

31 Oct 1974

1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps

31 Oct 1944

Soviet and Yugoslav troops free Belgrade

31 Oct 1939

Nazi require wearing of Star of David by Jews

31 Oct 1679

Meal Tub Plot against James Duke of York (future James II of England)

31 Oct 1989

Hungary proclaims itself a republic & declares communist rule ended

31 Oct 1974

Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cubic Corp Golf Classic

31 Oct 1944

US 1st army wins battle of Aachen

31 Oct 1939

Nylon stockings go on sale for first time (Wilmington Delaware)

31 Oct 1684

Colony Massachusetts under authority of English crown mounted

31 Oct 1989

US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space

31 Oct 1975

Treemonisha opens at Uris Theater NYC for 64 performances

31 Oct 1945

US Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens the Nuremberg Nazi war crime trials

31 Oct 1940

US Fair Labor Standards of 1938 comes into effect - minimum wage 44 hr week

31 Oct 1690

Revolt in Haarlem after public ban on smoking

31 Oct 1989

William Nicholsons Shadowlands premieres in London

31 Oct 1975

Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll

31 Oct 1946

Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd Chicago Cards vs NY Giants

31 Oct 1940

Japan eliminates US terms (strike play ball) from baseball

31 Oct 1694

American colonial forces led by Sir William Phipps fail to seize Quebec

31 Oct 1990

Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages

31 Oct 1975

Mexico Citys 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives

31 Oct 1947

HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood

31 Oct 1940

Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants

31 Oct 1702

Battle of Bay of Vigo Dutch & English fleet destroy & occupy Spanish silver fleet & French squadron

31 Oct 1991

Les Miserables opens at Mogador Theatre Paris

31 Oct 1975

Red Sox Carlton Fisks 12th inning HR beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS

31 Oct 1947

Radio rights for the World Series sell for 475000 for 3 years

31 Oct 1942

Second day of battle at El Alamein British infantry

31 Oct 1760

First Jewish prayer books printed in North America

31 Oct 1991

Clarence Thomas sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice

31 Oct 1976

Cincinnati Reds sweep NY Yankees in 73rd World Series

31 Oct 1947

Robinson Jeffers Medea premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1943

Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting

31 Oct 1775

Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army

31 Oct 1991

Dr Jack Kevorkians suicide machine kills 2 women

31 Oct 1976

NY Yankee Thurman Munson ties World Series mark of 6 straight singles

31 Oct 1949

Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark)

31 Oct 1944

Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners

31 Oct 1790

Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)

31 Oct 1992

Emperor Akihito becomes the first Emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil

31 Oct 1977

US recalls William Bowdler ambassador to South Africa

31 Oct 1951

The Johnny Bright Incident occurred in Stillwater Oklahoma

31 Oct 1944

US air raid on Japanese battleships and cruisers in Sibuya Sea Musashi sinks

31 Oct 1805

Sailing ship Aeneus sinks off Newfoundland killing 340

31 Oct 1993

Seven people killed by IRA bomb attack in Belfast

31 Oct 1977

The European Patent Institute is founded.

31 Oct 1952

Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya

31 Oct 1944

US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines

31 Oct 1813

The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).

31 Oct 1993

Paramilitia kills 22 demonstrators at Bijbihara in Indian-controlled Kashmir

31 Oct 1978

Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.

31 Oct 1953

WRAU (now WHOI) TV channel 19 in Peoria IL (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1944

US Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte

31 Oct 1814

1st plastic surgery is performed (England)

31 Oct 1993

Blue Jays beat Philadelphia Phillies 8-6 in Game 6 at the SkyDome Toronto to retain Baseball World Series Blue Jays infielder Paul Molitor MVP

31 Oct 1979

10th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 21142

31 Oct 1954

Peter Pan opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 149 performances

31 Oct 1945

In France PCPSMRP win parliamentary election (252423%)

31 Oct 1819

1st ship sails through the Erie Canal from Rome New York to Utica New York

31 Oct 1994

Solheim Cup Womens Golf The Greenbrier US regains Cup beats Europe 13-7 Americans Dottie Mochrie & Bradie Burton both win their 3 matches

31 Oct 1979

9th NYC Womens Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 22733

31 Oct 1955

No Time for Sergeants opens on Broadway starring Andy Griffith

31 Oct 1946

Netherlands & Indonesia sign cease fire

31 Oct 1853

Maastricht-Aken railway in Netherlands opens

31 Oct 1996

New York Yankees set record recovering from 0-6 in Baseball World Series game to beat Braves 8-6 in Game 4 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium record 7th straight post-season road win

31 Oct 1979

Greta Weitz wins woman participation in NYC marathon (022733)

31 Oct 1955

Harry Belafonte records Day-O (Banana Boat Song)

31 Oct 1946

A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket launched from Whites Sands US takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.

31 Oct 1854

English newspaper The Times gives precise British positions in Crimea during Crimean War

31 Oct 1997

Triumph of Love opens at Royale Theater NYC

31 Oct 1979

Ozzie Newsome begins NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions

31 Oct 1955

Yanks begin 16-game exhibition in Japan

31 Oct 1947

Series of forest fires burn over 30 million of timber across the New England States

31 Oct 1864

Battle of Westport Missouri Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General Stirling Price

31 Oct 1997

At 611 AM San Francisco experiences a power blackout due to sabotage

31 Oct 1980

Banjo Dancing opens at Century Theater NYC for 38 performances

31 Oct 1956

58F (15C) Esperanza Station Antarctica (Antarctic record high)

31 Oct 1948

Bernard M Baruch introduces term Cold War

31 Oct 1867

72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.

31 Oct 1997

Dow Jones drops 186.88 pts

31 Oct 1980

Phillies win their 1st World Championship in their 98-year history

31 Oct 1956

Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17 craft

31 Oct 1948

Francis Poulencs Sinfonietta premieres

31 Oct 1871

Columbia & Sappho (US) beat Livonia (UK) in 3rd Americas Cup

31 Oct 1997

Les Alexander owner of Houston Rockets buys NHLs Edmonton Oilers

31 Oct 1984

Cleveland Browns Steve Cox sets club record with a 60-yd field goal

31 Oct 1957

Karachi A (277-0d) beat Sind A by an innings wo losing a wkt

31 Oct 1948

Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical In Multiplicibus Curis

31 Oct 1876

New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office

31 Oct 1998

Britney Spears releases her debut single Baby One More Time

31 Oct 1984

Austrian Ferrari driver Niki Lauda becomes a 3-time World Formula 1 Drivers champion when he finishes 2nd in the season ending Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril wins title by just 0.5 from Alain Prost

31 Oct 1959

Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise

31 Oct 1948

WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit MI (CBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1884

1st World Series OKed by AA Providence (NL) beats NY Mets (AA) 6-0

31 Oct 2000

Monday Night Miracle down 30-7 at the end of the third quarter New York Jets pull together an improbable comeback with 4 touchdowns and a field goal in the fourth quarter eventually defeating the Miami Dolphins 40-37 in overtime

31 Oct 1984

Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 20805

31 Oct 1959

WABG TV channel 6 in Greenwood-Greenville MS (ABC) 1st broadcast

31 Oct 1949

Contruction begins on the United Nations headquaters in New York

31 Oct 1886

St Louis Browns win World Championship by beating Chicago 4-3 in 10

31 Oct 2001

The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks

31 Oct 1985

Qasim Omar (206) & Javed Miandad (203) make 397 stand v SL

31 Oct 1960

1st fully mechanized post office opened Providence RI

31 Oct 1951

Jan de Hartogs Four Poster premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1888

Pelham Bay Park in Bronx vested

31 Oct 2001

Apple releases the iPod

31 Oct 1986

1st-class cricket debut of Andy Flower ZCU Presidents XI v Young WI

31 Oct 1960

Ralph Houk 41 replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager

31 Oct 1951

United Nations publishes its first postage stamps

31 Oct 1890

Opera Prince Igor is produced (St Petersburg)

31 Oct 2002

Moscow Theatre Siege begins Chechen rebels seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage

31 Oct 1986

Hugh Whitemores Breaking the Code premieres in London

31 Oct 1962

Musical Mr President opens at St James Theater New York for 265 performances

31 Oct 1952

Arab Liberation Movement becomes only political party in Syria

31 Oct 1893

C. Dazeys In Old Kentucky premieres in NYC (27 seasons)

31 Oct 2004

A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture northern Japan killing 35 people injuring 2200 and leaving 85000 homeless or evacuated.

31 Oct 1986

IBM re-forms in South Africa

31 Oct 1962

Chinese army lands in India

31 Oct 1953

KOOL (now KTSP) TV channel 10 in Phoenix AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1905

Edward Milton Royles play Squaw Man premieres in NYC

31 Oct 2006

The Black Parade 3rd studio album by My Chemical Romance is released

31 Oct 1986

Republic of Marshall Islands signs Compact of Free Association with US

31 Oct 1963

France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria

31 Oct 1954

Britains Mike Hawthorne wins season ending Spanish Grand Prix at Pedralbes Argentine Maserati driver Juan Manuel Fangio takes second FIA World Championship of Drivers title by 17 points from countryman Jos Froiln Gonzlez

31 Oct 1910

Blanche Scott becomes the first woman to fly at a public event in the US at Fort Wayne Indiana.

31 Oct 2009

The United Nations Rotterdam Rules convention regulating international maritime carriage of goods is ratified with its twentieth signature.

31 Oct 1986

US writer Edward A Tracy kidnap in Beirut

31 Oct 1963

WITV TV channel 7 in Charleston South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1956

AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year

31 Oct 1910

Philadelphia As beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series

31 Oct 2009

The UK markets had contracted by 0.4% in the third quarter against what was expected to be a period of growth as a result of unexpectedly poor performance by the service sector

31 Oct 1987

7th Belgium government of Martens forms

31 Oct 1964

Golden Boy opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 569 performances

31 Oct 1956

Soviet troops invade Hungary Imre Nagy becomes PM of Hungary

31 Oct 1910

Ritz Hotel in Madrid opens with 200 chambers and 100 bathtubs

31 Oct 2010

MLB National League Championship San Francisco Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies 4 games to 2

31 Oct 1987

Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Robert M Solow

31 Oct 1964

Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis to become NWA champ

31 Oct 1956

Margaret Towner becomes first woman to be ordained into the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA)

31 Oct 1915

1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton Iowa)

31 Oct 2011

A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province Turkey killing 582 people and injuring thousands.

31 Oct 1987

Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Borks Supreme Ct nomination

31 Oct 1964

Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested)

31 Oct 1957

Cincinnati Redlegs decline to move to Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City

31 Oct 1917

1st Infantry division Big Red One shoots 1st US shot in WW I

31 Oct 2011

7th Rugby World Cup New Zealand beats France 8-7 in Auckland

31 Oct 1988

Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid

31 Oct 1964

Ann Packer of Great Britain runs a world record 201.1 to win the womens 800m gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

31 Oct 1957

The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.

31 Oct 1919

Romberg & Atteridges musical Passing Show premieres in NYC

31 Oct 310

St Eusebius ends his reign as Catholic Pope

31 Oct 1988

Bat21 an American war film is released

31 Oct 1964

Tamara Press of the Soviet Union wins her second gold medal in 2 days by taking out the womens shot put at the Tokyo Olympics Press second consecutive Olympic shot put title

31 Oct 1975

Denver Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St Louis Spirits

31 Oct 1958

USSR lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam

31 Oct 1920

Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell Hal Chase & Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal

31 Oct 686

Conon begins his reign as Catholic Pope

31 Oct 1989

Dangerous Games closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 performances

31 Oct 1965

19th NHL All-Star Game All-Stars beat Montreal 5-2 at Montreal

31 Oct 1975

USSRs Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing

31 Oct 1959

US premier of D Sjostakovitchs 1st Cello concert

31 Oct 1920

African demonstrators shot in Port Elizabeth South Africa

31 Oct 1096

Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats 1st Crusaders

31 Oct 1989

Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days in San Francisco earthquake

31 Oct 1965

Beatles receive a gold record for Yesterday

31 Oct 1976

5th Enterprise approach & lands test (ALT) flight

31 Oct 1960

Disaster on USSRs Baikonoer launch pad kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-unconfirmed) USSR claims killed in plane crash

31 Oct 1921

Green Bay Packers play 1st NFL game 7-6 win over Minneapolis

31 Oct 1187

Alberto de Morra elected as Pope Gregorius VIII (1217)

31 Oct 1989

Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game

31 Oct 1965

Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia

31 Oct 1976

Governor Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris last known survivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 rape

31 Oct 1961

Evening with Yves Montand opens at John Golden Theatre NYC for 55 performances

31 Oct 1921

Leos Janaceks opera Kata Kabanova premieres in Brno

31 Oct 1553

Volumes of Talmud are burned

31 Oct 1989

Betram Lee & Peter Bynoe purchase the Denver Nuggets for 65m - 1st African American owners of a major sports team

31 Oct 1967

All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers in Meridan Mississippi

31 Oct 1977

Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.

31 Oct 1963

110 in the Shade opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 330 performances

31 Oct 1922

Channing Pollocks Fool premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1555

English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king

31 Oct 1990

The first Apple Day is held in Covent Garden London.

31 Oct 1967

Charlie Finley names Bob Kennedy 1st manager of Oakland As

31 Oct 1978

Israeli government approves in principle a draft compromise peace

31 Oct 1963

KRO shows first episode of Bonanza

31 Oct 1923

Giants defeat Balt Orioles 9-0 to benefit former Giants owner John Day

31 Oct 1568

2nd Altenburger sermon PhilippistenGnesiolutheranen

31 Oct 1990

Ayrton Senna of Brazil crashes his McLaren during the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka but clinches his second World Formula 1 Drivers Championship

31 Oct 1967

KMXN (now KJTV) TV channel 34 in Lubbock TX (IND) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1978

Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues (NL)

31 Oct 1963

Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award

31 Oct 1927

Town of Netanya Israel founded by Nathan Strauss

31 Oct 1591

Nijmegen surrenders to Earl Mauritius van Nassau

31 Oct 1991

24 die in a fire in Oakland Calif

31 Oct 1967

A purported bigfoot is filmed at Bluff Creek by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin in Northern Califonia

31 Oct 1981

11th NYC Womens Marathon won by Allison Roe in 22529

31 Oct 1964

Cambridge Circus closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 performances

31 Oct 1932

Fred Allen Show premieres on radio

31 Oct 1601

Memorial service for Daitokujis Shinju held for Ikkyu Sojun in Kyoto

31 Oct 1991

US hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut

31 Oct 1968

Her 1st Roman opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 17 performances

31 Oct 1981

12th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 20813

31 Oct 1964

Belgian paratroops liberate 1000 white hostages in Stanleyville

31 Oct 1934

Jean Piccard & Jeanette Ridlen attain balloon height of 17.341 m (rec)

31 Oct 1639

Sea battle at Dunes Lt Admiral Maarten Tromp defeats Spanish armada under De Oquendo

31 Oct 1993

Twilight of the Golds opens at Booth Theater NYC for 29 performances

31 Oct 1968

Mamo Wolde wins 16th Olympic marathon (22026.4)

31 Oct 1981

200000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missile

31 Oct 1964

Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day) with Kenneth Kaunda becoming President

31 Oct 1935

Gabby Hartnett selected NL MVP

31 Oct 1652

King Louis XIV returns to Paris

31 Oct 1993

Military coup by Burundi President Ndadaye 525000 Hutus flee

31 Oct 1968

Kenyan runner Kip Keino wins 1500m gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics in 334.91 despite a severe gall bladder infection

31 Oct 1982

David Hookes scores Cricket century in 34 balls 43 mins SA v Victoria

31 Oct 1964

Test Cricket debut of Pakistani cricketers Asif Iqbal Majid Khan and Khalid Ibadulla vs Australia. Khalid Billy Ibadulla scores 166 on debut.

31 Oct 1935

Johnny Revolta wins PGA golf tournament

31 Oct 1708

Dutch & English troops occupy Lille (Rijsel)

31 Oct 1994

Hana bridge is Seoul Korea crashes 32 die

31 Oct 1968

American Dick Fosbury using his unconventional technique wins the mens high jump gold medal with 2.24m at the Mexico City Olympics Fosbury Flop becomes accepted most efficient technique

31 Oct 1983

US invades Grenada a country 12000 its population (US Wins)

31 Oct 1965

Benjamin Brittens Voices for Today premieres

31 Oct 1935

Dutch Schultz Abe Landau Otto Berman and Bernard Lulu Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.

31 Oct 1727

Russian & Chinese accord to correct boundaries

31 Oct 1994

North Korea signs pact to end their nuclear projects

31 Oct 1968

American sprinter Jim Hines anchors US mens 4 x 100m relay team to win his second gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics with team mates Charles Greene Mel Pender & Ronnie Ray Smith sets world record 38.24s

31 Oct 1984

Give My Regards to Broad Street premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC)

31 Oct 1965

Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament

31 Oct 1942

First ships of invasion fleet to Morocco leave Norfolk

31 Oct 1774

First display of the word Liberty on a flag raised by colonists in Taunton Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.

31 Oct 1995

Addison Vance 18 of Hickory NC crowned 7th Ms Venus Swimwear

31 Oct 1968

US mens 4 x 400m relay team of Vincent Matthews Ron Freeman Larry James & Lee Evans runs world record 256.16 easily beats Kenya & West Germany into the minor medals at the Mexico City Olympics

31 Oct 1984

King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels

31 Oct 1965

16th Formula One WDC Jim Clark wins by 14 points

31 Oct 1942

During WW II Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein Egypt

31 Oct 1789

French Revolution The National Assembly declares martial law in France to prevent uprisings

31 Oct 1995

Mario Tremblay selected 22nd NHL coach of Montreal Canadians

31 Oct 1984

Rangers beat Devils 11-2

31 Oct 1965

Jim Clark in a Lotus is forced to retire from season-ending Mexican Grand Prix at Autdromo Hermanos Rodrguez with engine trouble American Richie Ginther is race winner and Clark claims his second World Championship of Drivers

31 Oct 1942

German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad

31 Oct 1797

The USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) is launched in Boston

31 Oct 1997

Cleve Marquis Grissom hit in his 15th straight World Series game (streak ends at 15 he is 2nd to Hank Baur with 17)

31 Oct 1984

West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption

31 Oct 1968

The Peoples Democracy (PD) stage a protest demonstration at Stormont Parliament buildings Belfast Northern Ireland

31 Oct 1942

All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs California. Amongst the victims is composer Ralph Rainger (Thanks for the Memory)

31 Oct 1803

English scientist John Dalton reads his paper on the absorption of gases by water to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Soc - 1st outline of his atomic theory

31 Oct 1998

New York Yankees beat San Diego 3-0 in Game 4 at Qualcomm Stadium to sweep Padres and win 2nd Baseball World Series in 3 years Yankees 3rd baseman Scott Brosius MVP

31 Oct 1985

Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract

31 Oct 1968

16 year old American swimmer Debbie Meyer wins the inaugural womens 800m gold medal in 924.0 at the Mexico City Olympics first swimmer to win 3 individual gold medals at a Games (200400m)

31 Oct 1943

First Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau

31 Oct 1816

The Penang Free School is founded in George Town Penang Malaysia by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.

31 Oct 2001

MLB National League Championship Arizona Diamondbacks beat Atlanta Braves 4 games to 1

31 Oct 1985

Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit

31 Oct 1968

Australian swimmer Michael Wendon wraps up the Mexico City Games sprint double when he wins the mens 200m freestyle gold medal in Olympic record 155.2

31 Oct 1944

First Central Kitchen opens in Amsterdam

31 Oct 1824

Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England)

31 Oct 2003

Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown Chad Trujillo and David L. Rabinowitz.

31 Oct 1986

International Red Cross ousted from South Africa

31 Oct 1969

Hanif Mushtaq & Sadiq Mohammad start their only Test Cricket together

31 Oct 1944

Gulf of Leyte battle begin

31 Oct 1858

Jacques Offenbachs operetta Orpheus in the Underworld (Orphe aux Enfers) premieres in Paris includes Infernal Galop (can-can tune)

31 Oct 2004

MLB National League Championship St. Louis Cardinals beat Houston Astros 4 games to 3

31 Oct 1986

Michael Sergio Parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS

31 Oct 1970

Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show

31 Oct 1944

Soviet army invades Hungary

31 Oct 1861

Battle of Balls Bluff VA (Leesburg Harrisons Island)

31 Oct 2005

52nd National Film Awards (India) Page 3 wins the Golden Lotus

31 Oct 1986

Trailing 5-3 with 2 out & no one on in bottom of 10th NY rallies to win Game 6 of the World Series 6-5 Bill Buckner misplays a ball

31 Oct 1971

Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yds)

31 Oct 1944

Vice Admiral Takeo Kuritas flagship the heavy cruiser Atago sinks during the Battle of Leyte Gulf

31 Oct 1864

Battle of Westport MO (Kansas City)

31 Oct 2007

Finnish Ferrari driver Kimi Rikknen wins season ending Brazilian F1 Grand Prix to claim his first World Drivers title by one point from Lewis Hamilton

31 Oct 1987

Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St Louis Cards 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series

31 Oct 1971

Texas Stadium opens-Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21

31 Oct 1946

UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC-Flushing Meadows)

31 Oct 1868

Severe earthquake at 753 AM centered in Hayward California

31 Oct 2007

MLB American League Championship Boston Red Sox beat Cleveland Indians 4 games to 3

31 Oct 1988

ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy pigs popularity as pets

31 Oct 1971

President of Sinn Fin Ruairi OBrady addresses a party conference in Dublin and proclaims that the North of Ireland must be made ungovernable as a first step to achieve a united Ireland

31 Oct 1947

NAACP petition on racism An Appeal to the World presented to UN

31 Oct 1869

1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore

31 Oct 2007

Tennessee kicker Rob Bironas sets NFL record for most points scored in a game (no touchdowns) with 26 in the Titans 38-36 win v Houston Texans at Reliant Stadium Houston

31 Oct 1990

Les Miserables opens again at Forrest Theatre Philadelphia

31 Oct 1971

A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is shot dead by undercover Royal Ulster Constabulary officers during a bomb attack in Belfast

31 Oct 1947

Husband & wife Dr Carl Cori & Dr Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes

31 Oct 1871

1st US amateur outdoor athletic games (NY)

31 Oct 2009

MLB National League Championship Philadelphia Phillies beat Los Angeles Dodgers 4 games to 1

31 Oct 1990

NY Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March 1991)

31 Oct 1972

2 Catholic men are found dead at a farm at Aughinahinch near Newtownbbutler County Fermanagh - British soldiers carry out the killings

31 Oct 1953

France grants Laos sovereignty

31 Oct 1887

Detroit clinches best-of-15 touring World Championship with its 8th victory in Game 11 this afternoon in Baltimore 13-3

31 Oct 2009

55th National Film Awards (India) Kanchivaram wins the Golden Lotus

31 Oct 1990

40-Hour Week 9th studio album by Alabama is re-released (original release 1985)

31 Oct 1973

Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on New Jersey Turnpike

31 Oct 1953

German FR applies to NATO

31 Oct 1895

The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.

31 Oct 2014

Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

31 Oct 1991

Aaqib Javed takes 7-37 in 10 overs v India in cricket 1-dayer at Sharjah

31 Oct 1973

John Lennon sues US government to admit FBI is tapping his phone

31 Oct 1953

WTRF TV channel 7 in Wheeling-Steubenville WV (CBS) 1st broadcast

31 Oct 1897

Yerkes Observatory of University of Chicago is dedicated

31 Oct 2017

Spanish government suspends Catalonias autonomy in the face of a deepening political crisis over the regions push for independence

31 Oct 1992

Dancing at Lughnasa closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 421 performances

31 Oct 1973

Yom Kippur War ends Israel 65 miles from Cairo 26 from Damascus

31 Oct 1954

Britain France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany

31 Oct 1899

Battle at Elandslaagte Natal (Boers vs British army)

31 Oct 2018

Train derails in Yilan County Taiwan killing 18 and injuring 178

31 Oct 1992

Jakes Women closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 245 performances

31 Oct 1974

Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Texas Rangers)

31 Oct 1954

Pakistan Governor-General Ghoelan Mohammed disbands parliament

31 Oct 1902

In the United States a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.

31 Oct 2018

Sectarian fighting between Muslim and Christian youths kill 55 at Kasuwan Magani Nigeria

31 Oct 1992

Rene Lachemann hired as Fla Marlins 1st manager

31 Oct 1975

Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris

31 Oct 1954

WSAU TV channel 7 in Wausau WI (CBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1905

England Pilgrim Association beats All NY 11 7-1 in soccer at Polo Grounds

31 Oct 2018

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is presented with the Mark Twain Prize comedys top honor at a ceremony in New York

31 Oct 1992

Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution.

31 Oct 1976

1st Jewish film & TV festival

31 Oct 1955

Dominican League moves to winter baseball for 1st time

31 Oct 1911

RS Hichens & M Hudsons Garden of Allah premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1097

1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch during the First Crusade

31 Oct 1993

Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked 1 dead

31 Oct 1976

6th NYC Womens Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 23911

31 Oct 1956

First video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast

31 Oct 1911

Manitoba Saskatchewan & Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union

31 Oct 1536

King Christian III of Denmark & Norway leads reform in Catholic possessions

31 Oct 1993

Canada Liberal Party and Bloc Qubcois wins parliamentary election

31 Oct 1976

7th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 21010

31 Oct 1956

Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).

31 Oct 1913

Transvaal women satyagrahis begin defiance activities hawking without licenses in Vereeniging they cross the Natal border and encourage the miners in Newcastle to strike

31 Oct 1576

Spanish troops occupy & plunder Maastricht

31 Oct 1993

Daryll Cullinan hits 337 for Transvaal South African 1st-class cricket record

31 Oct 1976

Sadiq & Mushtaq Mohammad score hundreds in same Test Cricket innings v NZ

31 Oct 1957

First test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle TV-3

31 Oct 1914

Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat

31 Oct 1587

Battle at Coultras Henri van Navarra beats Catholic League

31 Oct 1994

Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjacked (she actually killed them)

31 Oct 1976

English McLaren driver James Hunt finishes 4th in the season ending Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji Speedway to win his first World Formula 1 Drivers title by 1 point from Niki Lauda

31 Oct 1958

De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance peace of the brave

31 Oct 1915

1st transatlantic radiotelephone message Arlington Va to Paris

31 Oct 1600

Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japans rulers (shoguns)

31 Oct 1995

VictorVictoria opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 738 performances

31 Oct 1976

1st Toronto International Film Festival opens

31 Oct 1958

USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam

31 Oct 1917

1st Americans to see action on front lines of WWI US troops enter front lines at Sommervillier under French command

31 Oct 1603

Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23000 killed

31 Oct 1996

Frank brother of Yank manager Joe Torre receives a heart transplant

31 Oct 1978

NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs NY Islanders

31 Oct 1958

The Springhill Mine Bump - underground earthquake traps 174 miners in No. 2 colliery at Springhill Nova Scotia deepest coal mine in North America. By 1st November rescuers had dug out 100 victims with death toll at 74.

31 Oct 1917

Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee

31 Oct 1740

Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria Hungary & Bohemia

31 Oct 1997

After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville Denis Sassou-Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.

31 Oct 1979

Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman puts job in jeopardy

31 Oct 1959

Chinese troops move into India 17 die

31 Oct 1918

Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min

31 Oct 1751

Royal ship Duc de Bourgogne launched at Rochefort

31 Oct 2000

A team led by Brigitte Senut and Martin Pickford discover Orrorin tugenensis one of the earliest species on the human family tree that lived about 6 million years ago in the Tugen Hills Kenya

31 Oct 1980

Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

31 Oct 1961

Kwamina opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 32 performances

31 Oct 1921

Tuschinski Theater opens in Amsterdam

31 Oct 1774

American Continental Congress orders discouragement of entertainment

31 Oct 2001

Windows XP first becomes available

31 Oct 1980

Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar

31 Oct 1962

USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40800m

31 Oct 1921

Former Hungarian King Karl stages a second attempted coup and is arrested

31 Oct 1781

Patent of Toleration providing limited freedom of worship was approved in Habsburg Monarchy.

31 Oct 2003

Florida beats New York Yankees 2-0 in Game 6 at Yankee Stadium for Marlins second Baseball World Series Florida pitcher Josh Beckett MVP

31 Oct 1980

Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity

31 Oct 1962

WCIV TV channel 4 in Charleston South Carolina (NBC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1923

1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich

31 Oct 1786

Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in US

31 Oct 2003

Breeders Cup Horse Racing Santa Anita Racetrack winners Pleasantly Perfect Action This Day Adoration Johar High Chaparral Islington Halfbridled Six Perfections Cajun Beat

31 Oct 1982

Rock n Roll The 1st... opens at St James Theater NYC for 9 performances

31 Oct 1964

Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in womans volleyball

31 Oct 1924

KLM Fokkers F7 H-NACC departs to Dutch East Indies

31 Oct 1803

US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase

31 Oct 2005

Then longest Baseball World Series game in time (5 hours 41 mins) and tied longest in innings (14 tied with Game 2 1916 WS and Game 1 2015 WS) Cubs beat Astros 7-5 in Game 3 at Minute Maid Park Houston

31 Oct 1982

12th NYC Womens Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 22714

31 Oct 1964

Time Magazine uses term op art for 1st time

31 Oct 1925

Sidney Howards Lucky Sam McGarver premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1813

Kingdom of Westphalia abolished

31 Oct 2007

The first Airbus A380 passenger flight operating for Singapore Airlines with flight number SQ 380 flying scheduled service between Singapore and Sydney Australia.

31 Oct 1982

13th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 20929

31 Oct 1964

Japan beats the Soviet Union 3-0 to claim the inaugural Olympic womens volleyball gold medal in Tokyo undefeated in 6-team round robin competition

31 Oct 1937

Franco-troops occupies Gijon

31 Oct 1817

1st Mississippi Showboat leaves Nashville on maiden voyage

31 Oct 2008

Breeders Cup Horse Racing Santa Anita Racetrack Day 2 winners Muhannak Desert Code Albertus Maximus Goldikova Midshipman Donativum Midnight Lute Conduit Ravens Pass

31 Oct 1984

11 members of Colombo crime family arrested

31 Oct 1964

Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia finish 8-1 in inaugural Olympic mens volleyball competition in Tokyo Soviets win 10 team round robin on count back of sets won-lost

31 Oct 1938

Japanese troops occupies Canton

31 Oct 1818

49th parallel forms as border between US & Canada

31 Oct 2009

The 25 October Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.

31 Oct 1984

Intelsat 5 re-enters Earths atmosphere 5 months after it failed

31 Oct 1964

Dutch 10th dan judoka Anton Geesink wins Open gold medal in the first ever Olympic judo competition in Tokyo prevents clean sweep of the gold medals by Japan

31 Oct 1940

RAF drops 1st anti-nazi pamphlets on Netherlands

31 Oct 1818

US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country

31 Oct 2009

MLB American League Championship New York Yankees beat Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 4 games to 2

31 Oct 1986

Dodgers Bill Russell 38 announces his retirement

31 Oct 1964

Czech gymnast Vra slavsk wins the balance beam at the Tokyo Olympics her 3rd gold medal of the Games with individual all-round and vault victories

31 Oct 1944

Canadian troops occupy Breskens

31 Oct 1820

Spain sells part of Florida to US for 5 million

31 Oct 2012

Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Haiti killing 65 people and causing over 80 million in damage

31 Oct 1986

Great Britain drops diplomatic relations with Syria

31 Oct 1964

Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina wins the floor exercise gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics her 2nd gold of the Games (team) and career 9th (1956 60 64) a gymnastics record

31 Oct 1944

World War II US troops capture Aachen 1st large German city to fall

31 Oct 1822

1st edition of London Sunday Times

31 Oct 2012

The double dip recession in the UK economy ends with growth of 1.0% in GDP in the third quarter of with help from the London Olympic Games

31 Oct 1987

Borks supreme court nomination rejected by senate

31 Oct 1964

Japanese gymnast Yukio Endo wins the parallel bars gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics his 3rd gold medal of the Games (individual all-round and team) 4th career gold (1960 64)

31 Oct 1944

Walter Pistons Fugue for a Victory Tune premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1827

Battle at Navarino EnglRussFrench fleet beat TurkEgyptian fleet

31 Oct 2013

74 Boko Harem members killed in a coordinated assault in Borno State Nigeria

31 Oct 1987

NBC technicians accept pact end 118 day strike

31 Oct 1964

Hungary beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 to win the mens football gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

31 Oct 1945

Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time

31 Oct 1835

HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago to sail to Tahiti

31 Oct 2015

British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins US F1 Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas to clinch his second consecutive World Drivers Championship

31 Oct 1988

Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry hundreds drown

31 Oct 1966

Jack Rule Jr. and Sandra Spuzich win JCPenney Classic Haig & Haig Scotch Mixed Foursome golf tournament

31 Oct 1947

Dutch Dakota explodes near Coopenhagen 16 die

31 Oct 1843

1st Chinese immigrant arrives in Suriname

31 Oct 2016

Paul Beatty becomes the 1st American to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout

31 Oct 1989

After a weeks delay due to earthquake World Series game 3 is played

31 Oct 1966

Australian Jack Brabham is first to win World Championship of Drivers title and International Cup for constructors championships in the same year 2nd in season ending Mexican Grand Prix at Autdromo Hermanos Rodrguez

31 Oct 1948

Beersheba liberated by Israeli army

31 Oct 1847

12 year old English boy William Nelman poisons his grandpa with arsenic would become famous court case

31 Oct 2016

4 killed on a theme park ride at Dreamworld in Queensland Australia

31 Oct 1989

American televangelist Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud

31 Oct 1967

Henry Sweet Henry opens at Palace Theater NYC for 80 performances

31 Oct 1948

Dutch Constellation crashes at Prestwick Scotland (40 murder)

31 Oct 1856

Arnhem-Oberhausen railway in Netherlands opens

31 Oct 1260

Qutuz Mamluk Sultans of Egypt (1259-60) is assassinated by Baibars a fellow Mamluk leader who seizes power for himself

31 Oct 1991

Dancing at Lughnasa opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 421 performances

31 Oct 1967

NJ Americans (later NYNJ Nets) play 1st ABA game

31 Oct 1948

Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington D.C.)

31 Oct 1862

Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname

31 Oct 1260

The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France now a UNESCO World Heritage Site

31 Oct 1991

Larry Ryckman purchases CFL Calgary Stampeders

31 Oct 1968

Maggie Flynn opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 82 performances

31 Oct 1948

UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons

31 Oct 1880

Amsterdam Free University opens

31 Oct 1360

The Treaty of Brtigny is ratified at Calais marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years War.

31 Oct 1992

Toronto beats Braves 4-3 in Game 6 at AtlantaFulton County Stadium to win their first Baseball World Series Toronto catcher Pat Borders MVP

31 Oct 1968

American swimmer Kaye Hall sets a world record 106.2 to beat Canadian Elaine Tanner by 0.5s and win the 100m backstroke gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics

31 Oct 1950

Chinese forces occupy Tibet

31 Oct 1883

Max Bruchs Kol Nidre 1st performed

31 Oct 1492

24 Jews are burned at the stake in Mecklenburg Germany

31 Oct 1992

10th Rugby League World Cup Australia beats Great Britain 10-6

31 Oct 1969

Jimmy opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 84 performances

31 Oct 1950

Death penalty abolished in Belgium

31 Oct 1883

Treaty of Ancon Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile

31 Oct 1531

Bavaria joins Schmalkaldic League

31 Oct 1993

Wonderful Tennessee opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 9 performances

31 Oct 1970

Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1001 kph)

31 Oct 1950

Patty Berg wins LPGA Hardscrabble Womens Golf Invitation

31 Oct 1888

Chicago & All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland NZ

31 Oct 1593

Alleged teleportation of Spanish soldier Gil Perez from the Philippines to Mexico

31 Oct 1994

Bomb attack on opposition in Sri Lanka 55 killed

31 Oct 1970

Charles Haughey and two others are found not guilty of illegal arms importation by a Dublin jury the Arms Trial began on 28 May

31 Oct 1950

Tom Powers of Duke scores 6 touchdowns

31 Oct 1891

1st International 6 day bike race at New Yorks Madison Square Garden begins

31 Oct 1596

-26] Battle at Kerestes Ottoman beat Austria-Hungary & Germany

31 Oct 1995

Total solar eclipse in SWS Asia (2m09s)

31 Oct 1971

WXLT (now WWSB) TV channel 40 in Sarasota-Bradenton FL (ABC) begins

31 Oct 1952

Dutch government refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian)

31 Oct 1898

NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms

31 Oct 1648

Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Years War in the Holy Roman Empire Switzerlands independence recognized

31 Oct 1996

Hasan Raza makes Test Cricket debut for Pakistan age 14 yrs 238 days

31 Oct 1971

Two female members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) are shot dead by the British Army in the Lower Falls area of Belfast

31 Oct 1954

Indonesian troops land in New-Guinea

31 Oct 1899

Battle at Talana Hill Natal British army vs Boers

31 Oct 1656

Treaty of Vilnius Russia & Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant

31 Oct 1996

Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium. Yanks win record 8th straight road post season win (with no loses)

31 Oct 1971

Three Catholic civilians are shot dead by the British Army during an attempted robbery in Newry County Down

31 Oct 1956

Betty Dodd wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open

31 Oct 1899

Columbia (US) beats Shamrock (England) in 11th Americas Cup

31 Oct 1681

Earl of Shaftesbury accused of high treason in London

31 Oct 1997

Marv Albert sentenced in assault case

31 Oct 1972

Pippin opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1944 performances

31 Oct 1957

Giants purchase Class-A Phoenix team

31 Oct 1902

The Chamber of Deputies appoints a committee to consider questions on the separation of Church and State in France

31 Oct 1795

3rd Partition of Poland between Austria Prussia & Russia

31 Oct 1998

Launch of Deep Space 1 on comet and asteroid mission

31 Oct 1972

Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain

31 Oct 1957

Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open

31 Oct 1903

US wins disputed boundary between District of Alaska & Canada

31 Oct 1836

Earliest American patent for a phosphorus friction match by Alonzo Dwight Phillips of Springfield Massachusetts

31 Oct 2002

Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington D.C.

31 Oct 1972

WNJS TV channel 23 in Camden NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1958

1st women in British House of Lords

31 Oct 1904

Bolivia and Chile sign a treaty ending the War of the Pacific recognizing Chiles possession of the coast providing for construction of a railway linking La Paz Bolivia to Arica on the coast

31 Oct 1851

William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel satellites of Uranus

31 Oct 2003

Concorde makes its last commercial flight

31 Oct 1972

Loyalist paramilitaries carry out raid on an Ulster Defence Regiment

31 Oct 1959

Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana

31 Oct 1905

Great General Strike in Russia begins lasts 11 days

31 Oct 1856

Constitution of South Australia adopted

31 Oct 2004

10 people including 4 family members of Rick Hendrick are killed in a plane crash near Martinsville Speedway. The plane was owned by NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports.

31 Oct 1972

Im Still in Love with You 5th studio album by Al Green is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1973)

31 Oct 1959

Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960 to be held in KC & NY

31 Oct 1906

Dr Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube)

31 Oct 1857

Worlds first soccer club Sheffield F C founded in Yorkshire England

31 Oct 2006

Justice Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the motive clause an important part of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act

31 Oct 1973

UNs revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted

31 Oct 1960

1st British nuclear sub HMS Dreadnought launched

31 Oct 1908

King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium

31 Oct 1861

First US transcontinental telegram is sent (from San Francisco to Washington D.C.)

31 Oct 2006

MESSENGER spacecraft performs a Venus flyby

31 Oct 1973

Yankee GM & pres Lee MacPhail named AL president

31 Oct 1964

Abebe Bikila runs OlympicWorld record marathon (21211.2)

31 Oct 1910

1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series

31 Oct 1861

West Virginia secedes from Virginia

31 Oct 2008

Bloody Friday saw many of the worlds stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in their history with drops of around 10% in most indices.

31 Oct 1973

Arab oil embargo extended to the Netherlands

31 Oct 1964

Braves ask NL to allow them to leave Milwaukee for Atlanta

31 Oct 1910

Soccer team KFC forms in Alkmaar

31 Oct 1871

Mob in Los Angeles California hangs 18 Chinese

31 Oct 2008

Iceland receives a 1.3 billion bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) 1st European country to require an emergency loan as a result of the financial crisis

31 Oct 1974

Cubs trade Billy Williams to As for Manny Trillo Knowles & Locker

31 Oct 1964

Polish 4100m womens relay team runs a world record 43.6 to beat the US by 0.3s and win the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics Teresa Ciepy Irena Kirszenstein Halina Grecka & Ewa Kobukowska

31 Oct 1910

The hull of the RMS Olympic sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast Ireland.

31 Oct 1881

Levi P Morton US ambasador to France drives first rivet in Statue of Liberty

31 Oct 2008

Breeders Cup Horse Racing Santa Anita Racetrack Day 1 winners Ventura Maram Stardom Bound Together Forever Zenyatta

31 Oct 1974

Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks Big Creek Reservation dedicated

31 Oct 1964

Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia runs a world record 21211.2 to beat Briton Basil Heatley by more than 4 minutes and win the mens marathon at the Tokyo Olympics first athlete to win Olympic marathon twice

31 Oct 1912

Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St NYC

31 Oct 1885

Johann Strauss operetta Zigeunerbaron (Gypsy Baron) premieres in Vienna

31 Oct 2009

First International Day of Climate Action organized with 350.org a global campaign to address a claimed global warming crisis.

31 Oct 1975

Battle between Cuba & South Africa troops in Angola

31 Oct 1964

US 4 x 100m mens relay team of Paul Drayton Gerry Ashworth Richard Stebbins & Bob Hayes run world record 39.0s to beat Poland by 0.3s and win the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

31 Oct 1912

Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (22939.2)

31 Oct 1889

Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League

31 Oct 2012

Libyan militias capture Bani Walid resulting in 130 civilian deaths

31 Oct 1975

Islander Glenn Reschs 5th shut-out opponent-Flyers 3-0

31 Oct 1964

New Zealand athlete Peter Snell wins the 1500m at the Tokyo Olympics his second gold medal of the Games (800m) 3rd career gold

31 Oct 1920

1st Year with Frank Craven premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1899

Battle at Rietfontein South Africa Boers vs British army

31 Oct 2012

3 people are shot dead and two critically wounded after being shot by an unknown gunman in Downey California

31 Oct 1975

Women take the day off in Iceland to commemorate International Womens Year shutting the country down for a day

31 Oct 1964

American mens 4400m relay team beats Great Britain by 0.9s to set world record 300.7 and win the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics Ollan Cassell Mike Larrabee Ulis Williams & Henry Carr

31 Oct 1921

Germany and Allies comes to an agreements over reparation payments in a meeting at Wiensbaden

31 Oct 1900

General Redvers Buller returns to England

31 Oct 2012

Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica killing 1 person and causing over 50 million in damage

31 Oct 1977

7th NYC Womens Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 24310

31 Oct 1965

KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka KS (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1921

The French and Mustafa Kemal nationalists sign a treaty at Ankara fixing the Turko-Syrian border

31 Oct 1901

First woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)

31 Oct 2013

St Louis Cardinals defeat Boston Red Sox to tie the MLB World Series 1-1

31 Oct 1977

8th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 21138

31 Oct 1965

Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward

31 Oct 1922

Kennelworth in Bronx renamed Dwight Place

31 Oct 1902

Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts killing 6000 people and becoming one of the three largest eruptions of the 20th century

31 Oct 2015

Even results in Argentine Presidential Election between Daniel Scioli and Mauricio Macrieven trigger 1st ever Presidential run off 22 Nov

31 Oct 1977

Panamanians vote 21 to approve new Canal treaties

31 Oct 1965

Vivian Beaumont Theater (NYC) opens

31 Oct 1924

1st Negro League World Series KC Monarchs shuts out Hilldales 5-0

31 Oct 1466

The Thirteen Years War ends with the Second Peace of Thorn Germany

31 Oct 1988

Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members

31 Oct 1969

Soyuz 8 returns to Earth

31 Oct 1968

US mens 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Zac Zorn Stephen Rerych Ken Walsh & Mark Spitz swim world record 331.7 to outclass the Soviet Union & Australia and win the gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics

31 Oct 1923

John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)

31 Oct 1576

Dutch provinces begin consultation about Spanish existence

31 Oct 1988

Car bomb kills 7 Israelis wounds 11 near Lebanon border

31 Oct 1970

Sachio Kinugasa begins 2215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp

31 Oct 1968

Bjrn Ferm of Sweden beats Hungarys Andrs Balcz by just 11 points to take the gold medal in the modern pentathlon at the Mexico City Olympics

31 Oct 1925

Peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact)

31 Oct 1630

In Boston the 1st general court is held

31 Oct 1988

Roxette releases Roxette Look Sharp album

31 Oct 1973

Raisin opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 847 performances

31 Oct 1969

NY Nets move from Comack to Island Garden Hempstead NY

31 Oct 1925

Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution

31 Oct 1634

Beach Island in North Sea destroyed by a heavy storm flood

31 Oct 1988

South African anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins 100000 Human Rights prize

31 Oct 1973

Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter half-dollar & dollar coin

31 Oct 1969

Plastic Ono Bands Cold Turkey is released in UK

31 Oct 1926

Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan 1200 killed

31 Oct 1682

English Lord Shaftesbury flees to Holland

31 Oct 1988

US Senate passes bill curbing ads during childrens TV shows

31 Oct 1973

Judd Woldon & Robert Brittens musical Raisin premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1969

Soyuz 7 returns to Earth

31 Oct 1926

Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River killing 1200

31 Oct 1722

Frenchman C Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher

31 Oct 1989

Astor Piazzolla and William Finns musical Dangerous Games premieres at Nederlander Theater NYC

31 Oct 1973

Nobel prize for Economic Sciences awarded to American Wassily Leontief

31 Oct 1971

Cleveland Metroparks Rocky River Nature Center opens

31 Oct 1928

Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors edging Heinie Manush by 2 points

31 Oct 1739

England declares war on Spain [OSOct 30]

31 Oct 1990

HCA Helsinki Citizens Assembly forms in Prague

31 Oct 1974

1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121

31 Oct 1971

Pittsburgh Pirates beat Balt Orioles 4 games to 3 in 68th World Series

31 Oct 1931

US trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd murders two friends then dismembers one of them in Phoenix

31 Oct 1765

Stamp Act Congress meets in New York City writes the Declaration of Rights and Grievances

31 Oct 1991

Longest NCAA football game (352) as RI beats Maine 52-30 (6 OTs)

31 Oct 1974

Andre van de Louw appointed Mayor of Rotterdam

31 Oct 1971

It is estimated today that approximately 16000 households were withholding rent and rates for council houses as part of the campaign of civil disobedience against internment organised by the Social Democratic and Labour Party Northern Ireland

31 Oct 1939

Sugar rationing begins in Netherlands

31 Oct 1818

US Government and Chickasaw Indians sign a treaty

31 Oct 1991

Lonnie Glieberman purchased Ottawa Rough Riders from CFL

31 Oct 1974

Wings (Country Hams) release Walking in the Park with Eloise

31 Oct 1972

1st time Islanders shut-out-5-0 vs Penguins

31 Oct 1940

Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr. is promoted to brigadier general the first African-American person to become a general in the US military

31 Oct 1822

In Parnaba Simplcio Dias da Silva Joo Cndido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piau

31 Oct 1993

UN authorizes arms military and police supply embargo against Haiti

31 Oct 1976

Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to American William Lipscomb

31 Oct 1972

Bob Randalls 6 Rooms Riv Vu premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1941

Gordo comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers

31 Oct 1853

First flour mill in Hawaii begins operations

31 Oct 1994

160 killed in fighting in Tsjetsjenie (Chechnya)

31 Oct 1977

1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Reschs 15th

31 Oct 1972

Chuck Berrys My Ding-a-ling is 1

31 Oct 1941

Germany advances within 60 miles (96 K) of Moscow

31 Oct 1856

James Kelly and Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne

31 Oct 1994

Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv kills 22

31 Oct 1977

NY Yankees win their 21st World Championship 4 games

31 Oct 1972

The Ulster Defence Association open fire on the British Army in several areas of Belfast

31 Oct 1941

Romanian Legionnaires enter Odessa Russia

31 Oct 1859

Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope

31 Oct 1995

Hello Dolly opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 118 performances

31 Oct 1977

West German commandos liberate Boeing 737 with 86 hostages at Mogadishu

31 Oct 1973

OPEC oil ministers use oil as an economic weapon in the Arab-Israeli War mandating a cut in exports and recommending an embargo against unfriendly states

31 Oct 1942

Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40000 south of Calcutta India

31 Oct 1863

Battle of Buckland Mills Virginia

31 Oct 1996

Braves beat NY Yanks by record tying 11 runs 12-1 in a World Series

31 Oct 1977

Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship 1st in 15 years

31 Oct 1974

Dont Bother Me I Cant Cope closes at Playhouse NYC after 1065 per

31 Oct 1942

National Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services

31 Oct 1864

Approx 25 Confederates make surprise attack on St Albans Vermont

31 Oct 1997

Annie closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC

31 Oct 1978

US 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance

31 Oct 1974

NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak

31 Oct 1943

Anti Jewish riot in Rome

31 Oct 1864

Battle of Cedar Creek Virginia Union beats back Confederate attackers

31 Oct 1997

700th World Series home run (Sandy Alomar Cleveland Indians)

31 Oct 1978

NY Islanders 1st scoreless tie vs LA Kings

31 Oct 1974

Washington Capitals 1st NHL home victory beating Chicago 4-3

31 Oct 1943

Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens citys new subway system

31 Oct 1864

US Brigadier General Emory Upton (25) promoted to Major General

31 Oct 1998

The Earth Liberation Front sets fire to Vail Mountain ski resort in Colorado causing 12 million in damage

31 Oct 1979

Beatlemania opens in London

31 Oct 1974

Oakland As beat LA Dodgers 4 games to 1 in 71st World Series makes As only team other than Yanks to win 3 straight series

31 Oct 1943

Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis they are sent to Auschwitz

31 Oct 1870

1st African Americans (4) elected to US House of Representatives

31 Oct 1999

MLB National League Championship Atlanta Braves beat New York Mets 4 games to 2

31 Oct 1980

Brooke Alexander 18 of Hawaii crowned Miss World USA

31 Oct 1975

1st Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Tech Labs Miss

31 Oct 1943

US 1st Army establishes headquarter in Bristol

31 Oct 1870

British steamship SS Cambria wrecked off the north-west of Ireland with the loss of 178 lives

31 Oct 2001

SIEV-X an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island carrying over 400 asylum seekers sinks killing 353

31 Oct 1980

Detroit blocks 21 Atlanta shots setting NBA record (double OT)

31 Oct 1975

UN passes resolution saying Zionism is a form of racism

31 Oct 1944

Hungary Horthy government fallsnazi count Szalasi becomes premier

31 Oct 1879

Afghans emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign

31 Oct 2004

Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the SPDC on charges of corruption

31 Oct 1981

Andreas Papandreous PASOK wins Greek elections

31 Oct 1976

Coldest World Series game Yankees vs Cincinnati 39 degrees F (until 1997)

31 Oct 1945

UNs Food & Agriculture Organization comes into existence

31 Oct 1888

Moshav Gederah is attacked by Arabs

31 Oct 2004

Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq

31 Oct 1981

NY Giant Joe Danelo ties NFL record of 6 field goals in a game

31 Oct 1977

Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament

31 Oct 1946

10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials

31 Oct 1900

Painter Henry O Tanner wins Medal of Honor at Paris Exposition

31 Oct 2005

Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb

31 Oct 1981

Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader

31 Oct 1977

West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu Somalia freeing all 86 hostages & killing 3 of 4 hijackers

31 Oct 1948

Red Mill opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 831 performances

31 Oct 1900

South African President of Transvaal Paul Kruger departs for Europe

31 Oct 2005

MLB National League Championship Houston Astros beat St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 2

31 Oct 1984

Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51A mission

31 Oct 1978

NY Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8)

31 Oct 1949

WDAF TV channel 4 in Kansas City MO (NBC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1901

Santos-Dumont proves airship manoeuverable by circling Eiffel Tower

31 Oct 2006

MLB National League Championship St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Mets 4 games to 3

31 Oct 1988

Israels supreme court upholds ban on Kahanes Kach Party as racist

31 Oct 1978

NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 2 in 75th World Series

31 Oct 1949

1st NASCAR Sprint Cup Red Byron wins

31 Oct 1904

Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through superintendence of American C.A. OReilley

31 Oct 2007

Bomb explosion rocks Glorietta 2 a shopping mall in Makati the Philippines killing 11 injuring more than 100 people

31 Oct 1989

East German stateparty leader Erich Honecker resigns

31 Oct 1978

Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year

31 Oct 1951

The first Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan is assassinated in Rawalpindi.

31 Oct 1907

1st printing of Dutch Tribune (WijnkoopVan RavesteynCeton)

31 Oct 2008

MLB American League Championship Tampa Bay Rays beat Boston Red Sox 4 games to 3

31 Oct 1989

Hungary revises its constitution after the fall of its Communist regime

31 Oct 1979

Beatlemania closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 920 performances

31 Oct 1952

Pakistans 1st Test starts v India at Delhi

31 Oct 1911

Royal Mint in London sends dies for Canadian 1 coin to Ottawa Branch

31 Oct 2012

8 people are killed and 78 injured by a car bomb in Beirut Lebanon

31 Oct 1989

US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit

31 Oct 1979

D Bautista of Mexico completes 20000 m walk in record 12006.8

31 Oct 1952

Woolworths at Powell & Market (San Francisco) opens

31 Oct 1912

Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control

31 Oct 2013

16 people are killed and 30 are wounded by a suicide bombing Beledweyne Somalia

31 Oct 1990

Once on this Island opens at Booth Theater NYC for 469 performances

31 Oct 1979

Pittsburgh Pirates beat Balt Orioles 4 games to 3 in 76th World Series

31 Oct 1957

USAF sends 2 aluminium bullets into space

31 Oct 1914

US post office 1st used an automobile to collect and deliver mail

31 Oct 2013

11 people are killed after a plane crashes in Namur Belgium

31 Oct 1991

Most Happy Fella closes at NY State Theater NYC

31 Oct 1979

US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education

31 Oct 1958

Benjamin Brittens Nocturne premieres

31 Oct 1915

Russia and Italy declare war on Bulgaria

31 Oct 2013

MLB American League Championship Boston Red Sox beat Detroit Tigers 4 games to 2

31 Oct 1992

Oba Oba 93 closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 22 performances

31 Oct 1980

1st-class debut of Mike Whitney NSW v Qld (2-52 & 1-39)

31 Oct 1960

NL votes to admit Houston & NY to league

31 Oct 1915

US bankers arrange a 500 million loan to the British and French

31 Oct 2014

A working human intestine is generated in a laboratory from stem cells in the United States

31 Oct 1992

1st non-US team to win a World Series Game Toronto 5 Atlanta 4

31 Oct 1981

Brazilian Nelson Piquet driving for Brabham finishes 5th in the season ending Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas to clinch his first World Formula 1 Drivers title by 1 point from Carlos Reutemann

31 Oct 1962

Byron R White becomes a Supreme Court Justice

31 Oct 1916

France extends formal recognition of the Provisional Government in Crete proclaimed Eleftherios Venizelos

31 Oct 2015

US scientists from University of California find evidence life on earth may have begun 4.1 billion years ago 300 million earlier than previously thought

31 Oct 1992

6.6 earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities

31 Oct 1982

1st live orchestra on a US commercial network since 1954 (National Symphony)

31 Oct 1962

KTXT TV channel 5 in Lubbock TX (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1917

Love Field in Dallas Texas is opened

31 Oct 2017

Outbreak of the Marburg virus declared by Ugandas Ministry of Health

31 Oct 1992

Philadelphia Eagle Randall Cunningham sets NFL quarterback scramble record of 3683

31 Oct 1982

Robin Yount is 1st to have 2 4-hit games in a World Series

31 Oct 1962

Yanks (20th championship) beat SF Giants 4 games to 3 in World Series

31 Oct 1919

1st US Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a living female recipient Anna Howard Shaw

31 Oct 2018

Halloween film reboot starring Jamie Curtis makes a record 77m for a horror film with a female lead biggest debut any film with female lead over 55 in US

31 Oct 1992

Start of Zimbabwes 1st Test match v India at Harare

31 Oct 1982

Sam Shepards True West premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1962

NY Yankees appear in 12 & win 9 of last 14 World Series

31 Oct 1919

Reds beat White Sox 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series is known as black sox scandal as 8 White Sox throw series

31 Oct 707

John VII ends his reign as Catholic Pope

31 Oct 1993

STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit

31 Oct 1983

Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Grard Debreu

31 Oct 1963

2 secret US military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral

31 Oct 1921

Portuguese Prime Minister Antnio Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup

31 Oct 1009

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah who hacks the Churchs foundations down to bedrock

31 Oct 1995

NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix

31 Oct 1983

STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem

31 Oct 1963

NY newspaper Mirror last edition

31 Oct 1923

Ban Johnson persuades AL owners to prohibit boxing in their parks

31 Oct 1016

Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon)

31 Oct 1999

MLB American League Championship New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox 4 games to 1

31 Oct 1984

Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield

31 Oct 1964

China becomes worlds 5th nuclear power

31 Oct 1923

Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Vlkischer Beobachter

31 Oct 1081

Battle of Dyrrhachium Southern Italian Normans under Robert Guiscard defeat Byzantine Empire

31 Oct 2001

Crude Oil for November delivery falls to its lowest level since August 1999 on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)

31 Oct 1985

French author Claude Simon wins the Nobel Prize for Literature

31 Oct 1964

Indians directors vote to keep franchise in Cleveland rejecting bids by Seattle Oakland & Dallas

31 Oct 1924

General Christian Workers union demands 8 hr work day in Belgium

31 Oct 1267

Battle at Marienholz Henry III Otto II van Gelre beat Keuls archbishop Engelbert III

31 Oct 2003

Bolivian Gas War President Gonzalo Snchez de Lozada is forced to resign and leave Bolivia

31 Oct 1985

Lou Piniella named NY Yankee manager

31 Oct 1964

US mens 4 100m medley relay team of Thompson Mann Bill Craig Fred Schmidt & Steve Clark swim world record 358.4 to beat Germany by 3.2s and win gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

31 Oct 1925

Italian army takes Somalia

31 Oct 1356

Basel earthquake the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps destroys Basel in Switzerland.

31 Oct 2009

British Mercedes driver Jenson Button finishes 5th in Brazilian Grand Prix at Autdromo Jos Carlos Pace to clinch his first World F1 Drivers Championship

31 Oct 1986

US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982

31 Oct 1964

In an incredibly close womens 100m final at the Tokyo Olympics American sprinter Wyomia Tyus runs 11.4s to beat team mate Edith McGuire by 0.2s Ewa Kobukowska of Poland takes bronze with the same time as McGuire

31 Oct 1926

John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle

31 Oct 1386

Opening of the University of Heidelberg

31 Oct 2011

Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is released by Hamas

31 Oct 1987

Late Nite Comic closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 4 performances

31 Oct 1964

American swimmer Sharon Strouder sets world record 104.7 to beat Ada Kok of the Netherlands by 0.9s and win the womens 100m butterfly at the Tokyo Olympics

31 Oct 1930

Jules Ladoumgue runs world record 1 km (223.6)

31 Oct 1534

New pursuit of French protestants

31 Oct 2012

Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan

31 Oct 1987

1st indoor World Series game (Minnesota Metrodome)

31 Oct 1965

Drat - The Cat closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 8 performances

31 Oct 1932

Austria forbids demonstration by Nazis & anti fascists

31 Oct 1561

Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflict

31 Oct 2012

Google stock trading suspended after premature release of a quarterly report indicating a 20% drop in profits and a 9% fall in share price

31 Oct 1988

31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome

31 Oct 1967

Joean Baez and 123 other anti-draft protesters are arrested in Oakland California

31 Oct 1932

British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union

31 Oct 1564

John Hawkins begins 2nd trip to America

31 Oct 2012

MLB American League Championship Detroit Tigers beat New York Yankees 4 games to 0

31 Oct 1988

Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of NY Yankees

31 Oct 1967

WETK TV channel 33 in Burlington VT (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1932

Jimmie Foxx wins AL MVP and Chuck Klein wins NL MVP

31 Oct 1572

Spanish troops attack Maastricht

31 Oct 2013

Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to turn down a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over Syria

31 Oct 1988

Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud conspiracy indictment

31 Oct 1967

WGNO TV channel 26 in New Orleans LA (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1933

Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936

31 Oct 1622

French King Louis XIII & Huguenots sign Treaty of Montpellier

31 Oct 2013

MLB National League Championship St. Louis Cardinals beat Los Angeles Dodgers 4 games to 2

31 Oct 1988

Phillip Morris announces 11 Billion tender offer for Kraft

31 Oct 1968

China reports removal of president Li Sjao-tji

31 Oct 1936

HR Ekins of NY World-Telegram beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights by 18 days

31 Oct 1648

1st labor organization forms in North American colonies (Boston Shoemakers)

31 Oct 2016

US White Houses says it is confident Russia behind recent email hacking and attemps to influence US election

31 Oct 1988

Rockin Robin beats Sensational Sherri Martel for WWF womans title

31 Oct 1968

Czechoslovakia & Russian accord rules allies Soviet forces

31 Oct 1941

1st woman jockey in North America Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico

31 Oct 1667

English fleet plunders Suriname plantations

31 Oct 415

Jewish autonomy in Palestine ended by the Romans and Raban Gamliel forced from office

31 Oct 1988

Traveling Wilburys 1st release Handle With Care

31 Oct 1968

Milwaukee Bucks play their 1st game losing 89-84 to Chicago Bulls

31 Oct 1943

Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow

31 Oct 1672

Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz

31 Oct 532

Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope

31 Oct 1988

Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 is released

31 Oct 1968

Jim Dorey sets Toronto Maple Leaf penalty records (48 mins on 9 penalties in a game & 44 minutes on 7 penalties in a period)

31 Oct 1943

Theater Guild presentation of Othello opens at Shubert

31 Oct 1748

Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle signed ending War of Austrian Succession

31 Oct 733

Battle at Tours (Poitiers) Charles Martels Frankish and Burgundian forces beat those of al-Andalus under Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi halting Islamic influence (date disputed)

31 Oct 1989

Earthquake in San Francisco (6.9) cancels 3rd game of World Series kills 67

31 Oct 1968

The Peoples Democracy (PD) formed on Oct 9 organise a march of 1300 students from the Queens University of Belfast to the City Hall in the centre of the city Northern Ireland

31 Oct 1943

Yankee 2nd baseman Joe Gordon announces his retirement

31 Oct 1752

Premiere of Rousseaus opera Le Devin du Village

31 Oct 1387

Swells convent Windesheim initiated

31 Oct 1990

Jackie Mason - Brand New opens at Neil Simon NYC for 216 performances

31 Oct 1968

American Bob Seagren Claus Schiprowski of West Germany and East German Wolfgang Nordwig all record 5.40m in the final of the pole vault at the Mexico City Olympics Seagren awarded gold on countback

31 Oct 1943

Streptomycin the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University

31 Oct 1767

Mason Dixon line the boundary between Maryland & Pennsylvania agreed upon

31 Oct 1404

Cosma de Migliorati elected Pope Innocentius VII

31 Oct 1990

Les Miserables opens at Imperial Theatre NY & His Majestys Theatre Perth

31 Oct 1969

T Agee & Ed Kranepool HR Tommie Agee makes 2 great catches New York Mets win Baseball World Series 4-1

31 Oct 1944

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow

31 Oct 1776

In a bar decorated with bird tail in Elmsford New York a customer requests a glassful of those cock tails from bartender Betsy Flanagan

31 Oct 1448

Second Battle of Kosovo where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi were defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II.

31 Oct 1991

Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7000 horse races

31 Oct 1969

100-1 shot NY Mets beat Orioles 5-3 & win 66th World Series in 5

31 Oct 1944

Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg

31 Oct 1776

Battle of Pelham Colonel John Glover & Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx

31 Oct 1456

The University of Greifswald is established making it the second oldest university in northern continental Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden and Prussia)

31 Oct 1991

News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally attacked her by discuss her having a disformed baby

31 Oct 1969

Soyuz 6 returns to Earth

31 Oct 1944

John Van Drutens I Remember Mama premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1860

The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin an unequal treaty.

31 Oct 1483

Tomas de Torquemada appointed inquisitor-general of Spain

31 Oct 1991

MLB National League Championship Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates 4 games to 3

31 Oct 1969

Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch he scores on a HR in World Series

31 Oct 1944

US Navy says black women can join WAVES

31 Oct 1862

Morgans raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington KY

31 Oct 1556

Ex-emperor Karel departs Netherland for Spain

31 Oct 1991

Blue Man Groups 1st performance in New York City

31 Oct 1971

Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in San Francisco

31 Oct 1944

US forces land in Philippines

31 Oct 1863

Battle of Charlestown WV

31 Oct 1662

Charles II of Great Britain sells Dunkirk to France for 2.5 million livres (320000 English pounds)

31 Oct 1992

1st World Series with non-US team Toronto loses 3-1 to Braves

31 Oct 1972

Pacific Paradise opens at Palace Theater NYC for 5 performances

31 Oct 1947

De Gaulles RPF wins French municipal elections

31 Oct 1867

US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia having paid 7.2 million

31 Oct 1691

New royal charter for Massachusetts now including Maine Plymouth

31 Oct 1993

Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA World Championship of Womens Golf

31 Oct 1972

Rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival break up

31 Oct 1948

My Romance opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 95 performances

31 Oct 1869

Henrik Ibsens De Unges Forbund premieres in Christiania (Oslo) Norway

31 Oct 1720

Pierre de Marivaux Arlequin Poli Par lAmour premieres in Paris

31 Oct 1994

Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championships of Womens Golf

31 Oct 1972

2 members of the Offical Irish Republican Army are shot dead by the British Army in County Tyrone

31 Oct 1949

As trade 2nd baseman Nellie Fox to White Sox for Joe Tipton

31 Oct 1873

1st football game between Toronto Argonauts & Hamilton Tigers

31 Oct 1777

British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga during the American Revolutionary War

31 Oct 1995

Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of 9000000

31 Oct 1972

A Protestant youth member (15) of the Ulster Defence Association and a UDA member (26) are run over by British Army vehicles during riots in east Belfast

31 Oct 1949

Yanks trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds

31 Oct 1873

Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football

31 Oct 1787

Boston blacks petition legislature for equal school facilities

31 Oct 1995

MLB American League Championship Cleveland Indians beat Seattle Mariners 4 games to 2

31 Oct 1973

Israeli tanks under Gen Sharon move through Suez Canal

31 Oct 1950

Bird Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated

31 Oct 1878

Edison makes electricity available for household use

31 Oct 1797

Peace of Campo Formio Austrian Dutch possessions & France

31 Oct 1996

Taking Sides opens at Atkinson Theater NYC

31 Oct 1950

UN forces entered Pyongyang capital of North Korea

31 Oct 1878

Anti-socialist laws are ratified in Germany

31 Oct 1800

Dutch colony Curacao transfererd to Great Britain

31 Oct 1996

MLB National League Championship Atlanta Braves beat St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 3

31 Oct 1968

US womens 4 x 100m relay team sets world record 42.88s to win the gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics Margaret Bailes Barbara Ferrell Mildrette Netter & Wyomia Tyus

31 Oct 1951

US President Harry Truman formally ends state of war with Germany

31 Oct 1887

Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure A Case of Identity (BG)

31 Oct 1806

Former leader of the Haitian Revolution Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated

31 Oct 1998

At Jesse in the Niger Delta Nigeria a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers some of whom are scavenging gasoline.

31 Oct 1968

Margitta Gummel of East Germany throws world record 19.61m to beat team mate Marita Lange by 0.83m and win the womens shot put gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics

31 Oct 1952

Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betty Jameson Golf Tournament

31 Oct 1889

1st all NYC World Series NY Giants (NL) play Bkln (AA)

31 Oct 1808

Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw

31 Oct 2000

Train crash at Hatfield north of London leading to collapse of Railtrack

31 Oct 1969

WKYH (now WYMT) TV channel 57 in Hazard KY (NBC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1952

Alain Bombard departs from the Canary Islands on his solitary journey across the Atlantic ocean with almost no provisions and only a sextant for navigation to test his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive

31 Oct 1892

1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)

31 Oct 1814

A Beer Flood occurs in London killing nine.

31 Oct 2000

MLB American League Championship New York Yankees beat Seattle Mariners 4 games to 2

31 Oct 1970

American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

31 Oct 1953

1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service

31 Oct 1898

American flag raised in Puerto Rico

31 Oct 1825

1st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris

31 Oct 2003

The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101 a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the Worlds tallest highrise.

31 Oct 1970

Zond 8 Launch (Moon Orbit & Return)

31 Oct 1953

Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey

31 Oct 1900

Count Bernard von Bulow becomes Chancellor of Germany famous for first referring to Germanys need for place in the sun and global empire

31 Oct 1829

Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens

31 Oct 2003

Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics.

31 Oct 1971

Aint Supposed to Die a Natural Death opens at Barrymore for 325 per

31 Oct 1954

Egypt and Great Britain sign treaty British troops depart

31 Oct 1901

Belgiums Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights

31 Oct 1829

1st supposed attack on abandoned German teenager Kaspar Hauser

31 Oct 2006

The United States population reaches 300 million

31 Oct 1971

The Nepal stock exchange collapses.

31 Oct 1954

KAKE TV channel 10 in Wichita KS (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1904

Gustav Mahlers 5th symphony premieres in Cologne

31 Oct 1850

Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized

31 Oct 2012

Exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri announced (later thought to be a false finding)

31 Oct 1971

Senator in the US Congress Edward Kennedy calls for a withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland and all-party negotiations to establish a United Ireland

31 Oct 1954

First ascent of Cho Oyu sixth highest mountain in the world at 8201 metres

31 Oct 1908

Belgium annexes Congo Free State

31 Oct 1854

French and British forces bombard Sevastopol for the first time during the Crimean War

31 Oct 2012

Tens of thousands protest against austerity measures in Greece

31 Oct 1972

Queen Juliana visits Yugoslavia

31 Oct 1957

Damn Yankees closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1022 performances

31 Oct 1909

Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m

31 Oct 1855

Bessemer steelmaking process patented

31 Oct 2013

59 people are killed in a wave of attacks on Shia Muslims in Iraq

31 Oct 1973

OPEC oil embargo begins

31 Oct 1958

Stirling Moss wins season ending Moroccan Grand Prix at Ain-Diab but fellow Brit Mike Hawthorn takes World Championship of Drivers from Moss by just 1 point by finishing second first British world champion

31 Oct 1912

The Treaty of Lausanne ends the Tripolitan War between Turkey and Italy

31 Oct 1860

1st British Golf Open Willie Park Snr shoots a 164 at Prestwick Club Scotland

31 Oct 2016

Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-11 launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northern China

31 Oct 1973

Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House

31 Oct 1958

9th Formula One WDC Mike Hawthorn wins by one point

31 Oct 1912

The First Balkan War breaks out with Bulgaria Serbia and Greece opposed to Turkey

31 Oct 1862

Battle of Leetown & Thoroughfare Gap VA

31 Oct 2017

Islamic State headquarters Raqqa declared under full control of US-led alliance by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesman Talal Sello after 4 months of fighting

31 Oct 1973

US President Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox

31 Oct 1959

Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel

31 Oct 1914

Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany

31 Oct 1868

Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect

31 Oct 2017

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declares city of Marawi liberated from militants

31 Oct 1973

President Nixon discharges Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and accepts the resignations of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus

31 Oct 1959

William Gibsons Miracle Worker premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1915

3rd Italian offensive at Isonzo

31 Oct 1871

Great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa

31 Oct 2017

American short-story writer George Saunders wins the Man Booker Prize for his first novel Lincoln in the Bardo

31 Oct 1973

The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW changes calls to WYFR & moves station from NYC to Scituate Mass

31 Oct 1960

France grants Mauritania independence

31 Oct 1918

Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire

31 Oct 1877

Henry Morton Stanley reaches Boma during trip cross Africa

31 Oct 2018

Indias junior foreign minister MJ Akbar is highest official to resign in MeToo case after sexual harassment accusations by numerous women

31 Oct 1974

1st broadcast of Derrick on ZDF

31 Oct 1960

KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden UT (IND) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1918

NHLs Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P. J. Quinn

31 Oct 1885

Baseball sets all players salaries at 1000-2000 for season

31 Oct 2018

Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch puppeteer Caroll Spinney leaves Sesame Street after 50 years

31 Oct 1974

Bards presentation of Richard III opens at Lincoln Center NYC

31 Oct 1960

US imposes embargo on exports to Cuba

31 Oct 1918

Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad)

31 Oct 1894

Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man

31 Oct 2018

Canada legalizes the sale of recreational cannabis the second country after Uruguay

31 Oct 1975

Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning

31 Oct 1962

Stalin monument removed in Prague

31 Oct 1921

Biding its time Soviet Russia agrees to independence for the Crimea

31 Oct 1896

Anton Tsjechovs Chayka premieres in St Petersburg

31 Oct 2018

Australian state of Queensland decriminalizes abortion

31 Oct 1975

Soviet orbiter Venera 9 becomes the 1st spacecraft to orbit Venus

31 Oct 1964

In a blanket finish in the 80m hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics Germanys Karin Balzer and Teresa Cieply of Poland both record 10.5s with Pam Kilborn of Australia 10.6 Balzer is awarded the gold medal

31 Oct 1922

British Broadcasting Company (BBC) founded later called British Broadcasting Corporation

31 Oct 1899

Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for 215000

31 Oct 2018

The revived The Connors debuts on ABC TV starring Sara Gilbert Laurie Metcalf and John Goodman without fired former star Roseanne Barr

31 Oct 1976

70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince

31 Oct 1964

American sprinter Edith McGuire runs an Olympic record 23.0 to win the womens 200m gold medal in Tokyo minor place medallists Irena Szewiska of Poland and Australian Marilyn Black both record 23.1

31 Oct 1924

Notre Dame beats Army 13-7 NY Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen)

31 Oct 1900

Bernhard von Blow becomes German Chancellor

31 Oct 2018

Student shoots and detonates a bomb killing 20 with 40 injured at Kerch polytechnic college Crimea

31 Oct 1976

NY Nets Julius Dr J Erving sold to Philadelphia 76ers

31 Oct 1964

Tamara Press of the Soviet Union wins the womens discus with an Olympic record throw 57.27m in Tokyo first of 2 gold medals at the Games (shot put)

31 Oct 1925

-20] French Gen Sarrail bombs Damascus

31 Oct 1904

Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors in San Francisco

31 Oct 456

Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire.

31 Oct 1977

David Mamets Life in the Theater premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1967

Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR sets then long jump record at 27 4 34

31 Oct 1925

Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th HR of the season

31 Oct 1912

Bulgaria Greece & Serbia declares war on Turkey

31 Oct 1311

Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens

31 Oct 1977

Hamilton Deane & John Balderstons Dracula premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1967

Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus

31 Oct 1929

Women are considered Persons under Canadian law

31 Oct 1916

Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage

31 Oct 1384

Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland despite being a woman

31 Oct 1977

Six killed in Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash in McComb Mississippi including band members Ronnie Van Zant Steve Gains Cassie Gaines and Dean Kilpatrick

31 Oct 1968

Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars

31 Oct 1930

Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day

31 Oct 1917

1st British bombing of Germany

31 Oct 1502

Storm ravages Friese coast

31 Oct 1978

Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government

31 Oct 1968

The West German crew beats Australia by just 0.9s to win the mens eights rowing gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics

31 Oct 1932

Belgium government of Renkin falls

31 Oct 1918

De Kooy airport in Netherlands opens

31 Oct 1551

English Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset re-arrested

31 Oct 1978

Polices 1st US concert (NYCs CBGBs)

31 Oct 1968

Derry Citizens Action Committee formed Oct 9 stages illegal sit-down at Guildhall Square as part of large civil disobedience campaign

31 Oct 1939

Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Harts musical Too Many Girls premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1918

Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic

31 Oct 1600

Olivier van Noorts ships reach Philippines

31 Oct 1978

US dollar devalued below Dutch 2

31 Oct 1968

American swimmer Jan Henne in 100.0 leads American sweep of the womens 100m freestyle medals at the Mexico City Olympics team mates Susan Pedersen & Linda Gustavson both swim 100.3 for minor medals

31 Oct 1940

Kaufman & Harts George Washington Slept Here premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1919

Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is created as a subsidiary of General Electric

31 Oct 1674

Emperor Leopold I fires chancellor Frst Wenzel Lobkowitz

31 Oct 1979

John Tate beats Gerrie Coetze in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

31 Oct 1968

Australian swimmer Michael Wendon sets world record 52.2s to win the blue ribband mens 100m freestyle gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics

31 Oct 1941

Soviet spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo

31 Oct 1920

Chicago Bears (as Decatur Staleys) play 1st NFL game win 7-0

31 Oct 1710

British troops occupies Port Royal Nova Scotia

31 Oct 1981

1st NBA game at Meadowlands Arena NJ Nets lose to NY Knicks 103-99

31 Oct 1968

New Zealand scores an upset victory in the mens coxed four rowing final at the Mexico City Olympics beats favoured East German crew by 2.58s first ever rowing gold medal for the Kiwis

31 Oct 1943

US bombing of Bougainville Solomon Island

31 Oct 1921

Belgiums public library law goes into force

31 Oct 1757

Austrian troops occupy Berlin

31 Oct 1981

3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery

31 Oct 1969

J Bock and S Harnicks musical Rothschilds opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 505 performances

31 Oct 1944

Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II

31 Oct 1922

Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London

31 Oct 1775

Portland Maine burned by British

31 Oct 1981

Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue 1 dead 80 injured

31 Oct 1969

Mary Mills wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic

31 Oct 1945

Paul Robeson wins Spingarn Medal for singing & acting achievements

31 Oct 1923

Catholic University of Nijmegen Neth opens

31 Oct 1780

Royalton Vermont and Tunbridge Vermont last major raid of the American Revolutionary War

31 Oct 1982

Billy Martin fired as manager of Oakland As

31 Oct 1969

Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21)

31 Oct 1948

Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army

31 Oct 1927

Ban Johnson in failing health retires as AL President

31 Oct 1793

Battle of Wattignies French defeat Allied forces and lift siege of Maubeuge

31 Oct 1982

Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to George Stigler

31 Oct 1969

Scottish Matra-Ford driver Jackie Stewart finishes 4th in season ending Mexican Grand Prix to win his first World Formula 1 Drivers Championship by 26 points from Jacky Ickx of Belgium

31 Oct 1952

Date of the first Mad Magazine issue

31 Oct 1934

The Aldrich Family premieres on radio

31 Oct 1795

M von Bhms Oorlogscantate premieres

31 Oct 1982

Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected

31 Oct 1970

Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale California

31 Oct 1952

Buttrio Square closes at New Century Theater NYC after 7 performances

31 Oct 1935

Pacific Association of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics

31 Oct 1829

Tremont Hotel 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)

31 Oct 1982

St Louis Cards beat Milwaukee Brewers 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series

31 Oct 1970

John Frazier kills Ohtas declares WW 3 has begun

31 Oct 1952

Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash

31 Oct 1940

German occupiers issue identity cards

31 Oct 1834

Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster (parliament) in London is burnt down.

31 Oct 1982

During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.

31 Oct 1971

Last issue of Look magazine is published

31 Oct 1953

WLJT TV channel 11 in Lexington TN (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1941

USS Kearney becomes the 1st US destroyer torpedoed in World War II while the country is still neutral

31 Oct 1841

Queens University in Kingston Ontario Canada is chartered

31 Oct 1983

IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released

31 Oct 1971

A group of Northern Ireland Members of Parliament begin a 48 hour hunger strike against the policy of Internment

31 Oct 1953

WTVK TV channel 26 in Knoxville TN (NBC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1943

Liberators sink U-540 & U-631

31 Oct 1843

Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.

31 Oct 1984

Cleveland Metroparks Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are completed

31 Oct 1972

Mother Earth opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 12 performances

31 Oct 1953

Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times

31 Oct 1943

Burma railway completed built by Allied POWs and Asian laborers for use of the Japanese army

31 Oct 1846

Dentist William T Morton demonstrates effectiveness of ether

31 Oct 1984

The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay California.

31 Oct 1972

Ulster Vanguard leader William Craig speaks at a meeting of right-wing Members of Parliament at Westminster We are prepared to come out and shoot and kill

31 Oct 1954

Hurricane Hazel becomes most severe to ever hit the US killing 195 in US and Canada

31 Oct 1951

Egyptian army fires on British troops

31 Oct 1848

1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania

31 Oct 1986

Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa

31 Oct 1973

Saudi Arabia Libya and other Arab states proclaim an embargo on oil exports to the United States

31 Oct 1954

WBTW TV channel 13 in Florence SC (CBSABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1954

Philadelphia Eagle Adrian Burk passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash (49-21)

31 Oct 1849

Avery College establishes in Allegheny Pennsylvania

31 Oct 1987

10 die as US Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis

31 Oct 1974

Det Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores 1st hat trick against Wash Caps

31 Oct 1954

WNBC radio changes call letters to WRCA (NYC)

31 Oct 1955

Lee Merriwether joins Today Show panel

31 Oct 1849

British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras

31 Oct 1987

Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts608120000 shares traded (record)

31 Oct 1974

Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90)

31 Oct 1954

Texas Instruments Inc. announces the first transistor radio.

31 Oct 1956

Englands 1st large scale nuclear power station opens

31 Oct 1852

Dutch government recognize Catholics right to organize

31 Oct 1987

Subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail

31 Oct 1974

Niue becomes self-govering in association with New Zealand

31 Oct 1955

University of California discovers anti-proton

31 Oct 1956

Pakistan defeat Australia by nine wickets at 1st attempt

31 Oct 1861

Confederacy starts selling postage stamps

31 Oct 1988

Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA

31 Oct 1975

A Chorus Line held record longest-running Broadway show (6137 performances) first premieres at the Shubert Theatre in New York

31 Oct 1960

Casey Stengel retired by NY Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years)

31 Oct 1957

Copper & Brass opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 36 performances

31 Oct 1863

Grant is given command of Union forces in West

31 Oct 1988

Gastineau sacks Jets retires from football for personal reasons

31 Oct 1975

Cleveland Browns Don Cockroft kicks club record 5 field goals

31 Oct 1960

In Britain News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge and London Evening Star merges with Evening News

31 Oct 1957

Dike Marken-Dutch mainland closed

31 Oct 1867

Alaska adopts Gregorian calendar crosses intl date line

31 Oct 1988

LA Dodgers beat Oakland As in baseballs 85th World Series 4 games to 1

31 Oct 1975

Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Japan Golf Classic

31 Oct 1961

Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to communist attack

31 Oct 1957

II Tsjoendrigar becomes premier of Pakistan

31 Oct 1869

Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor plumbing

31 Oct 1988

Man armed with explosives blows himself up in 125 St subway station (NYC)

31 Oct 1976

Battle of Aishiya Lebanon during Lebanese Civil War.

31 Oct 1961

West Side Story directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins the film adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical starring Natalie Wood is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1962)

31 Oct 1959

Billy Barnes Revue closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 87 performances

31 Oct 1875

1st Quebec vs Ontario football game Ontario wins

31 Oct 1988

Reggie Rogers Det Lions 1 pick kills 3 by driving intoxicated

31 Oct 1977

Corpse of kidnapped West German H M Schleyer found

31 Oct 1962

US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact misses Moon

31 Oct 1959

Queen Elizabeth is fined 140 for withdrawing her race horse

31 Oct 1876

Race riot at Cainhoy SC (5 whites & 1 black killed)

31 Oct 1989

Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over India & WI on round-robin

31 Oct 1977

Supersonic Concorde jets 1st landing in NYC

31 Oct 1963

IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics

31 Oct 1959

Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks dedicated

31 Oct 1882

The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.

31 Oct 1989

US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings

31 Oct 1980

Steve McPeak rides 1019 unicycle

31 Oct 1964

Australian swimmer Kevin Berry sets world record 206.6 to beat American Carl Robie by 0.9s and win the mens 200m backstroke gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

31 Oct 1960

Tenderloin opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 216 performances

31 Oct 1900

Great Britain and Germany sign the Anglo-German Treaty agreeing to maintain territorial integrity of China and support open door policy called for by US Secretary of State

31 Oct 1990

3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida

31 Oct 1981

LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos for NL pennant

31 Oct 1966

Apple Tree opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 463 performances

31 Oct 1960

US & Britain sign accord for nuclear submarine bases

31 Oct 1901

Baron Hayashi of Japan begins negotiations in London to make an alliance with the British and strengthen Japans position against Russians

31 Oct 1990

Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)

31 Oct 1981

MLB National League Championship Los Angeles Dodgers beat Montreal Expos 3 games to 2

31 Oct 1967

Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A Bethe

31 Oct 1961

22nd congress of CPSU opens in Moscow

31 Oct 1903

Homel 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia

31 Oct 1990

Cincinnati beats As 2-1 in Game 4 at OaklandAlameda County Coliseum to sweep Oakland and win Reds 5th Baseball World Series Reds pitcher Jos Rijo MVP

31 Oct 1982

Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty)

31 Oct 1967

Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus

31 Oct 1961

Battle of Paris-police kill 210 Algerians

31 Oct 1904

Russian Baltic fleet departs to Port Arthur

31 Oct 1991

Andre Hellers Wonderhouse opens at Broadhurst NYC for 9 performances

31 Oct 1983

Columbia moves to Orbiter Processing Facility

31 Oct 1967

Walt Disneys Jungle Book film is released

31 Oct 1961

NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33100 m

31 Oct 1905

The Partition of Bengal (India) occurred.

31 Oct 1991

6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi India about 670 die

31 Oct 1983

Grenada general Hudson Austin forms revolutionary council

31 Oct 1967

AL votes to allow Athletics to move from KC to Oakland & expand league to 12 teams in 1971 with KC & Seattle teams

31 Oct 1962

Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship

31 Oct 1907

Belasco Theater opens at 111 W 44th St NYC

31 Oct 1991

Formal opening ceremony of Intl One Mind Zen center in Crestone Colo

31 Oct 1983

Philadelphia Flyers begin 13 NHL game win streak

31 Oct 1968

American long jumper Bob Beamon sets an incredible world record (8.90m 29 2) in high altitude at the Mexico City Olympics 0.55m (22) improvement over previous world record

31 Oct 1963

Jennie opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 82 performances

31 Oct 1907

David Belascos Grand Army Man premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1991

Brazilian McLaren driver Ayrton Senna clinches his 2nd straight and 3rd overall World Formula 1 Drivers title by finishing second in the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka

31 Oct 1983

Senate establishes Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday

31 Oct 1968

Circus Circus hotel opens in Las Vegas largest permanent big top in the world

31 Oct 1963

The Beatles record I Want to Hold Your Hand at EMI Studios in London

31 Oct 1908

Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as Esquimoux

31 Oct 1992

1st World Series game outside of US - Toronto beats Atlanta

31 Oct 1986

Flamenco Puro opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 40 performances

31 Oct 1968

John Lennon & Yoko One fined 150 for marijuana possession

31 Oct 1964

In the first ever Olympic womens pentathlon Irina Press of the Soviet Union sets a world record 5246 points to win the gold medal at the Tokyo Games

31 Oct 1909

Jack Johnson KOs Stanley Ketchel in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

31 Oct 1992

David Houghton scores Zimbabwes 1st Test hundred (121 v India debut)

31 Oct 1986

Raggedy Ann closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 5 performances

31 Oct 1968

Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 meter dash

31 Oct 1964

Australian athlete Betty Cuthbert takes her 4th career Olympic gold medal as she wins the womens 400m at the Tokyo Games in Olympic record 52.0

31 Oct 1909

Pirates beat Tigers 4 games to 3 in 6th World Series

31 Oct 202

BC Battle of Zama Hannibal Barca and the Carthaginian army are defeated by Roman legions under Scipio Africanus ending 2nd Punic War

31 Oct 1986

Allan Border scores the 1000000th run in all test cricket (v India Bombay)

31 Oct 1968

US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith & John Carlos for giving black power salute as a protest during victory ceremony

31 Oct 1964

US swimmers go 1-2-3 in the womens 400m individual medley at the Tokyo Olympics Donna de Varona wins gold in Olympic record 518.7 ahead of team mates Sharon Finneran and Martha Randall

31 Oct 1912

Boston beats NY Giants 4 games to 3 with a tie in 9th World Series

31 Oct 439

The Vandals led by King Gaiseric take Carthage in North Africa

31 Oct 1986

USSR expels five US diplomats

31 Oct 1968

American swimmer Don Schollander anchors US 4 200m freestyle relay team to world record 752.1 and the Olympic gold medal in Tokyo Schollanders 4th gold of the Games

31 Oct 1965

On A Clear Day You Can See Forever opens in NYC for 280 performances

31 Oct 1913

Booth Theater opens at 222 W 44th St NYC

31 Oct 615

St Deusdedit I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

31 Oct 1987

Anything Goes opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 804 performances

31 Oct 1968

American athletes sweep the medals in the mens 400m at the Mexico City Olympics Lee Evans wins gold in world record 43.86s ahead of Larry James and Ron Freeman

31 Oct 1965

WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham AL (CBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1915

Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria

31 Oct 1031

Abbot Humbertus van Echternach opens grave of Saint Willibrord

31 Oct 1987

Black Monday Dow Jones stock index falls 508.32 points (22%) 4 times the previous daily record

31 Oct 1968

Polish sprinter Irena Szewiska runs a world record 22.58s to beat Australian Raelene Boyle by 0.16s and win the 200m gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics

31 Oct 1967

Hair premieres on Broadway

31 Oct 1916

Dodger manager Wilbert Robinson given 5000 bonus

31 Oct 1216

King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry

31 Oct 1987

US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf

31 Oct 1968

A rare Australian 1-2 in track & field Maureen Caird in Olympic record 10.39s beats team mate Pam Kilborn by 0.07s to win the 80m hurdles at the Mexico City Games

31 Oct 1967

Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue

31 Oct 1921

Babe Ruth Bob Meusel & Bill Piercy defy Landis ban on World Series

31 Oct 1298

Rindfleisch-140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered

31 Oct 1987

Woody Woodward resigns as NY Yankee GM Lou Piniella is named GM and Billy Martin is named NY Yankee manager for 5th & final time

31 Oct 1969

Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners

31 Oct 1967

Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km

31 Oct 1921

Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin-only mid-game coaching change in NFL history

31 Oct 1453

French retake Bordeaux following the Battle of Castillon

31 Oct 1988

3 Americans win Nobel in physics 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel

31 Oct 1969

Jefferson Airplanes Paul Kanter arrested for marijuana possession

31 Oct 1968

Soviet athlete Viktor Saneev sets world record 17.39m to win the triple jump at the Mexico City Olympics world record improved 5 times by 3 different athletes during competition

31 Oct 1923

Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded

31 Oct 1777

Mjr James Graves Simcoe appointed commandant of Queens Rangers (Penn)

31 Oct 1984

Central Intelligence Agency Information Act passes

31 Oct 1965

Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km

31 Oct 1964

At Plesman airport Curacao 125.5 mm rainfalls (record)

31 Oct 1783

Jean Pilstre de Rozier makes 1st tethered balloon ascent

31 Oct 1984

Centrum party expels 2nd Member of parliament Janmaat due to fraud

31 Oct 1965

Sandy Koufax hurls his 2nd shutout of World Series beating Twins 2-0

31 Oct 1964

Voskhod 1 crew returns

31 Oct 1786

Earliest 32F (0C) recorded temperature in NYC

31 Oct 1985

Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani

31 Oct 1966

175 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam

31 Oct 1964

Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser wins her third consecutive Olympic 100m freestyle gold medal at the Tokyo Games Olympic record 59.05s

31 Oct 1846

Dr William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether

31 Oct 1985

Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit

31 Oct 1966

Dutch government of Cals falls by motion of Schmelzer

31 Oct 1964

US sweeps medals in the mens 200m backstroke at the Tokyo Olympics Jed Graef swims world record 210.3 to win gold ahead of team mates Gary Dilley and Bob Bennett

31 Oct 1863

Cliff House opens in San Francisco 1st of many on the site

31 Oct 1985

Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds

31 Oct 1968

1st live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7)

31 Oct 1966

173 US aircraft bomb North Vietnam

31 Oct 1864

Confederate troops occupy Glasgow Missouri

31 Oct 1986

Longest post season game Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 & win NL pennant

31 Oct 1968

Beatles White Album completed

31 Oct 1966

Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor USN becomes deputy director of CIA

31 Oct 1866

Great fire in Quebec destroys 2500 houses

31 Oct 1986

MLB National League Championship New York Mets beat Houston Astros 4 games to 2

31 Oct 1968

Gruener & Watson (US) set scuba depth record (133 m) in Bahamas

31 Oct 1967

CBS radio cancels House Party

31 Oct 1877

45th Congress (-79) convenes

31 Oct 1986

MLB American League Championship Boston Red Sox beat California Angels 4 games to 3

31 Oct 1968

In NL expansion draft Expos & Padres choose 30 players each

31 Oct 1967

Seattle SuperSonics (now OKC Thunder) lose NBA debut game 144-116 to the San Francisco Warriors at OaklandAlameda County Coliseum

31 Oct 1878

Edison Electric Light Company incorporated

31 Oct 1987

Late Nite Comic opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 4 performances

31 Oct 1968

J R Hines of US runs 100m in world record 9.95 sec

31 Oct 1967

First American Basketball Association (ABA) game is played with Oakland Oaks beating Anaheim Amigos 132-129 red white & blue ball and 3-point field goal introduced

31 Oct 1880

Cologne Cathedral Germany completed 633 years after it was begun

31 Oct 1987

6th Belgium government of Martens falls

31 Oct 1968

Viorica Viscopoleanu of Romania sets world record 6.82m to win the womens long jump at the Mexico City Olympics beats Sheila Sherwood of Great Britain by 0.14m

31 Oct 1968

Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated

31 Oct 1880

Mexican soldiers kill Victorio one of the greatest Apache military strategists.

31 Oct 1987

Coup in Burkina Faso president Sankara dies

31 Oct 1968

6.8 earthquake wrecks Australian town of Meckering rupturing all nearby major roads and railways

31 Oct 1969

1st time 7 people in space

31 Oct 1881

1st American fishing magazine American Angler published

31 Oct 1987

Lanford Wilsons Burn This premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1968

American sprinter Jim Hines runs a world record 9.95s to beat Lennox Miller of Jamaica and Charles Greene of the US and win the 100m gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics

31 Oct 1969

Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins

31 Oct 1883

Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional

31 Oct 1987

NFL Players Association orders an end to 24 day strike union fails to achieve demands short-term with no collective bargaining agreement in place

31 Oct 1969

Palme government forms in Sweden

31 Oct 1969

Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 8 is launched

31 Oct 1885

Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of season

31 Oct 1987

The Great Storm of hits France and England.

31 Oct 1969

Race riots in Springfield Massachusetts

31 Oct 1970

Angela Davis arrested in NYC

31 Oct 1886

Modest Mussorgskys musical fantasy Night on Bald Mountain premieres in St. Petersburgs Kononov Hall Russia

31 Oct 1988

Amnesty Internationals Global Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires

31 Oct 1969

The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin replacing the ten-shilling note in anticipation of currency decimalisation in 1971

31 Oct 1970

A man dies in a premature bomb explosion in Dublin Republic of Ireland

31 Oct 1889

Amsterdam Central Station officially opens

31 Oct 1988

NCAA record rushing yardage (768 yards-Oklahoma)

31 Oct 1970

Cleveland Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92

31 Oct 1971

1st World Series night game (Pittsburgh 4-Baltimore 3)

31 Oct 1890

Alabama Penny Savings Bank organizes in Birmingham

31 Oct 1988

With 2 outs in bottom of 9th an injured Kirk Gibson hits dramatic 2 run HR to give Dodgers a 5-4 win in 1st game of World Series

31 Oct 1971

2 killed in Memphis racial disturbances

31 Oct 1971

WTZH TV channel 24 in Meridian MS (CBS) suspends broadcasting

31 Oct 1894

Captain Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage in France

31 Oct 1991

Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (52-48)

31 Oct 1972

Oakland A Gene Tenace is 1st to homer in 1st 2 World Series at bats

31 Oct 1972

Hurry Harry closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 2 performances

31 Oct 1897

Aaron and Samuel Bloch carry 1st Mail Pouch

31 Oct 1992

Charles Taylor launches an offensive against Monrovia Liberia

31 Oct 1972

North Irish Loyalist paramilitaries raid Headquarters of the 10 Ulster Defence Regiment in Belfast and stole rifles and ammunition

31 Oct 1972

Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow 176 die

31 Oct 1897

King Leopold II takes Belgian crown

31 Oct 1992

Howard Stern radio show begins broadcasting on WLUP-AM Chicago

31 Oct 1973

Egyptian tanks move further into Israel

31 Oct 1972

Commish Bowie Kuhn allows Bert Campaneris to play in World Series

31 Oct 1899

Cincinnati closes season with 16-1 & 19-3 victories over Cleve Spiders

31 Oct 1992

NYC Subway motorman Robert Ray convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders when he fell asleep drunk while in control of train

31 Oct 1974

8th Country Music Association Award Charlie Rich

31 Oct 1972

Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountains (passengers eat crash victims to survive 16 of 45 rescued 2 months later)

31 Oct 1904

The Russians are driven back by the Japanese in the Battle of Shaho both sides suffer high casualties Japanese (16000) and Russians (60000)

31 Oct 1993

Amstel brewery on Curacao produces 1000000000th bottle

31 Oct 1976

Chris Chambliss 9th inning lead off homer gives NY Yanks pennant 30

31 Oct 1973

Jordan enters Yom Kippur war

31 Oct 1905

Union workers at NVV rejects safety demands

31 Oct 1994

Botswana President Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election

31 Oct 1976

Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6 but returns without docking

31 Oct 1976

A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz Bolivia killing 100 (97 mostly children killed on the ground).

31 Oct 1912

Red Sox Tris Speakers makes only world series unassisted double play from the outfield

31 Oct 1994

President Jean-Baptiste Aristide returns to Haiti

31 Oct 1976

MLB American League Championship New York Yankees beat Kansas City Royals 3 games to 2

31 Oct 1976

First electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy working at the C.D.C.

31 Oct 1913

Train crash in Liverpool during Black Week

31 Oct 530

Discorus ends his reign as Catholic anti-Pope

31 Oct 1977

Linda Ronstadt sings national anthem at World Series

31 Oct 1978

Swazilands new constitution promulgated bans political parties

31 Oct 1914

ASCAP (American Society of Composers Authors & Publishers) founded

31 Oct 1066

Battle of Hastings Duke William of Normandy and the Norman army defeat English forces of Harold II

31 Oct 1977

Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro

31 Oct 1978

Tiros N USs 1st third generation weather satellite is launched

31 Oct 1914

Battle of Warsaw begins (ends Oct 21)

31 Oct 1468

Treaty of Peronne Duke Charles the Stoute & French King Louis XI

31 Oct 1977

Rock band Kiss release their 2nd live album Alive II

31 Oct 1978

Graig Nettles at 3rd makes many spectactular plays in WS game 3 as Guidry beats Dodgers after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4

31 Oct 1914

Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union & strike rights)

31 Oct 1586

Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth

31 Oct 1978

1st TV movie from a TV series-Rescue from Gilligans Island

31 Oct 1980

14th Country Music Association Award Barbara Mandrell Emmylou Harris & George Jones wins

31 Oct 1917

Chicago White Sox beat NY Giants 4 games to 2 in 14th World Series

31 Oct 1700

Rabbi Judah Hasid & Chayim Molocho arrive in Jerusalem

31 Oct 1979

100000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy

31 Oct 1980

Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo NY

31 Oct 1918

British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6

31 Oct 1745

French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland

31 Oct 1979

Flyers start 35 game unbeaten streak beating Toronto 4-3

31 Oct 1983

Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago Illinois.

31 Oct 1919

14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for 1000 prize money

31 Oct 1758

Battle at Hochkirk Saksen Austrian army beats Prussia

31 Oct 1979

1st Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights March on Washington D.C. by over 100000 people

31 Oct 1984

Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders

31 Oct 1923

NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants 4 games to 2

31 Oct 1773

The first recorded Ministry of Education the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education) is formed in Poland.

31 Oct 1980

Phils rally from 4-0 deficit to beat the Royals 7-6 to take WS opener

31 Oct 1984

John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win 6 million

31 Oct 1925

Pittsburgh Pirates beat Washington Senators 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series

31 Oct 1773

American Revolutionary War The United Kingdoms East India Company tea ships cargo are burned at Annapolis Maryland.

31 Oct 1981

Yank Graig Nettles is 1st to get 2 hits in same inning of an ALSC game

31 Oct 1984

STS 41-G mission lands at Kennedy Space Center

31 Oct 1925

Willem Landres opera Beatrice premieres in The Hague

31 Oct 1774

1st Continental Congress makes Declaration of Colonial Rights in Philadelphia

31 Oct 1981

Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial Amnesty International charges U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner

31 Oct 1985

Sunday in the Park with George closes at Booth NYC after 604 performances

31 Oct 1926

Austria government of Seipel forms

31 Oct 1805

Battle of Elchingen France defeats Austria

31 Oct 1982

6000 Unification church couples wed in Korea

31 Oct 1985

Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election

31 Oct 1926

Philip Barrys White Wings premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1806

Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians

31 Oct 1982

Islanders assessed 108 penality minutes Penguins 125 (233 total)

31 Oct 1985

During NLCS Cards rookie Vince Coleman is injured stretching before game as his left leg is caught in Busch Stadiums automated tarpaulin

31 Oct 1932

Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.

31 Oct 1812

Work on Londons Regents Canal starts.

31 Oct 1982

NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins

31 Oct 1986

20th Country Music Association Award Reba McEntire wins

31 Oct 1933

20th Amendment to the US Constitution goes into effect President term begins in Jan not March

31 Oct 1834

First African-American granted a US patent Henry Blair for a corn planter

31 Oct 1982

US President Reagan proclaims a war on drugs

31 Oct 1986

25th NY NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs As)

31 Oct 1933

Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game lose to NY Giants 56-0

31 Oct 1834

In Philadelphia Whigs and Democrats stage a gun stone and brick battle for control of a Moyamensing Township election resulting in one death several injuries and the burning down of a block of buildings.

31 Oct 1983

Grenada leftist coup under vice-premier Coard

31 Oct 1986

IOC announces baseball will become a medal sport in 1992

31 Oct 1935

NHLs St Louis Eagles fold

31 Oct 1840

Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.

31 Oct 1983

US Marine peacekeeper Sgt Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut

31 Oct 1987

1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)

31 Oct 1937

Rather than accept any trade offers the Yanks release Tony Lazzeri

31 Oct 1843

British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel OConnell for conspiracy

31 Oct 1984

Quilters closes at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC after 24 performances

31 Oct 1987

Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize

31 Oct 1938

Robert Sherwoods Abe Lincoln in Illinois premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1862

Baseballer James Creighton ruptures bladder hitting HR dies 1018

31 Oct 1984

Browns Ozzie Newsome sets club records with 14 receptions for 191 yds

31 Oct 1987

West Indies score 4-360 in 50 overs in Cricket World Cup v Sri Lanka

31 Oct 1939

LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC

31 Oct 1862

Excelsiors defeat Unions of Morrisania 13-9

31 Oct 1984

Detroit Tigers beat San Diego Padres 4 games to 1 in 81st World Series

31 Oct 1988

Concert at Masada ends Israels 40th-anniversary festival

31 Oct 1939

Yeshiva of Mir closes after 124 years

31 Oct 1863

Battle at Bristoe Station Virginia (about 2000 casualties)

31 Oct 1985

19th Country Music Association Award Ricky Skaggs wins

31 Oct 1988

Shroud of Turin revered by many Christians as Christs burial cloth is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages

31 Oct 1940

-16] Heavy German air raid on London 400 killed

31 Oct 1863

Skirmish at Catletts Station Virginia (Bristoe Campaign)

31 Oct 1985

On Mon Night football Jets retire Joe Namaths 12 beat Miami 23-7

31 Oct 1940

Londons Waterloo Station bombed by German luftwaffe

31 Oct 1865

Cheyennes & Arapahos sign peace treaty then chased out Colorado

31 Oct 1986

IOC decides to stagger Winter & Summer Olympic schedule

31 Oct 1941

1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe

31 Oct 1867

15th and last Tokugawa Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigns in Japan

31 Oct 1986

Tim Kides of West NY NJ performs 25000 leg raises in 115715

31 Oct 1941

Jews caught outside Nazi Ghetto walls in occupied Poland could be put to death

31 Oct 1881

21st British Golf Open Bob Ferguson shoots a 170 at Prestwick Golf Club

31 Oct 1987

In Midland Tx 1-year-old Jessica McClure falls 22 (7m) down a well

31 Oct 1942

German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek 3000 Germans die

31 Oct 1882

University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.

31 Oct 1987

MLB National League Championship St. Louis Cardinals beat San Francisco Giants 4 games to 3

31 Oct 1944

The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitlers NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary.

31 Oct 1893

George Edwardes Gaiety Girl premieres in London

31 Oct 1988

NJ Devils raise their 1st pennant by winning the Patrick Division Playoff Championship

31 Oct 1945

Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest)

31 Oct 1893

Harry Wright suggests umps keep ball-strike count a secret

31 Oct 1988

Naguib Mahfouz is the 1st Arabic writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

31 Oct 1946

Smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards 3748 Red Sox 2140)

31 Oct 1901

Justin Huntly McCarthys If I were King premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1988

Crude oil prices jump in anticipation of possible production accord at Gulf Cooperation Council meeting set for October 16

31 Oct 1946

St Louis Cards beat Boston Red Sox 4 games to 3 in 43rd World Series

31 Oct 1905

NY Giants beats Philadelphia As 4 games to 1 in 2nd World Series

31 Oct 1989

Dave Stewart is 1st since 1976 to start consecutive World Series openers

31 Oct 1946

Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series

31 Oct 1905

Giants Christy Mathewsons 3rd straight World Series shutout

31 Oct 1989

Texas A&I Johnny Bailey sets NCAA season rush record at 6085 yards

31 Oct 1948

Chinas Red army occupies Chinchov

31 Oct 1906

All Chicago World Series 1st AL victory White Sox win 4 games to 2 Cubs losers share of 439.50 is lowest for World Series

31 Oct 1990

Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Trophee Urban World Golf Championship

31 Oct 1949

Administration of territory of Manipur taken over by Indian government

31 Oct 1908

Baseball Writers Association of America forms

31 Oct 1992

Toronto Blue Jays beats Oakland As to win their 1st AL pennant

31 Oct 1949

Tripura accedes to Indian union

31 Oct 1908

Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 1 in 5th World Series 1st rematch

31 Oct 409

Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania

31 Oct 1951

Egyptian parliament accept denounces Suez Canal Treaty

31 Oct 1908

Smallest crowd at World Series 6210 fans see Cubs beat Tigers

31 Oct 1213

Battle of Steppes Hugh Pierrepont Bishop of Lige & Louis II Count of Loon defeat Henry I Duke of Brabant

31 Oct 1951

Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesizes the first oral contraceptive

31 Oct 1909

Pirates beat Tigers 5-4 forces 1st full 7 game world series

31 Oct 1282

Nichiren Daishonin founder of the Nichiren School of Buddhism dies his ashes are interred at Taisekiji Temple.

31 Oct 1952

Arthur Laurents Time of the Cuckoo premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1911

Largest baseball crowd ever 38281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat As 2-1 (gate is record 77379)

31 Oct 1307

French King Philip IV has Grand Master Jacques de Molay and Knights Templar arrested and charged of idolatry and corruption

31 Oct 1953

John Patricks Teahouse of the August Moon premieres in New York

31 Oct 1912

Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee

31 Oct 1483

Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on Bible

31 Oct 1973

Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize

31 Oct 1953

KOIN TV channel 6 in Portland OR (CBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1912

Cretan representatives are admitted to the Greek assembly in doing so the Greek Government challenges the Turkish Government

31 Oct 1492

English admiral Sir Edward Poynings fleet occupies Lock

31 Oct 1973

Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta

31 Oct 1953

WJNL (now WFAT) TV channel 19 in Johnstown PA (IND) begins

31 Oct 1913

Senghenydd Colliery Disaster the United Kingdoms worst coal mining accident an explosion claims 439 lives.

31 Oct 1501

Maximilian of Austria & Louis XII sign Treaty of Trente

31 Oct 1973

Monks Heng Yo & Heng Ju start 1000 mile SF to Seattle pilgrimage

31 Oct 1954

Hurricane Hazel makes landfall in the US in North Carolina as a category 4 hurricane 195 die in US and Canada

31 Oct 1914

German troops occupy Brug

31 Oct 1534

Alessandro Farnese elected as Pope Paul III

31 Oct 1973

The Gulf Six (Iran Iraq Abu Dhabi Kuwait Saudi Arabia and Qatar) unilaterally raise the posted price of Saudi Light marker crude-oil by 17 percent

31 Oct 1954

KLTV TV channel 7 in Tyler-Longview TX (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1916

Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee University refused to play against a black person.

31 Oct 1629

Dutch West Indies Co grants religious freedom in West Indies

31 Oct 1974

As Ken Holtzman who hasnt batted all season belts 3rd inning home run in Game 4 & gets the win 5-2

31 Oct 1956

Pyotr Bolotnikov runs world record 10k (2842.8)

31 Oct 1916

The Perm State University was founded in Russia.

31 Oct 1652

Prince of Cond flees Paris

31 Oct 1976

Soyuz 23 returns to Earth

31 Oct 1956

William J. Brennan Jr. is appointed to US Supreme Court

31 Oct 1920

Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland

31 Oct 1659

Major general John Lambert drives out English Rump government

31 Oct 1976

Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 min 54 sec

31 Oct 1956

Yankees Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series

31 Oct 1922

1st Thom McAn shoe store opens on Third Avenue NYC

31 Oct 1660

Absolute monarchy instituted by decree in Denmark by King Frederik III

31 Oct 1978

Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Herbert A Simon

31 Oct 1956

First plane to land safely on water - Pan Am Flight 6 San Francisco to Honolulu all 24 passengers and 7 crew survive

31 Oct 1922

1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC

31 Oct 1702

Dutch and English troops occupy Lige

31 Oct 1980

Brigadoon opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 133 performances

31 Oct 1957

Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for SF Seals-franchises only not the players

31 Oct 1924

Arnold Schoebergs opera Die Gluckliche Hand premieres in Vienna

31 Oct 1710

English troops occupy Acadia (Nova Scotia)

31 Oct 1981

2nd Dutch government of Van Agt resigns

31 Oct 1958

Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Egypt

31 Oct 1925

Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee)

31 Oct 1716

Hungarian Emperor Karel VIs troops occupy Temesvar

31 Oct 1981

Harvey Fiersteins Torch Song Trilogy premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1959

Untouchables premieres

31 Oct 1929

Philadelphia As beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 26th World Series

31 Oct 1760

Russian and Austrian army evacuates Berlin

31 Oct 1982

Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halleys comet on 13th return

31 Oct 1959

KNDO TV channel 23 in Yakima WA (NBC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1929

Philadelphia As set World Series record of 10 runs in an inning

31 Oct 1773

The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier

31 Oct 1982

Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel

31 Oct 1960

Laughs & Other Events closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 8 performances

31 Oct 1931

1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University

31 Oct 1775

First US Navy forms when Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet

31 Oct 1983

Zorba opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 362 performances

31 Oct 1962

Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court

31 Oct 1931

Spanish Cortes agrees to separation of Church & State

31 Oct 1792

Old Farmers Almanac is 1st published and edited by Robert Thomas

31 Oct 1983

Balt Orioles beat Philadelphia Phillies 4 games to 3 in 80th World Series

31 Oct 1962

WLOX TV channel 13 in Biloxi-Gulfport MS (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1933

Nazi Germany announces its withdrawal from the League of Nations

31 Oct 1792

Cornerstone laid for the Executive Mansion (White House) in Washington

31 Oct 1985

Challenger vehicle moves to launch pad for STS 61A mission

31 Oct 1964

Craig Breedlove sets auto speed record of 846.97 kph

31 Oct 1934

Lux Radio Theatre premieres

31 Oct 1812

Battle of Queenstown Heights British forces defeat United States forces attempting to invade Canada

31 Oct 1985

Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip

31 Oct 1964

St Louis Cardinals beat NY Yankees 4 games to 3 in 61st World Series

31 Oct 1938

Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities

31 Oct 1843

Bnai Brith founded (NY)

31 Oct 1985

KC Royals & St Louis Cardinals win their league championships

31 Oct 1964

NY Yankees appears in 14 & win 9 of last 16 World Series

31 Oct 1939

BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) formed

31 Oct 1845

Texas ratifies a state constitution

31 Oct 1985

Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman & Jerome Karle

31 Oct 1964

American Al Oerter wins his third of 4 consecutive Olympic mens discus titles at the Tokyo Olympics beats Czech Ludvk Dank by 0.08m

31 Oct 1939

German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak 833 killed

31 Oct 1860

1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon) Boston

31 Oct 1985

MLB American League Championship Kansas City Royals beat Toronto Blue Jays 4 games to 3

31 Oct 1964

American Don Schollander swims a world record 412.2 to win the 400m freestyle gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics second of Schollanders 4 gold medals at the Games

31 Oct 1940

Balham tube disaster during the Blitz.

31 Oct 1863

Skirmish at Blountsville Tennessee (50 casualties)

31 Oct 1986

Raggedy Ann opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 5 performances

31 Oct 1964

American sprinter Bob Hayes equals world record 10.0s to beat Cubas Enrique Figuerola by 0.2s and win the mens 100m gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

31 Oct 1941

1st mass deportation of Kowno Lodz Minsk & Riga

31 Oct 1864

Battle at Darbytown Road Virginia (337 casualties)

31 Oct 1986

Armand Hammer returns to US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb

31 Oct 1964

Soviet rower Vyacheslav Ivanov wins his third consecutive Olympic mens single sculls gold medal at the Tokyo Games also the reigning World and European champion

31 Oct 1942

Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution

31 Oct 1864

Battle of Dalton GA - surrendered

31 Oct 1986

Wole Soyinka Nigerian playwright and poet becomes the first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature

31 Oct 1964

Australian swimmer Ian OBrien sets world record 227.8 to beat Soviet Georgy Prokopenko by 0.4s and win mens 200m breaststroke gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

31 Oct 1942

German assault on Tractor factory 1000s killed

31 Oct 1864

Maryland voters adopt new constitution including abolition of slavery

31 Oct 1987

175-kph winds cause blackout in London much of southern England

31 Oct 1964

US womens 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Sharon Stouder Donna de Varona Lillian Watson & Kathy Ellis swims world record 403.8 to beat Australia by 3.1s and win the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

31 Oct 1942

Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field Guadalcanal

31 Oct 1870

Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert

31 Oct 1987

338500000 shares traded on NY stock exchange (record)

31 Oct 1965

Dodgers & Sandy Koufax win 7th game of 62nd World Series vs Twins

31 Oct 1943

600 Jews escape during an uprising at the Nazi concentration Camp in Sobibor Poland

31 Oct 1871

The Delphic Fraternity is founded as the Delphic Society at the State Normal School in Geneseo New York.

31 Oct 1987

Dow Jones for 1st time falls more than 100 pts (108.35)

31 Oct 1965

WEMT (now WVII) TV channel 7 in Bangor ME (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1943

US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17s during assault on Schweinfurt

31 Oct 1881

Revival of Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda & friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations

31 Oct 1987

Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22 into a well shaft

31 Oct 1966

Australia bans Troggs I Cant Control Myself as terribly obscene

31 Oct 1944

Allied troops land in Corfu

31 Oct 1884

Greenwich in London established as the universal time meridian of longitude

31 Oct 1987

Great Storm of hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people.

31 Oct 1966

Black Panther Party created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale

31 Oct 1944

British troops march into Athens

31 Oct 1885

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta Georgia.

31 Oct 1988

Smile Jamaica concert for Hurricane Gilbert victims held in London

31 Oct 1968

AL expansion draft KC pick Roger Nelson & Pilots pick Don Mincher 1st

31 Oct 1945

Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak beat Bears

31 Oct 1890

The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca New York.

31 Oct 1988

Orel Hirsheiser 1st to pitch shutout in playoff & World Series

31 Oct 1968

Al Oerter of the US wins the mens discus in Olympic record 64.78m at the Mexico City Games Oerters unprecedented 4th consecutive Olympic discus title

31 Oct 1946

Netherland & Indonesia sign cease fire

31 Oct 1893

Vigilant (US) beats Valkyrie II (UK) in 9th Americas Cup in New York

31 Oct 1989

Bikenibau Paeniu installed as premier of Tuvalu

31 Oct 1968

The Nationalist Party of Northern Ireland (NPNI) withdraws from its role as official opposition within the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont

31 Oct 1947

Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015)

31 Oct 1896

First public screening of a motion picture in New Zealand

31 Oct 1989

Jan Syse becomes premier of Norway

31 Oct 1968

Australian Ralph Doubell runs a world record 144.40 to beat Kenyan Wilson Kiprugut and win the mens 800m at the Mexico City Olympics

31 Oct 1948

Batavia lt-governor-general van Mook dismissed

31 Oct 1899

7000 laid-off black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal

31 Oct 1990

Stand Up Tragedy closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 13 performances

31 Oct 1968

British athlete David Hemery sets a world record 48.12s to beat Gerhard Hennige of West Germany and take the gold medal in the mens 400m hurdles at the Mexico City Olympics

31 Oct 1948

Large scale fighting between Israel & Egypt

31 Oct 1903

Boston Americans win the inaugural Baseball World Series beat Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0 in Game 8 at Huntington Avenue for a 5-3 series victory winning pitcher Bill Dinneen

31 Oct 1990

Reds Eric Davis is 22nd player to homer in his 1st World Series at bat

31 Oct 1968

American sprinter Wyomia Tyus wins her second consecutive Olympic 100m title with a world record 11.08s beats team mate Barbara Ferrell by 0.08s for the gold medal at the Mexico City Games

31 Oct 1949

14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition

31 Oct 1903

Victor Herberts Babes in Toyland premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1990

Reds beat As 7-0 ending Oaklands 10-game post-season winning streak

31 Oct 1969

Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated

31 Oct 1949

Chinese Red army occupies Canton

31 Oct 1914

The Belgian government in exile installed at St Adresse at Le Havre

31 Oct 1990

US forces reach 200000 in Persian Gulf

31 Oct 1969

Madison Square Garden TV Network begins (Rangers vs North Stars)

31 Oct 1950

Rev Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison

31 Oct 1914

Boston Braves sweep Philadelphia As 1st sweep in World Series history

31 Oct 1991

George Jo Hennard 35 kills 23 & himself & wounds 20 in Texas

31 Oct 1969

NY Met Ron Swobodas spectacular diving catch of sinking liner with runners at 1st & 3rd in 9th Mets win in 10th in World Series game

31 Oct 1951

Det Lion Jack Christiansen returns 2 punts for touchdowns vs LA Rams

31 Oct 1914

Garrett Morgan patents his safety hood device which would later be refined into the gas mask

31 Oct 1991

US Supreme Court begins to hear Joseph Doherty case

31 Oct 1969

Oriole Earl Weaver becomes 1st manager ejected in a World Series

31 Oct 1951

Organization of Central American States forms

31 Oct 1914

Pro-German Boers begin opposition to British authority in South Africa

31 Oct 1991

Dallas Mavericks Roy Tarpley becomes 7th to be banned from NBA for life under the leagues anti-drug agreement

31 Oct 1969

Vietnam Moratorium Day millions nationwide protest the war

31 Oct 1952

UN General Assembly first meets at its new headquarters in New York

31 Oct 1915

Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series

31 Oct 1991

Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi India.

31 Oct 1970

Baltimore Orioles beat Cincinnati Reds 4 games to 1 in 67th World Series

31 Oct 1952

Buttrio Square opens at New Century Theater NYC for 7 performances

31 Oct 1917

Soviets accept establishment of Petrograd Military

31 Oct 1992

Gilligans Island TV pilot filmed in 1964 is 1st shown on TV (TBS)

31 Oct 1970

Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes killing 35

31 Oct 1953

1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service

31 Oct 1920

World Series celebration in Wade Park brings out 50000 Clevelanders

31 Oct 1993

IRA bomb attack on fish & chips restaurant in Belfast 10 killed

31 Oct 1970

Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey

31 Oct 1953

Belgian Convair crashes at Frankfurt 44 die

31 Oct 1921

NY Giants beat NY Yankees 5 games to 3 in 18th World Series

31 Oct 1993

Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent after police stop protesters approaching British National Party headquarters

31 Oct 1971

The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran celebrating the birth of Persia

31 Oct 1953

Charley Dressen resigns rather than take 1 year contract as Dodger mgr

31 Oct 1923

Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkeys capital

31 Oct 1994

Raul Julia actor (Addams Family) suffers a stroke

31 Oct 1972

61st Davis Cup USA beats Romania in Bucharest (3-2)

31 Oct 1953

Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment

31 Oct 1930

New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP members in uniform

31 Oct 1995

Allan Donald takes 8-71 as South Africa defeat Zimbabwe

31 Oct 1972

Omni in Atlanta opens - Hawks beat NY Knicks 109-101

31 Oct 1953

WTEN TV channel 10 in Albany NY (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1931

Musical Everybodys Welcome with TJ Dorsey premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1995

Brian Lara scores 169 in Sharjah ODI versus Sri Lanka

31 Oct 1973

7th Country Music Association Award Roy Clark wins

31 Oct 1954

Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan kills 53

31 Oct 1931

Noel Cowards Cavalcade premieres in London

31 Oct 1995

Million Man March held in Washington D.C. (over 830000 African American men attend)

31 Oct 1973

Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students 300 killed

31 Oct 1956

Charles Ives overture Robert Browning premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1933

JDJ Boularans Tovarich premieres in Paris

31 Oct 1995

ODI in Sharjah WI 7-333 in 50 overs beat Sri Lanka 329 all out

31 Oct 1974

National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing

31 Oct 1956

Patty Berg wins LPGA Arkansas Golf Open

31 Oct 1933

Soccer team STEVO forms in Geesteren

31 Oct 1996

Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.

31 Oct 1974

Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules)

31 Oct 1957

Everly Brothers Wake Up Little Susie reaches 1

31 Oct 1936

Explosion caused by leaking gas rips out section 12 of Cleve Stadium

31 Oct 1997

Side Show opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 91 performances

31 Oct 1974

Washington Capitals 1st NHL tie playing LA Kings to 1-1 tie

31 Oct 1958

Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community

31 Oct 1937

A recorded trace of snow in Central Park NYC

31 Oct 2000

MLB National League Championship New York Mets beat St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 1

31 Oct 1975

Iceland moves intl boundary from 50 to 200 miles

31 Oct 1958

Paul Osborns World of Suzie Wong premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1941

Nazis kill 11000 Jewish children and old people

31 Oct 2001

The US Coast Guard lifts a ban on liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers entering Boston Harbor to make deliveries to Distrigas Everett LNG terminal that had been imposed on September 26 in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11

31 Oct 1976

1st debate of major-ticket VP nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R)

31 Oct 1958

The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.

31 Oct 1943

Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany

31 Oct 2002

Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity is officially inaugurated.

31 Oct 1977

Arkansas Steve Little kicks a record tying 67 yard field goal

31 Oct 1959

WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford OH (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1944

Riga capital of Latvia freed

31 Oct 2003

MLB American League Championship New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox 4 games to 3

31 Oct 1977

Debbie Boones You Light Up My Life goes 1 & stays 1 for 10 weeks

31 Oct 1960

Belgian senator Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen

31 Oct 1944

US 1st army begins battle of Aachen first German city captured during WWII

31 Oct 533

Byzantine general Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage having conquered it from the Vandals.

31 Oct 1977

Don Ritchie runs world record 100 mile (113051)

31 Oct 1961

How to Succeed in Business opens at 46th St NYC for 1415 performances

31 Oct 1947

Kukla Fran & Ollie premieres

31 Oct 1552

Khanate of Kazan is conquered by troops of Ivan Grozny.

31 Oct 1977

Serpentine Fire single released by Earth Wind & Fire (Billboard Song of the Year 1978)

31 Oct 1961

Ryder Cup Golf Royal Lytham & St Annes Jerry Barber captains US to 14-9 win

31 Oct 1947

1st NHL All-Star Game All-Stars beat Toronto 4-3 at Toronto

31 Oct 1581

Commissioned by Catherine De Medici the 1st ballet Ballet Comique de la Reine is staged in Paris

31 Oct 1978

Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open

31 Oct 1962

Houston Oiler George Blanda throws for 6 TD passes vs NY Titans 56-17

31 Oct 1949

Touch & Go opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 176 performances

31 Oct 1582

Many Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar skip 10 days

31 Oct 1979

1st Monday night game from NYC Jets beat Vikings 14-7 (Shea Stad)

31 Oct 1962

US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba

31 Oct 1953

Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves patented by Samuel Bagno

31 Oct 1598

Spanish general strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupies fort Rhine

31 Oct 1979

Chinese premier Hwa Kwofeng visits Paris

31 Oct 1963

Algeria & Morocco border conflict

31 Oct 1954

Robert Paul Smith and Max Shulmans Tender Trap premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1641

Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve claims Montreal

31 Oct 1979

Military coup in El Salvador President Carlos Romero flees

31 Oct 1963

WGHP TV channel 8 in Greensboro-High Point NC (ABC) begins

31 Oct 1955

1st edition of Lexpress publishes in Paris

31 Oct 1654

Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Overijssel

31 Oct 1980

Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Lawrence R Klein

31 Oct 1964

Martin Walsers Der Schwarze Schwan premieres in Stuttgart

31 Oct 1956

WAGM TV channel 8 in Presque Isle ME (CBSNBCABC) begins

31 Oct 1655

Jews of Lublin are massacred

31 Oct 1981

Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson leads what is thought to be the first audience wave in Oakland California.

31 Oct 1964

Philips begins experimenting with color TV

31 Oct 1957

German Democratic Republic recalls OstMark & issues new currency

31 Oct 1660

Asser Levy granted butchers license (kosher meat) in New Amsterdam

31 Oct 1981

MLB American League Championship New York Yankees beat Oakland Athletics 3 games to 0

31 Oct 1964

American swimmer Dick Roth sets world record 445.4 to beat team mate Roy Saari and win the mens 400m individual medley gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

31 Oct 1958

Burial of Eugenio Pacelli Pope Pius XII on the 41st anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun.

31 Oct 1674

Torsker witch trials begin largest witch trials in Sweden 71 beheaded and burned

31 Oct 1983

Black Hawks & Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds)

31 Oct 1964

Mary Rand of Great Britain leaps a world record 6.76m to win the womens long jump gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

31 Oct 1960

Third presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY

31 Oct 1705

English fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona

31 Oct 1983

Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football will lose next 44 games

31 Oct 1964

US 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Steve Clark Mike Austin Gary Ilman & Don Schollander swim world record 333.2 to beat Germany by 4.0s and win the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

31 Oct 1960

Pirates Mazeroskis bottom of 9th lead off HR beats NY Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th World Series

31 Oct 1724

Cornelis Steenoven is 1st archbishop of Old Catholic church in Utrecht The Netherlands

31 Oct 1983

US Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut International Airport

31 Oct 1964

American swimmer Cathy Ferguson sets world record 107.7 to beat Kiki Caron of France by 0.2s and win the womens 100m backstroke gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics

31 Oct 1963

Beatlemania is coined after Beatles appear at Palladium

31 Oct 1756

Saxon army surrenders to Prussia

31 Oct 1983

Nelson Piquet of Brazil finishes 3rd in the season ending South African Grand Prix at Kyalami to clinch his second World Formula 1 Drivers title wins by 2 points from Alain Prost

31 Oct 1964

Little known American distance runner Billy Mills scores major upset by winning the 10000m at the Tokyo Olympics beats Mohammed Gammoudi of Tunisia by 0.4s only American to ever win the event

31 Oct 1963

Ryder Cup Golf East Lake CC US beats Great Britain 23-9 competition format changes with addition of 4-ball (better ball) matches on a 3rd day of play

31 Oct 1899

South Africa Boer Republic declares war on Britain

31 Oct 1531

Battle of Kappel Swiss Roman Catholic cantons beat protestant forces of Zurich Huldrych Zwingli Swiss reformation leader is killed

31 Oct 1993

US warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti

31 Oct 1903

Lyric Theater opens at 213 W 42nd St NYC

31 Oct 1540

Emperor Karel names his son Philip Duke of Milan

31 Oct 1994

Russian ruble decreases to 3926 rubles per dollar

31 Oct 1907

Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 0 with 1 tie in 4th World Series

31 Oct 1573

Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy

31 Oct 1994

Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7) lands

31 Oct 1913

John McGraw after drinking blames Wilbert Robinsons coaching mistakes for World Series lose Robinson blames McGraw & is fired

31 Oct 1614

Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.

31 Oct 1995

John Bobbitt has plastic surgery to increase his penis 3 inches

31 Oct 1914

The First Battle of Ypres begins

31 Oct 1634

Burchardi flood - the second Grote Mandrenke kills about 15000 in North Friesland Denmark and Germany

31 Oct 1996

Ford buys rights to name Detroit domed stadium for 40 million

31 Oct 1915

Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citizens who identify themselves with dual nationalities

31 Oct 1674

Pierre Corneilles Surena premieres in Paris

31 Oct 1998

A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu Democratic Republic of the Congo killing 40 people.

31 Oct 1916

Boston Red Sox beat Bkln Dodgers 4 games to 1 in 13th World Series

31 Oct 1687

Hungary accepts Habsburg sovereignty

31 Oct 2000

The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) is flown.

31 Oct 1918

Cloquet fire kills 453 and injures or displaces 52000 people

31 Oct 1698

France England & Netherlands ratified the First Partition Treaty which eventually led to the War of the Spanish Succession

31 Oct 2000

South African Cricket Board issues former captain Hansie Cronje with a life ban as a result of match-fixing allegations

31 Oct 1920

Cleveland Indians beat Bkln Dodgers 5 games to 2 in 17th World Series

31 Oct 1737

Earthquake kills 300000 and destroys half of Calcutta India

31 Oct 2001

The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.

31 Oct 1920

Construction begins on Holland Tunnel connecting NJ & NYC

31 Oct 1746

Battle of Rocoux French defeat British Austrian and Dutch armies

31 Oct 2002

A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa Finland kills seven.

31 Oct 1920

Man OWars last race & win

31 Oct 1776

Brigadier-General Arnolds Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British during the Battle of Valcour Island (American Revolutionary War)

31 Oct 2012

A further 83 people are killed throughout Syria by the Syrian army

31 Oct 1920

Soccer team Quick 20 forms

31 Oct 1797

Battle of Camperdown (Kamperduin) British navy defeats Dutch fleet

31 Oct 2012

A US appeal court overturns a district court ruling banning the sale of Samsung

31 Oct 1923

NY Giants Casey Stengel HR beats Yanks 1-0 in World Series

31 Oct 1811

The Juliana 1st steam-powered ferryboat begins operation

31 Oct 2013

10 people are killed and a hospital fire in Fukuoka prefecture Japan

31 Oct 1924

Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow

31 Oct 1852

The University of Sydney Australias oldest university is inaugurated in Sydney.

31 Oct 2013

27 people are killed after a migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily

31 Oct 1925

Albert Michelsen runs world record marathon (21901.8)

31 Oct 1861

Battle of Dumfries VA (Quantico Creek)

31 Oct 2013

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins the Nobel Peace Prize

31 Oct 1925

German-Russian trade agreement signed

31 Oct 1863

Skirmish at RheatownHendersons Mill Tennessee

31 Oct 2015

Nepals parliament elects Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli leader of the Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist party as Prime Minister

31 Oct 1927

Hermann Goerner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4123 lbs on a plank with soles of his feet

31 Oct 1864

Slavery abolished in Maryland

31 Oct 2016

South Korean firm Samsung announces it will permanently stop production of Note 7 phones after complaints devices caught fire

31 Oct 1928

1st use of iron lung (Bostons Children Hospital)

31 Oct 1864

Campina Grande Brazil was established as a city.

31 Oct 2017

TripAdvisor customer poll names The Black Swan in Oldstead North Yorkshire worlds best restaurant

31 Oct 1929

Cubs blow 8-0 World Series lead As score 10 in 1 inning

31 Oct 1865

Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica starting the Morant Bay rebellion.

31 Oct 2018

Worlds new longest flight flies from Singapore to Newark Airport New Jersey takes 17 hours 52 mins

31 Oct 1931

1st International Conference on Calendar Reform

31 Oct 1873

Toronto Argonaut Football Club 1st game losing to U of Toronto

31 Oct 2018

Russian Soyuz spacecraft makes emergency landing when rocket fails two minutes after liftoff with American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut aboard

31 Oct 1933

Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)

31 Oct 1881

David Houston patents roll film for cameras

31 Oct 680

Al-Hussein (Al-usayn ibn) and his followers killed at Karbala by army of Yazid the Umayyad caliph on the way to Kufa

31 Oct 1935

Cole Porters musical Jubilee premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1887

A Miles patents elevator

31 Oct 1375

Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands

31 Oct 1941

Soviet government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis forces close in on Moscow

31 Oct 1890

First 100 yard dash under 10 seconds run by John Owen in 9.8 sec at Analostan Island Washington D.C.

31 Oct 1471

Battle of Brunkeberg Swedish regent Sten Sture defeats forces led by Danish King Christian I

31 Oct 1942

Successful Soviet counter attack through 37th Guard division

31 Oct 1890

Daughters of American Revolution founded

31 Oct 1549

Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector & imprisoned

31 Oct 1942

US navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance

31 Oct 1895

Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia rejects a treaty with Italy

31 Oct 1575

Battle of Dormans Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeated the Protestants capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.

31 Oct 1943

US bombs Rabaul New Britain

31 Oct 1899

South African Boers declare war on Great Britain

31 Oct 1578

Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen

31 Oct 1944

German army retreats from Athens

31 Oct 1902

8th US Golf Open Laurie Auchterlonie shoots a 307 at Garden City NY

31 Oct 1631

Saxon army occupies Prague

31 Oct 1948

Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager

31 Oct 1902

Commencement of 1st Test Cricket between South Africa & Australia

31 Oct 1695

King Willem III escapes South Netherlands back to England

31 Oct 1950

Call Me Madam opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 644 performances

31 Oct 1906

White Sox Ed Walsh strikes out then record 12 in a World Series game

31 Oct 1720

French government proclaims strike on banknotes

31 Oct 1952

Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s v N Zone (India) his 1st first class cricket centuries

31 Oct 1906

San Francisco Board of Education orders segregation in separate schools of Japanese Chinese and Korean children sparking diplomatic crisis

31 Oct 1733

France declares war on emperor Charles VI

31 Oct 1952

KBTV (now KUSA) TV channel 9 in Denver CO (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1913

Philadelphia As beat NY Giants 4 games to 1 in 10th World Series

31 Oct 1760

Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves)

31 Oct 1953

US & Greece sign peace treaty (US bases)

31 Oct 1914

German troops occupy Ghent

31 Oct 1780

Great Hurricane of kills 20000 to 30000 in Caribbean hitting Barbados first. Atlantics deadliest recorded hurricane.

31 Oct 1956

Marga Klompe becomes first Dutch women elected minister

31 Oct 1915

Bulgarian anti-Serbian offensive begins

31 Oct 1787

Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army

31 Oct 1957

Mask & Gown closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 39 performances

31 Oct 1915

Despite international protest Edith Cavell an English nurse in Belgium is executed by the Germans for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners

31 Oct 1799

Convention of Alkmaar British-Russian invasion army departs Holland

31 Oct 1957

Simply Heavenly closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 62 performances

31 Oct 1918

Major tsumani shakes Caribbean

31 Oct 1802

1st non-Indian settlement in Oklahoma

31 Oct 1957

First commercial flight between California & Antarctica

31 Oct 1919

First transcontinental air race ends

31 Oct 1839

British troops under General Charles Napier occupy Beirut

31 Oct 1957

Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize

31 Oct 1922

First woman FBI special investigator Alaska Davidson appointed

31 Oct 1845

Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis

31 Oct 1958

CVP wins municipal elections in Belgium

31 Oct 1922

Turkey & Greece sign cease fire

31 Oct 1846

Alexis de Tocqueville writes about Algerian problem

31 Oct 1958

WJRT TV channel 12 in Flint MI (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1923

German Mark falls to 10 billion per 4 billion per

31 Oct 1846

Neptunes moon Triton discovered by William Lassell

31 Oct 1959

At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.

31 Oct 1924

Bureau of Surrealist Research opens in Paris directed by Antonin Artaud resource centre for surrealist writers

31 Oct 1854

US Assay Office in NYC New York opens

31 Oct 1960

Japanese politician Inejiro Asanuma is assassinated with a sword during a televised debate live on TV by 17-year old nationalist Otoya Yamaguchi

31 Oct 1925

Belgian episcopelian speaks against Flemish activism

31 Oct 1863

Skirmish at Blue Springs Tennessee (166 casualties)

31 Oct 1961

Let It Ride opens at Eugene ONeill Theater NYC for 68 performances

31 Oct 1925

NY Giants play 1st NFL game lose to Providence 14-0

31 Oct 1865

John Wesley Hyatt patents the billiard ball made from cellulose nitrate (celluloid) in Albany New York (patent US50359A)

31 Oct 1962

USUSSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology

31 Oct 1929

Sean OCaseys Silver Tassle premieres in London

31 Oct 1868

1st written account of a Canadian football game

31 Oct 1962

Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities 46 dead and at least U.S. 230 million in damages

31 Oct 1930

Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne Australia won the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year.

31 Oct 1868

Cuba revolts for independence against Spain

31 Oct 1989

Bob Quinn resigns as NY Yankee VPGM & replaced by Harding Peterson

31 Oct 1963

Student Gypsy closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 16 performances

31 Oct 1931

100000 extreme-right Germans form Harzburger Front

31 Oct 1871

The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days leaving approximately 300 dead 100000 homeless and costing 222m in damage

31 Oct 1989

Dow Jones down 190.58 points

31 Oct 1963

Archaeological digs begin at Masada Israel

31 Oct 1932

1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS NYC

31 Oct 1874

Fiji becomes a British possession

31 Oct 1990

First Russian Orthodox service in over 70 years held in St Basils Cathedral in Red Square Moscow

31 Oct 1963

San Franciscos Oakland Bay Bridge converted to 1-way on each deck

31 Oct 1936

Professor Quiz first radio quiz show premieres

31 Oct 1886

1st dinner jacket (tuxedo) worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park NY

31 Oct 1990

Target Center a multi-purpose arena in Minneapolis officially opens

31 Oct 1964

1st time 3 people in space

31 Oct 1939

Bucky Harris signs to manage Washington again

31 Oct 1888

Teatotalers excursion train crushed killing 64 at Mud Run Pennsylvania

31 Oct 1991

Blue Jay Cito Gaston is 1st manager ejected in a playoff game

31 Oct 1964

KCSM TV channel 60 in San Mateo-SF CA (PBS) begins

31 Oct 1939

NAACP organized Legal Defense & Education Fund

31 Oct 1889

Barnard College is founded in New York City after Columbia University refuses to accept women

31 Oct 1991

Minnesota Twins win AL pennant beating Toronto in 5 games

31 Oct 1964

Launch of Voskhod 1 first 3 man crew (Komarov Feokistov Yegorov)

31 Oct 1941

1st NSB-battalion departures to Eastern front

31 Oct 1892

Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan

31 Oct 1991

MLB American League Championship Minnesota Twins beat Toronto Blue Jays 4 games to 1

31 Oct 1964

WSBK TV channel 38 in Boston MA (INDABCCBSNBC) begin

31 Oct 1942

-Oct 12] Naval battle at Cape Esperance Guadalcanal

31 Oct 1899

African-American inventor Issac R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame

31 Oct 1993

Greek government of Papandreou forms

31 Oct 1964

WUCM TV channel 19 in University Center MI (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1943

NY Yankees beat Cards 4 games to 1 in 40th World Series to become 1st team to win 10 World Series

31 Oct 1900

Foreign ministers in Peking begin their first serious negotiations over what conditions their nations will impose on the Chinese after putting down the Boxer uprising

31 Oct 1993

Mighty Ducks win their 1st NHL game

31 Oct 1964

American Don Schollander swims an Olympic record 53.4s to beat Briton Robert McGregor by 0.1s and win the 100m freestyle gold medal in Tokyo first of Schollanders 4 gold medals at the Games

31 Oct 1944

Allies bomb sea wall at Veere

31 Oct 1900

In Manchuria Russia captures the major city of Mukden part of their own plan to take over the whole province

31 Oct 1993

Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis & Michael Smith

31 Oct 1967

St Louis Cards beat Boston Red Sox 4 games to 3 in 64th World Series as Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 World Series

31 Oct 1944

Tuvinian Peoples Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva was annexed by the U.S.S.R

31 Oct 1902

South Africas President of Transvaal Paul Kruger visits Utrecht

31 Oct 1993

Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse & Joseph Taylor

31 Oct 1968

Noel Cowards Sweet Potato closes at Barrymore NYC after 17 performances

31 Oct 1945

JPL WAC Corporal Launch (1st Man-Made Object to escape Atmosphere)

31 Oct 1904

Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St NYC

31 Oct 1993

Captured American Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew.

31 Oct 1968

19th Summer Olympic Games open at Mexico City Mexico first Olympics in Latin America

31 Oct 1947

Brazil & Chile break diplomatic relations with USSR

31 Oct 1904

Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader 41 game winner Chesbro loses 1st game & chance at pennant

31 Oct 1993

MLB National League Championship Philadelphia Phillies beat Atlanta Braves 4 games to 2

31 Oct 1968

Equatorial Guinea (Spanish Guinea) declares independence from Spain

31 Oct 1948

Love Life opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 252 performances

31 Oct 1904

Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games-an AL record also record for total complete games AL 1098 NL 1089

31 Oct 1994

Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season (Queensland v Tasmania)

31 Oct 1968

Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is 1st woman to light Olympic flame

31 Oct 1948

Wheres Chartev opens at St James Theater NYC for 792 performances

31 Oct 1911

The KCR East Rail commences service between Kowloon and Canton.

31 Oct 1994

Nobel prize for literature awarded to Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe

31 Oct 1969

1st time 5 people in space

31 Oct 1948

Cleveland Indians beat Boston Braves 4 games to 2 in 45th World Series

31 Oct 1913

British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 killed)

31 Oct 1995

Nobel Peace Prize awarded jointly to Polish physicist Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs for their work to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons

31 Oct 1969

KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA changes call letters to KAPN

31 Oct 1950

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color to CBS

31 Oct 1913

Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up Atlantic & Pacific waters mix

31 Oct 1995

Pamela Anderson Lee rushed to hospital with flu like symptoms

31 Oct 1969

KHOF (now KAGL) TV ch 30 in San BernardinoGlenda CA (IND) begins

31 Oct 1954

On Your Toes opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 64 performances

31 Oct 1913

Yuan Shikai installed as the 1st President of China

31 Oct 1996

Big closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 193 performances

31 Oct 1969

Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 7 is launched

31 Oct 1954

Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad caeli Reginam

31 Oct 1914

German forces rout Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WWI)

31 Oct 1996

NY Jet Nick Lowrey breaks Jan Stenerud NFL field goal record at 374

31 Oct 1970

Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East

31 Oct 1955

All Peron feast days disposed of in Argentina

31 Oct 1916

In Game 3 Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to 5-up from 3

31 Oct 1996

Yanks (3) & Orioles (3) combine to tie play off record of 6 HRs

31 Oct 1971

Jesus Christ Superstar opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 711 performances

31 Oct 1955

Persia signs Pact of Baghdad

31 Oct 1917

Plymouth Theater opens at 236 W 45th St NYC

31 Oct 1996

British Williams driver Damon Hill wins season ending Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka becomes first son of a World F1 Drivers Champion (Graham Hill 1962 68) to win title himself wins by 19 points from Jacques Villeneuve

31 Oct 1972

Hurry Harry opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 2 performances

31 Oct 1956

1st Pakistan v Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day

31 Oct 1918

Badens Geisz forms government

31 Oct 1996

MLB American League Championship New York Yankees beat Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 1

31 Oct 1972

46 sailors injured in race riot on American aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk

31 Oct 1956

Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia

31 Oct 1919

Richard Strauss & Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna

31 Oct 1997

Andy Greens Jet-powered car reaches record 749.69 MPH

31 Oct 1972

Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot

31 Oct 1956

AL President Will Harridge bars Washington Senators move to West Coast unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners

31 Oct 1920

1st Grandslam in WS (Smith) & 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss)

31 Oct 1998

MLB American League Championship New York Yankees beat Cleveland Indians 4 games to 2

31 Oct 1972

Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole

31 Oct 1958

Goldilocks opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 performances

31 Oct 1920

Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige)

31 Oct 1999

The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

31 Oct 1972

MLB American League Championship Oakland Athletics beat Detroit Tigers 3 games to 2

31 Oct 1958

2nd US Moon probe Pioneer 1 reaches 113810 km falls back

31 Oct 1920

Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game a 0-0 tie

31 Oct 2002

MLB American League Championship Anaheim Angels beat Minnesota Twins 4 games to 1

31 Oct 1973

Israeli counter offensive in southern Syria

31 Oct 1959

KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks ND (NBC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1920

Indian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play

31 Oct 2006

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to banker Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank for their microlending practises

31 Oct 1973

US President Richard Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as Vice President

31 Oct 1960

Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6000 die)

31 Oct 1920

Indians Elmer Smith hits baseballs 1st World Series grand slam

31 Oct 2008

HM Treasury infused 37 billion (64 billion 47 billion euros) of new capital-bailout into Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc Lloyds TSB and HBOS Plc to avert a financial sector collapse.

31 Oct 1974

1st time Wash Caps are shutout as they are beat 6-0 by Minnesota

31 Oct 1960

RadioTV executive John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers

31 Oct 1921

NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys win 14-10

31 Oct 2012

15 people are killed by a market suicide bombing in Darra Adam Khel Pakistan

31 Oct 1975

Archbishop Oliver Plunkett became 1st Irish-born saint in 7 centuries

31 Oct 1961

USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66100m

31 Oct 1923

Saxony gets Social Democratic & Communist coalition government

31 Oct 2012

Gerhard Richters Abstraktes Bild sells for 34 million the highest sold artwork by a living artist

31 Oct 1975

Jacqueline Hansen runs womens world record marathon (23819)

31 Oct 1962

1st appearance of a Gabor sister on Merv Griffin Show

31 Oct 1923

NY Giants & NY Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series also 1st played at Yankee Stadium

31 Oct 2013

109 people are killed in a stampede on a bridge in Datia district Madhya Pradesh India

31 Oct 1975

NASA launches space vehicle S-195

31 Oct 1964

Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Hillside House Ladies Golf Open

31 Oct 1924

Washington Senators win their 1st World Series beat Giants in 7

31 Oct 2015

Basketball player Lamar Odom is hospitalised after being found unconscious in a brothel in Nevada

31 Oct 1976

Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Zedong as chairman of Communist Party

31 Oct 1967

World Series record 3 consecutive HRs (Carl Yastremski Reggie Smith & Rico Petrocelli) by Red Sox

31 Oct 1926

St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series

31 Oct 2015

Marlon James becomes first Jamaican to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings

31 Oct 1976

MLB National League Championship Cincinnati Reds beat Philadelphia Phillies 3 games to 0

31 Oct 1967

Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)

31 Oct 1930

AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP

31 Oct 2015

First Democratic presidential candidates debate broadcast by CNN and held in Las Vegas Nevada

31 Oct 1977

Throwaway Game Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers

31 Oct 1968

Apollo 7 (Schirra Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours

31 Oct 1930

Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years

31 Oct 2017

Archaeologists announce the discovery of Arabic characters Allah and Ali on Viking funeral costumes from a grave in Gamla Uppsala Sweden

31 Oct 1977

4th test of space shuttle Enterprise

31 Oct 1968

MLB star Billy Martin named manager of the Minnesota Twins

31 Oct 1931

A J Bennett hits H Garbarino for 1st scoring pass in Canadas Big 4

31 Oct 2017

Hungry bear crisis due to over-fishing leaves 2 people dead and 83 hostile bears shot on Sakhalin Island Eastern Russia

31 Oct 1977

Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfolded smashed into cop van

31 Oct 1968

Coup dtat in Panama against President Arnulfo Arias

31 Oct 2018

Oldest known human remains from Poland at 115000 years from revealed to be Neanderthal child from Ciemna Cave eaten by a large bird

31 Oct 1977

US Supreme Court heard arguments in reverse discrimination case of Allan Bakke white student denied admission to University of California Med School

31 Oct 1969

-28] Rome 2nd bishop synod

31 Oct 2018

Pope Francis defrocks two Chilean bishops for alleged sexual abuse of minors

31 Oct 1978

Representatives of Israel & Egypt open talks in Washington

31 Oct 1969

Soyuz 6 launched Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next 2 days

31 Oct 539

BC The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon

31 Oct 1979

The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg) occurred in Guam in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip

31 Oct 1969

Three people shot dead during street violence in the loyalist Shankill area of Belfast

31 Oct 638

Honorius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope Pope Severinus elected

31 Oct 1980

Your Arms Too Short to Box closes at Ambassador NYC after 149 performances

31 Oct 1971

60th Davis Cup USA beats Romania in Charlotte (3-2)

31 Oct 642

John IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope

31 Oct 1980

7 stabbed at Blood Sweat & Tears concert in LA

31 Oct 1971

Brooks Robinson ties Series record reaches base 5 straight times

31 Oct 1165

Jewish rabbi and philosopher Moses ben Maimon (aka Maimonides or the Rambam) reaches Jerusalem

31 Oct 1980

MLB National League Championship Philadelphia Phillies beat Houston Astros 3 games to 2

31 Oct 1971

Frank McGee becomes news anchor of Today Show

31 Oct 1216

King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash as the flood tide swamps his wagons probably near Fosdyke perhaps near Sutton Bridge

31 Oct 1981

Marlowe opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 48 performances

31 Oct 1971

Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam

31 Oct 1279

Nichiren a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon

31 Oct 1981

15th Country Music Association Award Barbara Mandrell & George Jones wins

31 Oct 1972

World Hockey Association officially makes its debut as the Alberta Oilers defeat the Ottawa Nationals 7-4 at the Ottawa Civic Centre

31 Oct 1285

180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany and are set on fire

31 Oct 1982

38.6 cm (15.2) of rainfall Angoon Alaska (state record)

31 Oct 1972

Panama adopts constitution

31 Oct 1366

King Frederick III of Siciliy forbids decorations on synagogues

31 Oct 1982

Milwaukee Brewer Paul Molitor gets World series record 5 hits

31 Oct 1972

Prison uprising at Washington D.C. jail

31 Oct 1398

The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights who received Samogitia.

31 Oct 1983

5225 Loral & 5424 Covington

31 Oct 1972

MLB National League Championship Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates 3 games to 2

31 Oct 1459

Battle at Ludford Bridge Richard of York defeated

31 Oct 1985

Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for maintenance of STS 61A mission

31 Oct 1973

Oakland beats Baltimore 3 games to 2 to win AL pennant

31 Oct 1492

Flemish rebel leader Philip van Kleef surrenders

31 Oct 1985

Intl Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize

31 Oct 1973

Hctor Jos Cmpora is elected President of Argentina

31 Oct 1504

Queen Isabella I of Spain signs her testament

31 Oct 1986

California Angels within 1 pitch of pennant victory lose to Red Sox

31 Oct 1973

MLB American League Championship Oakland Athletics beat Baltimore Orioles 3 games to 2

31 Oct 1509

Emperor Maximilian leaves Italy

31 Oct 1987

21st Country Music Association Award Hank William Jr wins

31 Oct 1974

As Catfish Hunter charge owner Charlie Finley with breach of contract

31 Oct 1549

John Dudley Earl of Warwick forces the Duke of Somerset out of his office as Lord Protector.

31 Oct 1987

Oscar Arias (Costa Rican Pres) wins Nobel Peace Prize

31 Oct 1976

10th Country Music Association Award Mel Tillis wins

31 Oct 1576

Rudolf II succeeds Maximilian II as Holy Roman Emperor

31 Oct 1987

Minnesota Twins beat Detroit Tigers 9-5 in ALCS Game 5 at Tiger Stadium for 4-1 series win go on to win clubs first Baseball World Series

31 Oct 1977

Soyuz 25 returns to Earth

31 Oct 1609

Childrens rhyme Three Blind Mice published in London

31 Oct 1988

George H. W. Bush and Michael Dukakis meet in their second presidential debate

31 Oct 1978

Aristides Royo elected president of Panama

31 Oct 1654

The Delft Explosion (gunpowder) devastates the city in the Netherlands killing more than 100

31 Oct 1988

Israel & China sign trade deal plan diplomatic relations

31 Oct 1978

Belgium government of Tindemans resigns

31 Oct 1659

English Rump Parliament dimisses John Lambert & other generals

31 Oct 1988

MLB National League Championship Los Angeles Dodgers beat New York Mets 4 games to 3

31 Oct 1979

Most Happy Fella opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 53 performances

31 Oct 1711

Karel VI Habsburg crowned Roman Catholic emperor

31 Oct 1989

Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to Vikings for 12 players

31 Oct 1979

German DR frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro & Nico Hubner

31 Oct 1729

Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Gelderland

31 Oct 1989

Musical Buddy with Paul Hipp premieres in London

31 Oct 1979

Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan

31 Oct 1730

Christian VI succeeds Frederik IV as king of Denmark

31 Oct 1990

MLB National League Championship Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates 4 games to 2

31 Oct 1980

Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days

31 Oct 1773

Americas first asylum opens for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds in Virginia

31 Oct 1991

Boxer Hector Comacho arrested for driving while getting oral sex

31 Oct 1980

Dallas Mavericks open debut NBA season with a 103-92 victory against interstate rival San Antonio Spurs at Reunion Arena

31 Oct 1776

British Brigade begins guarding Throgg Necks Road in Bronx

31 Oct 1991

Mike Lerch of Princeton ties NCAA record with 370 receiving yards

31 Oct 1981

LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds)

31 Oct 1792

First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York

31 Oct 1991

Statler Brothers Show premieres on TNN

31 Oct 1981

Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum

31 Oct 1798

Flemish uprising against French occupied Boerenkrijg

31 Oct 1991

Wrestler Rip Oliver forced to retire after being injured by Crush

31 Oct 1981

Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series

31 Oct 1798

Friedrich von Schillers Wallensteins Lager premieres in Weimar

31 Oct 1991

Doug Flutie of BC Lions sets CFL passing record of 582 yards despite losing to Edmonton 45-38 in overtime

31 Oct 1982

English ship Mary Rose which sank during an engagement with France in 1545 raised at Portsmouth England

31 Oct 1815

Ex-king Joachim Murat of Naples sentenced to death

31 Oct 1992

5.8 earthquake at Cairo (at least 510 die)

31 Oct 1982

Riot in Amsterdam as tram catches fire

31 Oct 1822

Second eruption of Galunggung in Java destroys summit of mountain

31 Oct 1992

Arecibo radio telescope begins Microwave Observing Project search for occupied planets

31 Oct 1983

Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond Maine were switched over to direct-dial

31 Oct 1823

Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs)

31 Oct 1992

Brett Hitman Hart beats Ric Flair for WWF heavyweight title

31 Oct 1984

1st space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan)

31 Oct 1836

18 of snow falls in Bridgewater NY

31 Oct 1992

Expo 92 closes in Seville Spain

31 Oct 1984

August Wilsons Ma Raineys Black Bottom premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1850

First womens medical school (Womens Medical College of Penns) opens

31 Oct 1992

Howard Stern radio show premieres in Albany NY (WQBK 103.5 & 103.9 FM)

31 Oct 1984

NASA launches space vehicle S-208

31 Oct 1853

John Morrissey wins boxing title when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring after 36th round to slug Morrisseys fans

31 Oct 1992

Wash Redskin Art Monk sets NFL record with 820th reception

31 Oct 1984

US Vice Presidential candidates debate - Geraldine Ferraro (D) & George H. W. Bush (R)

31 Oct 1854

Lincoln University founded in Pennsylvania as Ashmun Institute

31 Oct 1993

Mixed Emotions opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 48 performances

31 Oct 1985

Atlantis (51-J) returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB

31 Oct 1860

British & French troops capture Beijing

31 Oct 1993

MLB American League Championship Toronto Blue Jays beat Chicago White Sox 4 games to 2

31 Oct 1985

US intercepts Egyptian Boeing with Achille Lauro terrorists

31 Oct 1861

Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Unions Richmond on Mississippi

31 Oct 1994

Contact with NASA Venus orbitter Magellan broken

31 Oct 1987

200000 march for gay and lesbian civil rights in Washington D.C.

31 Oct 1862

Maj Gen Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Confederate troops in Missisippi

31 Oct 1994

Iranian Fokker F28 explodes between Isfahan and Tehran killing 66

31 Oct 1990

Miser opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 93 performances

31 Oct 1862

Skirmish at Monocacy Maryland

31 Oct 1995

Patti LuPone on Broadway opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 46 performances

31 Oct 1990

Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum

31 Oct 1871

US President Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan

31 Oct 1997

Juli Inkster wins LPGA Samsung World Championship

31 Oct 1990

Mexican writer Octavio Paz is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature

31 Oct 1872

Montreal Foot Ball Club 1st game playing Quebec City to 0-0 tie

31 Oct 1997

Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria 43 killed at a fake roadblock

31 Oct 1990

Oil hits a record 40.42 per barrel

31 Oct 1879

British troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan

31 Oct 1999

Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup

31 Oct 1990

Libyas Qadhafi says Israel must be eliminated

31 Oct 1881

Henry M Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch

31 Oct 1999

The Day of Six Billion the proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born

31 Oct 1990

UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd says force would be used if Iraq does not withdraw from Kuwait

31 Oct 1886

Hurricane & sea surge kills 250 at Indianola Texas

31 Oct 2000

American destroyer USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden Yemen by two suicide bombers killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39

31 Oct 1991

Law Professor Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her

31 Oct 1886

Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of 2nd Stain (BG)

31 Oct 2002

Terrorists explode two bombs in Balis nightclub district killing 202 and injuring 209 mostly foreign tourists

31 Oct 1991

Chip Beck ties PGA record lowest 18 hole score of 59 during 3rd round of the Las Vegas Invitational at the Sunrise GC

31 Oct 1891

Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated

31 Oct 2003

FIFA Womens World Cup Final Nia Knzer scores winner in sudden death extra time as Germany beats Sweden 2-1 in Carson California

31 Oct 1991

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart seen soliciting a prostitute

31 Oct 1892

US Pledge of Allegiance first recited in public schools during Columbus Day

31 Oct 2005

The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fi Jnlng and Ni Hishng for five days in orbit.

31 Oct 1992

Toronto down 6-1 in 7th beats As 7-6 in 11th in AL playoff

31 Oct 1898

Establishment of the first town council in Mateur.

31 Oct 1138

Earthquake in Aleppo Syria kills an estimated 230000

31 Oct 1993

Norwegian Rushdie publisher William Nygaard injured in attack

31 Oct 1971

5th Country Music Association Award Charlie Pride wins

31 Oct 1942

Statute of Westminster 1931 passed by the Australian parliament formalises Australian autonomy

31 Oct 1873

First womens prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute

31 Oct 2013

Peter Higgs and Franois Englert win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the origin of the mass of subatomic particles

31 Oct 1971

Fenholt & Webbers musical Jesus Christ Superstar premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1944

Canadian offensive in West-Zeeuws-Flanders

31 Oct 1879

War of the Pacific the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter.

31 Oct 2014

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is awarded the 1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize

31 Oct 1971

Rain washes out Game 2 1st World Series postponement since 1962

31 Oct 1944

German occupiers turn off electricity in Amsterdam

31 Oct 1886

Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure Noble Bachelor (BG)

31 Oct 2014

Eric Betzig Stefan Hell and William Moerner win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy

31 Oct 1972

3 members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature explosion in a house in Balkan Street Lower Falls Belfast

31 Oct 1944

St Louis Cards beat St Louis Browns 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series

31 Oct 1887

Phillies set club record 16th straight victory

31 Oct 2015

Nobel prize for Literature awarded to Belarusian journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich

31 Oct 1973

MLB National League Championship New York Mets beat Cincinnati Reds 3 games to 2

31 Oct 1945

British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal

31 Oct 1888

28th British Golf Open Jack Burns shoots a 171 at St Andrews

31 Oct 2016

140 people are killed in an air strike during a wake in Sanaa Yemen

31 Oct 1974

As Mike Andrews files 25 million lawsuit against Charlie Finley

31 Oct 1946

First electric blanket manufactured sold for 39.50

31 Oct 1892

Sergei Rachmaninoff first performs Prelude in C-sharp-Minor in Moscow

31 Oct 2017

Wildfires ignite in Northern Californian wine country killing at least 41 over the next week with 20000 evacutated

31 Oct 1974

Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50600 miles

31 Oct 1946

Eugene ONeills The Iceman Cometh premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1895

Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms

31 Oct 2018

New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees becomes NFLs all-time leader in passing yards needs 201 yards to pass Peyton Mannings record gets 363 & 3 TDs in Saints 43-19 win v Washington Redskins at the SuperDome

31 Oct 1974

US Gen George Browns speech deplores Jewish influence in US over his treatment during the 1973 World Series

31 Oct 1947

First telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane

31 Oct 1897

Emperor Franz Joseph I names Gustav Mahler Director of the Vienna Court Opera

31 Oct 3761

BC The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).

31 Oct 1974

The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and its political wing the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) founded at the Spa Hotel in the village of Lucan near Dublin

31 Oct 1947

Julie Styne & Sam Cohns musical High Button Shoes premieres in NYC for 727 performances

31 Oct 1898

First Canadian Intercollegiate football game McGill beats Queens 3-2

31 Oct 336

Pope Saint Marks death ends his reign as Catholic Pope leaving the papacy vacant

31 Oct 1975

Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt

31 Oct 1948

WXYZ TV channel 7 in Detroit MI (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1903

J M Synges In the Shadow of the Glen premieres in Dublin

31 Oct 1513

Battle of La Motta Spanish troops under Ramn de Cardona defeat the Venetians.

31 Oct 1976

NJ Meadowlands Giants Stadium opens

31 Oct 1949

NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in 46th World Series

31 Oct 1904

1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville Long Island NY)

31 Oct 1520

1st public burning of books in Netherlands in Louvain

31 Oct 1976

Greeces 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis is oldest man to compete in a marathon he finishes in 733

31 Oct 1951

5th NHL All-Star Game 1st Team ties 2nd Team 2-2 at Toronto

31 Oct 1906

Karl Nessler demonstrates first permanent wave for hair in London

31 Oct 1571

Battle of Lepanto Holy League of southern European nations destroy Ottoman fleet in significant loss off Western Greece

31 Oct 1977

11th Country Music Association Award Ronnie Milsap wins

31 Oct 1951

Gil McDougalds World Series grand slam helps Yanks beat Giants 13-1

31 Oct 1908

NY Giants set season attendance record at 910000 (broken in 1920)

31 Oct 1690

English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade

31 Oct 1978

Aerosmiths Steve Tyler & Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb

31 Oct 1953

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution

31 Oct 1909

Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant

31 Oct 1702

British & Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond

31 Oct 1978

British pop music magazine Smash Hits first published

31 Oct 1954

KTIV TV channel 4 in Sioux City IA (NBC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1912

Montenegro declares war on Turkey beginning 1st Balkan War

31 Oct 1714

People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar Netherlands

31 Oct 1978

Steve Perry joins Journey

31 Oct 1955

Betty Jameson wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open

31 Oct 1915

Battle of Loos on WWI Western Front ends German forces contain British attack (85000 casualties)

31 Oct 1737

A cyclone causes 40 foot waves that are believed to have killed 300000 in Calcutta India

31 Oct 1978

Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series 75

31 Oct 1956

10th NHL All-Star Game All-Stars beat Montreal 1-1 at Montreal

31 Oct 1915

Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980 beating Red Sox 3-1 with an 8th inning 2 run rally

31 Oct 1763

George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement

31 Oct 1979

Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood

31 Oct 1957

Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia

31 Oct 1922

NY Giants beat Yankees 4 games to 0 with a tie in 19th World Series

31 Oct 1765

Stamp Act Congress (First Congress of the American Colonies) convenes in New York City to devise a unified protest against new British taxation

31 Oct 1979

Nordiques Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game

31 Oct 1958

Israeli navy inaugrates its first submarine

31 Oct 1927

NY Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series

31 Oct 1777

Americans beat British in Second Battle of Saratoga & Battle of Bemis Heights

31 Oct 1979

Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone)

31 Oct 1958

NY Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series

31 Oct 1928

Cole Porter and E Ray Goetz musical Paris premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1780

British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain SC

31 Oct 1979

Recorded trace of snow in Central Park NYC

31 Oct 1958

NY Yankees appear in 9 & win 7 of last 10 World Series

31 Oct 1928

Eastern Soccer League forms in USA

31 Oct 1806

Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgwood

31 Oct 1980

4500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria

31 Oct 1960

Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2)

31 Oct 1928

Joseph Szigeti debuted Alfredo Casellas Violin Concerto.

31 Oct 1816

1st double decked steamboat Washington arrives in New Orleans

31 Oct 1980

Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated

31 Oct 1961

NY Yankees beat Cincinnati Reds 4 games to 1 in 58th World Series

31 Oct 1929

As Howard Ehmke (7-2) sets World Series record striking out 13 Cubs

31 Oct 1825

Miramichi Fire - forest fire disaster in New Brunswick

31 Oct 1980

Yanks lose 4-2 & are swept by Royals in AL Championship series

31 Oct 1961

Tanganyika becomes independent within British Commonwealth

31 Oct 1929

Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan and drives out Habibullah Ghazi

31 Oct 1826

Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations

31 Oct 1980

MLB American League Championship Kansas City Royals beat New York Yankees 3 games to 0

31 Oct 1961

US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to police

31 Oct 1930

Philadelphia As beat St Louis Cards 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series

31 Oct 1828

The Greek city of Patras is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under General Maison.

31 Oct 1982

Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia

31 Oct 1961

Volcanic eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)

31 Oct 1932

The Indian Air Force is established.

31 Oct 1840

Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands

31 Oct 1982

US imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union

31 Oct 1961

World Series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1

31 Oct 1933

Coit Tower dedicated in San Francisco as a monument to firefighters

31 Oct 1856

Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book & newspapers

31 Oct 1982

MLB National League Championship St. Louis Cardinals beat Atlanta Braves 3 games to 0

31 Oct 1962

Battles to decide Algeria-Morocco boundary kills 130

31 Oct 1933

Martinez Barrios forms new Spanish government

31 Oct 1864

-Oct 13th) Battle of Darbytown Road VA

31 Oct 1982

MLB American League Championship Milwaukee Brewers beat California Angels 3 games to 2

31 Oct 1962

NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39200 m

31 Oct 1939

Germany annexes Western Poland

31 Oct 1864

Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor Brazil - CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett

31 Oct 1983

17th Country Music Association Award Alabama wins

31 Oct 1962

Uganda becomes independent from the United Kingdom

31 Oct 1939

NY Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series 4th straight WS win

31 Oct 1868

Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens

31 Oct 1983

Israels Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzak Shamir as PM

31 Oct 1963

Vajont Dam disaster landslide creates 50 million cubic metre wave killing around 2000 in the Piave Valley in Northern Italy

31 Oct 1940

Cincinnati Reds beat Detroit Tigers 4 games to 3 in 37th World Series

31 Oct 1870

Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon

31 Oct 1983

Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers

31 Oct 1963

French air force gets first nuclear weapons

31 Oct 1940

German troops occupies Romania

31 Oct 1983

NBC premiere of true life drama Adam based on John Walshs sons murder

31 Oct 1963

Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba & Haiti kills 6000

31 Oct 1941

Building at Concentration Camp Birkenau begins

31 Oct 1985

Sudan adopts interim constitution

31 Oct 1965

Beatles Yesterday single goes 1 & stays 1 for 4 weeks

31 Oct 1942

Fight at Matanikau Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley)

31 Oct 1985

US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy gunmen are placed in custody

31 Oct 1966

Balt Orioles sweep LA Dodgers in 63rd World Series

31 Oct 1943

Great Britain establishes bases on Azores

31 Oct 1986

7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador El Salvador

31 Oct 1966

Rolling Stones 1st LP recorded Got Live if you Want It

31 Oct 1944

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet debut on CBS radio

31 Oct 1987

Garfield Park Nature Center opens latest in Cleveland Metroparks

31 Oct 1968

Government seizes oil fields in Peru

31 Oct 1945

Microwave oven patented

31 Oct 1987

Giants Jeffrey Leonard hits playoff record HR in his 4th cons game

31 Oct 1968

WKMU TV channel 21 in Murray KY (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1946

Military plane crashes at Christian HBS 24 die

31 Oct 1988

22nd Country Music Association Award Highway 101 K T Oslin win

31 Oct 1968

2000 students from Queens University Belfast try to march to Belfast City Hall in protest against police brutality but blocked by loyalists led by Ian Paisley leads for formation of student civil rights group Peoples Democracy

31 Oct 1950

4th NHL All-Star Game Detroit beat All-Stars 7-1 at Detroit

31 Oct 1988

Royals announce that Dick Howser who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July will return to manage the club in 1989

31 Oct 1969

Supremes release Someday Well Be Together

31 Oct 1950

Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for 1st time beat Steelers 30-17

31 Oct 1988

NBC premieres tele-biopic Winnie starring Meredith Baxter and based on life of [Gwyanna] Winefred Sprockett

31 Oct 1970

Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence

31 Oct 1951

Music in the Air opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 56 performances

31 Oct 1990

US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space

31 Oct 1972

Dude opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 16 performances

31 Oct 1951

Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseballs National League

31 Oct 1990

American Petroleum Institute (API) reports crude inventories dropped by more than 4 MMB in the last week

31 Oct 1973

1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942

31 Oct 1952

Chinese offensive in Korea

31 Oct 1990

MLB American League Championship Oakland Athletics beat Boston Red Sox 4 games to 0

31 Oct 1973

Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal

31 Oct 1952

Harrow and Wealdstone northwest London 112 people killed in Britains worst peace-time rail crash.

31 Oct 1991

Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers

31 Oct 1973

Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors

31 Oct 1953

WTAP TV channel 15 in Parkersburg-Marietta WV (NBC) begins

31 Oct 1991

Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy

31 Oct 1974

Race riot in Boston due to bussing

31 Oct 1955

Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched

31 Oct 1991

US cuts all foreign aid to Haiti

31 Oct 1974

Washington Capitals 1st NHL game losing 6-3 to NY Rangers at Madison Square Garden Wash Caps begin a 37 game road losing streak

31 Oct 1956

Don Larsen (NY Yankees) pitches only perfect World Series game vs Brooklyn

31 Oct 1992

Floriade (Flower Show) closes at Hague Netherlands

31 Oct 1974

MLB National League Championship Los Angeles Dodgers beat Pittsburgh Pirates 3 games to 1

31 Oct 1957

Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles

31 Oct 1993

Browns Najee Mustafaa sets club rec for longest interception (97 yds)

31 Oct 1974

MLB American League Championship Oakland Athletics beat Baltimore Orioles 3 games to 1

31 Oct 1957

Procter & Gamble director N McElroy becomes US Secretary of Defense

31 Oct 1993

Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea 120 killed

31 Oct 1975

Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco

31 Oct 1957

Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (NYC)

31 Oct 1994

Lt-general Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti

31 Oct 1976

Robber Bridegroom opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 145 performances

31 Oct 1957

Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire

31 Oct 1994

MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings

31 Oct 1976

Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on cricket debut New Zealand v Pakistan Javed 1st wkt

31 Oct 1958

Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time

31 Oct 1994

Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred G. Gilman & Martin Rodbell for G-protein discoveries

31 Oct 1976

Test Cricket debut of Javed Miandad (Pakistan) scores 163 on 1st day

31 Oct 1958

Dr Ake Senning installs first pacemaker (Stockholm)

31 Oct 1994

Value of Russian ruble decreases 3081 rubles per dollar

31 Oct 1976

Yanks 1st AL Championship game beat Royals 4-1

31 Oct 1958

KCMT TV channel 7 in Alexandria MN (CBSNBCABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1995

Garden District opens at Circle in the Sq Theater NYC

31 Oct 1977

Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6 but returned after failing to dock

31 Oct 1959

At the Drop of a Hat opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 216 performances

31 Oct 1995

Israel begins West Bank pullback frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners

31 Oct 1977

Yanks rally for 3 in 9th & beat Royals 5-3 for pennant 31

31 Oct 1959

Conservatives win British general election

31 Oct 1995

Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits

31 Oct 1978

John Kander & Fred Ebbs musical Ballroom premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1959

LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series

31 Oct 1995

Robert E Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics

31 Oct 1979

Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WCCC in Hartford Connecticut

31 Oct 1960

Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer

31 Oct 1996

Sex & Longing opens at Cort Theater NYC

31 Oct 1980

1st consumer use of home banking by computer by United American Bank in Knoxville Tennessee

31 Oct 1960

3rd Rugby League World Cup Great Britain beats Australia 10-3

31 Oct 1996

Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in NYC

31 Oct 1980

Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz

31 Oct 1961

USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

31 Oct 1997

Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin Uruguay killing 74

31 Oct 1981

Abolition of capital punishment in France.

31 Oct 1961

12th Formula One WDC Phil Hill wins by one point

31 Oct 869

Charles the Bald crowned king of Lotharingen

31 Oct 1982

Attack on synagouge in Rome 1 dead

31 Oct 1961

American Phil Hills Ferrari team does not participate in season ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen already clinched World Championship of Drivers title English driver Innes Ireland wins Lotus first ever Grand Prix

31 Oct 1000

Leif Ericson discovers Vinland (possibly LAnse aux Meadows Canada) reputedly becoming first European to reach North America

31 Oct 1983

Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs

31 Oct 1962

Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN

31 Oct 1238

James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia

31 Oct 1983

4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma

31 Oct 1962

North Korea reports 100% election turnout miraculously 100% vote for the Workers Party

31 Oct 1290

Last of 16000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I leaves

31 Oct 1984

Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space

31 Oct 1962

Spiegel scandal Der Spiegel publishes article Bedingt abwehrbereit (Conditionally prepared for defense) about NATO manoeuver called Fallex 62 uncovering sorry state of West German army. Magazine soon accused of treason.

31 Oct 1446

The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea

31 Oct 1985

Tango Argentino opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 198 performances

31 Oct 1963

Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya

31 Oct 1558

Mrida is founded in Venezuela

31 Oct 1985

Central Parks Strawberry Fields dedicated

31 Oct 1964

Gilroy Roberts becomes first US chief engraver to retire (than die)

31 Oct 1573

Don Frederik and the Spanish disband the siege of Alkmaar

31 Oct 1986

Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment

31 Oct 1965

Muslims in Jakarta set fire to PKI headquarters

31 Oct 1595

The Spanish army captures Cambrai

31 Oct 1987

Japanese bank buys Lady McGill stamp for 1100000

31 Oct 1965

Post Office Tower opens in London tallest building in England

31 Oct 1597

Eighty Years War Maurice of Nassau Prince of Orange with English support captures Breevoort Netherlands from the Spanish

31 Oct 1988

17% vote for extreme-right Flemish Block in Belgium

31 Oct 1965

Once-Hertogenbosch soccer team FC de Bosch forms

31 Oct 1617

Peace of Pavia between Spain and Savoye

31 Oct 1988

Dennis Eckersley 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series

31 Oct 1966

Wyomings Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yds (54 54 52)

31 Oct 1621

Turkey & Poland signs Peace of Chotin

31 Oct 1988

9th Rugby League World Cup Australia beats New Zealand 25-12

31 Oct 1968

Dutch aircraft carrier Karel Doorman (formerly British HMS Venerable) sold to Argentina

31 Oct 1651

English parliament passes Navigation Act

31 Oct 1989

23rd Country Music Association Award George Strait Kathy Mattea wins

31 Oct 1969

The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago Illinois.

31 Oct 1655

Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow

31 Oct 1989

27th Tennis Fed Cup USA beats Spain in Tokyo Japan (3-0)

31 Oct 1970

Soviet author Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature

31 Oct 1668

Mass society storms palace of heretics Spanish governor Jose de Paternina

31 Oct 1989

Penthouse Magazines Hebrew edition hits newstands

31 Oct 1970

The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) propose that a system of Proportional Representation (PR) should be used in elections in Northern Ireland

31 Oct 1701

Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U) chartered in New Haven

31 Oct 1989

First NFL game coached by an African American (Art Shell) his LA Raiders beat NY Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football

31 Oct 1972

From Israel with Love closes at Palace Theater NYC after 8 performances

31 Oct 1708

Great Northern War Battle at Lesnaya (N.S) Russian army captures Swedish convoy

31 Oct 1989

MLB National League Championship San Francisco Giants beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1

31 Oct 1972

Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions

31 Oct 1716

Britain & France sign treaty

31 Oct 1990

David Hackett Souter sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

31 Oct 1972

In Game 2 of ALCS Oakland As Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher

31 Oct 1740

Dutch governor general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia

31 Oct 1990

Radio stations around world play Imagine honoring John Lennon

31 Oct 1972

Lerrin LaGrow Campy who had been hit by a pitch is fined & suspended

31 Oct 1931

St Louis Cards beat Philadelphia As 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series

31 Oct 1760

7 Years War Russian and Austrian forces occupy Berlin [OSSep 28]

31 Oct 1991

On Borrowed Time opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 99 performances

31 Oct 1972

Despite retiring with suspension trouble at the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen Emerson Fittipaldi becomes first Brazilian to win the World Formula 1 Drivers title wins by 16 points from Jackie Stewart

31 Oct 1931

William Waltons Belshazzars Feast premieres in Leeds

31 Oct 1771

The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.

31 Oct 1991

Bush declares total confidence in nominee Clarence Thomas

31 Oct 1973

Spyris Markezinis forms government in Greece

31 Oct 1932

Betty & Bob premieres on radio

31 Oct 1794

French troops occupy Hertogenbosch

31 Oct 1991

San Jose Sharks beat Calgary for their 1st NHL win 4-3

31 Oct 1973

OPEC meets with oil companies to discuss revision of 1971 Tehran agreement and oil prices negotiations fail.

31 Oct 1932

Dnjepr Dam in USSR put into operation (worlds biggest)

31 Oct 1799

Sinking of British frigate HMS Lutine with the loss of 240 men and cargo worth 1200000 off Dutch coast

31 Oct 1991

Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty

31 Oct 1974

Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.

31 Oct 1933

1st synthetic detergent Dreft by Procter & Gamble goes on sale

31 Oct 1804

Hobart in Tasmania founded

31 Oct 1992

Great meteorite seen from Kentucky to New York

31 Oct 1975

San Antonio Spurs then members of the ABA defeat the NBAs Atlanta Hawks 109-107 in the first basketball game ever played in the Louisiana Superdome

31 Oct 1935

Coup under Gen Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy

31 Oct 1806

Prussia declares war on France

31 Oct 1992

A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of Knapp residence Peekskill New York destroying familys 1980 Chevrolet Malibu

31 Oct 1977

Largest baseball crowd in Penns 64924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)

31 Oct 1935

George Gershwins Porgy & Bess opens on Broadway NY

31 Oct 1817

University of Gent officially opens

31 Oct 1994

Austrian parliamentary election (23% extreme-right)

31 Oct 1977

MLB National League Championship Los Angeles Dodgers beat Philadelphia Phillies 3 games to 1

31 Oct 1935

League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia

31 Oct 1818

Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya

31 Oct 1994

Darmstadtium (element 110) created in Darmstadt Germany

31 Oct 1978

Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph)

31 Oct 1937

NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 1 in 34th World Series

31 Oct 1820

Guayaquil Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador

31 Oct 1996

Howard Sterns book Miss America released in paperback

31 Oct 1978

Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship all against Kansas City

31 Oct 1938

Germany completes its annexation of Czechoslovakias Sudetenland

31 Oct 1824

Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica

31 Oct 1997

ABL players allowed to own stock in the league

31 Oct 1979

J McHugh & A Malvins musical Sugar Babies opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 performances

31 Oct 1941

German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney

31 Oct 1831

Ioannis Kapodistrias first Head of State of modern Greece assassinated in Nafplion

31 Oct 1997

Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico

31 Oct 1980

British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro

31 Oct 1941

RAF bombs Piraeus to prevent German heavy armor advancing

31 Oct 1835

The Royal College Colombo established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka

31 Oct 1997

North Carolinas record winning college basketball coach Dean Smith retires

31 Oct 1980

USSR & Syria sign peace treaty

31 Oct 1942

1300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp

31 Oct 1837

Steamboat Home sinks off Okracoke North Carolina killing 100

31 Oct 1997

NY Rangers are 1st NHL team to open with 4 straight ties

31 Oct 1981

USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Bobby Unser

31 Oct 1943

US bombers accidentally strike Enschede Netherlands causing 151 deaths

31 Oct 1837

Meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.

31 Oct 1997

Nobel prize for literature awarded to Italian playwright Dario Fo

31 Oct 1982

New Jersey Devils 1st NHL victory beat New York Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands

31 Oct 1944

Admiral Halseys Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa 700 die

31 Oct 1845

The eminent and controversial Anglican John Henry Newman is received into the Roman Catholic Church

31 Oct 1999

The last flight of the US aircraft Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

31 Oct 1982

Poland bans Solidarity & all labor unions

31 Oct 1945

Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series

31 Oct 1854

The siege of Sevastopol begins during the Crimean War

31 Oct 2001

Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton New Jersey in the anthrax attack

31 Oct 1983

1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7

31 Oct 1946

Max Frisch Die Chinesische Mauer premieres in Zurich

31 Oct 1855

American inventor Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor

31 Oct 2006

North Korea conducts its first nuclear test with an estimated yield of between 0.4-2 kilotons

31 Oct 1983

Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7

31 Oct 1947

Rodgers & Hammersteins musical Allegro premieres at Majestic Theater NYC for 318 performances

31 Oct 1855

Joshua Stoddard of Worcester Massachusetts patents first calliope (musical instrument)

31 Oct 2007

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high

31 Oct 1983

MLB National League Championship Philadelphia Phillies beat Los Angeles Dodgers 3 games to 1

31 Oct 1948

Then record 86288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland

31 Oct 1863

Battle of Brady Station Virginia (Culpeper Court House Bristoe Station)

31 Oct 2007

Low single released by Flo Rida (Billboard Song of the Year 2008)

31 Oct 1983

MLB American League Championship Baltimore Orioles beat Chicago White Sox 3 games to 1

31 Oct 1949

3rd NHL All-Star Game All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Toronto

31 Oct 1865

First US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania

31 Oct 2009

First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASAs Lunar Precursor Robotic Program

31 Oct 1984

18th Country Music Association Award Alabama wins

31 Oct 1951

Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in World Series DiMaggios final game

31 Oct 1870

Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree

31 Oct 2011

German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel finishes 3rd in the Japanese F1 Grand Prix to clinch his second consecutive World Drivers Championship

31 Oct 1984

NBCs premiere of TV made The Burning Bed based on Francine Hughes

31 Oct 1954

1st National Film Awards (India) Shyamchi Aai wins the Golden Lotus

31 Oct 1872

Aaron Montgomery starts his mail-order business

31 Oct 2012

Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum optics

31 Oct 1985

Rembrandt & Hitler or Me premieres in Amsterdam

31 Oct 1956

Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match v Australia in Karachi

31 Oct 1874

World Postal Union forms in Bern Switzerland

31 Oct 2013

60 people are killed in clashes between militias and Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic

31 Oct 1985

Alain Boubil and Herbert Kretzners Les Miserables premieres in London

31 Oct 1956

On Skowrons grand slammer NY Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7

31 Oct 1876

1st 2-way telephone conversation 1st over outdoor wires

31 Oct 2013

Martin Karplus Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel win the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on multiscale models for complex chemical systems

31 Oct 1985

Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident

31 Oct 1957

Braves Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 World Series

31 Oct 1877

American Humane Association organizes (Cleveland)

31 Oct 451

Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens

31 Oct 1986

Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts beats Mets 1-0

31 Oct 1957

Milwaukee Braves beat NY Yankees 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series

31 Oct 1888

Washington Monument opens for public admittance

31 Oct 876

Battle at Andernach Louis the Young beats Charles the Bald

31 Oct 1986

RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs

31 Oct 1957

A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria England becomes the worlds first major nuclear accident

31 Oct 1890

Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure Red-Headed League

31 Oct 1075

Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned king of Croatia.

31 Oct 1988

Fire in Seattles Space Needle causes evacuation 2000 damage

31 Oct 1959

Happy Town closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 5 performances

31 Oct 1899

1st British troops reaches Durban South Africa

31 Oct 1085

San Marcos ministry in Venice initiated

31 Oct 1988

Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove

31 Oct 1959

Pan Am begins regular flights around the world

31 Oct 1899

South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum

31 Oct 1600

San Marino adopts constitution

31 Oct 1989

Oakland beats Toronto 4-3 in Game 5 to advance to the World Series

31 Oct 1960

Laughs & Other Events opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 8 performances

31 Oct 1900

8.3 magnitude earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga Alaska

31 Oct 1604

Supernova Keplers nova first sighted

31 Oct 1989

MLB American League Championship Oakland Athletics beat Toronto Blue Jays 4 games to 1

31 Oct 1960

16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo

31 Oct 1903

11 (28.4 cm) rainfall in 24 hrs (NYC)

31 Oct 1625

Admiral George Villiers fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz

31 Oct 1990

24th Country Music Association Award George Strait wins

31 Oct 1960

Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal about 4000 die

31 Oct 1905

Philadelphia As meet Giants in World Series Giants win 3-0

31 Oct 1633

Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its first government

31 Oct 1990

Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters

31 Oct 1960

Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards

31 Oct 1910

Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting average with 8 hits 6 were bunts as Browns 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep Cobb still won

31 Oct 1690

Siege of Belgrade Ottoman troops capture Belgrade

31 Oct 1990

US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize

31 Oct 1960

WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo OH (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1914

German troops take Antwerp in World War I

31 Oct 1712

French privateer Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast

31 Oct 1991

The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia

31 Oct 1961

Milk & Honey opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 543 performances

31 Oct 1915

Belgrade Serbia surrenders to Central leaders

31 Oct 1740

Chinese assault on Diestpoort Batavia

31 Oct 1992

Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott

31 Oct 1961

Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros & NY Mets

31 Oct 1915

Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay New York

31 Oct 1775

Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army

31 Oct 1992

Ottawa Senators 1st NHL game

31 Oct 1961

Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court

31 Oct 1915

Louis Kaufmans comedy Unchastened Woman premieres in New York City

31 Oct 1806

British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets invented by Sir William Congreve

31 Oct 1992

Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978) crashes into Venus

31 Oct 1962

Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack

31 Oct 1920

1st World Series game in Cleveland Indians win 2-1

31 Oct 1813

Treaty of Ried between Bavaria & Austria

31 Oct 1993

UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa

31 Oct 1963

Netherlands population hits 12000000

31 Oct 1921

Babe Ruths 1st WS homer only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays

31 Oct 1815

Joachim Murats forces land at Pizzo Italy

31 Oct 1994

BPAA US Womens Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill

31 Oct 1963

France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia

31 Oct 1926

Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution

31 Oct 1818

Two English boxers are first to use padded gloves

31 Oct 1995

Edgar Martinez drives home tying & winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees & win AL Division Series

31 Oct 1964

18th NHL All-Star Game All-Stars beat Toronto 3-2 at Toronto

31 Oct 1926

NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms

31 Oct 1822

First eruption of Galunggung in Java sends boiling sludge into valley

31 Oct 1998

Oslo Gardermoen airport opening after the close down of Fornebu.

31 Oct 1964

18th Summer Olympic Games open in Tokyo Japan

31 Oct 1928

Marcel Pagnols Topaz premieres in Paris

31 Oct 1827

Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation)

31 Oct 1999

New Coligny Calendar NCC The beginning of a new era of the Coligny calendar the oldest material Celtic calendar.

31 Oct 1965

Drat - The Cat opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 8 performances

31 Oct 1928

NY Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series become 1st to sweep consecutive World Series Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in game

31 Oct 1840

First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed

31 Oct 2000

Solheim Cup Womens Golf Loch Lomond GC Europe regains Cup 14-11 Carin Koch holes winning putt coming back from 3 down to beat Michele Redman

31 Oct 1965

The Supremes appear on Ed Sullivan Show

31 Oct 1929

G Kaufman & R Lardners musical June Moon premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1856

The Second Opium War or second Anglo-Chinese War begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River

31 Oct 2000

German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka to clinch his 3rd and 1st of 5 straight World F1 Drivers Championships

31 Oct 1965

Vinland Map is introduced by Yale University as being the first known map of America drawn about 1440

31 Oct 1930

1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed Laura Ingalls

31 Oct 1860

Telegraph line between LA & SF opens

31 Oct 2001

A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan Italy killing 118.

31 Oct 1968

Detroit Tigers beat St Louis Cards 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series

31 Oct 1934

St Louis Cards beat Detroit Tigers 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series

31 Oct 1862

Battle of Perryville KY- Confederate invasion halted

31 Oct 2005

The Kashmir earthquake hits parts of northern South Asia at 0350 UTC.

31 Oct 1968

Lee Evans of US sets 400 metre record at 43.86

31 Oct 1938

Cleveland Browns & Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game

31 Oct 1865

Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains

31 Oct 2011

Irish professional darts player Brendan Dolan plays 1st perfect 9 dart game on TV in semi-final against James Wade at PDC World Darts Championship in Dublin

31 Oct 1969

Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack album by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice is recorded

31 Oct 1938

NY Yankees sweep Cubs in 35th World Series 3rd straight WS win

31 Oct 1871

Forest fire destroys Peshtigo Wisconsin killing between 1200 and 2500 people making it the deadliest wildfire in recorded history

31 Oct 2012

35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri

31 Oct 1970

Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)

31 Oct 1941

Coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.

31 Oct 1871

Great Fire of Chicago kills 200 people and destroys over 4 square miles (10 square km) of buildings and the original Emancipation Proclamation

31 Oct 2012

Mustafa A.G. Abushagur the first elected Libyan Prime Minister is voted out of office by the Libyan parliament

31 Oct 1984

Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS San Diego Padres win pennant

31 Oct 1959

Single game World Series attendence record set (92706 in LA)

31 Oct 1984

MLB National League Championship San Diego Padres beat Chicago Cubs 3 games to 2

31 Oct 1959

Soviet Luna 3 1st successful photographic spacecraft impacts Moon

31 Oct 1985

21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB

31 Oct 1959

Chicago White Sox beat LA Dodgers 1-0 in Game 5 of Baseball World Series at LA Memorial Coliseum World Series record attendance 92706

31 Oct 1985

KHQ-AM in Spokane Washs final transmission

31 Oct 1961

USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar & Novaya Zemlya USSR

31 Oct 1985

Lynette Woodward chosen as 1st woman in Harlem Globetrotters

31 Oct 1962

16th NHL All-Star Game Toronto beat All4-Stars -1 at Toronto

31 Oct 1985

PLO terrorists seize Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro

31 Oct 1963

LA Dodgers sweep NY Yankees in 60th World Series

31 Oct 1986

First edition of new British newspaper Independent published

31 Oct 1964

Cambridge Circus opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances

31 Oct 1988

Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox

31 Oct 1965

Supremes release I Hear a Symphony

31 Oct 1988

Latvian flag raised in Riga for first time since annexation by USSR

31 Oct 1965

William Goodharts Generation premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1988

Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time

31 Oct 1966

Oriole Jim Palmer 20 is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout

31 Oct 1988

WNBC 660 final transmission WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 & WUKQ begins on 1050 at 530 PM (NYC radio)

31 Oct 1966

Partial meltdown at Detroitss Fermi 1 nuclear reactor

31 Oct 1990

Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens

31 Oct 1966

LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in state of California other states follow.

31 Oct 1991

Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics

31 Oct 1967

Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco) hippies throw a funeral for Hippie to mark end of the summer of love.

31 Oct 1991

Scorecard Harry Space Appeal & Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont creating 2nd triple dead heat in NY thoroughbred racing history

31 Oct 1969

WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore MD (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1991

Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments to her

31 Oct 1969

MLB National League Championship New York Mets sweep Atlanta Braves 3 games to 0

31 Oct 1992

Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2)

31 Oct 1969

MLB American League Championship Baltimore Orioles beat Minnesota Twins 3 games to 0

31 Oct 1993

Les Miserables opens at Meralco Theatre Philippines

31 Oct 1971

MLB National League Championship Pittsburgh Pirates beat San Francisco Giants 3 games to 1

31 Oct 1993

She Loves Me opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 294 performances

31 Oct 1972

22-car train carrying 2000 pilgrims derails kills 208 in Mexico

31 Oct 1993

Massive Muslim demonstration in Xining China 12 killed

31 Oct 1972

Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Jack Lynch closes the Sinn Fin office in Dublin

31 Oct 1993

Nobel prize for literature awarded to American Toni Morrison

31 Oct 1973

Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel

31 Oct 1994

Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan

31 Oct 1974

Mack & Mabel opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 66 performances

31 Oct 1994

Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish government

31 Oct 1974

Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic

31 Oct 1994

Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (211.57)

31 Oct 1974

Brazilian McLaren driver Emerson Fittipaldi finishes 4th in the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen to win his 2nd World Formula 1 Drivers title by 3 points from Clay Ragazzoni

31 Oct 1995

Bostons Fleet Center opens NY Islanders & Boston Bruins tie at 4-4

31 Oct 1976

Gang of Four arrested in Beijing

31 Oct 1995

Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees

31 Oct 1976

John Hathaway completes 50600 mile bicycle tour of every continent

31 Oct 1998

Matthew Shepard a gay student at the University of Wyoming is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie Wyoming.

31 Oct 1976

Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs placed by terrorists with connections to the CIA explode onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown Barbados killing all 73 people on board

31 Oct 2000

Last ever competitive soccer match at Wembley Stadium England defeated 1-0 by Germany last goal scored by Liverpools Dietmar Hammann. Match is Tony Adams 60th at Wembley the record for most appearances at the stadium.

31 Oct 1977

DL Coburns Gin Game premieres in NYC

31 Oct 2001

The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground

31 Oct 1977

Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game

31 Oct 2001

Crude oil resumes flowing through the trans-Alaska pipeline after workers welded shut a bullet hole that caused 260000 US gallons of oil to spill out

31 Oct 1977

In Alicante Spain fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.

31 Oct 2008

Music podcast and video streaming service Spotify is launched by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon

31 Oct 1978

Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of a US university (Chicago)

31 Oct 2012

13 people are killed after a Sudanese military aeroplane crashes near Khartoum

31 Oct 1978

Midnight Express film premieres directed by Alan Parker starring Brad Davis Randy Quaid and John Hurt

31 Oct 1871

16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicagos 185 firefighters

31 Oct 2012

Sbastien Loeb wins the World Rally Championship for the ninth consecutive year

31 Oct 1979

Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2006 yds 19

31 Oct 1879

Germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant

31 Oct 2012

New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees breaks Johnny Unitas NFL record for consecutive games with a TD pass (48) when he connects with Devery Henderson in Saints 31-24 win over San Diego at the SuperDome

31 Oct 1979

MLB American League Championship Baltimore Orioles beat California Angels 3 games to 1

31 Oct 1882

1st World Series (game 2) Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0

31 Oct 2013

Mulatu Teshome becomes president of Ethiopia

31 Oct 1980

Guyana adopts constitution

31 Oct 1886

Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba

31 Oct 2013

James Rothman Randy Schekman and Thomas C. Sdhof win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on transport systems in cells

31 Oct 1980

John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) sentenced to 3 months imprisonment on assault charges

31 Oct 1891

31st British Golf Open Hugh Kirkaldy shoots a 166 at St Andrews

31 Oct 2014

Isamu Akasaki Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura win the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light emitting diodes

31 Oct 1982

Auburns Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals

31 Oct 1900

The term orienteering is first used for an event

31 Oct 2014

Spanish nurse diagnosed with Ebola the first case outside west Africa

31 Oct 1982

Fokker Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk Neth 17-22 die

31 Oct 1904

NY Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12)

31 Oct 2015

Nobel prize in Chemistry awarded to Tomas Lindahl (Sweden) Paul Modrich (US) and Aziz Sancar (Turkey) for work on cells DNA repair

31 Oct 1983

NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands

31 Oct 1908

Crete revolts against Turkey & aligns with Greece

31 Oct 2016

Colombias President Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace Prize for attempts to end conflict with FARC

31 Oct 1984

Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open

31 Oct 1908

Serbia & Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact

31 Oct 2017

Rapper Nelly arrested for rape in Auburn Washington

31 Oct 1985

Marita Koch of E Germany sets 400m womans record (47.6) in Australia

31 Oct 1912

The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.

31 Oct 2018

Romanian referendum to ban same sex marriage fails with only 20.4% voting

31 Oct 1985

Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games & also at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0

31 Oct 1916

The German submarine U-53 arrives off Newport Rhode Island and sinks 9 British merchant ships in international waters

31 Oct 105

BC Battle of Arausio The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.

31 Oct 1985

PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham north London.

31 Oct 1919

First London-Amsterdam airline service (British Aerial Transport & KLM)

31 Oct 68 B

C Battle of Artaxata Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.

31 Oct 1985

French McLaren driver Alain Prost clinches his first World Formula 1 Drivers title with a 4th placing in the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch

31 Oct 1919

Fritz Kreisler & F Jacobis Apple Blossoms premieres in NYC

31 Oct 891

Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope

31 Oct 1986

Russian nuclear sub K291 sinks in Atlantic Ocean

31 Oct 1919

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines established (oldest existing airline)

31 Oct 1111

Boudouin VII becomes earl of Flanders

31 Oct 1987

Military coup leader Maj-Gen Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic

31 Oct 1922

First radio link WNJ (Newark) & WGY (Senectady) link for World Series

31 Oct 1499

French King Louis XII occupies Milan

31 Oct 1988

Oakland As sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant

31 Oct 1922

Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain

31 Oct 1567

Duke of Alva becomes land guardian of Netherlands

31 Oct 1990

US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit

31 Oct 1922

Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comms of Austria

31 Oct 1683

13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown Philadelphia

31 Oct 1990

Solar Polar Orbiter Ulysses launched

31 Oct 1923

Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1138

31 Oct 1689

Pietro Ottoboni replaces Pope Innocent XI as Alexander VIII

31 Oct 1991

Meg Mallon wins LPGA Daikyo World Golf Championship

31 Oct 1924

Greek government of Dikalekopoulis forms

31 Oct 1762

British troops occupy Manila Philippines

31 Oct 1991

NY Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies

31 Oct 1926

Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage

31 Oct 1783

Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock

31 Oct 1991

Orioles last game at Baltimores Memorial Stadium (vs Det Tigers)

31 Oct 1926

Italian Great Fascist Council forms

31 Oct 1799

Battle of Castricum Franco-Dutch army beats British-Russian army

31 Oct 1993

Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000 for 1st time

31 Oct 1927

Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game

31 Oct 1849

The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.

31 Oct 1994

-9] European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria

31 Oct 1928

Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia

31 Oct 1853

4th National Womens Rights Convention opens in Cleveland Ohio

31 Oct 1994

Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg South Africa

31 Oct 1931

1st infra-red photograph Rochester NY

31 Oct 1854

The Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead started shortly after midnight leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.

31 Oct 1995

BPAA US Womens Open won by Cheryl Daniels

31 Oct 1933

NY Giants beat Washington Senators 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series

31 Oct 1857

First American Chess Congress hosted by the American Chess Association

31 Oct 1995

Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game beat Detroit

31 Oct 1935

Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series

31 Oct 1861

Naval Engagement at Charleston South Carolina USS Flag vs BR Alert

31 Oct 1995

51 Pegasi discovered as the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it

31 Oct 1936

7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel

31 Oct 1861

Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg

31 Oct 1996

Lois & Clark (fictional characters) wed

31 Oct 1937

Johan Wagenaars Feestmars premieres in Amsterdam

31 Oct 1863

Battle at Baxter Springs Kansas

31 Oct 1996

NY Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals

31 Oct 1938

Germany requires all Jewish passports be stamped with letter J

31 Oct 1863

Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath in Brooklyn

31 Oct 2000

Yugoslav president Slobodan Miloevi resigns.

31 Oct 1940

Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series

31 Oct 1866

1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take 13000)

31 Oct 2002

The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.

31 Oct 1940

World War II the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.

31 Oct 1869

John Brahms Liebeslieder Walzer premieres

31 Oct 2002

Opus Dei founder Josemara Escriv is canonized.

31 Oct 1941

German army occupies Viarma USSR

31 Oct 1871

Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour

31 Oct 2007

Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

31 Oct 1942

1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in Stalingrad

31 Oct 1876

American Library Association organized in Philadelphia

31 Oct 2008

MESSENGER spacecraft performs a second Mercury flyby

31 Oct 1942

Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing (Netherlands)

31 Oct 1882

1st World Series game Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0

31 Oct 2010

Phillies ace Roy Halladay pitches only the 2nd no-hitter in MLB postseason history in Game 1 NLDS 4-0 v Cincinnati Reds

31 Oct 1942

Maxwell Andersons Eve of St Mark premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1884

Naval War College forms in Newport Rhode Island

31 Oct 2010

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launch Instagram

31 Oct 1942

US & UK government announce establishment of United Nations

31 Oct 1886

Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure Resident Patient (BG)

31 Oct 2012

The Leeds Rhinos defeat the Warrington Wolves 26-18 to win the Super League grand final

31 Oct 1942

Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal to become wrestling champ

31 Oct 1889

Moulin Rogue opens in Paris

31 Oct 2013

53 people are killed in political clashes in Egypt

31 Oct 1943

Weill Perelman and Nash musical One Touch of Venus premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1890

General Conference of the Mormon Church outlaws polygamy

31 Oct 2014

John OKeefe May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

31 Oct 1944

Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen

31 Oct 1893

Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat

31 Oct 2015

Nobel prize for Physics awarded to Takaaki Kajita (Japan) and Arthur McDonald (Canada) for work on neutrinos

31 Oct 1944

Riots in AmersfoortUtrechtStrugle

31 Oct 1898

Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic

31 Oct 2017

British writer Kazuo Ishiguro is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

31 Oct 1944

Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp Jews burn down crematoriums

31 Oct 1898

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston Massachusetts.

31 Oct 2017

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

31 Oct 1945

Dutch author A M de Jongs murderer Ton van Gog escapes

31 Oct 1900

Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)

31 Oct 2017

Storm Nate kills at least 22 people passing through Costa Rica Nicaragua and Honduras

31 Oct 1946

Charles Ives 2nd string quartet premieres

31 Oct 1903

The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.

31 Oct 2017

Vegas Golden Knights win first ever NHL game 2-1 away to the Dallas Stars

31 Oct 1947

Larry MacPhail resigns as Yank GM after final game of World Series

31 Oct 1906

The Majlis of Iran convened for the first time.

31 Oct 2018

Australia records the biggest comeback in Rugby Championship history in beating Argentina 45-34 in Salta Wallabies trial 31-7 at halftime but score 5 second half tries to none to overwhelm Pumas

31 Oct 1949

German Democratic Republic formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day). Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier

31 Oct 1908

Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina

31 Oct 2018

Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed and sworn onto the US Supreme Court amid protests and after an FBI investigation

31 Oct 1950

NY Yankees sweep Philadelphia Phillies in 47th World Series

31 Oct 1908

Tigers beat White Sox 7-0 to win AL pennant

31 Oct 2018

Khabib Nurmagomedov of Dagestan beats Irishman Connor McGregor by 4th round submission in UFC lightweight title fight in Las Vegas instantly marred by ugly post-fight brawling incident belt withheld pending investigation

31 Oct 1950

US forces invade North Korea by crossing 38th parallel

31 Oct 1908

Yanks lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season

31 Oct 2018

Oil tanker collision with a car leaves at least 50 people dead and one hundred with serious burns near Kisantu Democratic Republic of Congo

31 Oct 1950

Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head

31 Oct 1910

Braves beat Phillies 20-7

31 Oct 610

Heraclius fleet takes Constantinople

31 Oct 1950

William H Jackson becomes deputy director of CIA

31 Oct 1911

Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot

31 Oct 869

4th Council of Constantinople (8th ecumenical council) opens

31 Oct 1950

Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping Phillies

31 Oct 1912

Pirates Owen Chief Wilson hits record 36th triple of season

31 Oct 1143

King Alfonso VII of Leon recognises Portugal as a Kingdom

31 Oct 1952

NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series

31 Oct 1914

The Russians fall back along the Eastern Front in Poland and Galicia

31 Oct 1349

Paris theologian Jean de Fayt warns against the Flagellants at Avignon

31 Oct 1952

Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins

31 Oct 1917

Battle of Passchendaele Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres after 250000 casualties on both sides

31 Oct 1430

Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy visits Brussels

31 Oct 1953

Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore they comply

31 Oct 1918

US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland 425 die

31 Oct 1450

Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX

31 Oct 1954

Hassan el Hodeiby leader of the Muslim Brothership arrested in Egypt

31 Oct 1919

Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria

31 Oct 1465

French King Louis XI signs peace with Charles the Stout

31 Oct 1954

Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem

31 Oct 1919

White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series

31 Oct 1511

Eedgenootschap signs anti-French Saint League

31 Oct 1955

Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn

31 Oct 1920

1st brothers oppose each other in World Series Cleves Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits as brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Bkln

31 Oct 1550

Foundation of the city of Concepcin Chile.

31 Oct 1956

Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open

31 Oct 1921

Century Theater opens at 7th Ave & 59th St NYC (demolished 1962)

31 Oct 1568

William of Oranges army occupies Brabant

31 Oct 1957

KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis OR (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1921

Fewest hits in World Series Game 5 Yanks (3) beat Giants (2) 3-0

31 Oct 1572

Spanish army under Alvas son Don Frederik plunders Mechelen

31 Oct 1957

Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational

31 Oct 1921

International PEN is founded in London.

31 Oct 1582

Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy and other Catholic countries

31 Oct 1958

Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court

31 Oct 1922

The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul

31 Oct 1632

Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Groningen

31 Oct 1958

US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury

31 Oct 1923

1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett Braves against Phillies)

31 Oct 1665

The University of Kiel is founded.

31 Oct 1959

Happy Town opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 5 performances

31 Oct 1923

2nd government of Stresemann in Germany forms

31 Oct 1693

Haarlem peoples revolution due to food shortages

31 Oct 1960

TV series Route 66 premieres on CBS

31 Oct 1923

US Lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record)

31 Oct 1750

Carlo Goldonis Il Teatro Comico premieres in Venice

31 Oct 1961

Bye Bye Birdie closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 performances

31 Oct 1923

USSR adopts experimental calendar

31 Oct 1762

Opera Orfeo Ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck is first produced in Vienna in front of Empress Maria Theresa.

31 Oct 1961

15th NHL All-Star Game All-Stars beat Chicago 3-1 at Chicago

31 Oct 1925

Greek premier Papanastasiou orders gen Pangulos arrested

31 Oct 1793

French Revolution Christianity is disestablished in France.

31 Oct 1962

8th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball

31 Oct 1927

The Jazz Singer directed by Alan Crosland starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy released 1st film with a soundtrack (Honorary Academy Award 1928)

31 Oct 1796

Spain declares war on England

31 Oct 1963

Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary

31 Oct 1928

Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail

31 Oct 1813

Battle of Thames in Canada Americans defeat British

31 Oct 1963

Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic kills 7190

31 Oct 1929

12th PGA Championship Leo Diegel at Hillcrest CC Los Angeles

31 Oct 1830

King Willem I mobilizes Dutch army

31 Oct 1964

NY Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 & 29th in 61 World Series

31 Oct 1931

Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish National Solidarists)

31 Oct 1857

The City of Anaheim is founded

31 Oct 1965

Charles Linster does 6006 consecutive push-ups

31 Oct 1935

Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia

31 Oct 1862

Battle of Hatchie Bridge Tennessee confederate forces avoid capture by Union army

31 Oct 1965

50 mph gust helps Robert Mitera ace 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills Omaha Nebr to score worlds longest straight hole-in-one

31 Oct 1935

Market Street Railway San Francisco starts using trackless trolley coaches

31 Oct 1862

Federal fleet occupies Galveston Texas

31 Oct 1967

Beatles turn down 1 million NY concert offer by Sid Berstein

31 Oct 1936

NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series

31 Oct 1863

Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides

31 Oct 1967

Rolf Hochhuths Soldaten premieres in West Berlin

31 Oct 1938

Yanks Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss

31 Oct 1864

Battle of Allatoona 13 of Union troops die repulsing South

31 Oct 1968

Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system

31 Oct 1939

Adolf Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem

31 Oct 1864

Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone approx 60000 die

31 Oct 1968

Rioting continues in Derry Northern Ireland after Royal Ulster Constabulary put down civil rights march two days earlier

31 Oct 1939

Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.

31 Oct 1867

Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska

31 Oct 1969

WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba MI (ABCNBC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1940

Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in San Francisco

31 Oct 1869

A strong hurricane known as the Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Maritime Canada. Incredibly British naval officer Stephen Martin Saxby predicted the storm 10 months earlier in December 1868 via astronomy.

31 Oct 1971

T McNallys Where has Tommy Flowers gone premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1941

German army occupies Briansk USSR

31 Oct 1972

1st season game at Nassau Coliseum Flames-3 Islanders-2

31 Oct 1941

NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in 38th World Series

31 Oct 1973

Iraq nationalizes Exxon and Mobil shares in Basrah Petroleum Company representing 23.75 percent equity in the company.

31 Oct 1942

Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram

31 Oct 1973

Scotsman Jackie Stewart wins his 3rd World Formula 1 Drivers title despite withdrawing from the season ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen wins title by 16 points from Emerson Fittipaldi

31 Oct 1943

Battle at Vella Lavella Solomon Island

31 Oct 1974

German Democratic Republic amends constitution

31 Oct 1944

Allied aircraft accidentally bomb Fishing Overijssel

31 Oct 1975

Players Association files a suit on behalf of Dodgers Andy Messersmith

31 Oct 1944

Canadians free Austria

31 Oct 1975

US decides John Lennon wont be deported due to UK pot conviction

31 Oct 1944

Royal Dutch Navy submarine Zwaardvis (Swordfish) sinks German submarine U168 in the Java Sea

31 Oct 1975

MLB National League Championship Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates 3 games to 0

31 Oct 1944

Soviets march into Hungary & Czechoslovakia

31 Oct 1975

MLB American League Championship Boston Red Sox beat Oakland Athletics 3 games to 0

31 Oct 1945

Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge

31 Oct 1977

Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis

31 Oct 1945

Tavern owner Billy Goat Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of Baseball World Series is escorted out and casts goat curse on Chicago Cubs

31 Oct 1977

USSR adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.

31 Oct 1946

90F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct

31 Oct 1978

LA Dodgers win the pennant

31 Oct 1946

US President Harry Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine

31 Oct 1978

MLB American League Championship New York Yankees beat Kansas City Royals 3 games to 1

31 Oct 1947

NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 44th World Series

31 Oct 1979

1940s Radio Hour opens at St James Theater NYC for 105 performances

31 Oct 1948

Polonaise opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances

31 Oct 1979

Eubie closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 439 performances

31 Oct 1948

KHJ TV channel 9 in Los Angeles CA (IND) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1979

Cleveland Browns Dino Hall sets club records with 9 kickoff returns

31 Oct 1948

The Ashgabat earthquake kills 100000 in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic

31 Oct 1979

Ferrari driver Jody Scheckter retires with tyre trouble in US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen becomes first South African to claim World Formula 1 Drivers title wins by 4 points from race winner Gilles Villeneuve

31 Oct 1949

Iva Toguri DAquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & 10000 fine

31 Oct 1980

Belgium 3rd government of Martens resigns

31 Oct 1953

WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus GA (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1981

In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3

31 Oct 1956

Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine

31 Oct 1982

Olof Palme forms Swedish government

31 Oct 1957

Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open

31 Oct 1982

Musical Cats opens at Winter Garden Theater on Broadway NYC and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10 2000.

31 Oct 1958

US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remains a record 60 days under the north pole

31 Oct 1921

Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect

31 Oct 1779

Fort Wilson Riot takes place

31 Oct 1995

29th Country Music Association Award Krauss Jackson win

31 Oct 1922

NY Yankees and Giants play out a controversial 3-3 tie in 10 innings in Game 2 of Baseball World Series at Polo Grounds Manhattan NY Giants win series 4-0-1

31 Oct 1824

Mexico becomes a republic

31 Oct 1995

Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over Mariners

31 Oct 1924

1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News

31 Oct 1830

Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands

31 Oct 1996

BPAA US Bowling Open by Dave Husted

31 Oct 1925

WSM-AM in Nashville Tenn begins radio transmissions

31 Oct 1834

Franz Grillparzers Der Traum ein Leben premieres in Vienna

31 Oct 1996

BPAA US Womens Bowling Open won by Liz Johnson

31 Oct 1925

The Lacarno Conference meets Germany agrees to recognise their frontiers with France and Belgium and will apply for membership in the League of Nations

31 Oct 1862

Battle of Corinth ends

31 Oct 1996

Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi breaks record for fastest hundred in one-day cricket history in first ODI innings Afridi savages Sri Lanka for 102 in KCA Centenary Tournament match in Nairobi reaches 100 in 37 balls

31 Oct 1930

British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France 48 die

31 Oct 1864

National black convention meets in Syracuse New York

31 Oct 1996

Left wing Mike Donnelly becomes first player in NHL history to play for all 3 New York teams (Sabres Rangers & Islanders) when he suits up for the NY Islanders in a 1-0 loss in Los Angeles

31 Oct 1930

Homecoming of the bodies of Swedish polar balloon expedition (1897) led by Salomon August Andre

31 Oct 1864

New Orleans Tribune 1st black daily newspaper forms

31 Oct 1997

Farm Aid 10 concert in Texas cancelled due to weak ticket sales and moved to Illinois

31 Oct 1931

1st nonstop transpacific flight Japan to Wash (Herndon & Pangborn)

31 Oct 1873

Toronto Argonauts Football Club (CFL) forms as Argonaut Rowing Club rugby-football squad oldest existing pro sports team in North America still using original name

31 Oct 1997

Second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte North Carolina office of Loomis Fargo and Company with 17.3 million in cash taken

31 Oct 1931

Paul Greens House of Connelly premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1873

British Open Golf St Andrews Scotsman Tom Kidd beats countryman Jamie Anderson by 1 stroke

31 Oct 1998

Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy overtakes countryman Rod Marshs world record of 355 Test cricket dismissals during 1st Test win v Pakistan in Rawalpindi catches Wasim Akram off Colin Miller to reach milestone

31 Oct 1932

With new ownership Detroit Falcons officially change name to Detroit Red Wings and the Winged Wheel is introduced previous names Cougars (1926-30) Falcons (1930-32)

31 Oct 1878

British Open Golf Prestwick GC Scotsman Jamie Anderson wins 2nd of 3 consecutive Championships beats Bob Kirk by 2 strokes

31 Oct 1998

Australian motorcycle racer Mick Doohan wins the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island to clinch his 5th world 500cc championship all 5 titles are won with Honda

31 Oct 1936

The Jarrow March sets off for London.

31 Oct 1880

University of California founded in Los Angeles

31 Oct 1999

Rain prevents play on the final day of the 3rd cricket Test between Sri Lanka and Australia in Colombo despite 105 from Ricky Ponting Sri Lanka wins first ever Test series v Australia

31 Oct 1937

Dutch Minister Carl Romme says unemployment is 25% quarter of Romme

31 Oct 1881

Edward Leveaux patents automatic player piano

31 Oct 2000

34th Country Music Association Award Dixie Chicks Faith Hill & Tim McGraw wins

31 Oct 1941

Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike and Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely for Yankees for a famous Baseball World Series error would have been last out instead Yankees score 4 and win 7-4 win series 4-1

31 Oct 1883

First meeting of the Boys Brigade in Glasgow Scotland.

31 Oct 2001

Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.

31 Oct 1942

5000 Jews of Dubno Russia massacred

31 Oct 1895

US Open Golf Newport GC Englishman Horace Rawlins wins inaugural event beats Willie Dunn of Scotland by 2 strokes

31 Oct 2001

Brendan Shanahan scores a hat trick in Red Wings 4-3 OT win at San Jose becomes second player in NHL history to score an opening-night hat trick twice in his career

31 Oct 1942

St Louis Cardinals win clubs 4th Baseball World Series beat NY Yankees 4-2 in Game 5 at Yankee Stadium for 4-1 series victory

31 Oct 1900

Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure Problem of Thor Bridge (BG)

31 Oct 2003

Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa Israel 21 Israelis Jews and Arabs are killed and 51 others wounded.

31 Oct 1942

Budy Massacre at Auschwitz sub-camp 90 French-Jewish women beaten to death by prison guards

31 Oct 1900

In a final confrontation some 4000 Ashantis are defeated by the British in Gold Coast (Ghana)

31 Oct 2003

Red Raiders quarterback B.J. Symons sets a Big 12 Conference record with 8 touchdown passes leading Texas Tech to a convincing 59-28 win over Texas A & M

31 Oct 1943

US air raid on Wake Japanese execute 98 US prisoners in retaliation

31 Oct 1901

Charlie Barr skippered Columbia (US) beats Shamrock II (UK) 3-0 on New York City Harbour in 11th Americas Cup yachting challenge series

31 Oct 1944

Harold ArlenET Harburgs musical premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1906

Chicago Cubs beat Pittsburg Pirates 4-0 to end MLB season at 116-36 with .763 winning percentage unmatched since

31 Oct 1944

Kerkrade (Neth) liberated

31 Oct 1910

Portugal becomes a republic King Manuel II flees to England

31 Oct 1944

Suffrage is extended to women in France

31 Oct 1910

Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda.

31 Oct 1945

Meet the Press premieres on radio

31 Oct 1911

1st escalator installed on the London Underground at Earls Court Station

31 Oct 1945

Indonesian army forms

31 Oct 1913

Freddy Wilson of Regina Roughriders kicks 10 singles in 21-3 win over Saskatoon Rugby Club

31 Oct 1945

Queen Wilhelmina visits Rotterdam

31 Oct 1914

Dardanelles French & British fleet bombards Turkish forts

31 Oct 1945

Hollywood Black Friday A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers studios.

31 Oct 1915

Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established

31 Oct 1946

Yours Is My Heart closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 36 performances

31 Oct 1916

Market Streets Path of Gold lit for 1st time

31 Oct 1946

1st Cannes Film Festival ends

31 Oct 1917

British assault on Broodseinde France

31 Oct 1946

Newcastle United equals English Football League record for biggest winning margin in a 13-0 thrashing of Newport in a Division 2 match at St. James Park Len Shackleton scores 6 Charlie Wayman 4 for the Toon

31 Oct 1921

League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians

31 Oct 1947

Brooklyn outfielder Al Gionfriddo makes famous catch off Joe DiMaggio in Game 6 of Baseball World Series Dodgers beat Yankees 8-6 catch inspires back-back-back expression

31 Oct 1921

Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected President of Free State of Fiume

31 Oct 1949

Sportswriter Robert Ruark first reports golfing great Bobby Joness rare spinal disease (syringomyelia) would prevent him from playing form of golf again

31 Oct 1922

Writer Grantland Rice does the announcing as the New York Giants-New York Yankees Baseball World Series is broadcast for the first time over radio (WJZ & WGY)

31 Oct 1949

WOR (now WWOR) TV channel 9 in NY-Secaucus NY (IND) begins

31 Oct 1922

Protocol of Genevia signed Austria gains independence

31 Oct 1950

Pardon Our French opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 100 performances

31 Oct 1923

Young Stribling ostensibly beats Mike McTigue on points in Columbus Georgia for world light-heavyweight boxing title referee Harry Ertle later calls fight a draw saying he was coerced by promoters into awarding points decision to Stribling McTigue retains title

31 Oct 1952

19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow

31 Oct 1924

New York Giants became first team to play in 4 consecutive World Series win Game 1 4-3 at Griffith Field lose series 4-3 in manager John McGraws 9th and final WS appearance

31 Oct 1952

6th NHL All-Star Game Detroit Olympia 1st Team ties 2nd Team 1-1 for 2nd year format had 1st & 2nd All-Star Teams with additional players play each other

31 Oct 1926

Dahlia is officially designated as San Francisco city flower

31 Oct 1953

50th Baseball World Series NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers 4-3 in Game 6 for 4-2 series win NY 2nd baseman Billy Martins 12 hits sets WS record Yankees win record 5th consecutive WS

31 Oct 1927

Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore (works on till 1941)

31 Oct 1953

The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.

31 Oct 1928

25th World Series begins at Yankee Stadium with Bronx Bombers beating St Louis Cardinals 4-1 sweep series for 2nd consecutive year

31 Oct 1954

Hurricane Hazel forms in the Caribbean killing 400-1000 people inthe Bahamas and Haiti

31 Oct 1928

KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet

31 Oct 1957

11th NHL All-Star Game Montreal Forum NY Rangers left wing Dean Prentice scores a goal and has 2 assists as All-Stars beat Montreal Canadiens 5-3

31 Oct 1930

Philadelphia Athletics Jack Quinn aged 47 oldest to play in World Series pitches 2 innings in Game 3 5-0 defeat to St. Louis win series 4-2

31 Oct 1957

Ryder Cup Golf Lindrick GC Great Britain-Ireland win 7-4 Dai Rees captains home team to first Cup victory since 1933

31 Oct 1931

Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts

31 Oct 1957

Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilos sentenced to 7 years

31 Oct 1931

Juan Esteban Montero becomes President of Chile

31 Oct 1958

KRTV TV channel 3 in Great Falls MT (CBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1932

Anti-semite Julius Gombos forms new government in Hungary

31 Oct 1960

British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament

31 Oct 1933

Esquire magazine is 1st published

31 Oct 1960

Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)

31 Oct 1936

Italian lire devalued

31 Oct 1960

KEYC TV channel 12 in Mankato MN (CBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1936

Record crowd 66669 packs Yankee Stadium for Game 4 of Baseball World Series Yankees beat Giants 5-2 win series 4-2

31 Oct 1961

China & Nepal sign treaty

31 Oct 1939

Last Polish troops surrender

31 Oct 1962

The Beatles release their first record Love Me Do

31 Oct 1940

12 German aircrafts shot down above England

31 Oct 1963

17th NHL All-Star Game Maple Leaf Gardens Leafs left wing Frank Mahovlich scores twice with 1 assist as Toronto ties All Stars 3-3

31 Oct 1940

French Vichy regime proclaims end of Statute of the Jews

31 Oct 1963

Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park

31 Oct 1942

German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad

31 Oct 1963

Little Richard joins Everly Brothers Tour

31 Oct 1943

Corsica freed by Free French

31 Oct 1964

KIXE TV channel 9 in Redding CA (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1943

German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence)

31 Oct 1964

San Francisco Fire Department Museum dedicated

31 Oct 1944

British troops land on Greek continent

31 Oct 1965

Chuck Linster performs 6006 consecutive push-ups

31 Oct 1944

The only all-St. Louis World Series opens at Sportsmans Park with the visiting Browns beating the Cardinals 2-1 on George McQuinns home run Cards win series 4-2

31 Oct 1965

Dick McInnes from Henderson Kentucky stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite pulled by a speedboat along the Ohio River

31 Oct 1948

Cleveland Indians beat Boston Red Sox 8 - 3 in a one-game playoff to decide the AL pennant keys are the pitching of Gene Bearden and hitting of Lou Boudreau

31 Oct 1968

KPLM (now KESQ) TV channel 42 in Palm Springs CA (ABC) begins

31 Oct 1948

World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft

31 Oct 1968

Civil rights march in Derry stopped by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)and resulting clashes lead to two days of serious rioting often considered the start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland

31 Oct 1949

American Contract Bridge League votes 58% to keep blacks out

31 Oct 1970

John Creach joins Jefferson Airplane

31 Oct 1949

United Nations permanent NYC headquarters is dedicated

31 Oct 1970

Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross

31 Oct 1952

Top Banana closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 356 performances

31 Oct 1970

PBS becomes a US television network.

31 Oct 1953

British runner Jim Peters sets world marathon record 21834.8 in the Turku Marathon in Finland

31 Oct 1970

MLB Championship Series both end on the same day with same score (AL) Baltimore Orioles beat Minnesota Twins 3-0 (NL) Cincinnati Reds down Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0 Orioles win WS 4-1

31 Oct 1955

Brooklyn Dodgers win their first Baseball World Series with a 2-0 victory in Game 7 against arch-rival New York Yankees Dodgers had lost their previous 7 World Series

31 Oct 1971

A new sitting of the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont begins though the Social Democratic and Labour Party remain absent due to its continuing protest against Internment

31 Oct 1955

Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul

31 Oct 1972

Herbert Mullin 1st kills claiming it was to prevent earthquakes

31 Oct 1957

Leave It to Beaver debuts on CBS

31 Oct 1973

Signature of the European Patent Convention.

31 Oct 1957

USSR launches Sputnik I 1st artificial Earth satellite

31 Oct 1974

Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 65 injured.

31 Oct 1957

Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton Ontario.

31 Oct 1975

Austrian Niki Lauda wins the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen to claim his first World Formula 1 drivers championship wins by 19.5 points from Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil

31 Oct 1958

12th NHL All-Star Game Montreal Forum Maurice Rocket Richard scores twice and brother Henri the winner as Montreal Canadiens beat All-Stars 6-3

31 Oct 1976

MLB expansion draft Seattle Mariners & Toronto Blue Jays pick 30 unprotected AL players Ruppert Jones OF (Seattle) & Bob Bailor OF (Toronto) are first picks

31 Oct 1958

5th French republic forms

31 Oct 1977

Hair opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 43 performances

31 Oct 1958

Transatlantic commercial jet passenger service began (BOAC)

31 Oct 1978

Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prize for literature

31 Oct 1958

Fifth Republic of France is established.

31 Oct 1978

Swedens Flldin government falls

31 Oct 1959

First Baseball World Series game played west of St Louis LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox 3-1 in Game 3 record 92394 at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

31 Oct 1978

Over 30 major nations ratify the Environmental Modification Convention which prohibits weather warfare that has widespread long-lasting or severe effects

31 Oct 1959

Netherlands equal best performance against neighbours Belgium win 9-1 in soccer friendly at De Kuip Rotterdam Piet van der Kuil & Faas Wilkes score 3 apiece

31 Oct 1978

The Boys from Brazil debuts

31 Oct 1959

USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moons far side

31 Oct 1980

Formal opening of meditation hall of Zenshin Temple in Riverdale the Bronx NYC

31 Oct 1960

Courier 1B Launched 1st active repeater satellite in orbit

31 Oct 1980

Australian Williams driver Alan Jones wins the United States East Grand Prix to claim his first World Formula 1 Drivers title wins by 13 points from Nelson Piquet of Brazil

31 Oct 1962

USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32300m

31 Oct 1981

Dutch guilderDeutsche mark revalued up 5.5%

31 Oct 1963

-8] Hurricane Flora kills 6000 in Cuba & Haiti

31 Oct 1981

Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honorary American (posthumously)

31 Oct 1963

Gambia achieves full internal self-government

31 Oct 1982

Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia

31 Oct 1964

-7] Hurricane Hilda kills 38 in La Miss & Ga

31 Oct 1982

Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9851 kph at White Sands NM

31 Oct 1964

3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81

31 Oct 1982

First regular season NHL game is played in New Jersey (Newark NJ Devils play a 3-3 tie against Pittsburgh Penguins at Brendan Byrne Arena Don Lever scores first Devils goal

31 Oct 1964

Italian Autostrada del Sol opens at Milan-Naples

31 Oct 1982

Pakistan cricket spin bowler Abdul Qadir takes 7142 as Australia is dismissed for 330 in 2nd Test in Faisalabad Greg Ritchie scores maiden Test century (106 no) but home side prevails by an innings & 3 runs

31 Oct 1964

Boston Patriots kicker Gino Cappelletti lands 6-from-6 field goals and 3-from-3 conversions in 39-10 win v Denver Broncos at Bears Stadium Denver

31 Oct 1983

Panamanian jockey Jorge Velasquez wins his 5000th career race riding Banquet Scene to victory in the 4th race at Belmont Park

31 Oct 1965

Pickwick opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 56 performances

31 Oct 1984

13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G)-Challenger 6-launched

31 Oct 1965

Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN)

31 Oct 1985

Gramblings Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game

31 Oct 1965

USSR launches Luna 7 crash lands on Moon

31 Oct 1986

London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms

31 Oct 1966

Dutch Cardinal Alfrink presents New Catechism

31 Oct 1986

Rams running back Eric Dickerson runs for an NFL overtime record 42-yard touchdown as LA defeats Tampa Bay Buccaneers 26-20 at Anaheim Stadium

31 Oct 1966

Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)

31 Oct 1988

Brazil adopts its Constitution

31 Oct 1967

St Louis Cardinals beat Boston Red Sox 2-1 in Game 1 of Baseball World Series at Fenway Park first Fall Classic since 1948 not to feature Yankees Giants or Dodgers Cards win series 4-3

31 Oct 1988

Israel bans Meir Kahanes Kach Party on grounds of racism

31 Oct 1967

Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah

31 Oct 1990

Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obsentity (Mappelthorpe photos)

31 Oct 1968

A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) delegation meet with the Derry March organisers and try to have the march cancelled eventually it was decided to go ahead with the march.

31 Oct 1990

Henry and June film based on the book by Anas Nin first film to be given an NC-17 rating in the US released

31 Oct 1969

Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Brooklyn Myrtle Beach

31 Oct 1990

Pittsburgh Penguins left wing Kevin Stevens has 2 goals & 4 assists in 7-4 opening-night win against the Washington Capitals at Capital Centre to set NHL record for most points in a season opener (6)

31 Oct 1969

UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters

31 Oct 1991

Military transport plane crashes at Jakarta 133 dies

31 Oct 1969

MLB holds first league championship games National League Championship Series New York Mets beat Atlanta Braves 9-5 Baltimore Orioles beat Minnesota Twins 4-3 in American League Championship Series

31 Oct 1991

USSR reduces nuclear weapons arsenal

31 Oct 1970

Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages

31 Oct 1991

Fresno State ties NCAA football record with 49 points in a quarter (2nd) as they route New Mexico 94-17 at Bulldog Stadium Fresno

31 Oct 1970

WFYI TV channel 20 in Indianapolis IN (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1991

The first official version of the Linux kernel version 0.02 is released.

31 Oct 1970

Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1984 ft TV mast in Tulsa Oklahoma

31 Oct 1992

NY senator Alphonse DAmato filibusters for 15 hours 20 mins

31 Oct 1970

Jochen Rindt of Austria posthumously clinches World Formula 1 Drivers title at the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen when contender Jacky Ickx finishes 4th Rindt killed in a practice accident at the Italian GP at Monza 5970

31 Oct 1992

US Air goes on strike

31 Oct 1971

Bordens opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World

31 Oct 1994

28th Country Music Association Award Vince Gill & Pam Tillis wins

31 Oct 1971

KMPH TV channel 26 in Visalia-Fresno CA (IND) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1994

52 members of Zonnetempel murdered

31 Oct 1973

Hans of Manens ballet Adagio Hammerklavier premieres in Amsterdam

31 Oct 1995

Company opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 performances

31 Oct 1975

A Cessna 310Q airplane crashes over Wilmington North Carolina killing the pilot and severely injuring several pro wrestlers affiliated with the NWAs Mid-Atlantic promotion. One of the survivors is the legendary Ric Flair.

31 Oct 1996

Cleveland Indians strike out 23 Baltimore Orioles in 12 innings in 4-3 ALDS win at Jacobs Field Orioles win series 3-1

31 Oct 1976

US Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns after telling a racial joke

31 Oct 1996

New York centre fielder Bernie Williams homers from each side of the plate as the Yankees beat Texas 6-4 to win the AL Division Series 3 - 1

31 Oct 1976

Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers

31 Oct 1997

Federation Cup Womens Tennis Den Bosch Netherlands Sandrine Testud wins both her singles to lead France to 4-1 win over the Netherlands

31 Oct 1976

Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).

31 Oct 1997

STS 86 (Atlantis 20) lands

31 Oct 1978

Pier 39 opens in San Francisco

31 Oct 1999

The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.

31 Oct 1978

Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I

31 Oct 2001

Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the anthrax attacks.

31 Oct 1979

Hugh Leonards Life premieres in Dublin

31 Oct 2001

MLBs Atlanta Braves become first pro sports team to win 10 straight division titles after mauling the Marlins 20-3 to clinch the NL East title NBAs Boston Celtics (1957-65) & LA Lakers (1982-90) both won 9 in a row

31 Oct 1980

ABC premiere of Saturday futuristic fantasy cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian

31 Oct 2002

For the first time in its 42-year old history the Anaheim Angels win a post-season series by beating the Yankees 9-5 to take the ALDS 3-1

31 Oct 1981

Meadowlands Arena opens in New Jersey

31 Oct 2003

Kansas City wide receiver Dante Hall scores on game winning 93-yard punt return in Chiefs 24-23 victory v Denver Broncos at Arrowhead Stadium returns for score in an NFL-record 4th straight game

31 Oct 1983

Richard Noble driving Thrust2 reaches new land speed record of 650.88 mph (1047.49 kmh) at Black Rock Desert Nevada

31 Oct 2003

Chicago Cubs win their first MLB postseason series since the 1908 World Series with 5-1 win v Atlanta Braves in Game 5 NLDS at Turner Field

31 Oct 1985

Henry G Perry completes 157 day 14021 mile bicycle tour of Australia

31 Oct 2004

7-time All-Star and 6-time World Champion forward Scottie Pippen announces his retirement from the NBA and the Chicago Bulls

31 Oct 1985

Shiite Muslims claim to have killed hostage William Buckley

31 Oct 1875

Palace Hotel on Market Street opens in San Francisco

31 Oct 2005

NHL opens regular season after 10-month lockout of entire 2004-05 season Ottawas Daniel Alfredsson & Dany Heatley first players to score winning goals in a shoot out in NHL history both score v Toronto goalie Ed Belfour in 3-2 OT victory

31 Oct 1985

Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts USA

31 Oct 1877

Chief Joseph surrenders ending Nez Perce War

31 Oct 2005

NHL great Wayne Gretzky makes his coaching debut for the Phoenix Coyotes in 3-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena

31 Oct 1986

Queen Beatrice installs dam at Oosterschelde

31 Oct 1887

1st US National Championship Womens Tennis Philadelphia Cricket Club Ellen Hansell beats Laura Knight 6-1 6-0

31 Oct 2009

Australia wins crickets Champions Trophy at Centurion Park in Gauteng South Africa by 6 wickets (28 balls remaining) v New Zealand chasing 200 Shane Watson is 105 not out in Australias 2064

31 Oct 1986

Rachel Oliver (Mass) 20 crowned 19th Miss Black America

31 Oct 1892

Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville Kansas bank holdup

31 Oct 2010

Injured Indian cricket batsman VVS Laxman is the hero with 73 not out as the home team chases down 216 to beat Australia with just 1 wicket to spare in the 1st Test at Mohali

31 Oct 1987

First Scab Sunday of NFL football with replacement players as a result of players strike chiefly related to the expiration of 1982 Collective Bargaining Agreement players returned October 15

31 Oct 1895

First UK individual cycling time trial is held on a 50-mile course north of London Frederick Thomas Bidlake organiser

31 Oct 2012

Anglo Platinum Limited fires 12000 striking workers in South Africa

31 Oct 1987

Winnipeg CFL defensive back James Jefferson scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception scores both on laterals in Blue Bombers 47-14 win v Hamilton Tiger-Cats

31 Oct 1896

William Gillettes Secret Service premieres in NYC

31 Oct 2013

In an all-Russian boxing contest Wladimir Klitschko beats Alexander Povetkin in 12 round unanimous points decision in Moscow to retain his WBA WBO IBF IBO heavyweight titles

31 Oct 1988

Pillsbury stock soars 18.37 to 57.37 on takeover bid

31 Oct 1897

Swedish explorer Solomon August Andre expedition to the North Pole reaches White Island

31 Oct 2014

French driver Jules Bianchi collides with recovery vehicle during Japanese Grand Prix dies 2 days later first F1 death due to racing accident in 21 years (Ayrton Senna 1994)

31 Oct 1989

SF Giants 1st baseman Will Clark hits first NLCS grand slam since 1977 in 11-3 win v Chicago Cubs Clark goes 4-for-4 with 2 HRs to tie NLCS RBI record (6) for an entire series in less than 4 innings

31 Oct 1900

US Open Mens Golf Chicago GC Harry Vardon of Jersey wins his only US title beats Englishman J.H. Taylor by 2 strokes

31 Oct 2015

Nobel prize for Medicine awarded to William C. Campbell Satoshi mura (Roundworm) and Youyou Tu (Malaria)

31 Oct 1990

Stand Up Tragedy opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 13 performances

31 Oct 1903

Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard OConnor are appointed as foundation justices.

31 Oct 1209

Pope Innocent II crowns German king Otto of Wittelsbach

31 Oct 1990

Regional elections held in East Germany

31 Oct 1907

Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) plays first game Montreal beats Toronto 17-8 in Montreal

31 Oct 1227

Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.

31 Oct 1991

Delta Center in Salt Lake City Utah

31 Oct 1908

Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey Ferdinand I becomes Tsar

31 Oct 1363

End of the Battle of Lake Poyang the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival Chen Youliang one of the largest naval battles in history with 850000 taking part (approx.)

31 Oct 1991

San Jose Sharks play first NHL game in franchise history a 4-3 loss in Vancouver native Californian Craig Coxe scores clubs first goal while Jeff Hackett makes an impressive 48 saves

31 Oct 1908

Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh beats Detroit Tigers 6-1 his 40th victory of the MLB season forces AL pennant race to the final day

31 Oct 1537

The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is printed with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.

31 Oct 1991

Whiteland Janice driven by Mike Lachance wins Kentucky Futurity

31 Oct 1910

Portugal overthrows monarchy proclaims republic

31 Oct 1571

-13] Synod of Emden Calvinist leaders establish the Dutch Reformed Church.

31 Oct 1991

The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.

31 Oct 1911

Italian troops occupy Tripoli

31 Oct 1582

Last Julian calendar day in Spain Portugal and pontifical states

31 Oct 1992

Anna Karenina closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 performances

31 Oct 1912

Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Athletics 3 - 0 for their 105th win of the MLB season an AL record until 1927 Yankees 110

31 Oct 1636

Battle at Wittstock Brandenburg Sweden beat Ferdinand III

31 Oct 1992

Real Inspector Hound closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances

31 Oct 1912

NY Highlanders last game at Hilltop stadium beat Washington 8-6 Brooklyn Dodgers last game at Washington Park lose 1-0 v NY Giants

31 Oct 1636

In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colonys 1st law drafted

31 Oct 1992

1st time AL East & West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor & Oak

31 Oct 1914

World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill

31 Oct 1648

Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer fire service

31 Oct 1992

El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer 43 die

31 Oct 1915

Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.

31 Oct 1675

Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens patents the pocket watch

31 Oct 1992

Miami Dolphin Louis Oliver returns record tying interception 103 yards

31 Oct 1915

Allies land troops at the northern Greek city of Salonika Greece is nominally neutral but allows the landing

31 Oct 1693

Battle of Marsaglia Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.

31 Oct 1992

The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.

31 Oct 1919

Norwegian population agrees to prohibition

31 Oct 1712

Utrecht banishes poor Jews

31 Oct 1994

7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen flood kills 18

31 Oct 1921

First Baseball World Series radio broadcast all-NY contest Yanks beat Giants 3-0 at Polo Grounds sportswriter Grantland Rice is the caller

31 Oct 1725

Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.

31 Oct 1994

Soyuz TM-20 launches

31 Oct 1964

NY Yankees beat Cleveland Indians 8-3 to clinch Bronx Bombers 5th consecutive AL pennant and 29th in clubs history

31 Oct 1950

Bob Shaw of Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD receptions in 55-13 win against Baltimore Colts Cardinals quarterback Jim Hardy tosses 6 touchdown passes

31 Oct 1965

Dual Melbourne Cup winning Australian jockey Pat Glennon rides French colt Sea Bird to victory in the Prix de lArc De Triomphe to claim an impressive double after the thoroughbreds English Derby win

31 Oct 1951

1st Netherland TV broadcast (Toverspiegel)

31 Oct 1966

Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president

31 Oct 1952

Don Liddle beats Bob Lemon 7-4 as the New York Giants complete an unlikely Baseball World Series sweep of the powerful Cleveland Indians Cleveland season record of 111-43 sets American League mark for regular season wins

31 Oct 1967

KGSC (now KICU) TV channel 36 in San Jose CA (IND) begins

31 Oct 1953

Comedy in Music (Victor Borge) opens at John Golden NYC for 849 performances

31 Oct 1967

King Boudouin inaugurates worlds biggest floodgate (Antwerp)

31 Oct 1953

Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine sets a Baseball World Series record with 14 strikeouts in a 3-2 Game 3 win against the New York Yankees.

31 Oct 1967

William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7297 KPH4534 MPHMach 6.72

31 Oct 1954

8th NHL All-Star Game Detroit Olympia All-Stars tie Detroit Red Wings 2-2

31 Oct 1968

Howard Sacklers Great White Hope premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1954

Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal India

31 Oct 1968

Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belande Terry in Peru

31 Oct 1954

New York Giants beat Cleveland Indians 7-4 in Game 4 to sweep the Baseball World Series 4-0 Indians trail 7-0 and never recover

31 Oct 1968

The proposed civil rights march in Derry Northern Ireland is banned from the area of the city centre and the Waterside area the banning order is issued under the Public Order Act by William Craig then Home Affairs Minister

31 Oct 1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents premieres on CBS television in the US

31 Oct 1970

Coco closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 333 performances

31 Oct 1955

9th NHL All-Star Game Detroit Olympia Earl Dutch Reibel scores twice and adds an assist as Detroit Red Wings beat All-Stars 3-1

31 Oct 1970

First umpires strike in MLB history lasts one day during League Championship Series AL and NL presidents recognise newly-formed MLB Umpires Association negotiate labor contract

31 Oct 1955

Chiva Stoica becomes premier of Romania

31 Oct 1970

WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson MS (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1955

WHTN (now WOWK) TV ch 13 in Huntington-Charleston WV (CBS) begins

31 Oct 1971

Scotsman Jackie Stewart finishes 5th in the season ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen to claim his second World Formula 1 Drivers title by 29 points from Swede Ronnie Peterson

31 Oct 1956

1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC

31 Oct 1972

Spaceflight 71-2 launched 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown

31 Oct 1957

New York Yankees appear in their 25th Baseball World Series beat Milwaukee Braves 3-1 in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium lose series 4-3

31 Oct 1972

Future Baseball Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher Steve Carlton wins 27th game as Philadelphia beats Cubs 11-1 at Wrigley Field almost half Phillies 59 wins

31 Oct 1957

New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores

31 Oct 1972

Roric Harrison homers as Baltimore beats Cleveland 4-3 last AL pitcher to homer until MLB inter-league play 25 years later

31 Oct 1958

Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day)

31 Oct 2003

Trainer Bobby Frankel saddles Sightseek to victory in the Beldame Stakes at Belmont Park Frankels 23rd Grade I stakes winner of the year breaking D. Wayne Lukas 1987 record of 22

31 Oct 1973

Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader

31 Oct 1958

Musical show Valmouth 1st produced in London

31 Oct 2003

Jockey Jerry Bailey surpasses his own single season record for North American purse earnings (19271814) set in 2002 wins aboard Sightseek in Beldame Stakes & Birdstone in Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park

31 Oct 1974

Watergate crinimal trial begins

31 Oct 1959

Rod Serlings Twilight Zone premieres on CBS-TV

31 Oct 2004

SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight

31 Oct 1974

39-year old Frank Robinson becomes MLBs first African-American manager when he signs as player-manager for Cleveland Indians agrees to 1-year contract estimated at 180000

31 Oct 1961

Ben Casey premieres on NBC-TV

31 Oct 2005

All the Right Reasons fifth studio album by Nickelback is released

31 Oct 1975

Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap

31 Oct 1961

WETA TV channel 26 in Washington D.C. (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 2008

On This Day (then HistoryOrb.com) receives its first major overhaul and redesign

31 Oct 1976

Helmuth Kohls CDU wins German parliament election

31 Oct 1961

WHRO TV channel 15 in Hampton-Norfolk VA (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 2009

George Papandreous Panhellenic Socialist Movement defeats Greeces governing New Democracy party in an electoral landslide.

31 Oct 1977

Comedy with Music (Victor Borge) opens at Imperial NYC for 66 performances

31 Oct 1962

San Francisco Giants beat rival LA Dodgers 8-7 in 4 hours 18 minutes in Game 2 NL tie-break series longest 9-inning game in MLB history Giants win series 2-1

31 Oct 2010

Ryder Cup Golf Celtic Manor Resort Wales Europe wins 14-13 with scores level Irishman Graeme McDowell holds nerve to beat Hunter Mahan 3 & 1

31 Oct 1978

Gold hits record 223.50 an ounce in London

31 Oct 1963

LA Dodgers Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 NY Yankees in Game 1 of the Baseball World Series at Yankee Stadium Dodgers win 5-2 and sweep series 4-0

31 Oct 2333

BC State of Gojoseon (Modern-day Korea) founded by Dangun Wanggeom during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Yao

31 Oct 1980

4 dies in attack on synagogue in Paris

31 Oct 1964

Philadelphias Alex Johnson-Bobby Wine-Tony Taylor-Vic Power combine for Phillies 3rd triple play of the season (tying MLB record) in 4-3 win v Cincinnati Reds

31 Oct 1143

Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II

31 Oct 1981

Milwaukee Brewers and Montreal Expos clinch their first-ever postseason appearances Brewers beat Detroit 2 - 1 for AL East title Expos defeat NY Mets 5 - 4 for NL East second playoff spot

31 Oct 1965

Mel Stottlemyre wins game 20

31 Oct 1247

Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor

31 Oct 1981

Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-mo hunger strike

31 Oct 1965

Pope Paul VI named MR Perey bishops helper of New Orleans

31 Oct 1264

Comet said to predict death of Pope Urban IV is last seen

31 Oct 1982

Centre fielder Robin Yount homers twice as Milwaukee whips Baltimore 10-2 at Memorial Stadium to win the Brewers only AL East Championship

31 Oct 1966

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax wins his 27th game of the season 6-3 v Philadelphia Phillies clinches Dodgers 3rd National League pennant in 4 years

31 Oct 1283

Dafydd ap Gruffydd Prince of Gwynedd Wales becomes the first person executed by being hanged drawn and quartered

31 Oct 1984

US government shuts down due to lack of agreement over passage of bills

31 Oct 1966

Australian Robert Nat Young puts on a dominating performance to win the World Surfing Championship at Ocean Beach San Diego Joyce Hoffman of Capistrano Beach California takes womens title

31 Oct 1430

Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia

31 Oct 1985

21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched

31 Oct 1967

Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents

31 Oct 1569

Battle of Montcontour Duke of Anjou beats Huguenots

31 Oct 1985

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) adopts constitution

31 Oct 1967

Groundbreaking begins on Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia

31 Oct 1574

The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen and the forces of Admiral Boisot

31 Oct 1985

South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution

31 Oct 1968

1st London performance of Promises Promises presented

31 Oct 1605

Chinese uprising on Philippines TondoQuiapo massacre

31 Oct 1985

Walter Polovchak becomes a free man upon turning 18

31 Oct 1968

St. Louis pitcher Bob Gibson establishes a new Baseball World Series mark by striking out 17 batters as the Cardinals beat Detroit 4-0 in Game 1 of the Fall Classic

31 Oct 1657

French troops occupy Mardyke

31 Oct 1986

Baltimore loses 6-3 to Detroit Tigers assuring Orioles of clubs first ever last-place finish in AL East standings

31 Oct 1968

Mexico City police fire on protesting students 300-500 killed

31 Oct 1683

The Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan (under the Kingdom of Tungning) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu.

31 Oct 1986

Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC 3 die

31 Oct 1968

Republic Guinea forms (day of republic)

31 Oct 1691

English & Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland

31 Oct 1986

TASCC a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories was officially opened.

31 Oct 1968

1st time 2 soon-to-be-named MVPs oppose each other Cards Bob Gibson beat Tigers Denny McLain 4-0

31 Oct 1735

France & Emperor Karel VI sign peace accord

31 Oct 1987

San Diego catcher Benito Santiagos MLB rookie record 34-game hitting streak ends as Padres snap 9-game losing streak with a 1-0 victory v LA Dodgers

31 Oct 1969

Seattle Pilots last game in Seattle crash to 98th season loss 3-1 to Oakland in front of just 5473 move to Milwaukee as the Brewers next season

31 Oct 1739

The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War 1736-.

31 Oct 1987

Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo Chile

31 Oct 1970

Detroit general manager Jim Campbell gives controversial Billy Martin a 2-year deal (1971-72) to manage the Tigers at a well above MLB average annual salary of 65000

31 Oct 1789

Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26

31 Oct 1988

26th Space Shuttle Mission Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days

31 Oct 1970

14 members of the Wichita State University Football team as well as 17 administrators and supporters are killed in a plane crash in the Rocky Mountains

31 Oct 1835

Staedtler Company was founded by J.S. Staedtler in Nuremburg Germany.

31 Oct 1988

Criterion Center Theater opens at Broadway bet 44th & 45th Sts NYC

31 Oct 1971

Homing pigeon averages a record 133kph in an 1100km race in Australia

31 Oct 1862

-10] Battle of Corinth Mississippi

31 Oct 1988

Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)

31 Oct 1972

From Israel with Love opens at Palace Theater NYC for 8 performances

31 Oct 1862

Skirmish at Bardstown Kentucky

31 Oct 1988

WBMW-FM Washington D.C. changes calls to WJFK & begins airing Howard Stern

31 Oct 1972

Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi kills 105

31 Oct 1863

Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day

31 Oct 1990

Reunification of East and West Germany. West German flag is raised above the Brandenburg Gate on the stroke of midnight.

31 Oct 1972

Bill Stoneman of Montreal pitches his 2nd no-hitter beating Mets 7-0

31 Oct 1872

Bloomingdales department store in NY opens

31 Oct 1990

Detroit 1st baseman Cecil Fielder becomes 11th player in MLB history to hit 50 HRs in a season 50th & 51st in 10-3 win v NY Yankees at Yankee Stadium

31 Oct 1972

Danish population votes for membership of the European Common Market

31 Oct 1873

Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.

31 Oct 1990

Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obsenity for selling 2 Live Crew rap records

31 Oct 1972

Montreal Expos pitcher Bill Stoneman no-hits the New York Mets 7 - 0 at Parc Jarry first MLB no-hitter ever pitched in Canada

31 Oct 1884

British Open Golf Prestwick GC Jack Simpson wins in windy conditions by 4 strokes from fellow Scots Douglas Rolland and Willie Fernie

31 Oct 1992

Atlanta Braves end season with 1-0 victory v San Diego Padres at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium for franchise record 98th MLB win (old record 95 in 1957)

31 Oct 1972

Ron Johnson becomes 1st NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs Philadelphia)

31 Oct 1885

British Open Golf St Andrews Bob Martin wins his second Championship by 1 stroke from fellow Scot Archie Simpson

31 Oct 1993

White LiarsBlack Comedy closes at Criterion NYC after 38 performances

31 Oct 1975

The Ulster Volunteer Force kill 7 civilians in a series of attacks across Northern Ireland 6 were Catholic civilians and 1 was a Protestant civilian

31 Oct 1888

New Zealand Natives a privately organised and mainly Mori rugby team plays first game in UK beats Surry 4-1 first national rugby team to wear all-black & perform the haka

31 Oct 1993

Harry Belafonte performs in Tivoli Copenhagen

31 Oct 1975

Four Ulster Volunteer Force members killed after a bomb they are carrying prematurely explodes in Farrenlester near Coleraine

31 Oct 1890

Capt Guillaume of Kerckhoven marches into Boma Congo

31 Oct 1993

Cleveland Indians play their final MLB game at Cleveland Stadium lose 4-0 to Chicago White Sox Chicago

31 Oct 1976

Let My People Come closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 106 performances

31 Oct 1899

J S Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner

31 Oct 1993

Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 US Rangers

31 Oct 1977

Pakistani general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition

31 Oct 1904

France & Spain sign treaty for Morocco Independence

31 Oct 1993

Battle of Mogadishu In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidids organisation in Mogadishu Somalia 18 US Soldiers and about 1000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.

31 Oct 1977

Dusty Baker hits his 30th homer of the season against Astros J.R. Richard Dodgers become the first team in MLB history to have 4 players hit 30 or more HRs joins Steve Garvey (33) Reggie Smith (32) and Ron Cey (30)

31 Oct 1904

NY Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson strikes out 16 Cardinals in a 3-1 Giants victory new MLB record finishes the game in 1 hour 15 minutes

31 Oct 1994

Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil

31 Oct 1977

Austrian Ferrari driver Niki Lauda finishes 4th in the US Grand Prix East at Watkins Glen to clinch his second World Formula 1 Drivers title Englishman James Hunt wins the race

31 Oct 1904

Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal & Industrial School

31 Oct 1995

1st first-class match at Hurstville Oval Sydney (NSW vs Western Australia )

31 Oct 1978

Syrian & Palestinians shoot in East Beirut 1300 killed

31 Oct 1906

US regime names Charles Magoon governor of Cuba

31 Oct 1995

In a huge 3-way hockey trade Claude Lemieux went to Colorado Avalanche Steve Thomas to New Jersey Devils and Wendell Clark to the New York Islanders in a swap of high profile NHL forwards

31 Oct 1978

NY Yankees win 3rd straight AL East title beating Boston Red Sox 5-4 in a dramatic single playoff game Ron Guidry wins 25 aided by Bucky Dents 3-run homer

31 Oct 1906

William Vaughan Moodys Great Divide premieres in NYC

31 Oct 939

Battle at Andernach King Otto & Hermann of Zwaben beat Eberhard of France & Giselbert of Lutherans

31 Oct 1980

Michael Myers (D-Pa) is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)

31 Oct 1915

7.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley Nevada

31 Oct 976

Hisham II appointed kalief of Cordoba

31 Oct 1981

Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran

31 Oct 1918

Boris becomes king of Bulgaria

31 Oct 1134

Storm flood ravages Zeeland county

31 Oct 1981

17 year old gelding Behavin Jerry the oldest winning racehorse in modern times sets record for most career starts by a thoroughbred 307

31 Oct 1918

Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria abdicates the throne in favour of his eldest son Tsar Boris III

31 Oct 1263

The battle of Largs fought between Norwegians and Scots.

31 Oct 1982

Bomb attack in Tehran kills 60 injures 700

31 Oct 1918

Selwyn Theater opens at 229 W 42nd St NYC

31 Oct 1492

King Henry VII of England invades France

31 Oct 1983

Wide receiver Art Monk begins NFL streak of 183 consecutive games with a reception in the Washington Redskins 37-35 win over the LA Raiders

31 Oct 1919

Cuban Dolf Luque becomes first Hispanic player to appear in Baseball World Series pitches 1 inning of relief in Reds 3-0 defeat to Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park

31 Oct 1518

English cardinal Thomas Wolsey makes European plan

31 Oct 1983

Carl Yastrezemskis last at bat

31 Oct 1919

Serbian Croatian & Slavic parliment accord for 8 hr work day

31 Oct 1540

Venice and Turkey signs peace

31 Oct 1983

Green Bay Packers erupt for NFL record 49 points in the first half (35 in the second quarter) to clobber the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 55-14 at Tampa Stadium

31 Oct 1920

St Browns 1st baseman George Sisler collects his 257th hit of the season to set MLB record that lasts until the 21st century. Browns beat White Sox 16 - 7

31 Oct 1572

Spanish army occupies plunders and destroys Mechelen

31 Oct 1984

3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit

31 Oct 1920

American Pro Football Association (later the NFL) plays 1st full round of games Dayton Triangles beat Columbus Panhandles 14-0 in first official game at Triangle Park Dayton

31 Oct 1608

Hans Lippershey applies for patent for first known early telescope in the Netherlands

31 Oct 1984

Due to a strike by MLB umpires first 4 NLCS games played with replacement umpires Game 1 Chicago Cubs beat SD Padres 13-0

31 Oct 1922

1st facsimile photo sent over city telephone lines Washington D.C.

31 Oct 1614

French King Louis XIII declared an adult at 13

31 Oct 1984

Richard Miller becomes 1st (former) FBI agent to be charged with espionage

31 Oct 1922

Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes 1st woman in Senate

31 Oct 1656

English North American colony of Connecticut passes law against Quakers

31 Oct 1985

Russian party leader Gorbachev visits Paris (his first trip abroad)

31 Oct 1923

Germanys Stresemann resigns

31 Oct 1700

Spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou heir to throne

31 Oct 1985

Tigers Darrell Evans is 1st to hit 40 HR seasons in both leagues

31 Oct 1924

King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne

31 Oct 1760

Russian and Austrian army evacuates Berlin [NS1013]

31 Oct 1985

A Mayor Richard Caliguiri led coalition of public and private groups committed to keeping the struggling Pittsburgh Pirates in town for at least 5 years reach agreement to buy the baseball team for 22 million

31 Oct 1926

1st congress of Pan European Movement (Pan-Europese Beweging) opens in Vienna

31 Oct 1787

Maagden House opens in Amsterdam

31 Oct 1986

Astros starter Mike Scott finishes MLB regular season with 306 strikeouts with 8 in a 2-1 win in San Francisco 3rd NL pitcher to reach 300 in a season

31 Oct 1926

English long distance runner Violet Piercy sets first recognised female marathon record in 34022 on the Polytechnic Marathon course between Windsor and London

31 Oct 1792

Baptist Missionary Society forms in London

31 Oct 1986

New York Mets Dwight Gooden becomes first pitcher to collect 200 strikeouts in each of his first 3 seasons when he records 7 in 8-2 win v Pittsburgh Pirates

31 Oct 1928

French submarine Ondine sinks returning to Toulon drowning 42

31 Oct 1795

Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao

31 Oct 1986

Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi

31 Oct 1929

British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with USSR

31 Oct 1799

Duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands

31 Oct 1988

Minnesota Twins total 3030672 in attendance at Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome first AL club ever to break 3 million in a MLB season

31 Oct 1929

Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister

31 Oct 1804

Britain mobilizes to protect against French invasion

31 Oct 1988

Pakistans Supreme Court orders free elections

31 Oct 1929

Kingdom of Serbs Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia

31 Oct 1833

NY Anti-Slavery Society organized

31 Oct 1988

New Zealand horseman Mark Todd wins individual eventing gold medal aboard Charisma at the Seoul Olympics his 2nd consecutive gold after winning in 1984

31 Oct 1932

Iraq gains full independence from Britain joins League of Nations

31 Oct 1835

Battle of Gonzales fought between Texan settlers and Mexican forces. First engagement of the Texas revolution

31 Oct 1988

South Korean light middleweight boxer Park Si-hun is controversially awarded the Seoul Olympic gold medal after appearing well beaten by future 4 weight class world champion Roy Jones Jr

31 Oct 1933

Gustave Staf de Clerq forms Flemish National Covenant

31 Oct 1851

The pasilalinic-sympathetic compass(a contraption built to test the pseudo-scientific hypothesis that snails create a permanent telepathic link when they mate) is demonstrated but proves to be a fake.

31 Oct 1988

Gelindo Bordin of Italy wins the mens marathon in 21032 at the Seoul Olympics beats world champion Douglas Wakiihuri of Kenya by 15 seconds

31 Oct 1935

Italy invades Ethiopia starting the Second Italo-Ethiopian War

31 Oct 1853

Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land

31 Oct 1988

In a season ending 7-5 win in St. Louis NY Mets outfielder Kevin McReynolds establishes a MLB record swiping 21 bases without being caught stealing during the season

31 Oct 1936

NY Yankees set new attendance record of 64482 in Game 3 of World Series at Yankee Stadium 66669 following day Game 4 win series v NY Giants 4-2

31 Oct 1861

Former US VP John C Breckinridge flees Kentucky

31 Oct 1989

TV true life drama A Cry for Help The Tracey Thurman Story premieres on NBC in the US

31 Oct 1939

Lemmer-Urk Dike closes

31 Oct 1864

Battle of Saltville VA

31 Oct 1990

Michael Feinstein in Concert opens at Golden NYC for 30 performances

31 Oct 1940

France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status

31 Oct 1866

J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener

31 Oct 1990

WW2 Allied nations cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany

31 Oct 1940

Cincinnati Reds win Game 2 of the Baseball World Series 5-2 v Detroit Tigers at Crosley Field snap 10-game losing streak for NL going back to Game 6 in 1937 Reds win series 4-3

31 Oct 1870

Italy annexes Rome & Papal States Rome made Italian capital

31 Oct 1990

Chinese plane explodes about 100 die

31 Oct 1940

US forms parachute troops

31 Oct 1872

Morgan State University founded

31 Oct 1990

US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souters appointment to Supreme Court

31 Oct 1941

All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine are killed by SS

31 Oct 1876

British Open Golf St Andrews Bob Martin wins when fellow Scot Davie Strath refuses to take part in a playoff after pair finish on 176

31 Oct 1990

Radio Berlin Internationals final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany) final song is The End by Doors

31 Oct 1941

Nazis blow up 6 synagoges in Paris

31 Oct 1879

Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure Musgrave Ritual (BG)

31 Oct 1991

Toronto Blue Jays clinch AL East title with a 6-5 win v California Angels become first sport franchise in history to draw 4 million fans in one season

31 Oct 1942

Launch of 1st A-4V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)

31 Oct 1889

1st Pan American conference (Washington D.C.)

31 Oct 1992

VP Itamar Franco becomes President of Brazil

31 Oct 1942

NY Yankees shortstop Frank Crosetti shoves umpire Bill Summers in Game 3 of the Baseball World Series he is fined 250 & suspended for first 30 days of 1943 season

31 Oct 1889

In Colorado Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.

31 Oct 1992

The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in So Paulo Brazil

31 Oct 1942

Triple Crown winner Whirlaway ridden by George Woolf wins the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park to become the first thoroughbred to amass more than 500000 in lifetime earnings

31 Oct 1895

1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper

31 Oct 1994

Show Boat opens at Gershwin Theater NYC

31 Oct 1943

British 8th army lands at Termoli East Italy

31 Oct 1899

Orange Free state mobilizes

31 Oct 1994

Pakistan defeat Australia by one wicket in Karachi Test

31 Oct 1943

Operations begin at PETA Java defending (Japanese) fatherland

31 Oct 1901

First Royal Navy submarine launched at Barrow-in-Furness

31 Oct 1994

Pakistan cricket batsmen Inzamam-ul-Haq & Mushtaq Ahmed put on 57 runs in 8 overs for highest last-wicket partnership ever to win a Test as the home team beats Australia by 1 wicket in the 1st Test in Karachi

31 Oct 1944

1st broadcast of Radio Herrijzend Netherland

31 Oct 1904

German General Lothar von Trotha issues order to exterminate Herero people of Namidia first genocide of the 20th Century will kill 65000 Herero and 100000 of the Nama tribe

31 Oct 1995

Moon Over Buffalo opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 308 performances

31 Oct 1944

RAF bombs West Kapelse

31 Oct 1904

White Sox left-hander Doc Whites streak of 45 consecutive MLB scoreless innings is snapped by the New York Highlanders in Chicago White Sox win 7-1 at South Side Park III

31 Oct 1945

Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs meet in Baseball World Series for the 4th time Hank Borowy pitches a 6-hit shutout as Cubs win Game 1 9-0 at Briggs Stadium Detroit wins series 4-3

31 Oct 1908

Cleveland Naps and future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Addie Joss hurls a classic perfect game beating Ed Walsh and the White Sox 1-0

31 Oct 1945

World Federation of Trade Unions forms CIO a member

31 Oct 1909

First Rugby Union match is played at the English RFU owned Twickenham ground Harlequins beat Richmond 14-10

31 Oct 1947

Under the Counter opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 27 performances

31 Oct 1910

1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)

31 Oct 1947

1st telescope lens 200 (508 cm) in diameter completed

31 Oct 1910

Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2800m altitude (world record)

31 Oct 1947

WMAL (now WJLA) TV channel 7 in Washington D.C. (ABC) begins

31 Oct 1916

Pitching in his 3rd start in 5 days Philadelphia Phillies right hander Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 20th century MLB record 16th shutout of year a 2-0 win v Boston Braves

31 Oct 1948

Columbia University reports discovery of uranium in Belgian Congo

31 Oct 1916

San Diego Zoo founded

31 Oct 1949

WERD 1st black-owned radio station opens in Atlanta

31 Oct 1919

1st edition Volkskrant (Peoples newspaper) published in Neth

31 Oct 1950

1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)

31 Oct 1920

Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates play first and only MLB triple header in the 20th century Reds win the first two games 13-4 and 7-3 Pirates avoid the sweep in the finale 6-0

31 Oct 1950

Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon South Moluccas

31 Oct 1920

The Chinese sign an agreement with the Russo-Asiatic Bank largely French and Russian controlled which will oversee the Chinese Eastern Railway but give local supervision to China

31 Oct 1950

Philadelphia Phillies choose not to request MLB rule on star left-hander Curt Simmons eligibility to play in World Series despite being on furlough from Army Phillies swept 4-0 by NY Yankees

31 Oct 1921

Chicago White Sox backstop Ray Schalk becomes the first and only MLB catcher to make a putout at all bases White Sox beat Indians 7-4

31 Oct 1951

Shot Heard Round the World Bobby Thomson hits 3-run homer off Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers bottom 9th inning 1 out to give New York Giants dramatic 5-4 playoff win and NL pennant

31 Oct 1923

British occuping army leaves Constantinople

31 Oct 1951

CBS-TV airs the first coast-to-coast telecast of a prize fight Australian light-heavyweight Dave Sands outpoints Carl Bobo Olson in 10 rounds at Chicago Stadium

31 Oct 1924

League of Nations approves protocols of Geneva

31 Oct 1952

1st British nuclear test at Monte Bello Island in Australia

31 Oct 1926

Bert Gibb kicks 9 singles as Hamilton Tigers beat Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers 12-10 in Montreal in Canadian Inter-provincial Rugby Football Union opening round

31 Oct 1952

1st video recording on magnetic tape LA Ca

31 Oct 1928

Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God known as Opus Dei founded by Saint Josemara Escriv

31 Oct 1953

Ryder Cup Golf Wentworth San Snead wins 6 of 7 matches to lead US to 6th consecutive Cup win 6-5 over Great Britain

31 Oct 1931

Pope Pius XI encyclical On economic crisis

31 Oct 1953

7th NHL All-Star Game Montreal Forum NY Rangers RW Wally Hergesheimer scores twice as All-Stars beat Montreal Canadiens 3-1

31 Oct 1932

New York Yankees win their 12th consecutive World Series game and sweep the Fall Classic for the third time Bronx Bombers bang out 19 hits as they rout Chicago Cubs 13-6 at Wrigley Field

31 Oct 1953

KGGM TV channel 13 in Albuquerque NM (CBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1932

Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play franchises debut NFL game lose 14-0 to Brooklyn Dodgers at Braves Field

31 Oct 1954

Father Knows Best premieres

31 Oct 1933

Eugene ONeills comedy Ah Wilderness premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1954

KFVS TV channel 12 in Cape Girardeau MO (CBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1935

NY Hayden Planetarium 4th in US opens

31 Oct 1955

Captain Kangaroo premieres on CBS-TV Good Morning Captain

31 Oct 1936

1st alcohol power plant forms Atchison Kansas

31 Oct 1955

Mickey Mouse Club premieres

31 Oct 1936

Amsterdams Calvinist Churches reject nazism

31 Oct 1955

Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira becomes President of Brazil

31 Oct 1936

French franc devalued relatively late and after Britain (1931) and the US (1933)

31 Oct 1955

Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea

31 Oct 1936

New York Yankees score Baseball World Series record 18 runs in an 18-4 rout of rival NY Giants in Game 2 at the Polo Grounds Yankees win series 4-2

31 Oct 1955

WDBJ TV channel 7 in Roanoke VA (CBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1938

Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Detroit Tigers his Cleveland Indians still lose 4-1 at Cleveland Stadium

31 Oct 1955

WTVS TV channel 56 in Detroit MI (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1940

17 German aircraft shot down over England

31 Oct 1956

Sal Maglie pitches a complete game as Brooklyn Dodgers beat NY Yankees 6-3 in Game 1 of Baseball World Series at Ebbets Field Yankees win series 4-3

31 Oct 1940

British Council receives Royal Charter

31 Oct 1960

Flair (CBS answer to Monitor) premieres on radio with Dick Van Dyke

31 Oct 1940

British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada sunk

31 Oct 1960

Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil

31 Oct 1941

6 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo

31 Oct 1960

San Franciscos White House department store is the 1st to accept BankAmericard

31 Oct 1941

Germans launch attack on Moscow

31 Oct 1960

New York Yankees beat rival Boston Red Sox 8-7 at Yankee Stadium ending season on 15 game win streak & MLB record 193 HRs

31 Oct 1942

RMS Queen Mary carrying thousands of US troops slices cruiser HMS Curacao in half killing 239

31 Oct 1960

US sitcom The Andy Griffith Show premieres in CBS (runs till 1968)

31 Oct 1943

Japanese troops leave Kolombangara Solomon Island

31 Oct 1961

TV sitcom Mr Ed premieres on CBS

31 Oct 1943

New York Yankees sweep 14th MLB doubleheader of year beating St. Louis Browns 5-1 & 7-6 at Yankee Stadium

31 Oct 1961

Sail Away opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 167 performances

31 Oct 1944

Polish resistance fighters capitulate in the Warsaw Uprising with some 250000 people killed

31 Oct 1961

KMED (now KTVL) TV channel 10 in Medford OR (CBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1944

US B-17s drops pamphlets on Walcheren

31 Oct 1962

Stop the World I Want to Get Off opens at Shubert NYC for 886 performances

31 Oct 1946

1st network soap opera Faraway Hill begins broadcasting on DuMont Television Network

31 Oct 1962

SF Giants (103-62) beat rivals LA Dodgers (102-63) 6-4 in season ending NL pennant decider Dodgers set MLB record season attendance 2755184

31 Oct 1947

Music in My Heart opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 124 performances

31 Oct 1962

Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit

31 Oct 1948

Finians Rainbow closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 725 performances

31 Oct 1963

Heres Love opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 338 performances

31 Oct 1949

USSR recognizes Peoples Republic of China

31 Oct 1963

Hurricane hits Haiti about 5000 die & 100000 injured

31 Oct 1949

For first time in 41 years pennant races in both MLB leagues are decided on the final day of the season (AL) Yankees upend rival Boston Red Sox 5-3 (NL) Dodgers beat the Phillies 9-7 for 97-57 record Cardinals 96-58

31 Oct 1866

Dutch Eindhoven-Venlo railway opens

31 Oct 1964

WTSJ TV channel 18 in San Juan PR (NBC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1868

1st edition of Maasbode published

31 Oct 1964

WWAY TV channel 3 in Wilmington NC (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1869

1st postcards are issued (Vienna Austria)

31 Oct 1965

Failed coup under lt col Untung in Indonesia

31 Oct 1871

General Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV) forms in Utrecht

31 Oct 1966

Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases The Times

31 Oct 1874

Rotterdam opens drinking water pipes

31 Oct 1879

Cincinnati Enquirer publishes first report on Baseballs reserve clause rights to players retained by team upon the contracts expiration replaced by free agency

31 Oct 1885

Special delivery mail service begins in US

31 Oct 1886

US mint at Carson City Nevada closes

31 Oct 1887

Balochistan conquered by the British Empire.

31 Oct 1888

National Geographic magazine publishes for the 1st time

31 Oct 1889

Dutch soccer club HFC Haarlem is founded National champions 1946 bankrupt in 2010 merge with HFC Kennemerland new club Haarlem Kennemerland

31 Oct 1889

Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum

31 Oct 1890

Congress creates Weather Bureau

31 Oct 1890

Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (California)

31 Oct 1890

Germanys anti-socialist laws lapse

31 Oct 1891

In the U.S. state of California Stanford University opens its doors.

31 Oct 1892

University of Chicago opens

31 Oct 1893

3rd worst hurricane in US history kills 1800 (Mississippi)

31 Oct 1894

Civic organization Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha Nebraska

31 Oct 1894

First meeting of The Owl Club of Cape Town.

31 Oct 1895

Romanians in Costantinople massacred

31 Oct 1896

Sherlock Holmes adventure Veiled Lodger takes place (BG)

31 Oct 1898

Dutch railway Alkmaar-Receiver opens

31 Oct 1898

Henry Huntington buys LA Railway

31 Oct 1898

Jews are expelled from Kiev Ukraine

31 Oct 1898

Tsar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities.

31 Oct 1898

The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.

31 Oct 1904

JB van Heutsz becomes governor general of Dutch East Indies

31 Oct 1904

Netherlands & Portugal lay down bounderies splitting Timor

31 Oct 1905

Frantiek Pavlk is killed in a demonstration in Prague inspiring Leo Janek to the piano composition 1. X. .

31 Oct 1907

Plaza Hotel (5th Av & 59th Str NY) opens

31 Oct 1908

1st Dutch electric railway in use (Rotterdam-The Hague)

31 Oct 1910

Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (1st state fair)

31 Oct 1910

Explosion at LA Times kills 21

31 Oct 1910

Regina Rugby Club (to become CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders) plays first game losing to Moose Jaw Tigers 16-6

31 Oct 1911

United Dutch Diamond workers get 8-hr day

31 Oct 1914

The Prince of Asir the southern region of Arabia rises in revolt against the Turks his actions will inspire other Arab leaders to revolt

31 Oct 1914

The first division of Canadian troops 33000 sail for Britain most Canadians are volunteers anxious to prove their loyalty to the Commonwealth

31 Oct 1919

Infamous Black Sox Baseball World Series begins with Cincinnati Reds Dutch Ruether pitching a 6-hitter and hitting 3 RBI on 2 triples and a single for a 9-1 rout of White Sox

31 Oct 1920

Dutch law provides for an 8 hour working day

31 Oct 1920

Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.

31 Oct 1921

WJZ Newark NJ begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1922

Former Chicago Staleys play first NFL game as Chicago Bears beat Racine Legion 6-0 at Horlick Field Racine Wisconsin

31 Oct 1922

Cardinals 2nd baseman Rogers Hornsby hits 3-for-5 in 7-1 regular season ending win v Cubs improves batting average to .401 only MLB player to bat .400 and hit 40 HRs in same season

31 Oct 1924

Fokker F-7 1st flight (Amsterdam to Batavia)

31 Oct 1924

MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Landis bans NY Giants outfielder Jimmy OConnell & coach Cozy Dolan from World Series after they attempt to bribe Phillies shortstop Heinie Sand

31 Oct 1926

An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.

31 Oct 1927

Pittsburgh Pirates with a team including 5 future Baseball Hall of Famers clinch NL pennant with 9-6 win v Cincinnati Reds Pirates last NL pennant until 1960

31 Oct 1928

Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi runs 15k world record 4649.6 and 10 miles 5015.0 in Berlin Germany

31 Oct 1928

USSR launches its first 5-year plan

31 Oct 1931

Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage

31 Oct 1931

Philadelphia Athletics seek 3rd straight World Series baseball title beat St. Louis Cardinals 6-2 in opener at Sportsmans Park lose series 4-3

31 Oct 1931

The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.

31 Oct 1932

Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists

31 Oct 1933

New York Giants make no 1st downs but still beat the Green Bay Packers 10-7 in a week 3 NFL matchup at Borchert Field Milwaukee Wisconsin

31 Oct 1933

Washington Senators coach Nick Altrock plays in a MLB game at age 57 as a pinch-hitter faces Rube Walberg of the Philadelphia As goes hitless in 3-0 loss

31 Oct 1933

Babe Ruth makes his final pitching appearance in MLB pitches all 9 innings in a season ending 6-5 win v Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium hits his 34th home run of the season in 5th inning

31 Oct 1937

Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

31 Oct 1938

Germany annexes Sudetenland (13 of Czechoslovakia) following the Munich Agreement

31 Oct 1939

After a one-month Siege of Warsaw hostile forces entered the city.

31 Oct 1940

Pennsylvania Turnpike pioneer toll thruway opens

31 Oct 1941

D Sjostakovitch plane evacuated in Moscow

31 Oct 1941

H MartinR Blanes musical Best Foot Forward premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1942

Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter 1st US jet makes maiden flight

31 Oct 1942

Little Golden Books (childrens books) begins publishing

31 Oct 1943

Allied forces captured Naples during WW II

31 Oct 1943

Averell Harriman named US ambassador to Moscow

31 Oct 1943

Germans attack Jews in Denmark

31 Oct 1943

1st Kings Dragoon Guards (Royal Amoured Corps) liberates suburbs of Naples

31 Oct 1944

Newspaper editor Alejandro Crdova assassinated in Guatemala

31 Oct 1944

St Louis Browns beat New York Yankees 5-2 at Sportsmans Park III to win their only AL pennant lose World Series 4-2 to neighbour Cardinals

31 Oct 1945

US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) precursor to the CIA disbands

31 Oct 1946

12 Nazi war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg

31 Oct 1946

St. Louis Cardinals beats Brooklyn Dodgers 4-2 in first MLB play-off game for a league championship (NL) St Louis wins series 2-0

31 Oct 1946

Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller claims his MLB record 348th strikeout of season in a 4-1 win v Detroit record stands for 19 years

31 Oct 1947

1st helicopter air mail & express service LA Ca

31 Oct 1947

US control of Haitian customs & governmental revenue ends

31 Oct 1947

William Wister Haines Command Decision premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1947

The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.

31 Oct 1948

California Supreme Court voids state statute banning interracial marriages

31 Oct 1948

Radio Denmark begins transmitting

31 Oct 1949

Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa

31 Oct 1950

Philadelphia Phillies clinch NL pennant on Dick Sislers 3-run home run in a season ending 4-1 win v Brooklyn Dodgers Phillies first pennant since 1913

31 Oct 1950

New York Giants beat Cleveland Browns 6-0 at Cleveland Stadium sets Browns club record for fewest points scored by both teams Browns go on to win NFL Championship

31 Oct 1950

South Korean troops cross the 38th parallel into North Korea

31 Oct 1951

1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson (US ambassador to Denmark)

31 Oct 1951

24th Infantry Regiment last all-black US military unit deactivated

31 Oct 1952

1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station Portland Or

31 Oct 1996

30th Country Music Association Award Brooks & Dunn win

31 Oct 1952

Liberal Party wins Japanese elections

31 Oct 1997

The Bruins beat the LA Kings 6-5 in Boston to extend their NHL opening game unbeaten streak to 11-straight years (9-0-2)

31 Oct 1952

Monte Bello-Island (Great Britain 1st atom bomb explosion)

31 Oct 366

St Damasus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

31 Oct 1953

Indian state of Andhra Pradesh partitioned from Madras

31 Oct 704

Aengibald gives away bishop Willibrord estate in Waalre

31 Oct 1953

KJEO TV channel 47 in Fresno CA (CBSABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 911

During a siege in Constantinople the Theotokos (Mary the mother of Jesus) appeared at the church in Blachernae holding her veil over the praying faithful among them St. Andrew of Constantinople.

31 Oct 1953

KYTV TV channel 3 in Springfield MO (NBC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 959

Edgar I the Peaceful becomes king of all England

31 Oct 1953

WATE TV channel 6 in Knoxville TN (ABCNBC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 965

John XIII Crescentii elected to succeed Pope Leo VIII

31 Oct 1953

WREX TV channel 13 in Rockford IL (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1189

Gerard de Ridefort grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184 is killed in the Siege of Acre

31 Oct 1954

British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation

31 Oct 1273

Count Rudolf van Habsburg becomes King of the Germans

31 Oct 1955

Honeymooners premieres

31 Oct 1529

-3] Meeting between Maarten Luther & Huldrych Zwingli

31 Oct 1955

Piet Lieftinck becomes director vh IMF (World bank)

31 Oct 1574

-2] Storm breaks Leiden dike drowns 20000 Spanish soldiers

31 Oct 1955

WORA TV channel 5 in Mayaguez PR (TCI) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1606

Spanish troops under Spinola occupies fort Rhine birch

31 Oct 1955

Baltimore Colts fullback Alan Ameche becomes the first rookie in NFL history to top 100 yards rushing in his first 2 games totals 153 against Detroit Lions after 194 yards in debut v Chicago Bears

31 Oct 1632

Battle at Castelnaudary Duke Henri de Montmorencys rebel army loses

31 Oct 1956

American jockey Johnny Heckmann becomes first to ride 7 winners at Hawthorne Race Course at StickneyCicero near Chicago Illinois

31 Oct 1653

Russian parliament accepts annexation of Ukraine

31 Oct 1956

Zestienhoven airport at Rotterdam official opens

31 Oct 1657

Treaty of Raalte Willem II no longer viceroy of Overijssel

31 Oct 1957

B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack

31 Oct 1670

-4] Battle at Simbirsk ad Wolga Russian army beats Boers

31 Oct 1957

First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.

31 Oct 1688

Prince Willem III of Orange accepts invitation of take up the British crown

31 Oct 1958

Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia

31 Oct 1705

Parliament declares Hungary independentlyFrench Rkczi becomes king

31 Oct 1958

US space agency NASA begins operations incorporating earlier National Advisory Council on Aeronautics and other bodies

31 Oct 1746

Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France

31 Oct 1959

Chicago White Sox beat LA Dodgers 11-0 in Game 1 of the Baseball World Series at Comiskey Park White Sox first WS appearance since 1919 Black Sox Scandal LA wins series 4-2

31 Oct 1768

British troops under General Gauge land in Boston

31 Oct 1960

Nigeria becomes the 99th member of the United Nations

31 Oct 1787

Russians under Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.

31 Oct 1960

14th NHL All-Star Game Montreal Forum All-Stars beat Montreal Canadiens 2-1

31 Oct 1791

1st session of new French legislative assembly

31 Oct 1960

KCBY TV channel 11 in Coos Bay OR (CBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1795

France annexes Southern Netherlands

31 Oct 1960

Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)

31 Oct 1795

Belgium is conquered by France.

31 Oct 1961

A volcanco believed to be extinct erupts in Tristan da Cunha

31 Oct 1800

Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty

31 Oct 1961

East & West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon

31 Oct 1801

Britain & France sign Preliminary of London

31 Oct 1961

KGIN TV channel 11 in Grand Island NB (CBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1827

The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.

31 Oct 1961

WOLO TV channel 25 in Columbia SC (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1829

South African College is founded in Cape Town South Africa later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.

31 Oct 1961

WYAH TV channel 27 in Portsmouth VA (IND) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1830

General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam

31 Oct 1962

Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage Beatles through 1977

31 Oct 1837

Racers Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico)

31 Oct 1962

James Meredith becomes the 1st black student at the University of Mississippi

31 Oct 1837

Treaty with Winnebago Indians

31 Oct 1962

The Lucy Show premieres

31 Oct 1838

Civil Code enforced (- Jan 1 1992)

31 Oct 1962

UN gives Netherlands control of New Guinea

31 Oct 1843

News of the World begins publication in London

31 Oct 1962

US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300 (91m) radio telescope

31 Oct 1847

Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet

31 Oct 1962

WEDH TV channel 24 in Hartford CT (PBS) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1851

1st Hawaiian stamps issued

31 Oct 1963

Nigeria enacts a new constitution and becomes a republic

31 Oct 1854

The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham Massachusetts to become the Waltham Watch Company a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.

31 Oct 1964

1st official broadcast of Trans World Radio on Bonaire

31 Oct 1863

5 Russian warships welcomed in NYC

31 Oct 1964

2nd Dutch televisienet begins broadcastings

31 Oct 1863

Dutch Breda-Tilburg railway opens

31 Oct 1964

Free Speech Movement launched at University of California Berkley

31 Oct 1864

Cyclone strikes Calcutta 70000 killed

31 Oct 1964

San Francisco cable cars declared a national landmark

31 Oct 1864

John Summerfield Staples is paid 500 as a substitute for US President Abraham Lincoln

31 Oct 1964

WSJU TV channel 18 in Carolina PR begins broadcasting

31 Oct 445

BC Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 91 NLTse).

31 Oct 802

Empress Irene of Byzantium driven out

31 Oct 1552

Emperor Karel & Markgraaf Albecht strike siege of Metz

31 Oct 1587

Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.

31 Oct 1596

English French & Dutch delegates sign anti-Spanish Triple Covenant

31 Oct 1617

Laurens Reael resigns as governor-general of Dutch East Indies

31 Oct 1759

Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred

31 Oct 1793

Execution of Girondins in Paris during Reign of Terror

31 Oct 1794

John Daltons first lecture to Manchester LiteraryPhilosophical Society

31 Oct 1808

Holland Brigade battle at Durango Spain

31 Oct 1815

Cornishman Sir Humphrey Davy patents miners safety lamp

31 Oct 1837

Collision of river boat Monmouth & Trement on Mississippi 300 die

31 Oct 1846

Donner party unable to cross the Donner Pass construct a winter camp

31 Oct 1863

The Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato.

31 Oct 1864

Nevada admitted as 36th state of the Union

31 Oct 1868

Standard uniform approved for US postal carriers

31 Oct 1871

Founding of Netherland Protestant Union in Dokkum

31 Oct 1876

Great Backerganj Cyclone of ravages British India (Modern-day Bangladesh) over 200000 killed

31 Oct 1881

Metropolitan club plays its last game of its non-league season. They win 80 of 151 games (18-43 versus NL teams)

31 Oct 1887

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakovs Capriccio Espagnol premieres in St Petersburg

31 Oct 1888

Scottish vet John Boyd Dunlop patents pneumatic bicycle tyre

31 Oct 1889

Exposition Universelle (Worlds Fair) in Paris closes after 32 million visitors

31 Oct 1900

AL President Ban Johnson writes to NL President Nick Young seeking peace

31 Oct 1905

Great revolutionary demonstration for amnesty in St Petersburg

31 Oct 1907

Calgary City Rugby Football Clubs 1st game defeating Strathcona Rugby Foot-ball Club 15-0 at Calgary

31 Oct 1908

4th Olympic games ends in London

31 Oct 1913

1st US paved coast-to-coast highway the Lincoln Highway is dedicated

31 Oct 1914

Great Britain & France declare war on Turkey

31 Oct 1916

Clare Kummers Good Gracious Annabelle premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1917

Eugene ONeills In the Zone premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1917

World War I Battle of Beersheba in southern Palestine - last successful cavalry charge in history performed by the 4th Australian Light Horse

31 Oct 1918

Spanish flu-virus kills 21000 in US in 1 week

31 Oct 1918

Short-lived Banat Republic founded in territory where Romania Hungary and Serbia meet

31 Oct 1920

Romania annexes Bessarabia

31 Oct 1921

Federation Sportive Feminine International forms (1st woman track & field association)

31 Oct 1908

IV Summer (Modern) Olympic Games close in London

31 Oct 1918

Spanish flu-virus kills 21000 people in the US in a single week

31 Oct 1922

Karel & Josef Capks World We Live In premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1923

160 consecutive days of 100 degrees F begin at Marble Bar Australia

31 Oct 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).

31 Oct 1925

Cossack officer Reza Chan replaces sultan Ahmad as Shah of Persia

31 Oct 1926

Failed assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini by 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni who was lynched on the spot.

31 Oct 1937

Spanish government moves from Valencia to Barcelona

31 Oct 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.

31 Oct 1940

Battle of Britain fought between the RAF and Luftwaffe over the English Channel and southern England ends with a British victory

31 Oct 1941

Prior to US joining WWII German submarine U-552 torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James near Iceland

31 Oct 1941

Clothing factory fire in Huddersfield England kills 49

31 Oct 1942

U-boats sink and damage 120 allied ships this month (659457 tons)

31 Oct 1943

World War II F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception.

31 Oct 1944

Chief of staff Kruls names De Quay chairman of Universal Commission

31 Oct 1949

Regina opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 86 performances

31 Oct 1949

Dutch Nazi Henri Hakkie Holdert director of Amsterdam paper De Telegraaf and member of the SS sentenced to 12 years imprisonment

31 Oct 1949

WOC (now KWQC) TV channel 6 in Davenport IA (NBC) 1st broadcast

31 Oct 1950

Collazo & Torresola attempt to assassinate Harry Truman in Washington D.C.

31 Oct 1951

French Second Chamber accepts the Schuman Plan

31 Oct 1952

1st thermonuclear bomb detonated at Marshall Islands

31 Oct 1954

KREM TV channel 2 in Spokane WA (CBSABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1956

Rear Adm GJ Dufek becomes 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole

31 Oct 1956

Britain and France join Israeli forces in Egypt and begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal

31 Oct 1957

Jamaica opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 558 performances

31 Oct 1959

USSR & Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam

31 Oct 1960

Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal about 10000 die

31 Oct 1961

Hurricane Hattie kills 400 in British Honduras

31 Oct 1961

Federal judge rules that laws in Birmingham Alabama against integrated playing fields are illegal

31 Oct 1962

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane horror film released directed by Robert Aldrich starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford based on novel by Henry Farrell

31 Oct 1963

Leaking propane gas explodes kills 64 at Holiday on Ice in Indiana

31 Oct 1967

KIMO TV channel 13 in Anchorage AK (ABC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1967

SF Giants Mike McCormick wins NL Cy Young Award

31 Oct 1968

Milwaukee Bucks win their 1st game beating Detroit 138-118 (6th game)

31 Oct 1971

On the Town opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 65 performances

31 Oct 1971

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) explode a bomb at the Post Office Tower in London

31 Oct 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

31 Oct 1973

Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers escape from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin using a hijacked helicopter

31 Oct 1974

Dutch Marines end hostage crisis in Scheveningen prison

31 Oct 1976

Javed Miandad 206 v NZ age 19 yrs 141 days (29 fours 1 six)

31 Oct 1978

Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) adopts constitution

31 Oct 1980

Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16806 m)

31 Oct 1980

Polish government recognizes Solidarity trade union

31 Oct 1980

Senegal routes troops to Gambia due to Libyan threat

31 Oct 1981

1st live US radio drama in 25 years (Halloween Story on NBC)

31 Oct 1982

Rock n Roll The 1st... closes at St James NYC after 9 performances

31 Oct 1983

Ron Grant completes a 217 day 8316 mile run around Australia

31 Oct 1984

Howard Goodall & Melvyn Braggs musical Hired Man premieres in London

31 Oct 1984

Puerto Rican tanker San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire

31 Oct 1985

Last day in Test cricket for Pakistans Zaheer Abbas

31 Oct 1987

American jockey Chris Antley becomes first rider to win 9 races in a day (4 at Aqueduct 5 at The Meadowlands)

31 Oct 1987

A pair in Coventry England ties world record for longest singles tennis match at 80 hrs 21 minutes

31 Oct 1988

19F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct

31 Oct 1988

1st Monday Night NFL game in Indianapolis Colts beat Denver 55-23

31 Oct 1988

Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia

31 Oct 1990

Pakistan make 3-0 drubbing of NZ Waqar Younis 29 series wkts

31 Oct 1991

Palestinians attend US mideast peace talks in Madrid

31 Oct 1992

Breeders Cup Horse Racing Gulfstream Park winners A P Indy Fraise Gilded Time Liza Lure Paseana Thirty Slews

31 Oct 1993

Wonderful Tennessee closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 9 performances

31 Oct 1993

25 people killed during Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match

31 Oct 1993

German unemployment hits national record of 3.5 million

31 Oct 1994

American Eagle ATR-72 crash down at Gary Indiana 68 killed

31 Oct 1994

Creep single released by TLC their 1st US No.1 (Billboard Song of the Year 1995)

31 Oct 1996

Transportes Areos Regionais (TAM) Flight 402 a Fokker F100 crashes into several houses in So Paulo Brazil killing 98 including 2 on the ground.

31 Oct 1997

British au pair Louise Woodward 19 sentenced to life for the death of Matthew Eappen 8 months (judge changes to time served)

31 Oct 1998

Iraq disarmament crisis begins Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.

31 Oct 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.

31 Oct 1999

Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world solo non-stop and unassisted.

31 Oct 1999

EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket Massachusetts killing all 217 on-board.

31 Oct 1999

Finnish McLaren driver Mika Hkkinen wins season ending Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka to clinch his second straight F1 World Drivers Championship wins by 2 points from Irishman Eddie Irvine

31 Oct 2000

The last Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) machine was shut down.

31 Oct 2000

A chartered Antonov An-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50

31 Oct 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

31 Oct 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.

31 Oct 2003

A bankruptcy court approves MCIs reorganization plans essentially clearing the telecommunications company to exit bankruptcy.

31 Oct 2010

Belgium leaves the recession with 0.5% growth in the third quarter

31 Oct 2010

Belgian tennis star Kim Clijsters beats Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 63 57 63 for her 3rd season ending WTA Championship in Doha Qatar

31 Oct 2011

The world population reaches 7 billion inhabitants according to the United Nations

31 Oct 2012

The New York stock exchange opens after being closed for two days after Hurricane Sandy

31 Oct 2014

Breeders Cup Horse Racing Santa Anita Racetrack Day 1 winners Hootenanny Goldencents Lady Eli Untapable

31 Oct 2015

8th Rugby World Cup Final Twickenham London All Blacks fly-half Dan Carter lands 4 penalties and 2 conversions as New Zealand defeats Australia 34-17

31 Oct 2015

Russian airliner crashes killing all 224 on board in Sinai Peninsula Egypt - Russias worst air disaster

31 Oct 2015

Breeders Cup Horse Racing Keeneland Racetrack Day 2 winners Songbird Mongolian Saturday Wavell Avenue Stephanies Kitten Runhappy Tepin Nyquist Found American Pharoah

31 Oct 2016

Lebanon parliament elects Michel Aoun President after 2 12 years without a leader

31 Oct 2017

Two men convicted of raping and inpregnating their 10 year old niece in Chandigarh India

31 Oct 2017

Judge on Maui Hawaii orders man to write ex-girlfriend 144 compliments after violating protection order to send 144 nasty text messages

31 Oct 2017

John Kelly White House Chief of Staff comments in TV interview that the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War draws criticism

31 Oct 2017

Terrorist attack in New York when a truck mows down people on a cycle lane killing 8 injuring 10

31 Oct 2017

Takahiro Shiraishi arrested in Zama Japan a day after nine dismembered bodies found in his apartment

31 Oct 2018

In landmark verdict Pakistani Supreme Court acquits Christian woman of blasphemy against the prophet Mohammed after eight years on death row

31 Oct 2018

US and Great Britain call for a cease-fire in Saudi-led war in Yemen in 3-year war that has claimed over 10000 lives and created famine conditions

31 Oct 2018

BLACKPINK become the first K-pop girl group to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 with multiple hits

31 Oct 1815

Cornishman Sir Humphry Davy patents miners safety lamp

31 Oct 1887

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakovs orchestral work Capriccio Espagnol premieres in St Petersburg

31 Oct 1916

Clare Kummers play Good Gracious Annabelle premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1922

Karel & Josef apeks play World We Live In premieres in NYC

31 Oct 1924

World Savings Day announced in Milan Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks)

31 Oct 1941

Mount Rushmore Monument is completed in South Dakota designed by Gutzon Borglum

31 Oct 1976

Pakistani cricketer Javed Miandad scores 206 v NZ aged 19 yrs 141 days (29 fours 1 six)

31 Oct 1989

AR Gurneys play Love Letters premieres in NYC

31 Oct 2000

The last Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) machine shut down

31 Oct 2008

Whitepaper Bitcoin A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System is published by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. It describes a decentralized peer-to-peer network that could track and verify transactions while producing a transparent verifiable record.

31 Oct 2017

Two men convicted of raping and impregnating their 10 year old niece in Chandigarh India

31 Oct 2019

Gas canister explodes on a train in Rahim Yar Khan Pakaistan killing at least 70 and injuring 30

31 Oct 2019

Fire destroys most of historic Shuri Castle once seat of the Ryukyu Kingdom on island of Okinawa Japan

31 Oct 2019

Jihadist group Islamic State names Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurashi as its new leader after US special forces kill its former leader

31 Oct 1867

Australias first royal tour begins as Prince Albert son of Queen Victoria arrives in Adelaide South Australia [1]

31 Oct 1988

First Monday Night NFL game played in Indianapolis Colts beat Denver Broncos 55-23

31 Oct 1994

American jam band Phish performs The Beatles White Album as a musical costume during a show at the Glens Falls Civic Center in Glens Falls New York.

31 Oct 1995

American jam band Phish performs The Whos Quadrophenia as a musical costume during a show at the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont Illinois

31 Oct 1996

American jam band Phish performs The Talking Heads Remain In Light as a musical costume during a show at the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta Georgia

31 Oct 1998

American jam band Phish performs The Velvet Undergrounds Rock and Roll as a musical costume during a show at the Thomas & Mack Center at the University of Nevada in Paradise Nevada

31 Oct 2020

New Zealand Rugby Union team routs Australia 43-5 in Sydney to retain Bledisloe Cup (2-1) for 18th straight series Wallabies largest ever defeat by All Blacks

31 Oct 2020

England beats Italy 34-5 in Rome to clinch 29th Six-Nations Rugby Championship halfback Ben Youngs becomes second England player to earn 100th test cap

31 Oct 1922

Fascist leader Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes Prime Minister of Italy

31 Oct 1957

Yip Harburg Fred Saidy and Harold Arlens musical Jamaica starring Lena Horne opens at Imperial Theater NYC runs for 558 performances

31 Oct 2010

Post-apocalyptic zombie TV series The Walking Dead premieres starring Andrew Lincoln and Jon Bernthal on AMC

31 Oct 1887

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakovs orchestral work Capriccio Espagnol premieres in St Petersburg Russia

31 Oct 1949

Marc Blitzsteins musical drama Regina based on Lilian Hellmans play The Little Foxes opens at 46th St Theater NYC runs for 56 performances winning 2 Tony Awards

31 Oct 1959

USSR & Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan High Dam

31 Oct 1982

Musical revue Rock n Roll The First 5000 Years closes at St James Theatre. NYC after 9 performances

31 Oct 1993

Brian Friels stage drama Wonderful Tennessee closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 9 performances

31 Oct 2000

Pope John Paul II declares Saint Thomas More as the heavenly Patron of Statesmen and Politicians

31 Oct 2021

Worlds largest solar farm goes live in Sirindhorn reservoir Thailand as a hydro-floating solar hybrid system the size of 70 football fields [1]

31 Oct 1876

Great Backerganj Cyclone of ravages British India (modern-day Bangladesh) killing over 200000

31 Oct 1908

IV Summer Olympic Games close at White City Stadium in London England

31 Oct 1917

World War I Battle of Beersheba in southern Palestine - last successful cavalry charge in history is performed by the 4th Australian Light Horse

31 Oct 1959

USSR and Egypt sign contracts to build the Aswan High Dam

31 Oct 1979

Baltimore Orioles pitcher Mike Flanagan wins AL Cy Young Award

31 Oct 1987

American jockey Chris Antley becomes the first rider to win nine races in a day (four at Aqueduct and five at The Meadowlands)

31 Oct 1988

19F lowest October temperature ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio

31 Oct 1989

A. R. Gurneys stage play Love Letters opens at the Edison Theatre NYC runs for 96 performances

31 Oct 2017

Two men convicted of raping and impregnating their 10-year-old niece in Chandigarh India

31 Oct 2019

Joel Embiid is suspended from the NBA for two games without pay due to an altercation with Karl-Anthony Towns

31 Oct 1552

Forces of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V begin a siege of the French-held city of Metz siege eventually fails and is called off in January 1553

31 Oct 1596

English French and Dutch delegates sign anti-Spanish Triple Covenant

31 Oct 1617

Laurens Reael resigns as governor-general of the Dutch East Indies

31 Oct 1759

Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundreds

31 Oct 1808

Holland Brigade fight a battle near Durango Spain

31 Oct 1828

Edinburgh-based body snatchers William Burke and William Hare are exposed for murdering 16 people and selling the corpses to medical schools [1]

31 Oct 1837

Collision between the river boat Monmouth and the steamer called Warren on the Mississippi kills 300 people

31 Oct 1863

The Maori Wars resume as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron begin their invasion of the Waikato

31 Oct 1864

Nevada is admitted as the 36th state of the Union

31 Oct 1867

Australias first royal tour begins as Prince Albert son of Queen Victoria arrives in Adelaide South Australia [1]

31 Oct 1881

Metropolitan club plays its last game of its non-league season having won 80 of 151 games (18-43 vs. National League teams)

31 Oct 1905

Great revolutionary demonstration for amnesty in St. Petersburg

31 Oct 1907

Calgary City Rugby Football Club defeats Strathcona Rugby Football Club 15-0 in Calgary in their first game

31 Oct 1913

Lincoln Highway the first paved coast-to-coast highway in the US is dedicated

31 Oct 1914

Great Britain and France declare war on Turkey

31 Oct 1916

Clare Kummers play Good Gracious Annabelle premieres in New York City

31 Oct 1917

Battle of Beersheba In southern Palestine the last successful cavalry charge in history is performed by the 4th Australian Light Horse during World War I

31 Oct 1918

Short-lived Banat Republic founded in territory where Romania Hungary and Serbia meet

31 Oct 1921

Fdration Sportive Fminine Internationale (International Womens Sports Federation) is founded by the Frenchwoman Alice Milliat

31 Oct 1922

Karel and Josef apeks play World We Live In premieres in New York City

31 Oct 1923

160 consecutive days of 100F begin in Marble Bar Australia

31 Oct 1924

World Savings Day is established during the first International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks) in Milan Italy to promote the importance of saving

31 Oct 1938

Great Depression In an effort to try restore investor confidence the New York Stock Exchange unveils a 15-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public

31 Oct 1941

A clothing factory fire in Huddersfield England kills 49

31 Oct 1941

Mount Rushmore Monument designed by Gutzon Borglum is completed in South Dakota

31 Oct 1941

Prior to the US joining WWII German submarine U-552 torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James near Iceland

31 Oct 1943

WWII F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception

31 Oct 1944

Chief of Staff Kruls names De Quay chairman of the Universal Commission

31 Oct 1949

Dutch Nazi Henri Hakkie Holdert director of Amsterdam paper De Telegraaf (The Telegraph) and member of the SS is sentenced to 12 years imprisonment

31 Oct 1949

WOC (now KWQC) TV channel 6 in Davenport IA (NBC) begins broadcasting

31 Oct 1955

Bernardus Johannes Alfrink is installed as Archbishop of Utrecht

31 Oct 1952

The first thermonuclear bomb is detonated at Marshall Islands

31 Oct 1956

American Navy pilot Conrad Gus Shinn is the first person to land a plane at the South Pole

31 Oct 1956

Brooklyn New York ends its streetcar service

31 Oct 1956

Rear Admiral G. J. Dufek becomes the first American to set foot on the South Pole

31 Oct 1960

Cyclone hits the coast of the Gulf of Bengal killing about 10000 people

31 Oct 1961

Federal judge rules that laws against integrated playing fields in Birmingham Alabama are illegal

31 Oct 1963

Leaking propane gas explodes killing 64 at Holiday on Ice in Indiana

31 Oct 1967

San Francisco Giants pitcher Mike McCormick wins the National League Cy Young Award

31 Oct 1968

Milwaukee Bucks win their first game beating Detroit 138-118 (6th game)

31 Oct 1971

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb at the Post Office Tower in London

31 Oct 1972

Two Catholic children (6 and 4) playing in the street are killed in an Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) car bomb attack on a bar in Ship Street Belfast Northern Ireland

31 Oct 1974

Dutch Marines end a hostage crisis in Scheveningen prison

31 Oct 1978

Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) adopts a constitution

31 Oct 1979

Baltimore Orioles pitcher Mike Flanagan wins the American League Cy Young Award

31 Oct 1979

Western Airlines Flight 2605 a DC-10 crashes at Mexico City International Airport killing 72

31 Oct 1980

Julian Nott sets a world hot air balloon altitude record of 16806 m

31 Oct 1980

Polish government recognizes the Solidarity trade union

31 Oct 1980

Senegal routes troops to Gambia due to a Libyan threat

31 Oct 1981

The War of the Worlds the first live American radio drama in 25 years is broadcast on NBC on Halloween

31 Oct 1983

Ron Grant completes a run around Australia in 217 days covering 8316 miles (13383 km)

31 Oct 1984

Howard Goodall and Melvyn Braggs musical Hired Man premieres in London

31 Oct 1984

The Puerto Rican tanker San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as the ship catches fire

31 Oct 1985

New Zealand author Keri Hulme is the first debut novelist to win the Booker Prize for The Bone People

31 Oct 1988

19F is the lowest October temperature ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio

31 Oct 1988

First Monday Night NFL game played in Indianapolis Colts beat Denver Broncos 55-23

31 Oct 1990

Pakistan beats New Zealand 3-0 with Waqar Younis taking 29 series wickets

31 Oct 1991

Palestinians attend the US Middle East peace talks in Madrid Spain

31 Oct 1993

25 people are killed during a Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match

31 Oct 1993

German unemployment hits a national record of 3.5 million

31 Oct 1994

American Eagle ATR-72 crashes at Gary Indiana killing 68

31 Oct 1994

American jam band Phish performs The Beatles The White Album as a musical costume during a show at the Glens Falls Civic Center in Glens Falls New York

31 Oct 1994

The single Creep is released by TLC their first No.1 in the US (Billboard Song of the Year 1995)

31 Oct 1995

NHL New Jersey Devils agree to stay in New Jersey

31 Oct 1996

Transportes Areos Regionais (TAM) Flight 402 a Fokker F100 crashes into several houses in So Paulo Brazil killing 98 including two on the ground

31 Oct 1998

Iraq disarmament crisis begins Iraq announces it will no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors

31 Oct 1999

EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket Massachusetts killing all 217 on-board

31 Oct 1999

Finnish McLaren driver Mika Hkkinen wins the season-ending Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka by 2 points from Irishman Eddie Irvine to clinch his second consecutive F1 World Drivers Championship

31 Oct 1999

Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world solo non-stop and unassisted

31 Oct 2000

A chartered Antonov An-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50

31 Oct 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

31 Oct 2002

A federal grand jury in Houston Texas formally indicts 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

31 Oct 2008

White Paper Bitcoin A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System is published by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto it describes a decentralized peer-to-peer network that could track and verify transactions while producing a transparent verifiable record.

31 Oct 2015

In Russias worst air disaster to date an airliner crashes in Sinai Peninsula Egypt killing all 224 on board

31 Oct 2016

Lebanon parliament elects Michel Aoun as president after 2 12 years without a leader

31 Oct 2016

MIT Engineers announce they have engineered spinach plants to detect explosive materials in groundwater and send an email alert via a connected system [1]

31 Oct 2017

A judge on Maui Hawaii orders a man to write 144 compliments to his ex-girlfriend after violating a protection order by sending her 144 malicious text messages and calls

31 Oct 2017

John Kelly White House Chief of Staffs comments in a TV interview that the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War draws criticism

31 Oct 2017

Takahiro Shiraishi is arrested in Zama Japan a day after nine dismembered bodies are found in his apartment

31 Oct 2017

Terrorist attack in New York as a truck strikes people on a cycle lane killing 8 and injuring 10

31 Oct 2017

Two men are convicted of raping and impregnating their 10-year-old niece in Chandigarh India

31 Oct 2018

In a landmark verdict the Pakistani Supreme Court acquits a Christian woman of blasphemy against the prophet Mohammed after eight years on death row

31 Oct 2018

The US and Great Britain call for a ceasefire in the Saudi-led war in Yemen a 3-year conflict that has claimed over 10000 lives and created famine conditions

31 Oct 2019

A fire destroys most of historic Shuri Castle once the seat of the Ryukyu Kingdom on the island of Okinawa Japan

31 Oct 2019

A gas canister explodes on a train in Rahim Yar Khan Pakistan killing at least 70 and injuring 30

31 Oct 2019

Jihadist group Islamic State names Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurashi as its new leader after US special forces kill its former leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

31 Oct 2020

New Zealand Rugby Union team routs Australia 43-5 in Sydney to retain the Bledisloe Cup (2-1) for the 18th straight series Wallabies largest-ever defeat by All Blacks

31 Oct 2024

American rapper Young Thug (33) pleads guilty to street gang racketeering charges and no contest to related weapons and drug charges ending a prolonged trial in Atlanta Georgia judge sentences him to time served plus 15 years of probation [1]

31 Oct 2024

Russian legal claims against Google in Russia reach two undecillion roubles (20 decillion) largely symbolic for blocking Russian channels on YouTube [1]

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