Today In History - October 31

1759 An earthquake in Safed, Palestine kills hundreds of people
1815 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents the miner's safety lamp
1864 Nevada is admitted as the 36th state
1908 The 4th Olympic Games end in London
1922 Benito Mussolini becomes the Premier of Italy
1940 Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into the Warsaw Ghetto
1950 Collazo and Torresola attempt to kill President Truman in Washington, DC
1952 The first thermonuclear bomb is detonated: Marshall Islands
1954 The Algerian Revolution against French begins
1956 The first American to land an airplane at South the Pole: G.J. Dufek
1956 Britain and France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal
1956 Brooklyn, NY ends its streetcar service
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to the US
1963 Ed Sullivan witnesses the Beatles and their fans at the London Airport
1963 Leaking propane gas explodes and kills 64 people at "Holiday on Ice" in Indiana
1967 Nguyen Van Thieu took the oath of office as first president of South Vietnam second Republic
1968 Linda Eastman moves to the UK permanently
1968 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
1969 Race riot occurs in Jacksonville, Florida
1974 Bundy victim, Laura Aime, disappears in Utah
1982 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Spain
1984 The Puerto Rican tanker San Francisco explodes spilling 2-million gallons of oil
1988 Actor John Houseman dies at age 86

1291 Philippe de Vitry
1620 John Evelyn
1632 Jan Vermeer
1740 William Paca
1755 Jean Louis van Aelbroeck
1757 Ignaz Spangler
1761 Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck
1785 George F. Kersting
1791 Ferdinand Huber
1795 John Keats
1815 Karl Weierstrass
1825 Raleigh Edward Colston
1826 Hugh Boyle Ewing
1831 Daniel Butterfield
1835 Adelbert Ames
1847 Galileo Ferraris
1852 Mary E. W. Freeman
1854 Georg A. Erman
1860 Juliette Gordon Low
1875 Seerp Anema
1876 Eduard van Oort
1887 Chiang Kai-shek
1887 Edouard Lalonde
1888 George Hubert Wilkins
1888 Harold Vincent Milligan
1892 Ruth Fuller Sasaki
1893 Sara Allgood
1895 B. H. Liddell Hart
1898 Alfred Sauvy
1900 Carl Hubbard
1902 Charles Drummond de Andrade
1902 Eduard Franz
1902 Willie Shaw
1906 Jo Vis
1906 Louise Talma
1907 Helen Lessore
1912 Dale Evans
1912 Jean Amery
1917 Erik Routley
1917 William Hardy McNeill
1920 Dick Francis
1920 Helmut Newton
1922 Barbara Bel Geddes
1922 Norodom Sihanouk
1923 Hicks B. Waldron
1928 Andrew Sarris
1929 Bud Spencer
1930 Michael Collins
1930 Ray Crane
1931 Dan Rather
1931 David Lumsdaine
1937 Michael Landon
1937 Tom Paxton
1938 Rives McBee
1941 Lucas Brown Jackson
1942 Ben M. J. Hennekam
1942 David Ogden Stiers
1943 Stephen Rea
1944 Deidre Hall
1944 Kinky Friedman
1944 Sally Kirkland
1946 Ramnath Parkar
1947 Frank Shorter
1947 Russ Ballard
1949 Bob Selbenberg
1949 Dumisa B. Ntsebeza
1949 Mike Parker
1949 Odaline de la Martinez
1949 Terrence W. Wilcutt
1950 Jane Pauley
1950 John Candy
1952 Bernard Edwards
1953 John Lucas, Durham
1958 Russell Earl Cochran
1959 Ann Henricksson
1959 Val Kilmer
1960 Janice Harrer
1960 Reza Pahlavi
1961 Alonzo Babers
1961 Christine Bridged
1961 Peter Jackson
1961 Sterling Hinds
1963 Dermot Mulroney
1963 Fred McGriff
1963 Johnny Marr
1963 Rob Schneider
1964 Amanda Sandrelli
1964 Marco van Basten
1965 Annabella Lwin
1965 Blue Edwards
1965 Ruud Hesp
1968 Antonio Davis
1968 Eddie Taubensee
1968 Russ McCullough
1968 Vanilla Ice (aka Robert Van Winkle
1969 Damon Mashore
1969 Henry John Mills
1969 Lee Woodall
1970 Steve Trachsel
1971 Phillip Tataurangi
1972 Clifford Rozier
1972 Jamie Asher
1973 Fiona Smith
1973 Ross Verba
1974 Jeff Gooch
1974 Julie Minta Gleneck
1974 Serge Heuveling
1975 Carla Boyd
1975 Jagan Hames
1978 Joselina Garcia