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What happened in history on this day: October 31?
On October 31 in ...
- 1861 - US General Winfield Scott, Commander of the US Army, resigns at age 94 citing failing health.
- 1864 - Nevada admitted as 36th US state.
- 1895 - In Charleston, Missouri, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurs.
- 1913 - The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across America, is dedicated.
- 1933 - Treasury Secretary William Woodin submits his resignation, but President Franklin Roosevelt refuses to accept it.
- 1934 - The Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago closes. Over the two years, there were 38,867,000 visitors.
- 1941 - German submarine U-562 torpedoes American destroyer USS Reuben James while escorting a British convoy west of Ireland. 115 Americans die.
- 1941 - Former Carson City Mint opens as a museum and art center.
- 1941 - The Mount Rushmore monument is completed in the USA.
- 1943 - The F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception.
- 1956 - Rear Admiral G. J. Dufek becomes the first person to land an airplane at the South Pole.
- 1963 - Leaking propane gas explodes, kills 64 at "Holiday on Ice" (Indiana).
- 1964 - President Lyndon Johnson signs the Federal Food Stamp Act as Public Law 88-525.
- 1968 - US President Lyndon Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam.
- 1969 - Race riot in Jacksonville, Florida.
- 1974 - Laura Aime disappears in Utah (possible Ted Bundy victim).
- 1994 - An American Eagle ATR-72 plane crashes in Roselawn, Indiana, after circling in icy weather, killing 64 passengers.
- 1999 - EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board.
- 2001 - Searchers recover $230 million in gold and silver from vaults of the Bank of Nova Scotia among rubble of the destroyed World Trade Center in New York City.
- 2005 - U.S. President George W. Bush nominates Federal Appeals Court Judge Samuel Alito to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Births on October 31
- 1896 - Birth of Ethel Waters in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Beulah), singer ("Stormy Weather").
- 1902 - Birth of Eduard Franz in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; actor (Zorro).
- 1912 - Birth of Dale Evans in Uvalde, Texas, USA; cowgirl (Roy Rogers Show).
- 1922 - Birth of Barbara Bel Geddes in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Vertigo, Miss Ellie - Dallas, Caught).
- 1923 - Birth of Hicks B Waldron in Amsterdam. New York, USA; CEO (Avon).
- 1926 - Birth of Shirley Dinsdale in San Francisco, California, USA; ventriloquist (Judy Splinters).
- 1927 - Birth of Lee Grant [Lyova Haskell Rosenthal] in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Shampoo, Landlord).
- 1931 - Birth of Dan Rather in Wharton, Texas, USA; American television news anchor (CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes).
- 1937 - Birth of Michael Landon in Forest Hills, New York, USA; actor (Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven).
- 1937 - Birth of Tom Paxton in Chicago, Illinois, USA; folk singer/songwriter ("Forest Lawn").
- 1942 - Birth of David Ogden Stiers in Peoria, Illinois, USA; actor (Charles Emerson Winchester - M*A*S*H, Doc).
- 1944 - Birth of Kinky Friedman in Palestine, Texas, USA; country rocker ("Ride 'em Jewboy").
- 1944 - Birth of Sally Kirkland in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Anna, Sting, Private Benjamin, Big Bad Mama).
- 1947 - Birth of Deidre Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; actress (Days of Our Lives, Our House).
- 1949 - Birth of Terrence W Wilcutt in Russellville, Kentucky, USA; Major US Marine Corp/astronaut.
- 1950 - Birth of Jane Pauley in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; newscaster (Today, NBC Weekend).
- 1981 - Birth of Frank Iero; American guitarist (My Chemical Romance).
Deaths on October 31
- 1926 - Erich Weiss, better known as magician Harry Houdini, dies in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- 1964 - Theodore C Freeman, astronaut, dies at age 34 in a T-38 jet air crash.
- 1983 - Death of George S. Halas, American football player and coach at age 88 (born 1895).
- 1986 - Death of Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (born 1896).
- 1987 - Joseph Campbell, American mythologist/writer (Mythic Image), dies at age 83 (born 1904).
- 2008 - Death of Pulitzer Prize-winning author (The Good War) Louis "Studs" Terkel in Chicago, Illinois, USA, at age 96.
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