About October 31
October 31, 2024 is the 305th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 61 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 90 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 31
- 1587 –Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.
- 1864 –Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
- 1876 –A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 deaths.
- 1913 –The Indianapolis Street Car Strike and subsequent riot begins.
- 1918 –Banat Republic is founded
- 1923 –The first of 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Australia.
- 1926 –Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.
- 1941 –A fire in a clothing factory in Huddersfield, England kills 49.
- 1943 –World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception.
- 1954 –Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule.
- 1956 –Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
- 1959 –Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR.
- 1961 –In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin’s body is removed from Lenin’s Tomb.
- 1973 –Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland aboard a hijacked helicopter that lands in the exercise yard.
- 1997 –19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward, convicted by a Cambridge, Massachusetts, jury of second-degree murder the day before, is sentenced to life in prison.
- 1999 –Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.
- 2002 –A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas 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.
- 2003 –A bankruptcy court approves MCI’s reorganization plans, essentially clearing the telecommunications company to exit bankruptcy.
- 2003 –Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, marking an end to Mahathir’s 22 years in power.
- 2011 –The world population is now over 7 billion inhabitants according to the United Nations
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