On This Day:
Friday October 31, 2014 This is the 304th day of the year, with 61 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Minnesota Greater Minnesota is known as Outstate Minnesota, the region outside the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.
Holidays United States, Canada, United Kingdom: Halloween or All Hallows' Eve.
Feast day of St. Quentin or Quintinus, St. Bee or Bega, St. Wolfgang, and St. Foillan of Fosses.
Germany: Reformationsfest.
Taiwan: Chiang Kai-shek Day.
Nevada: Admission Day.
Holy Day of Martin Luther.
National UNICEF Day
Events 1517 - Martin Luther posted the "95 Theses" on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church in Germany, starting the Protestant Reformation.
1803 - Congress ratified the Louisiana Purchase, adding territory which will eventually become 13 states.
1902 - The first telegraph cable across the Pacific Ocean was completed.
1941 - USS Clemson Class destroyer Reuben James was torpedoed by a German submarine, the first U.S. warship sunk in World War II. Though some were saved, 96 crew members died.
1941 - Mount Rushmore National Memorial was completed after 14 years.
1950 - Earl Lloyd became the first black to play in the NBA when he took the floor for the Washington Capitols.
1952 - The U.S. exploded its first hydrogen bomb, at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
1956 - U.S. Rear Admiral George J. Dufek became the first person to land an airplane at the South Pole.
1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine from Texas, announced in Moscow that he would never return to the United States.
1968 - President Lyndon Johnson ordered a halt to all U.S. bombing of North Vietnam.
1980 - Reza Pahlavi, oldest son of the late shah, proclaimed himself the successor to the Peacock Throne.
1992 - Vatican formally rehabilitated Galileo Galilei, who was forced by the Inquisition in 1633 to recant his assertion that the Earth orbits the Sun.
2001 - Microsoft and the U.S. Justice Department reached a tentative agreement to settle the historic antitrust case against the software giant.
Births 1795 - John Keats, English poet.
1860 - Juliette Low, American, founder of the Girl Scouts.
1887 - Chiang Kai-shek, first constitutional president of the Republic of China and army general.
1912 - Dale Evans (Frances Butts), American singer-songwriter, actress, wife of Roy Rogers.
1931 - Dan Rather, American TV journalist.
1936 - Michael Landon, American TV actor, producer and director.
Deaths 1926 - Harry Houdini (Erik Weisz), Hungarian-born American magician and escape artist.
1984 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, assassinated by Sikh members of her own security guard.
1993 - River Phoenix, American film actor.
1993 - Federico Fellini, Italian film maker.
1994 - John Pope-Hennessy, English art historian and museum curator.
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