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File:Iturbide Emperador by Josephus Arias Huerta.jpg|Emperor Agustín de Iturbide of Mexico |
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File:Crowd swarms streetcar in 1913 Indianapolis Streetcar Stirke.jpg|Strikers surrounding a streetcar in Indianapolis |
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| [[1587]] – '''[[Leiden University Library]]''' in [[Leiden]] in the Netherlands opened its doors, becoming one of the significant cultural centres in Europe during the [[Age of Enlightenment]]. |
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| [[1997]] – Nineteen-year-old British [[au pair]] '''[[Louise Woodward case|Louise Woodward]]''' was convicted of the [[Manslaughter|involuntary manslaughter]] of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen in [[Newton, Massachusetts]]. |
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| [[2000]] – '''[[Singapore Airlines Flight 006]]''' collided with construction equipment while attempting to take off from [[Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport]] during heavy rain, killing 79 passengers and 4 crew members. |
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* [[1999]] – All 217 people on board '''[[EgyptAir Flight 990|EgyptAir Flight 990]]''' perished when the aircraft suddenly crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of [[Nantucket]], Massachusetts. |
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* [[1999]] – Australian sailor '''[[Jesse Martin]]''' arrived in Melbourne, becoming the [[List of youth solo sailing circumnavigations|youngest person to circumnavigate the globe]] solo, non-stop, and unassisted. |
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* [[2005]] – The discovery of the [[Moons of Pluto|Plutonian moons]] '''[[Nix (moon)|Nix]]''' and '''[[Hydra (moon)|Hydra]]''', based on photographs taken by the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] nearly five months prior, was announced. |
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Latest revision as of 19:16, 29 October 2023
This is a list of selected October 31 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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683 – During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba, considered the holiest site in Islam, was severely damaged by fire. | Too much uncited |
802 – Irene of Athens, the first empress regnant of the Byzantine Empire, was deposed and exiled to the island of Lesbos. | refimprove |
1587 – Leiden University Library in Leiden in the Netherlands opened its doors, becoming one of the significant cultural centres in Europe during the Age of Enlightenment. | unreferenced section |
1822 – Emperor Agustín de Iturbide of the First Mexican Empire dissolved the Mexican Congress and replaced it with a military junta answerable only to him. | refimprove section |
1864 – Nevada was admitted as the 36th U.S. state, in part to help ensure Abraham Lincoln's re-election as President of the United States eight days later. | refimprove section |
1922 – Benito Mussolini became Prime Minister of Italy; three years later he set up a legal dictatorship. | refimprove section |
2000 – Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collided with construction equipment while attempting to take off from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport during heavy rain, killing 79 passengers and 4 crew members. | refimprove sections |
2011 – The United Nations declared that the world's population had exceeded seven billion. | refimprove |
Charles Taze Russell |d|1916 | refimprove section |
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- 475 – Romulus Augustulus took the throne as the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1517 – According to one account, Martin Luther(depicted) posted his Ninety-five Theses onto the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, present-day Germany, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.
- 1913 – Public-transportation workers in Indianapolis went on strike (pictured), shutting down mass transit in the city.
- 1941 – Approximately 400 workers completed the 60-foot (18 m) busts of U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
- 1973 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in the prison's exercise yard.
- 1984 – Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi (pictured) was assassinated by two of her own Sikh bodyguards, sparking riots that resulted in the deaths of thousands of Sikhs.
- 1999 – All 217 people on board EgyptAir Flight 990 perished when the aircraft suddenly crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
- 1999 – Australian sailor Jesse Martin arrived in Melbourne, becoming the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop, and unassisted.
- 2005 – The discovery of the Plutonian moons Nix and Hydra, based on photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope nearly five months prior, was announced.
- Born/died: | Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile |d|1214| Cornelis Jol |d|1641| Anne Claude de Caylus |b|1692| John Keats |b|1795| Edmund Sharpe |b|1809| Marie Louise Andrews |b|1849| Juliette Gordon Low |b|1860| Charles A. Wickliffe |d|1869| Natalie Clifford Barney |b|1876| Michael Collins |b|1930| Dave McNally |b|1942| Bill Kibby |d|1942 Larry Mullen Jr. |b|1961|Greg Moore |d|1999
- 1917 – World War I: Allied forces defeated Turkish troops in Beersheba in Southern Palestine at the Battle of Beersheba, with the battle involving one of the last successful cavalry charges.
- 1941 – More than 101 crew members of the USS Reuben James perished when their vessel became the first U.S. Navy ship sunk by hostile action during World War II after it was torpedoed by the German submarine U-552.
- 1963 – A gas explosion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum in Indianapolis killed 81 people and injured about 400 others.
- 2003 – After 22 years in power, Tun Mahathir Mohamad retired as Prime Minister of Malaysia.
- 2015 – Shortly after takeoff, Metrojet Flight 9268 (pictured) exploded and then crashed into the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.
- Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
- Muriel Duckworth (b. 1908)
- William Evans-Gordon (d. 1913)
- Gordon Steege (b. 1917)