1517 Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church-Protestant Reformation

1759 Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred

1793 Execution of the Girondins at Paris, during the Reign of Terror

1815 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents miner's safety lamp

1864 Nevada admitted as 36th state

1908 4th Olympic games end in London

1917 Australian Light Horse charges Turkish positions at Beersheba, Palestine

1917 Major George R. Pearkes (5th Cdn. Mounted Rifles) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium

1922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy

1938 Orson Wells' radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" in Mercury Theatre's Halloween treat, tricks thousands.

1940 Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into the Warsaw Ghetto

1950 Collazo and Torresola attempt to kill Truman in Washington, DC

1952 First thermonuclear bomb detonated-Marshall Islands

1954 Algerian Revolution against French begins

1956 Britain and France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal

1956 Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service

1956 First American to land an airplane at South Pole-Rear Adm GJ Dufek

1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US

1963 Ed Sullivan witnesses the Beatles and their fans at London Airport

1963 Leaking propane gas explodes, kills 64 at "Holiday on Ice" (Indiana)

1964 Barbra Streisand's "People," album goes #1 for 5 weeks

1965 Canadian National introduces "Rapido" passenger service between Montreal and Toronto. This was extended to Quebec in the following year.

1967 Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as First pres of S Vietnam 2nd Republic

1968 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam

1969 George Harrison's "Something" is released in UK

1969 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida

1980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m)

1982 Pope John Paul II becomes First pontiff to visit Spain

1983 Paul McCartney releases "Pipes of Peace" album

1984 Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as the ship caught fire

1988 First Monday Night NFL game in Indianapolis, Colts beat Denver 55-23

1988 Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia

1485 Coronation of British king Henry VII

1922 Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister and Dictator of Italy

1952 US detonate first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific

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