WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2007

Today is Wednesday, October 31, the 304th day of 2007. There are 61 days left in the year.

1517 _ Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church-Protestant Reformation

1864 _ Nevada admitted as 36th U.S. state

1908 _ Fourth Olympic games end in London

1922 _ Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy

1940 _ Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into the Warsaw Ghetto

1952 _ The 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, N.Y., ends streetcar service

1967 _ Nguyen Van Thieu takes oath of office as first president of South Vietnam

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

1969 _ A race riot in Jacksonville Florida

1982 _ Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Spain

1988 _ Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia