FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2008

Today is Friday, October 31, the 305th day of 2008. There are 61 days left in the year.

1517 _ Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg Church _ Protestant Reformation

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

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

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

1967 _ Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as first president of S. Vietnam's second republic

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

1969 _ George Harrison's ``Something" is released in U.K.

1988 _ Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia