SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2009

Today is Saturday, October 31, the 304th day of 2009. 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

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

1908 _ Fourth Olympic games end in London

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

1952 _ First thermonuclear bomb detonated-Marshall Islands

1954 _ Algerian Revolution against French begins

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