MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2011

Today is Monday, October 31, the 304th day of 2011. 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 ― 4th 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 ― First thermonuclear bomb detonated, in 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.