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