THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2019

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

1815-Humphrey Davy of London patents miner's safety lamp

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

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

1950-Collazo, Torresola attempt to kill Truman in Washington, DC

1952-First thermonuclear bomb detonated at Marshall Islands

1954-Algerian Revolution against French begins

1956-Britain, France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal

1959-Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to U.S.

1964-Barbra Streisand's "People" album goes #1 for 5 weeks

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

1980-Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 meters)

1982-Pope John Paul II becomes first pontiff to visit Spain

1983-Ron Grant completes a 217-day, 8,316-mile run around Australia

1988-Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia