Halloween
Earl Lloyd becomes the first Black to play in an NBA game, 1950
John Candy's Birthday, 1950
Jane Pauley's Birthday, 1950
Michael Landon's Birthday, 1937
Michael Collins' Birthday, 1931
Dan Rather's Birthday, 1931
Harry Houdini's dies, 1926
Dale Evans' Birthday, 1912
Chiang Kai-Shek's Birthday, 1887
Nevada admitted as 36th State, 1864
Juliette Gordon Low's Birthday, 1860
John Keats' Birthday, 1795
Martin Luther nails Theses to Wittenberg Church, 1517
Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman to win Heavyweight Title, 1974
Harry Hamlin's Birthday, 1951
Henry Winkler's Birthday, 1945
Grace Slick's Birthday, 1943
"War of the Worlds" broadcast touches off panic when listeners think it is real, 1938
Major League Baseball outlaws the spitball and shineball pitches, 1919
Ted Williams' Birthday, 1918
John Adams' Birthday, 1735
Republic Day [Turkey]
Kate Jackson's Birthday, 1948
Richard Dreyfus' Birthday, 1947
Melba Moore's Birthday, 1945
Great Stock Market Crash, 1929
Daniel Decatur Emmett's Birthday, 1815
U.S.S.R. announces it will remove missiles from Cuba, 1962
Bruce Jenner's Birthday, 1949
Charlie Daniels' Birthday, 1936
Jonas Salk's Birthday, 1914
Statue of Liberty dedicated [by President Grover Cleveland], 1886
James Cook's Birthday, 1728
Harvard University founded, 1636
Desiderius Erasmus' Birthday, 1467
Oliver Tambo's Birthday, 1917
Dylan Thomas' Birthday, 1914
Manhattan - Brooklyn Subway opens, 1904
Emily Post's Birthday, 1872
Theodore Roosevelt's Birthday, 1858
Chuck Forman's Birthday, 1950
Minimum wage raised from 40 to 75 cents an hour, 1949
Jacklyn Smith's Birthday, 1948
Pat Sajak's Birthday, 1946
Francois Mitterand's Birthday, 1916
Leon Trotsky's Birthday, 1879
International Red Cross established [Geneva, Switzerland], 1863
Erie Canal opens, 1825
Joseph Hansom's Birthday, 1803
First mules imported to U.S., 1785
U.S. invades Grenada, 1983
Air Force Report refutes "flying saucers", 1955
Helen Reddy's Birthday, 1942
Bobby Knight's Birthday, 1940
Marion Ross' Birthday, 1936
Albert B. Fall, Former Secretary of the Interior, found guilty in Teapot Dome Scandal, 1929
Minnie Pearl's Birthday, 1912
Japan protests segregation of Asian students in California schools, 1906
Pablo Picasso's Birthday, 1881
Thomas Babington MacAulay's Birthday, 1800
United Nations Day
Independence Day [Zambia], 1964
"Weird Al" Yankovic's Birthday, 1959
Kevin Kline's Birthday, 1947
United Nations Charter becomes effective, 1945
Bill Wyman's Birthday, 1941
Al Capone sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion, 1931
George Washington Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and New Jersey, 1931
Black Thursday, panic stock selling, 1929
Y. A. Tittle's Birthday, 1926
Last run of the Pony Express, 1861
Soviet Union admits that 1979 invasion of Afghanistan was illegal, 1989
Senate rejects Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court, 1987
240 Marines killed in a terrorist suicide bombing attack in Beirut, 1983
Doug Flutie's Birthday, 1962
Mike Tomczak's Birthday, 1962
Hungarian Uprising begins, 1956
West Germany is admitted to NATO, 1954
Pele's Birthday, 1940
Johnny Carson's Birthday, 1925
Kennedy demands removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba, and imposes a quarantine on the island, 1962
Keena Turner's Birthday, 1958
Jeff Goldblum's Birthday, 1952
Annette Funicello's Birthday, 1942
Christopher Lloyd's Birthday, 1938
Timothy Leary's Birthday, 1920
Sam Houston becomes first President of Republic of Texas, 1836
