Daily Calendar for Wednesday, October 31, 2012
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Born
- John Keats (poet) –
- Richard Morris Hunt (architect) –
- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (author) –
- Ethel Waters (actress) –
- Lee Grant (actress) –
- Dan Rather (newscaster) –
- Michael Landon (actor) –
- Brian Piccolo (football player) –
- Frank Shorter (runner) –
- Jane Pauley (broadcast journalist) –
- John Candy (actor) –
- Peter Jackson (director) –
- Rob Schneider (actor) –
- Mike O'Malley (actor) –
- Eddie Kaye Thomas (actor) –
- Samaire Armstrong (actress) –
Died
- Harry Houdini (magician) –
- George Halas (football coach) –
- Federico Fellini (filmmaker) –
- River Phoenix (actor) –
Events
- Martin Luther affixed his 95 Theses to door of Wittenberg Castle Church –
- Nevada admitted to the Union as the 36th state –
- After 14 years of work, drilling was completed on Mount Rushmore, near Keystone, South Dakota –
- The U.S. naval destroyer Reuben James was torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk off the coast of Iceland, despite the fact that the U.S. was not at war with Germany –
- Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, is assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards in New Delhi. Rajiv Gandhi is inaugurated as his mother’s successor –
- Due to ice build up on its wings, an American Eagle commuter plane crashed in Roselawn, Indiana, killing all 68 passengers and crew members aboard –
Weather
- The temperature at Minneapolis, Minnesota, reached 83 degrees F –
- New York City experienced an October high temperature of 95 degrees F –