October 31st

The October 31st is the 304e Jour of the Année (305e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 61 days before the end of the year.

Events

1 to 1900

473: Leon (° in 467), the son of the son-in-law (the future emperor Zénon) of the Byzantine Emperor Leon Ier, is named César.
1378 : Crowning of the Antipape Clement VII.
1517 : Martin Luther posts his theses with the door of the church of the Palais of Wittenberg, it is the beginning of the Reform in Germany
1639: Battle of Downs during the War Eighty Year old. The Dutch fleet, ordered by the admiral Maarten Tromp, gained there a decisive victory over the Spaniards, ordered by the admiral Antonio de Oquendo.
1731 : Expulsion of the Protestant of Salzburg.
1854 : Signature of the Convention of the 20 October 31st, 1854 between the Swiss Confederation and the Grand Duchy of Bade concerning the delimitation of the borders.

XXe century

1918 :

Crushed by the British in Palestine, the Turks requires the armistice.
Assassination of the Count the Tisza, Hungarian Prime Minister.

1925 :

Reza Khan seizes the throne of Perse
the Greek army invades the Bulgaria

1941: With the the United States, the monumental whole of the Mont Rushmore is completed.
1942 : in France, the locomotive engineer Leon Bronchart refuses to drive a train of Jews towards the deportation.
1944 : The Doctor Petiot, Serial killer French, is stopped.
1956 : Countryside of Suez: the French and British forces bombard the Egyptian aerodromes.
1961 :

Explosion of the most powerful Bomb H ever realized: Tsar Bent.
a cloud of radioactive dust crosses the central Siberia after the explosion of most powerful the atomic bomb never manufactured.

1962 : The General meeting of the United Nations request to the Great Britain to postpone the application of a new constitution in Southern Rhodesia.
1968 : The US president Lyndon B. Johnson orders the complete stop of the bombardments to the North-Vietnamese soldier Nam
1974: burden with the 4 day old firemen started by the Association of the firemen of Montreal.
1981 : The son of the Shah, exiled with the Cairo, proclaims successor of his father on the throne of Iran.
1984 : Extremists Sikhs assert the assassination, in front of its residence, of Indian the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
1988 : Hayley Kim Royle had been born in Carsholtan General Hospital.
1992 : the the Vatican rehabilitates Galileo 360 years after his lawsuit.
1997 : The pope Jean-Paul II recognizes that the prejudices antijuifs had choked the " resistance spirituelle" many Christians vis-a-vis persecutions of the Jews by the Nazis during the Second world war.
1998 :

Dissatisfied that UNO did not agree to directly bind the exhaustive examination of the respect by the Iraq of the U.N. resolutions to a lifting of the sanctions, Baghdad announces the interruption of its co-operation with the inspectors of UNSCOM, charged with supervising its disarmament.
the hurricane Mitch makes 25000 dead in Central America.

1999 : The Catholic church and the Fédération world Lutheran sign with Augsburg, in Germany, a historical agreement which regulates the theological dispute born of the Reform of Luther, 482 year old old man day for day.
2000 : The Tanker leaf Italian house " Ievoli Sun ", in distress with 80km in the north of the Finistere and towed by l" “Bee Flanders " , sinks with 19km in the North-West of the Anglo-Norman island of Aurigny; the cargo liner lets flee of the Styrène but any serious position risk is isolated.

XXIe century

2001 : B-52 of the US Air Force intervene, for the first time, in intensive bombardments with 50km in the north of Kabul.
2002 : A violent one Séisme shakes the center and the south of the Italy: 29 people, including 26 children, will die in the collapse of the roof of their nursery school with San Giuliano di Puglia, a small village of south-east.
2004 : Tabaré Vázquez elected president of the Uruguay. It is the first president of left in this country.
2005 :

Six American soldiers are killed in various attacks Monday in Iraq.
the Safety advice of the United Nations adopts a resolution unanimously summoning the Syria to cooperate with the investigation into the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.

Births

1345 : Ferdinand I {{er}}, known as Ferdinand the Beautiful , king de Portugal (1367-1383) († 1383)
1542: Henriette of Nevers, noble Frenchwoman, duchess of Nevers and countess of Rethel († June 24th 1601, 58 years)
1629: Charles II of Mantoue, noble Franco-Italian, duke of Mayenne, of Nevers, of Rethel, Mantoue and Montferrat († August 14th 1665, 35 years)
1632: Jan Veermeer, painter Dutch
1740: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, Franco-English painter († March 11th 1812)
1795: John Keats, British poet
1815: Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician († 1897)
1887

Tchang Kaï-chek, chief of the nationalist government Chinese
Newsy Lalonde, Canadian hockeyor († November 21st 1970)

1892: Alexandre Alekhine, Russian player of failures († March 24th 1946)
1898: Alfred Sauvy, inventor of the term Third world .
1912 :

Flagstone Evans, singer and American actress († February 7th 2001)
Antonio Vilar, Portuguese actor born in Lisbon.

1917 : Jean Pouilloux, French archeologist.
1918 : Ian Stevenson, psychiatrist and Canadian parapsychologist.
1920:

Helmut Newton, German photographer († January 23rd 2004)
Dick Francis, writer of Wales

1922:

Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress († August 11th 2005)
Norodom Sihanouk, king of the Kampuchea
Illinois Jacquet, saxophonist of Jazz

1929: Bud Spencer, Italian actor
1930: Michael Hakes, astronaut and member of the missions Gemini 10 and Apollo 11
1931: Dan Rather, journalist and American presenter
1936: Michael Landon, American actor († July 1st 1991)
1939:

Ali Farka Touré, musician and singer Malian († March 7th 2006)
Ron Rifkin, American actor

1946: Stephen Rea, actor north-Irish
1949: Terrence W. Wilcutt, American astronaut
1950: John Candy, Canadian actor
1959: Chechmates Näslund, Swedish hockeyor
1960: Arnaud Desplechin, French scenario writer
1961:

Peter Jackson, realizer and scenario writer New Zealand
Larry Mullen Jr., beater of the Irish group U2

1963:

Johnny Marr, British guitarist , former member of the Smiths
Rob Schneider, American actor
Carlos Dunga, Brazilian footballer

Marco van Basten, Dutch footballer
1966: Adam Horowitz (Adrock), American musician, member of the Beastie Boys
1968: Vanilla Ice, Rappeur.
1971 : Alphonso Ford, American player of basketball († September 4th 2004)
1972: Shaun Bartlett, South-African footballer
1976: Piper Perabo, American actress
1977: Severine To shoe, French singer
1981: Frank Iero, guitarist of American the rock'n'roll group My Chemical Lovesong
1982: