Shimla, Oct 31, Keekli Bureau
Today
Although Halloween, celebrated this day, is now observed largely as a secular holiday, it is, as the eve of All Saints’ Day, also a religious holiday among some Christians.
2018
World’s biggest statue, the Statue of Unity is unveiled of Indian independence leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at 182 meters in Gujarat.
Rashtriya Ekta Diwas or National Unity Day is celebrated every year on 31st October to mark the birth anniversary of Iron Man of India–Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
2008
American author and oral historian Studs Terkel, who chronicled the lives of Americans from the Great Depression to the early 21st century, died in Chicago.
1984
Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India’s 6th Prime Minister succeeding his mother Indira Gandhi who was assassinated.
1984
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh at her home in New Delhi.
1968
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered an end to American bombing in North Vietnam.
1962
The American psychological thriller What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, a late-career triumph for both Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, was released in American theatres.
1941
After nearly 15 years of work, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota was completed; the colossal sculpture features the heads of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
1926
Harry Houdini, the magician and escape artist, died of peritonitis stemming from a stomach injury.
1887
Soldier and statesman Chiang Kai-shek, head of the Nationalist government in China from 1928 to 1949 and subsequently head of the Chinese Nationalist government-in-exile on Taiwan, was born.
1876
Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876 ravages British India (Modern-day Bangladesh), over 200,000 killed.
1864
Nevada became the 36th state of the United States.
1860
Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, was born in Savannah, Georgia.
1632
Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, whose paintings are among the most beloved and revered images in the history of art, was baptized.
