WOW! Check out all the events that have happened on Halloween

[underpants]

October 31
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17809#31

1517: Protestant Reformation begins as Martin Luther nails his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.

1864: Nevada is admitted as a state, although its population was too low to meet legal requirements; Lincoln had pushed the illicit action through Congress to help ratify the 13th (anti-slavery) Amendment to the Constitution.

1941: Mount Rushmore is completed.

1950: Earl Lloyd is the first African-American to play in National Basketball Association (NBA) game when he plays with the Washington Capitols.


1954: Algerian war of independence from France begins.

1956: France and Britain begin air offensive at Suez Canal in support of Israeli attack of Sinai peninsula.

1959: Former U.S. Marine from Fort Worth, Texas announces in Moscow that he will never return to the United States. His name: Lee Harvey Oswald.

1964: First Chinese A-bomb explodes.

1967: California governor Ronald Reagan denies press reports that a "homosexual ring" is operating out of his office in Sacramento.

1968: Pres. Johnson, trying to get his Vice President (Hubert Humphrey) elected to succeed him, orders an end to bombing of North Vietnam.


1984: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is shot to death by Sikh members of her own security guard while walking in the garden of her New Delhi home. Gandhi's son, Rajiv, was sworn in as Prime Minister.

[RobertSeattle]

1. OT - Isn't it interesting Reagan's offspring are liberals and his adopted son is a wack job?

[Carni]

2. SPEAKING OF THE BOLD...anyone hear the Orin Hatch rumors?

I received the following in italics in my email earlier...
I don't know where my email friend got it (if it's off of a blog or what?)

I emailed him back and asked him to shoot me a link which I will provide here if I get it on edit.

Has anyone seen anything similar to this floating around out there?

I did a google and found nothing--

October 30, 2006 -- WMR previously reported on rumors from Capitol Hill East (in the bars along Pennsylvania Avenue) about Sen. Orrin Hatch's "secret" lifestyle. It appears that hypocrisy knows no bounds in the GOP. We have now received info from knowledgeable sources in Utah that the rumors about Hatch have much merit.

Time to send Hatch packing so he can sell his hypocritical "morality" somewhere other than in the US Senate.

[Hugin]

3. 1864: Nevada is admitted as a state.

Not only that... EUREKA! THERE'S SILVER IN THEM THAIR HILLS!

Admitting Nevada and Colorado helped to pay the bills and it kept
the proceeds in the hands of the Union.

[China_cat]

4. Juliette Gordon Lowe

founder of Girl Scouts, is born.

[AllegroRondo]

5. 1926 - Harry Houdini dies of a ruptured appendix