Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 31

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  Emperor Agustín de Iturbide of Mexico
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  USS Reuben James (DD-245)
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  Mount Rushmore
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  Indira Gandhi
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  Indira Gandhi
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  Benito Mussolini
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  Metrojet Flight 9268
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  Strikers surrounding a streetcar in Indianapolis
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  USS Reuben James in 1939
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  The 1517 Nuremberg printing of Ninety-five Theses

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; Reformation Day (Protestantism)	refimprove
683 – During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba, considered the holiest site in Islam, was severely damaged by fire.	Too much uncited
802 – Irene of Athens, the first empress regnant of the Byzantine Empire, was deposed and exiled to the island of Lesbos.	refimprove
1587 – Leiden University Library in Leiden in the Netherlands opened its doors, becoming one of the significant cultural centres in Europe during the Age of Enlightenment.	unreferenced section
1822 – Emperor Agustín de Iturbide of the First Mexican Empire dissolved the Mexican Congress and replaced it with a military junta answerable only to him.	refimprove section
1864 – Nevada was admitted as the 36th U.S. state, in part to help ensure Abraham Lincoln's re-election as President of the United States eight days later.	refimprove section
1922 – Benito Mussolini became Prime Minister of Italy; three years later he set up a legal dictatorship.	refimprove section
1959 – UTV, the first indigenous television broadcaster in Ireland, between broadcasting.	9 CN tags
2011 – The United Nations declared that the world's population had exceeded seven billion.	refimprove
2015 – Shortly after takeoff, Metrojet Flight 9268 (aircraft pictured) exploded and then crashed into the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.	article out of date, lead disagrees with main
Charles Taze Russell |d|1916	refimprove section
Mikhail Frunze |d|1925|	Too much uncited

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• 1917 – World War I: Allied forces defeated Turkish troops in Beersheba in Southern Palestine at the Battle of Beersheba, with the battle involving one of the last successful cavalry charges.
• 1941 – 100 crew members of the USS Reuben James (pictured) perished when their vessel became the first U.S. Navy ship sunk by hostile action during [[World War II|World Template:Nowrap]] after it was torpedoed by the German submarine [[German submarine U-552|Template:Nowrap]].
• 1963 – A gas explosion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum in Indianapolis killed 81 people and injured about 400 others.
• 1973 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in the prison's exercise yard.
• 1996 - TG4, the world's first Irish language television station, began broadcasting.
• 2003 – After 22 years in power, Mahathir Mohamad retired as Prime Minister of Malaysia.

• 1913 – Public-transportation workers in Indianapolis went on strike (pictured), shutting down mass transit in the city.
• 1941 – Approximately 400 workers completed the 60-foot (Template:Nowrap) busts of U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
• 1984 – Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her own Sikh bodyguards, sparking riots that killed thousands of Sikhs.
• 1999 – All 217 people on board EgyptAir Flight 990 perished when the aircraft suddenly crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
• 2005 – The discovery of the Plutonian moons Nix and Hydra, based on photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope nearly five months prior, was announced.

• Born/died: | Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile |d|1214| Cornelis Jol |d|1641| Anne Claude de Caylus |b|1692|Cosimo III de' Medici |d|1723|Edmund Sharpe |b|1809| Marie Louise Andrews |b|1849| Charles A. Wickliffe |d|1869| Natalie Clifford Barney |b|1876| Muriel Duckworth |b|1908| William Evans-Gordon |d|1913| Gordon Steege |b|1917| Michael Collins |b|1930| Dave McNally |b|1942| Larry Mullen Jr. |b|1961| Greg Moore |d|1999| Régine Cavagnoud |d|2001| Sean Connery |d|2020|

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• 475 – Romulus Augustulus took the throne as the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
• 1517 – Martin Luther (pictured) posted his Ninety-five Theses onto the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.
• 1999 – Australian sailor Jesse Martin arrived in Melbourne, becoming the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop, and unassisted.
• 2000 – Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collided with construction equipment while attempting to take off from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan during heavy rain, killing 83 people aboard.
• 2017 – An Uzbek immigrant drove a rented truck into cyclists and runners in Lower Manhattan, New York City, killing eight people.