Sunday 31 October 2010

On This Day - 31st October


1632 - Jan Vermeer born
1795 - John Keats born
1860 - Juliette Low born
1887 - Chiang Kai-Shek born
1896 - Ethel Waters born
1912 - Dale Evans born
1922 - Barbara Bel Geddes born
1926 - Harry Houdini dies
1931 - Dan Rather born
1936 - Michael Landon born
1942 - David Ogden Stiers born
1947 - Deidre Hall born
1950 - John Candy and Jane Pauley born
1955 - Princess Margaret calls off her plans to marry divorced Group Captain Peter Townsend.
1961 - Peter Jackson and Larry Mullen born
1966 - Adam Horovitz born
1971 - A bomb explodes in the Post Office tower causing extensive damage but no injuries.
1984 - Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, is killed by two assassins believed to be her own bodyguards.
1997 - A Boston jury finds Louise Woodward, 19, guilty of second degree murder for killing the baby in her care.
2003 - Asia's longest-serving leader, the Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed, steps down after 22 years in power.

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