Sunday, October 31, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

October 31
1517:Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.

1846:A heavy snowfall trapped the Donner Party in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

1864:Nevada became the 36th state.

1941:Work on the Mount Rushmore monument was completed.

1956:Rear Admiral G. J. Dufek became the first person to land an airplane at the South Pole.

1984:Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated.

1992:Pope John Paul II admitted that the Roman Catholic Church had erred in convicting Galileo of heresy 350 years earlier.





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