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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