OCTOBER 31
1941:Gutzon Borglum's Mount Rushmore, the massive sculptural monument to honor four venerable U.S. presidents, is completed in South Dakota. Or at least, funds for the project are exhausted, and the 60-foot high granite monument to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, originally intended to depict the presidents from the waist up, has remained incomplete ever since.
1926: Magician and escape artist Harry Houdini dies of complications from a ruptured appendix, likely aggravated by an incident in which a college student punched the illusionist in the stomach to test the strength of his abdominal muscles. Houdini was 52.
1984: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated outside her home in New Delhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards, in retaliation for her orders to raid the Golden Temple in Amritsar, a Sikh holy site.
1920:Anoka, Minnesota celebrates first Halloween in United States
1913:Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States
1954: For the first time in history, Color Television sets are available to the public.
1864:Nevada is accepted as the 36th state of the United States.
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