12 History Lessons + 7 Births & 7 Deaths for October 31, 2025
Today’s History:
- 1517 – Martin Luther reportedly nails his 95 Theses to the church door at Wittenberg, sparking the Reformation.
- 1922 – Benito Mussolini is appointed Prime Minister of Italy following the March on Rome.
- 1941 – Work on Mount Rushmore is declared complete.
- 1956 – Britain and France begin military action against Egypt in the Suez Crisis.
- 1961 – Joseph Stalin’s body is removed from Lenin’s Mausoleum in Moscow.
- 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson orders a halt to the bombing of North Vietnam.
- 1984 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated in New Delhi.
- 1992 – Pope John Paul II formally acknowledges the Church’s errors in its treatment of Galileo.
- 2000 – Soyuz TM-31 launches Expedition 1, the first long-duration crew for the International Space Station.
- 2011 – The U.N. marks the world population at 7 billion.
- 2015 – Metrojet Flight 9268 is destroyed over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula; all 224 aboard are killed.
- 2017 – A truck attack on a Manhattan bike path kills eight on Halloween.
Today’s Birthdays:
- 1961 – Peter Jackson, filmmaker (“The Lord of the Rings”) (64).
- 1961 – Larry Mullen Jr., drummer and co-founder of U2 (64).
- 1963 – Rob Schneider, comedian and actor (“Saturday Night Live”) (62).
- 1966 – Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz, rapper and producer (Beastie Boys) (59).
- 1967 – Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle), rapper (“Ice Ice Baby”) (58).
- 1997 – Marcus Rashford, English footballer (Manchester United; England) (28).
- 2000 – Willow Smith, singer and actor (“Whip My Hair”) (25).
Today’s Deaths:
- 1918 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (28).
- 1926 – Harry Houdini, escape artist and illusionist (52).
- 1984 – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (66).
- 1988 – John Houseman, actor and producer (Academy Award for “The Paper Chase”) (86).
- 1993 – Federico Fellini, Italian film director (four-time Oscar winner) (73).
- 1993 – River Phoenix, actor (“Stand by Me,” “My Own Private Idaho”) (23).
- 2020 – Sean Connery, Scottish actor (first cinematic James Bond) (90).
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