Halloween Experts

Whether you have your pumpkin carved, or your costume ready, the world keeps turning and events keep happening. Here is a list of things that happened on Halloween, October 31, through the ages.

• 475 – Romulus Augustus proclaimed the Emperor of Rome.

• 834 – 1st All Hallows Eve (Halloween) observed to honor the saints
• 1517 – Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church-Protestant Reformation
• 1846 – Donner party, unable to cross the Donner Pass, construct a winter camp
• 1864 – Nevada admitted as 36th state
• 1892: Sherlock Holmes introduced to the reading public by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

  

• 1926 – Harry Houdini, [Erich Weisz], magician, dies in Detroit of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured

• 1940: The United Kingdom prevented Germany from marching into Great Britain.
• 1941 – Mount Rushmore is completed
• 1952 – 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated-Marshall Islands
• 1963 – Ed Sullivan witnesses Beatles & their fans at London Airport

  

• 1967 – Vanilla Ice was born (Robert Van Winkle) (singer: Ice Ice Baby; 1st rap singer to have a #1 song on the Billboard singles chart)

• 1975 – Queen released their hit single, Bohemian Rhapsody. It spent 9 weeks at number 1 on the UK charts.
• 1991 – A three day long snow and ice storm, dubbed the Halloween Blizzard, begins over portions of the Upper Midwest of the United States.