This Day In History

October 31st

Halloween

1941  US Clemson Class destroyer Reuben James is sunk when torpedoed by a German submarine.
1952  US Detonates the first hydrogen bomb
1961  Admiral George John Dufek becomes the first American to set foot on the South Pole along with his crew.
1984  India's first Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by Sikh members of her own security guard as she walked through the garden of her home.

1795  Poet John Keats
1860  Girl Scout Founder Juliette Low
1931  News Correspondent Dan Rather
1936  Acto Michael Landon (born as Eugene Orowitz)
1948  NY Yankees Baseball great Mickey Rivers
1950  Comedian John Candy
1950  Television Host Jane Pauley
1967  Rapper Vanilla Ice (born as Robert Van Winkle)

1960

• Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters

• My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own - Connie Francis

• You Talk Too Much - Joe Jones

• Alabam - Cowboy Copas

1968

• Hey Jude - The Beatles

• Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith

• Those were the Days - Mary Hopkin

• Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye - Eddy Arnold

1976

• If You Leave Me Now - Chicago

• Rock'n Me - Steve Miller

• The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

• Among My Souvenirs - Marty Robbins

1984

• I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder

• Purple Rain - Prince and The Revolution

• Wake Me Up before You Go-Go - Wham!

• If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band) - Alabama

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