This day in #History
October 31st
1541 – Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes painting The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel , Vatican
1793 – Execution of Girondins at Paris , during Reign of Terror
1864 – Nevada admitted as 36th state of the Union
1888 – John Boyd Dunlop patents pneumatic bicycle tyre
1918 – Banat Republic founded
1920 – Romania annexes Bessarabia
1978 – Iranian oil workers go on strike
1978 – People ‘s Democratic Republic of Yemen
(South ) adopts constitution
1999 – Roman Catholic Church and Lutheran Church leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, ending a centuries- old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
FAMOUS DEATHS
1916 – Charles Taze Russell , American founder of
the Jehovah ‘s Witnesses ( b. 1852 )
1984 – Indira Gandhi , Prime Minister of India ,
assassinated by two of her bodyguards at 66
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