Today – Halloween, celebrated this day, is now observed largely as a secular holiday, it is, as the eve of All Saints’ Day, also a religious holiday among some Christians.
1485 – Henry VII of England crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1541 – Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes painting “The Last Judgement” in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City.
1860 – Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, was born in Savannah, Georgia.
1926 – Harry Houdini, the most celebrated magician and escape artist of the 20th century, dies of peritonitis in a Detroit hospital.
1964 – Barbra Streisand’s “People” album goes #1 for 5 weeks.
1984 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh at her home in New Delhi.
2011 – The world population reaches 7 billion inhabitants according to the United Nations.
2018 – Worlds biggest statue, the Statue of Unity is unveiled of Indian independence leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at 182 meters in Gujarat state.
Via Britannica / On This Day
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