Today in History for 31st October 2016:
Historical Events
1759 – Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred
1963 – J. Edgar Hoover’s last meeting with President John F. Kennedy
1978 – People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (South) adopts constitution
1988 – 19°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
1989 – Turgat Ozal elected president of Turkey
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
1826 – Hugh Boyle Ewing, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1905)
1919 – Magnus Wenninger, American priest, author of Polyhedron models
1923 – Hicks B Waldron, Amsterdam NY, CEO (Avon)
1978 – Zachary Knighton, American actor
1979 – Saaphyri Windsor, American reality TV figure
1981 – Jon Crocker, American songwriter
Famous Deaths
1860 – Johan Nathan, murderer, hanged
1884 – Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (b. 1858)
1920 – Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (b. 1854)
1995 – Leonard Ernest John Chant, social Worker, dies at 57
2002 – Raf Vallone, Italian actor (b. 1916)
2003 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (b. 1908)