What happened on October 31 in other years, from the events Wikipedia's editors chose for its "On this day":
- 475: Romulus Augustulus took the throne as the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire. → Romulus Augustulus
- 1917: World War I: Allied forces defeated Turkish troops in Beersheba in Southern Palestine at the Battle of Beersheba, with the battle involving one of the last successful cavalry charges. → Battle of Beersheba (1917)
- 1963: A gas explosion at the → 1963 Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion
- 1996: TG4, the world's first Irish language television station, began broadcasting. → TG4
- 2000: Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collided with construction equipment while attempting to take off from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan during heavy rain, killing 83 people aboard. → Singapore Airlines Flight 006
- 2017: An Uzbek immigrant drove a rented truck into cyclists and runners in Lower Manhattan, New York City, killing eight people. → 2017 New York City truck attack
Born on October 31
- 1632: Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (died 1675)
- 1760: Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist and printmaker (died 1849)
- 1795: John Keats, English poet (died 1821)
- 1887: Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (died 1975)
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