UPI: On this date in history:
In 1517, Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation by nailing a proclamation to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany.
In 1864, Nevada was admitted to the United States as the 36th state.
In 1926, Harry Houdini, renowned magician, illusionist and escape artist, died of peritonitis in a Detroit hospital following a blow to the abdomen.
In 1931, with the Great Depression in full swing, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that 827 banks had failed during the previous two months.
In 1941, more than a month before the United States entered World War II, a U.S. destroyer, the USS Reuben James, was sunk by a German submarine.
In 1941, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota — consisting of the sculpted heads of U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt — was completed.
In 1968, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson announced a halt to the bombing of North Vietnam.
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What better day to start the Protestant Reformation, it certainly scared the hell out of the Catholic Church.
When I was younger we tried to reach Houdini with a Ouija board.
It was dark in the basement and was spooky and surreal.
Right then I started to believe that the supernatural could have some merit.
Loco, you don’t need scary movies when you have a Ouija board.
….& my Granddaddy was born!
Something ALWAYS happens on holloween, all my life. Sometimes it skips a year. I took my first drivers test on Holloween. The DMV chick that rode with me was dressed like an Indian. That was in Calif too, before they banned making fun of Indians. Got 100% on the test.
Did she have a dot thingy on her forehead?
Oh, wrong ‘Indian’?