- 1894] Number One with a bullet: Billboard Advertising is published for the first time (11/1). The trade publication will later be known as Billboard Magazine...
- 1926] Last disappearing act: Harry Houdini dies from complications of a ruptured appendix at 52 on Halloween, no less (10/31)...
- 1938] War of the Worlds: H.G. Wells' epic is aired on "Mercury Theater on the air presents Orson Welles". Of the 6 million listeners, more than 1.7 million believed the fictional account of Martians invading New Jersey. Maybe they were looking for Jimmy Hoffa (10/30)...
- 1941] What huge busts: Okay, get your mind off the female anatomy. Mount Rushmore is declared completed after 14 years of work. Sixty-foot busts of Washington, Jefferson, (Theodore) Roosevelt and Lincoln are finished and the landmark would soon open to the public (10/31)...
- 1946] WNNNNNBC: WEAF changes call letters to WNBC (11/1)...
- 1971] Runaway: Cornell running back Ed Marinaro runs for 272 yards against Columbia to surpass 4,000 yards and break Steve Owens record at Oklahoma (10/30)...
- 1974] Are you ready to rumble?: "The Rumble in the Jungle" is fought in Kinshasa, Zaire with Muhammad Ali beating George Foreman on a TKO in the 8th round (10/30)...
- 1975] DROP DEAD!!!: That was the subtle headline on page one of the New York Daily News after President Gerald R. Ford says he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City. Yep, better to use the money on police body armor in Keokuk, Iowa any day (10/30)...
- 1988] Questionable seance: Debbie Gibson holds a seance at her Halloween party to contact the spirits of Liberace and Sid Vicous but channels Zazu Pitts instead (10/31)...
- 1997] Convicted: A Cambridge (MA) jury convicts British au pair Louise Woodward of second degree murder in the death of 8-month old Matthew Eappen. The judge later reduces the verdict to manslaughter and sets Woodward free. Who was the judge? Lance Ito??? (10/30)...For more on October 30 - November 1:
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