CNN Interactive - Almanac - October 31, 1998

A mass rally commemorating the third anniversary of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination is to be held in Jerusalem.
The 25th Halloween parade is to be held in Greenwich Village, New York.

On Sunday, November 1, America's Community Bankers will hold its 1998 convention and director's conference in Chicago with former Sen. Bob Dole scheduled as guest speaker.
On Monday, November 2, negotiators from around the world gather for a global warming conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
On Tuesday, November 3, general elections are to be held across the United States.
On Wednesday, November 4, Prime Minister Janez Drnovsek of Slovenia is scheduled to meet with U.S. President Bill Clinton in Washington.
On Thursday, November 5, a hearing is scheduled in Salt Lake City, Utah, for a couple accused of kidnapping their malnourished child from a hospital. Prosecutors say Christopher and Kyndra Fink think their son is a religious prophet and needs only "pure" food.

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In 1517, Martin Luther posted his 95 theses, an attack on various ecclesiastical abuses, on the door of Wittenberg Palace, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
In 1864, Nevada was admitted to the union as the 36th state of the United States.
In 1888, John Boyd Dunlop took out a patent for his pneumatic bicycle tire.
In 1917, in the third battle of Gaza, Australians and New Zealanders captured Beersheba from the Turks.
In 1918, Count Istvan Tisza, Hungarian premier until his resignation in 1917, was assassinated by disaffected soldiers after being held responsible for the country's plight in World War I.
In 1940, the Battle of Britain, the struggle between Germany and Britain over air control of the English Channel, was officially designated to have ended.
In 1952, the United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb at the Elugelab Atoll in the Eniwetok Proving Grounds in the Pacific Marshall Islands.
In 1956, Britain and France bombed Egyptian airfields during the Suez crisis.
In 1961, Russia's de-Stalinization program reached a climax when his body was removed from the mausoleum in Red Square and re-buried.
In 1968, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson ordered a complete cessation of American bombing of North Vietnam.
In 1974, Britain, France and the United States vetoed a motion at the United Nations to expel South Africa.
In 1984, Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by three Sikh members of her bodyguard while she was walking in the garden of her New Delhi home.