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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_31" title="October 31">October 31</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween" title="Halloween">Halloween</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/475" title="475">475</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_Augustulus" title="Romulus Augustulus">Romulus Augustulus</a></b> took the throne as the last emperor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Roman_Empire" title="Western Roman Empire">Western Roman Empire</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913" title="1913">1913</a> – Public-transportation workers in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis" title="Indianapolis">Indianapolis</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_streetcar_strike_of_1913" title="Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913">went on strike</a></b>, shutting down mass transit in the city.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973" title="1973">1973</a> – Three <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army" title="Provisional Irish Republican Army">Provisional Irish Republican Army</a> members <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountjoy_Prison_helicopter_escape" title="Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape">escaped</a></b> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountjoy_Prison" title="Mountjoy Prison">Mountjoy Prison</a> in Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in the prison's exercise yard.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005" title="2005">2005</a> – The discovery of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Pluto" title="Moons of Pluto">Plutonian moons</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_(moon)" title="Nix (moon)">Nix</a></b> and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(moon)" title="Hydra (moon)">Hydra</a></b>, based on photographs taken by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope" title="Hubble Space Telescope">Hubble Space Telescope</a> nearly five months prior, was announced.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Clifford_Barney" title="Natalie Clifford Barney">Natalie Clifford Barney</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1876); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(astronaut)" title="Michael Collins (astronaut)">Michael Collins</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1930); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kibby" title="Bill Kibby">Bill Kibby</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1942)</p>
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