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Events on October 31

• 1517 Martin Luther's 95 theses are intended to serve as the basis for disputation on the trade in indulgences. They usher in the Reformation.
• 1756 During the night, Giacomo Casanova succeeds in escaping from the Lead Chambers of the Doge's Palace in Venice, where he had been imprisoned for “insults against the holy religion”.
• 1813 After the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig, Napoleon Bonaparte, together with the remnants of his army, prevails in the two-day Battle of Hanau against a Bavarian-Austrian army that seeks to block his return route to France.
• 1821 The Luther Monument in Wittenberg, a work by Johann Gottfried Schadow and Karl Friedrich Schinkel, is unveiled.
• 1923 Wilhelm Kollhof becomes the first radio participant in Germany to register his radio. Owing to the period of inflation, he pays 350 billion marks for the permit.
• 1957 The Munich Research Reactor (known as the “Atomic Egg”) is commissioned in Garching near Munich as the first German research reactor.
• 1970 The German Football Association (DFB) lifts its ban on women's football, which it imposed in 1955.
• 1971 In the elections to the Swiss National Council and Council of States, women are for the first time both eligible to vote and candidates.
• 1985 The Betzenberg Stadium in Kaiserslautern is renamed Fritz Walter Stadium on the occasion of Fritz Walter's 65th birthday.
• 1999 Representatives of the Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification in Augsburg, thereby lifting the mutual doctrinal condemnations in this fundamental theological dispute.
• 2000 Borussia Dortmund becomes the first German Bundesliga club to go public.
• 2015 A Russian charter aircraft from the airline Kolavia, an Airbus A321, crashes on Kogalymavia Flight 9268 from Sharm El-Sheikh to St Petersburg over the Sinai Peninsula. All occupants – 217 passengers and 7 crew members – die.

Born on October 31

• 1887 Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese military officer and politician
• 1892 Alexander Alexandrowitsch Aljechin, French-Russian chess player
• 1920 Helmut Newton, German photographer
• 1930 Michael Collins, American astronaut
• 1950 John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor
• 1950 Zaha Hadid, Iraqi architect
• 1961 Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director
• 1961 Larry Mullen, Irish musician
• 1990 Liv Lisa Fries, German actress
• 2002 Ansu Fati, Spanish-Bissau-Guinean football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „31. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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