October 31st

October 31 is the 305th day of the year.  There are 61 days remaining until the end of the year.

834 All Hallows’ Eve (Hallowe’en) is first observed to drive away evil spirits before All Saints’ Day

1517 For his Hallowe’en trick, Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church. They should’ve given him candy!

1846 Unable to cross the Donner Pass and upon constructing a winter camp, the Donners have a Party. Later, the survivors change their name to Dahmer

1892 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes about a detective who loves to suck pipe and hang out with his gay physician--unless he's on CBS-TV

1913 Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States.

1940 World War II: The Battle of Britain ends the United Kingdom prevents a German invasion.

1941 Mount Rushmore is completed

1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US. Liar.

1964 Barbra Streisand's "People" album goes #1 for 5 weeks

2006 PETA-pal Bob Barker retires after 35 years as host of The Price is Right

1795 John Keats, probably gay English poet 

1902 Eduard Franz [Schmidt], maybe gay US actor 

1935 Charles Cioffi, maybe gay US actor 

1942 David Ogden Stiers, gay US actor/M*A*S*H 

1946 [Graham] Stephen Rea, Irish actor 

1954 Ken Wahl [Anthony Calzaretta], US actor 

1956 Christopher de Leon, Filipino actor 

1963 Dermot Mulroney, US actor 

1963 Rob Schneider, US comedian 

1964 Darryl Worley, US country singer 

1966 AJ Hammer [Andrew Goldberg], maybe gay model/entertainment tv host 

1966 Thom Collins, gay US model 

1967 Vanilla Ice [Robert Matthew Van Winkle], rapper / going as a douchebag, oops it's not a costume 

1969 Kim Rossi-Stuart, Italian actor 

1970 Craig Kelly, English actor 

1970 Toby Anstis, maybe gay English TV Presenter 

1970 Diego DeLaHoya, gay US pornographic actor 

1972 Matt Dawson, US rugger/Cosmo model 

1975 [Jonathan] Johnny Whitworth, maybe gay US actor 

1975 James Thornton, English actor 

1978 Brian Hallisay, maybe gay US actor 

1979 Simao Sabrosa, Portugese soccer player 

1980 Tomm Voss, Danish body-builder/model 

1980 Eddie Kaye Thomas, US actor 

1982 Justin Chatwin, Canadian actor

1986 Sean Paul Lockhart/Brent Corrigan, gay US model/actor/pornographic entrepreneur 

1926 Harry Houdini [Erich Weisz], US magician, can’t escape so he disappears

1993 River Phoenix [Bottom], actor (Stand By Me), gets buried like his own private Idaho potato

1996 Marcel Carné, tres gay French film director (La Merveilleuse visite), becomes l’enfant du paradis.