October 31, 2016 Open Thread; Samhain (north)/ Beltane (south) / Halloween (sundry)

October 31 is the 304th day of the year. There are 61 days left.

Winter's Eve.

Today's number is 31

31 is a prime, and a mersenne prime at that

31 is gallium

M31 is the Andromeda Galaxy

31 Flavors is Baskin Robbins

31 is untrustworthy - Weinberg's dictum

Title 31 of the US Code is MONEY AND FINANCE

31 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Antonius and Octavianus

The Battle of Actium occurred

31 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Tiberius and Sejanus

One of the various years in which Jesus might or might not have been executed on April 6 or some other day.

On this day in: 0683 -- The Kaaba suffered severe fire damage. 1517 -- Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to a church door. 1822 -- Emperor Iturbide tried to dissolve the Mexican Empire's congress. 1863 -- General Duncan Cameron's troops started the Invasion of the Waikato. 1913 -- The first automobile highway across the US was dedicated 1922 -- Mussolini became Prime Minister 1941 -- They finally finished Mount Rushmore 1941 -- The Reuben James became the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by the enemy in WWII. 1956 -- France and the UK started bombing Egypt to make them reopen the Suez Canal because "all your canal are belong to us"

1984 -- Indira Gandhi was assassinated

2000 -- The first resident crew was ferried to the ISS by the dirty Russkies

2011 -- The human population hit seven billion

Born this day in: 1711 -- Laura Bassi, physician, physicist, and academic who achieved many firsts for a woman in Europe 1795 -- John Keats, poet who famously looked into Chapman's Homer 1835 -- Adolf von Baeyer, chemist and academic, synthesized Indigo 1848 -- Boston Custer, soldier, died with his brother George 1860 -- Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the US Girl Scouts 1876 -- Natalie Clifford Barney, poet and playwright 1883 -- Marie Laurencin, painter and illustrator associated with cubists 1887 -- Chiang Kai-shek, president of the island of Taiwan, erroneously called the ROC 1892 -- Alexander Alekhine, chess player and author 1895 -- B. H. Liddell Hart, soldier, historian, and theorist, advocated mobile warfare 1896 -- Ethel Waters, singer and actress 1902 -- Julia Lee, blues singer, songwriter and pianist 1908 -- Muriel Duckworth, feminist, peacenik, activist 1912 -- Dale Evans, singer, songwriter and actress 1922 -- John Baptiste Illinois-Jacquet, saxophonist and composer 1922 -- Norodom Sihanouk, politician, replaced with fascist pig Lon Nol by US for being neutral 1930 -- Booker Ervin, saxophonist 1937 -- Tom Paxton, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1939 -- Ali Farka Toure, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1945 -- Russ Ballard, singer, songwriter and guitarist (Argent)

1961 -- Larry Mullen, Jr., drummer and songwriter

1962 -- Raphael Rabello, guitarist and composer

Died this day in: 1723 -- Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, meh 1879 -- Joseph Hooker, general whose name became a slang term for certain camp followers 1926 -- Harry Houdini, a veritable Houdini 1984 -- Indira Gandhi, politician 1993 -- Federico Fellini, director and screenwriter, easily an 8.5 2000 -- Ring Lardner, Jr., journalist and screenwriter, blacklistee

2008 -- Studs Terkel, historian and author

2013 -- Bobby Parker, singer, songwriter and guitarist

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such: First day of the Day of the Dead Samhain

Hop-tu-Naa

So, for music we gots: The Reuben James Adolf von Baeyer Boston Custer Ethel Waters Julia Lee Dale Evans John Baptiste Illinois-Jacquet Booker Ervin Tom Paxton Ali Farka Toure Russ Ballard Larry Mullen Jr. Raphael Rabello

Joseph Hooker

Bobby Parker

The Reuben James

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