Martin Luther was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation.

Lived: Nov 10, 1483 – Feb 18, 1546 (age 62)
Spouse: Katharina von Bora (m. 1525 – 1546)
Education: University of Erfurt (1501 – 1505)
Children: Magdalena Luther (Daughter) · Paul Luther (Son) · Elisabeth Luther (Daughter) · Martin Luther (Son) · Margarethe Luther (Daughter) · Hans Luther (Son)
Compositions: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Parents: Hans Luther (Father) · Margarethe Luther (Mother)

— Source: wiki/Martin_Luther

Earl Francis Lloyd was an American professional basketball player. He was the first black person to play in the National Basketball Association, in the 1950–51 NBA season. Three other African Americans played in the same season: Chuck Cooper, Nathaniel Clifton, and Hank DeZonie.

Born: Apr 03, 1928 · Alexandria, VA
Died: Feb 26, 2015 · Crossville, TN
Height: 6′ 5″ (1.96 m)
Spouse: Charlita Lloyd
Education: West Virginia State University

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Highlights

• 1948: Lloyd led West Virginia State to two CIAA Conference and Tournament Championships in 1948 and 1949.


• 1951: Lloyd played in only seven games for the Washington Capitols before the team folded on January 9, 1951.


• 1965: According to Detroit News sportswriter Jerry Green, in 1965 Detroit Pistons General Manager Don Wattrick wanted to hire Lloyd as the team’s head coach.


• 2007: On December 1, 2007, the newly constructed basketball court at T. C. Williams High School in Lloyd’s home town of Alexandria, Virginia, was named in his honor.


• 2009: In November 2009, Moonfixer: The Basketball Journey of Earl Lloyd, was released.


• 2015: In 2015 Lloyd, along with fellow basketball player Alonzo Mourning, was one of eight Virginians honored in the Library of Virginia’s “Strong Men & Women in Virginia History” because of his contributions to the sport of basketball.

— Source: wiki/Earl_Lloyd

New York’s Village Halloween Parade is an annual holiday parade and street pageant presented on the night of every Halloween in New York City’s Greenwich Village. The Village Halloween Parade, initiated in 1974 by Greenwich Village puppeteer and mask maker Ralph Lee, is the world’s largest Halloween parade and the only major nighttime parade in the United States.

— Source: wiki/New_York’s_Village_Halloween_Parade

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician and central figure of the Indian National Congress party, and to date the only female Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi was the only child of India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. She served as Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, making her the second-longest-serving Prime Minister after her father.

Indira Gandhi, the 3rd Prime Minister of India, was assassinated at 09:20 on 31 October 1984, at her Safdarjung Road, New Delhi residence. She was killed by two of her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star, the Indian Army’s June 1984 assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar which left the Sikh temple heavily damaged.

Lived: Nov 19, 1917 – Oct 31, 1984 (age 66)
Spouse: Feroze Gandhi (m. 1942 – 1960)
Parents: Jawaharlal Nehru (Father) · Kamala Nehru (Mother)
Children: Rajiv Gandhi (Son) · Sanjay Gandhi (Son)
Education: Somerville College, Oxford · University of Oxford · Badminton School · Visva-Bharati University
Previous offices: Minister of External Affairs (1984 – 1984) · Prime Minister of India (1980 – 1984) · Minister of Defence (1980 – 1982) · Minister of Home Affairs (1970 – 1973) · Minister of Finance (1969 – 1970) · Prime Minister of India (1966 – 1977) · Minister of Information and Broadcasting (1964 – 1966)

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Highlights

• 1917: Indira Gandhi was born Indira Nehru in a Kashmiri Pandit family on 19 November 1917 in Allahabad.


• 1942: A member of the Nehru-Gandhi family, she was married to Feroze Gandhi at the age of 25, in 1942.


• 1962: After reaching a high diplomatic point in the aftermath of Nehru’s role in the Suez Crisis, India’s isolation from Africa was complete when only four nations; Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and Libya supported her during the Sino-Indian War in 1962.


• 1966: In the Congress Party’s parliamentary leadership election, held in early 1966 upon the death of Shastri, she defeated her rival, Morarji Desai, to become leader; and, thus, succeeded Shastri as Prime Minister of India.


• 1972: In the elections held for State assemblies across India in March 1972, the Congress(R) swept to power in most states riding on the post-war “Indira wave”.


• 1980: The Congress (I) under Gandhi swept back to power in January 1980.

— Source: wiki/Assassination_of_Indira_Gandhi

Helena is the capital city of the U.S. state of Montana and the county seat of Lewis and Clark County. Originally founded as a gold camp during the Montana gold rush, the city was established in 1864. Over $3.6 billion of gold was extracted in the city limits over a duration of two decades, making it one of the wealthiest cities in America in the mid-nineteenth century. The concentration of wealth contributed to the city’s prominent, elaborate Victorian architecture.long dried up, Helena’s Gold Rush history is reflected in its preserved architecture, from the spires of St. Helena Cathedral and the Queen Anne style Original Governor’s Mansion to the restored miner’s village of Reeder’s Alley and the oldest house in the city, …

Population: 29,596 (2013)
Area: 16.39 sq miles (42.45 km²)
Colleges and universities: Carroll College · Helena College University of Montana · Montana University System-System Office

— Source: wiki/Helena,_Montana

George Orson Welles was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film. He is remembered for his innovative work in all three: in theatre, most notably Caesar, a Broadway adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar; in radio, the legendary 1938 broadcast “The War of the Worlds”; and in film, Citizen Kane, consistently ranked as one of the all-time greatest films.

Lived: May 06, 1915 – Oct 10, 1985 (age 70)
Height: 6′ 2″ (1.87 m)
Spouse: Paola Mori (m. 1955 – 1985) · Rita Hayworth (m. 1943 – 1948) · Virginia Nicholson (m. 1934 – 1940)
Partner: Oja Kodar (1966 – 1985) · Dolores del Rio (1938 – 1941)
Children: Michael Lindsay-Hogg (Son) · Beatrice Welles (Daughter) · Rebecca Welles (Daughter) · Christopher Welles Feder (Daughter)
Founded: Mercury Theatre

— Source: wiki/Orson_Welles

The Rumble in the Jungle was a historic boxing event in Kinshasa, Zaire on October 30, 1974. Held at the 20th of May Stadium, it pitted the undefeated world heavyweight champion George Foreman against challenger Muhammad Ali, a former heavyweight champion. Attendance was about 60,000. Ali won by knockout, putting Foreman down just before the end of the eighth round. It has been called “arguably the greatest sporting event of the 20th century”. The event was one of Don King’s first ventures as a professional boxing promoter.

— Source: wiki/The_Rumble_in_the_Jungle

The 1991 Perfect Storm, also known as the The No-Name Storm and the Halloween Gale, was a nor’easter that absorbed Hurricane Grace and ultimately evolved back into a small unnamed hurricane late in its life cycle. The initial area of low pressure developed off Atlantic Canada on October 29. Forced southward by a ridge to its north, it reached its peak intensity as a large and powerful cyclone. The storm lashed the east coast of the United States with high waves and coastal flooding before turning to the southwest and weakening. Moving over warmer waters, the system transitioned into a subtropical cyclone before becoming a tropical storm. It executed a loop off the Mid-Atlantic states and turned toward the northeast. On November 1 the system evolved into a full-fledged hurricane with peak winds of 75 miles per hour, although the National Hurricane Center left it unnamed to avoid confusion amid media interest in the predecessor extratropical storm. It later received the name “the Perfect Storm” after a conversation between Boston National Weather Service forecaster Robert Case and author Sebastian Junger. The system was the fourth hurricane and final tropical cyclone in the 1991 Atlantic hurricane season. The tropical system weakened, striking Nova Scotia as a tropical storm before dissipating.

Total fatalities: 13
Damages: $200 million USD (1991)
Formed: Oct 28, 1991
Dissipated: Nov 02, 1991
Date: 1991
Affected areas: East Coast of the United States · Atlantic Canada

— Source: wiki/1991_Perfect_Storm