Oct/31/2013 Thursday Birthday of Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian freedom fighter and statesman (b. 1875) (d. 1950). Indira Gandhi remebrance day. SD Burman, Indian musician passed away in 1975. (b. 1906) Halloween Day 1941 – Over 400 workers completed the 60-foot (18 m) busts of U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. 14 years of work. 1876 – A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 deaths. 1913 – Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States. 1924 – World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks). 2000 – Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been continuously crewed since. 2012 - The Walt Disney Company announces an agreement to purchase Lucasfilm for US$4.05 billion and produce additional Star Wars films. Birthday: 1875 – Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian freedom fighter and statesman (d. 1950) 1929 – Bud Spencer, Italian actor. Popular with Terence Hill. Remembrance: 2003 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer, Carnatic music (b. 1908)
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