Happy Halloween

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I'm back. Being that it's Halloween, I thought it the best time to resume my blog. Who's with me? Don't you just love Halloween? I've heard every negative comment imaginable about Halloween from "them". I love it and enjoy it. Click here to play Halloween Hangman.


Today in History:
1892 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

1926 - Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.

1941 - After 14 years of work, drilling is completed on Mount Rushmore.

1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR.

1961 - In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Tomb.

1963 - Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now Pepsi Coliseum) explosion in Indianapolis kills 74 people during an ice skating show. The mammoth explosion injured 400. A faulty propane tank connection in a concession stand was blamed.

1975 - Queen released their hit single, Bohemian Rhapsody. It spent 9 weeks at number 1 on the UK charts.

1984 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards (riots soon broke out in New Delhi and nearly 2,000 innocent Sikhs were killed).

1991 - A three day long snow and ice storm, dubbed the Halloween Blizzard, begins over portions of the Upper Midwest of the United States.










Happy Birthday:
1931 - Dan Rather, American television journalist

1950 - John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (d. 1994)

1961 - Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director

1968 - Vanilla Ice, American rapper










Deaths on this Day:
1926 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (b. 1874)

1993 - River Phoenix, American actor (drug overdose) (b. 1970)