📜 This Day in History
October 31
475Romulus Augustulus took the throne as the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire.- 1917World War I: Allied forces defeated Turkish troops in Beersheba in Southern Palestine at the Battle of Beersheba, with the battle involving one of the last successful cavalry charges.
- 1963A gas explosion at the
- 1996TG4, the world's first Irish language television station, began broadcasting.
- 2000Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collided with construction equipment while attempting to take off from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan during heavy rain, killing 83 people aboard.
- 2017An Uzbek immigrant drove a rented truck into cyclists and runners in Lower Manhattan, New York City, killing eight people.
