October 31st, 1979

Born on October 31st, 1979

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on October 31st, 1979?

October 31st, 1979

Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashes on landing in Mexico City, killing 73 people.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Airlines_Flight_2605

What else happened on October 31st?

October 31st, 2015

Shortly after takeoff, Metrojet Flight 9268 (pictured) exploded and then crashed into the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.

October 31st, 2005

The discovery of the Plutonian moons Nix and Hydra, based on photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope nearly five months prior, was announced.

October 31st, 1999

Australian sailor Jesse Martin arrived in Melbourne, becoming the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop, and unassisted.

October 31st, 1984

Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi (pictured) was assassinated by two of her own Sikh bodyguards, sparking riots that resulted in the deaths of thousands of Sikhs.

October 31st, 1973

Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in the prison's exercise yard.

October 31st, 1941

More than 101 crew members of the USS Reuben James perished when their vessel became the first U.S. Navy ship sunk by hostile action during World War II after it was torpedoed by the German submarine U-552.

October 31st, 1917

World 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.

October 31st, 1913

Public-transportation workers in Indianapolis went on strike (pictured), shutting down mass transit in the city.

October 31st, 1517

According to one account, Martin Luther(depicted) posted his Ninety-five Theses onto the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, present-day Germany, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.

October 31st, 0475

Romulus Augustulus took the throne as the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

October 31st, 1913

The Indianapolis Streetcar Strike and subsequent riot begins.

October 31st, 1907

The Parliament of Finland approved the Prohibition Act, but the law was not implemented because it was not ratified by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

October 31st, 1903

The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.

October 31st, 1864

Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 31st

Born on October 31st, 1979

44

Simão Sabrosa

Portuguese footballer

*October 31st, 1979, Vila Real

44

Lilian Klebow

German actress

*October 31st, 1979, Munich

44

Nicholas Angell

American ice hockey player

*October 31st, 1979, Duluth

44

Ricardo Fuller

Jamaican footballer

*October 31st, 1979, Kingston

13

Niña Ruiz Abad

Filipina Servant of God

*October 31st, 1979, Quezon City †August 16th, 1993, Quezon City

44

Rosa Isela Frausto

American actress

*October 31st, 1979, Chicago

44

Anton Dimitrov

Bulgarian footballer

*October 31st, 1979, Dobrich

44

Erica Cerra

Canadian actress

*October 31st, 1979, Vancouver

44

Mat Lucas

American actor

*October 31st, 1979, New York City

37

Achmad Kurniawan

Indonesian footballer (1979-2017)

*October 31st, 1979, Jakarta †January 10th, 2017, Malang City

Same Day
Who's birthday is on October 31st?

28

Emiliano Sala

Argentine association football player (1990-2019)

*October 31st, 1990, Cululú †January 21st, 2019, English Channel

38

Paul Cram

Actor

*October 31st, 1985, Augusta

74

Odaline de la Martinez

American conductor and composer

*October 31st, 1949, Matanzas

26

Marcus Rashford

English association football player (born 1997)

*October 31st, 1997, Manchester

37

Christie Hayes

Australian actress

*October 31st, 1986, South Coast

43

Kengo Nakamura

Japanese association football player

*October 31st, 1980, Kodaira

43

Samaire Armstrong

American actress

*October 31st, 1980, Tokyo

30

Letitia Wright

British actress

*October 31st, 1993, Georgetown

62

Peter Jackson

New Zealand film director, screenwriter, producer and actor

*October 31st, 1961, Pukerua Bay

77

Stephen Rea

Irish actor

*October 31st, 1946, Belfast

86

Bud Spencer

Italian actor, professional swimmer and water polo player (1929–2016)

*October 31st, 1929, Naples †June 27th, 2016, Rome

59

Marco van Basten

Dutch association football player and manager

*October 31st, 1964, Utrecht

75

David Ogden Stiers

American actor (1942–2018)

*October 31st, 1942, Peoria †March 3rd, 2018, Newport

45

Franck Gastambide

French comedian, actor, film director, screenwriter and producer

*October 31st, 1978, Melun

50

Philippe Bas

French actor

*October 31st, 1973, 19th arrondissement of Paris

85

Josef Wierer

German actor

*October 31st, 1930, Wörth an der Donau †April 22nd, 2016, Nittenau

46

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

Irish actor

*October 31st, 1977, Dundrum

65

Zaha Hadid

Iraqi British architect, designer and painter

*October 31st, 1950, Baghdad †March 31st, 2016, Miami

47

Piper Perabo

American actress

*October 31st, 1976, Dallas

46

Sieger Sloot

Dutch actor and cabaret artist

*October 31st, 1977, Rotterdam

Same year
Born in 1979

45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

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No: With 365 days 1979 is a normal year and no leap year.

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