Halloween Trivia Questions - Dare You Answer Them?

some famous events that also took place on Halloween are...

Spooky Halloween is a time of year where frights are normal. We all expect surprises on Halloween don't we?

Well it came as big surprise to me to learn about these other things that have taken place on the 31st October. On this day most of us celebrate Halloween.

Of course there is a one in three hundred and sixty five chance of something notable happening on all hallows eve as well as witches on broomsticks, skeletons knocking on the door and bobbing for apples. For some people its just the beginning for others its the end of the line. October 31st is also a good day to declare something like a new religion or joining the Union. So, as you're enjoying your pumpkin pie why not see what other interesting things have happened on this festival day.

Why not make a Halloween family quiz with unusual facts from this lens too!

"There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world."

Jean Baudrillard

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October 31st 1940 Battle of Britain in World War Two ends

The Battle of Britain: San Air Ministry Account of the Great Days from 8th August-31st October 1940 (The War Facsimiles)

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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".

Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister

"I am no more a witch than you are a wizard. If you take my life away,
God will give you blood to drink."


Sarah Good
Accused of Witchcraft - 1692 Salem USA

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31st October 1517 the Protestant Proclamation

Martin Luther Nails His 95 Theses to the door of Wittenberg Church

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How protestantism started. The day is known as reformation day

31st October 1864 Nevada Becomes the 36th state of the USA

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31st October 1795 John Keats born

ode to a nightingale

"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness, -
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs,
Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.

Away! away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night,
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays;
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.

I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,
But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet
Wherewith the seasonable month endows
The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild;
White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;
Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves;
And mid-May's eldest child,
The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.

Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain -
To thy high requiem become a sod.

Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that oft-times hath
Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf.
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep?

31st October 1922 Barbara Bel Geddes born

"The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive"

Joseph Campbell - US Philosopher
Died October 31st

31st October 1926 Harry Houdini dies

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""Belfast is like an ugly child - you love it the most."

Steven Rea
Irish Actor born October 31st

31st October 1984 Indhira Ghandi shot dead

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October 31st 1997 Louise Woodward found guilty of second degree murder

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October 31st 1917 Battle of Beersheba

the last successful cavalry charge ever

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31st October 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald Requests Soviet Citzenship

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To the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

"I Lee Harvey Oswald, request that I be granted citizenship in the Soviet Union. My visa began on Oct. 15, and will expire on Oct. 21. I must be granted asylum before this date, while I wait for the citizenship decision. At present I am a citizen of the United States of America. I want citizenship because; I am a communist and a worker. I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves...

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