The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
History
31 October 1998
Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
30 October 1938
Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United…
26 October 2002
Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian special forces troops storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the…
23 October 1707
The First Parliament of Great Britain convenes. [wiki]First_Parliament_of_Great_Britain[/wiki]