Today is Friday, Oct. 31, the 304th day of 2025. There are 61 days left in the year. This is Halloween.<\/p>\n
Today in history:<\/p>\n
On Oct. 31, 1950, Earl Lloyd of the Washington Capitols became the first African-American to play in an NBA game; Lloyd would go on to play for nine seasons, winning an NBA championship in 1955 with the Syracuse Nationals.<\/p>\n
Also on this date:<\/p>\n
In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation making Nevada the 36th state, eight days before the presidential election.<\/p>\n
In 1913, the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across the United States, was dedicated.<\/p>\n
In 1941, work was completed on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota, begun in 1927.<\/p>\n
In 1961, the body of Josef Stalin was removed from Lenin\u2019s Tomb as part of the Soviet Union\u2019s \u201cde-Stalinization\u201d drive.<\/p>\n
In 1999, EgyptAir Flight 990, bound from New York to Cairo, crashed off the Massachusetts coast, killing all 217 people aboard.<\/p>\n
In 1984, Indira Gandhi, India\u2019s Prime Minister for more than 15 years, was assassinated by two of her own security guards.<\/p>\n
In 2005, President George W. Bush nominated Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
In 2011, the United Nations estimated that world population had reached seven billion people (world population is greater than eight billion today).<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/p>\n
Former CBS anchorman Dan Rather is 94.
\nActor Stephen Rea is 79.
\nOlympic gold medal marathoner Frank Shorter is 78.
\nTV host Jane Pauley is 75.
\nFootball coach Nick Saban is 74.
\nFilm director Peter Jackson is 64.
\nRock drummer Larry Mullen Jr. (U2) is 64.
\nRock musician Johnny Marr is 62.
\nBaseball Hall of Famer Fred McGriff is 62.
\nActor Rob Schneider is 62.
\nActor Dermot Mulroney is 62.
\nCountry singer Darryl Worley is 61.
\nActor-comedian Mike O\u2019Malley is 59.
\nRapper and guitarist Adam Horovitz (Beastie Boys) is 59.
\nRapper Vanilla Ice is 58.
\nActor Leticia Wright is 32.
\nSinger Willow Smith is 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Friday, Oct. 31, the 304th day of 2025. There are 61 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[141458,355,141457,99,31891],"class_list":["post-262538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-earl-lloyd","tag-nba","tag-october-31-history","tag-sports","tag-today-in-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}