A Brief History On October 31, 2011, a truly spooky fact became known when it was announced by the UN that the population of humans on the Earth had reached seven billion. When the author of this article was born, there were about 2.8 billion people on Earth, which seemed to be plenty! Digging Deeper Today, there are over eight billion humans running around our planet, depleting resources and polluting the air, land and water. Heck, why stop with just the Earth? We are also diminishing the ozone layer in the atmosphere and increasing greenhouse gases that create global warming…
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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on October 31st. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper By statute enacted on October 31, 1803, President Thomas Jefferson was authorized to take possession of various territories ceded by France to the United States of America in what is known as the Louisiana Purchase. On October 31, 1864, the people of the United States got a big treat in their Halloween basket, the newly minted State of Nevada, the 36th state…
A Brief History Hello, everyone! I am Dr. Zar of History and Headlines and today, October 31, 2023, I wish all of you a Happy Halloween! Digging Deeper As a suggestion for something to watch on this Halloween, I recommend Our Paranormal Podcast #146, co-hosted by a former student of mine, Bryan Mersol. You can learn about paranormal investigating in the United States as some members of Your Paranormal describe their journeys to allegedly haunted locations all the way from Ohio to Nevada and back again. And yes, they also give me a shout out in the video, so it…
A Brief History On October 31, 1973, three Provisional Irish Republican Army members held prisoner in Dublin, Ireland were busted out of prison in a manner befitting an action movie! Digging Deeper The Provisional IRA was a group attempting to force a unification of Northern Ireland with the rest of the island, using violence as a main method of “persuasion.” The prisoners had been convicted and sentenced to prison for “offences against the state.” An aborted plan to break out the prisoners by blowing a hole in the prison wall was replaced by an even more spectacular plan of using…
A Brief History On October 31, 2017, an Uzbek immigrant to the United States deliberately drove a rented truck into a New York City bicycle and jogging path, killing eight people and injuring another 11 in a terrorist mass killing that proves bad people do not need guns to commit terrible crimes. Digging Deeper Sayfullo Habibullaevich Saipov was apparently a supporter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and intended his actions as a terrorist event. After leaving the truck, he brandished a paintball gun and a pellet gun and was shot and wounded by the police. …