Forget Halloween and Samhain.

Celebrate the birthday of:

John Keats (1795), Chiang Kai-shek (1887), Ethel Waters (1896), Dale Evans (1912), Illinois Jacquet (1922), King Norodom Sihanouk (1922), Dan Rather (1931), Alui Farka Touré (1939), Richard "Kinky" Friedman (1944), Adam "Beastie Boy" Horovitz (1966), Robert "Vanilla Ice" Van Winkle (1968).

Famous October 31^st Pranks:

1517 - Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on door of Wittenberg church

1961 - Joseph Stalin's body removed from Lenin's Tomb in Moscow

2005 - George W. Bush nominates Samuel Alito to Supreme Court

2007 - District of Columbia Taxicab Strike