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- 1234
- Wizlaw I of Rügen grants Stralow (Stralsund) town privilege under Lübeck law.
- 1704
- A 200-acre (81 ha) farm is deeded to John Jacobs in Van Bebber’s Township, Pennsylvania.
- 1886
- The Mariensäule is dedicated on the Marienplatz in Munich.
- 1889
- The Exposition Universelle concludes in Paris.
- 1931
- The Bermuda Railway begins regular passenger service on Bermuda.
- 1961
- Hurricane Hattie destroys a village on Commerce Bight in Belize.
- 1966
- Independence Palace is completed in Saigon, South Vietnam.
- 1993
- Jurong Entertainment Centre opens in Singapore.
- 1999
- West Wendover, Nevada, is relocated from the Pacific Time Zone to the Mountain Time Zone at 2 o’clock in the morning.
- 2021
- A Shoesters store closes in Williamsburg, Virginia, after 25 years in business.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on October 31, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on October 31 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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