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On this day: In 1517, Martin Luther is said to have nailed his Ninety-Five Theses, on a church door in Wittenberg, Germany. In 1922, Italy's first fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, was appointed prime minister. After over 15 years of construction, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota, USA was completed in 1941. The short-lived People's Democratic Republic of Yemen adopted its constitution in 1978. It was in 1984 when India’s prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by 2 of her bodyguards. In 2000, the Soyuz TM-31, that carried the first crew of the International Space Station, was launched. By 2011 human global population hit 7 billion. Commemorated every Oct 31st, Halloween is a one of the widely observed secular festival in the world.