Event:
The New York Stock Exchange is reopened after a two-day closure due to Hurricane Sandy; this was the market's first weather-related two-day closure since the late 19th century
More Notable Events on October 31:
1992 Don Keller makes his 18,000th sky dive
1963 J. Edgar Hoover last meeting with president John F. Kennedy
1952 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands
1941 Mount Rushmore is completed
1918 Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in U.S. in 1 week