IT HAPPENED TODAY

OCTOBER 31

HALLOWEEN — ALL HALLOWS EVE: This day the souls of the dead are supposed to revisit their homes.

1517: Martin Luther nailed his 95 ‘theses’ to the church door at Wittenburg, inadvertently sparking the Reformation which split the Church.

1795: Lyric poet John Keats was born in London.

1940: The Battle of Britain ended. The RAF lost 915 aircraft, the Luftwaffe 1,733.

1955: Princess Margaret (below) announced that she would not marry Captain Peter Townsend, a divorcee.

1958: Dr Ake Senning implanted the first internal heart pacemaker in Stockholm.

1971: A terrorist bomb exploded at the top of the Post Office Tower in London.

1984: Mrs Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India, was shot dead by two Sikh members of her bodyguard in New Delhi.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Jamie Oliver (below) accused Theresa May of missing ‘a massive opportunity’ to avert generations of obesity — saying she has delivered none of the policy substance or the fanfare promised by former prime minister David Cameron.

BIRTHDAYS: Michael Kitchen, actor, 69; Charles Moore, journalist and former editor of the Daily Telegraph, 61; Peter Jackson, film director, 56; Larry Mullen Jnr, rock drummer (U2), 56; Johnny Marr, rock guitarist, 54; Denis Irwin, former footballer and TV presenter, 52; Ian Walker, former footballer, 46; Matt Dawson, former rugby union player, 45.