TODAY IN HISTORY - 31st Oct, 2025 - African World News

TODAY IN HISTORY – 31st Oct, 2025 – African World News

By Valentine Uchechukwu Ndukwu.

If history is not a burden on the memory, then it is an illumination of the soul.

And this helps us to understand that history is not just a collection of facts to remember, but rather a source of insight and understanding that can enlighten and transform us.

For your viewing pleasure, behold some interesting events that took place on this day in time’s past.

On this day in 1941, after 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore was completed.

Still on this day in 1956, there was the Suez Crisis, where the United Kingdom and France began bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.

According to Today in History, on this day in 1999, Yachtsman Jesse Martin returned to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.

It was on this day in 2011, the global population of humans reached seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as the Day of Seven Billion.

Regrettably on this day in 2017, a truck drives into a crowd in Lower Manhattan, New York City, killing eight people.

However, it was on this day in 1978 that Emmanuel Izonritei, the Nigerian boxer. For the records, he was at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games India where he earned for himself a Gold Medal.