5.21pm (AEDT) – SpaceX will launch their Crew-3 mission, which will carry four Expedition 66 crew members to the International Space Station

Japan’s general election

Halloween

World Cities Day

Birthdays for director Peter Jackson (1961), rapper Vanilla Ice (1967) and actress/singer Willow Smith (2000)

Anniversary of:
• Michelangelo completing the painting of The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel (1541)
• the “last successful cavalry charge in history” by the 4th Australian Light Horse during the Battle of Beersheba in WWI (1917)
• the completion of the Mount Rushmore Monument (1941)
• the deaths of magician Harry Houdini (1926), and actors River Phoenix (1993) and Sean Connery (2020)