Today’s highlights

On Oct. 31, 1984, Indira Gandhi, India’s Prime Minister for more than 15 years, was assassinated by two of her own security guards.

On this date

1864: President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation making Nevada the 36th state, eight days before the presidential election.

1913: The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across the United States, was dedicated.

1941: Work was completed on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota, begun in 1927.

1950: Earl Lloyd of the Washington Capitols became the first African-American to play in an NBA game; Lloyd would go on to play for nine seasons, winning an NBA championship in 1955 with the Syracuse Nationals.

1999: EgyptAir Flight 990, bound from New York to Cairo, crashed off the Massachusetts coast, killing all 217 people aboard.

2005: President George W. Bush nominated Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.

2011: The United Nations estimated that world population had reached seven billion people.

Today’s birthdays

Actor Lee Grant is 99. Former CBS anchorman Dan Rather is 93. Actor Stephen Rea is 78. Olympic gold medalist Frank Shorter is 77. TV host Jane Pauley is 74. Football coach Nick Saban is 73. Film director Peter Jackson is 63. Rock drummer Larry Mullen Jr. (U2) is 63. Rock musician Johnny Marr is 61. Baseball Hall of Famer Fred McGriff is 61. Actor Dermot Mulroney is 61. Country singer Darryl Worley is 60.