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Fast facts: The use of jack-o-lanterns as festive lights at Halloween is a legendary custom that descended from the Irish, who used carved-out potatoes, beets or turnips as lanterns. About 99 percent of pumpkins marketed domestically are used as jack-o-lanterns at Halloween. Americans purchase an estimated 20 million pounds of candy corn for Halloween each year. Vegetable oil or petroleum jelly should be rubbed onto the fresh-cut edges of a pumpkin to delay shriveling after it is carved into a Halloween jack-o-lantern. In the United States, about 8 percent of pet owners dress their pets in costumes at Halloween.

 

On this date: In 1864, Nevada was admitted to the union as the 36th state of the United States. In 1868, Postmaster General Alexander Williams Randall approved a standard uniform for mail carriers. In 1888, John Boyd Dunlop took out a patent for his pneumatic bicycle tire. In 1926, escape artist and master magician Harry Houdini died at age 52 from acute appendicitis after being slugged in the stomach by a Montreal student. In 1940, the Hollywood film industry pledged its entire facilities to the U.S. Army for the production of movies to be used in training draftees.

 

Quotable... "This is what has been called the new normalcy. It's fair to say that until the war on terrorism is brought to a successful conclusion ... this is going to be the case in our country." - White House spokesman Ari Fleischer about government warnings regarding possible further terrorist activity