📅 Carving ends on Mount Rushmore (1941)
Where: Mount Rushmore, USA
📅 On This Day: October 31
October 31, 1941: Carving ends on Mount Rushmore. On Halloween 1941, work ended on the giant faces carved into Mount Rushmore in the USA. Each of the four presidents' faces is about 18 m tall. Workers removed most of the rock using dynamite.
✨ More events on this day
- 1632 🎨 Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer was born. He painted calm rooms full of soft window light, and his Girl with a Pearl Earring is loved around the world.
- 1999 🧭 Young sailor Jesse Martin sailed back into Melbourne after 11 months at sea. He had gone around the whole world alone, without stopping and without help.
- 2000 🚀 Soyuz TM-31 blasted off carrying the first crew to live on the International Space Station. People have lived on the station ever since. Baikonur Cosmodrome →
🧠 Question of the day
How many faces are carved on Mount Rushmore?
- Four
- Ten
- Two
Show the answer
Answer: Four
🎂 Landmarks that opened on October 31
Questions
What happened on October 31?
October 31, 1941: Carving ends on Mount Rushmore. It happened in Mount Rushmore, USA.
Which landmarks opened on October 31?
Bitexco Financial Tower (opened 2010), Statue of Unity (inaugurated 2018).
In the game, the "Today on Earth" panel shows this story on its day, with a question to answer and a place to fly to.