Oct. 31 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1517, Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation by nailing a proclamation -- the 95 theses -- to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany. Advertisement In 1864, Nevada was admitted to the United States as the 36th state. In 1931, with the Great Depression in full swing, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that 827 banks had failed during the previous two months. In 1941, more than a month before the United States entered World War II, a