November 1
November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 60 days remaining.
Events
996 - Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising , which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi Austria in Old High German ).
1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel , painted by Michelangelo , is exhibited to the public for the first time.
1520 - The Strait of Magellan , the passage immediately south of mainland South America , connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans , is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage.
1530 - An approximated 400,000 die after the Netherlands ' dikes fail.
1604 - William Shakespeare 's tragedy Othello Whitehall Palace in London .
1611 - William Shakespeare 's romantic comedy The Tempest Whitehall Palace in London .
1683 - The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties .
1755 - Lisbon earthquake : In Portugal , Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami , killing between sixty and ninety thousand people.
1765 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America .
1790 - Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France French Revolution will end in disaster.
1800 - US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House ).
1848 - In Boston, Massachusetts , the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which will later merge with Boston University School of Medicine ), opens.
1859 - The current Cape Lookout , North Carolina , lighthouse is lighted for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for 19 miles (30 kilometers).
1861 - American Civil War : US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George McClellan as commander of the Union Army , replacing the aged General Winfield Scott .
1870 - In the United States , the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service ) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
1876 - New Zealand 's provincial government system is dissolved.
1894 - Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III , dies.
1896 - A picture showing the naked breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic 1914 - World War I : the first British naval defeat of the war, the Battle of Coronel is fought off of the coast of Chile .
1918 - Malbone Street Wreck : the worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn , New York City , with at least 93 dead .
1922 - The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire , Mehmed VI , abdicates.
1939 - The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is shown to the world.
1943 - World War II : Operation Goodtime launched - United States Marines invade Bougainville in the Solomon Islands .
1944 - World War II : Operation Infatuate launched - The British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands .
1948 - Off southern Manchuria , 6,000 are killed as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
1950 - Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman .
1950 - Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary .
1951 - US soldiers are exposed to an atomic explosion for training purposes in Desert Rock , Nevada ; participation was not voluntary.
1952 - Operation Ivy - The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb , codenamed "Mike" ["m" for megaton], at Eniwetok island in the Bikini atoll located in the Pacific Ocean .
1954 - The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence .
1955 - A United Airlines DC-6B explodes in mid-air and crashes near Longmont, Colorado , killing 44 people
1960 - While campaigning for President of the United States , John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps .
1963 - The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo , Puerto Rico , with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
1963 - President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is overthrown and executed in a coup d'état led by General Duong Van Minh .
1969 - After seven years off the top of the charts, Elvis Presley 's song "Suspicious Minds ," hits No. 1 on the Billboard Music charts.
1973 - Watergate Scandal : Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
1981 - Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom .
1990 - A New York City civil jury awards Sandra Miller $100 for battery after an incident in which Mike Tyson grabbed her breasts and insulted her; the jury found Tyson's behavior "not outrageous".
1993 - The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union .
1994 - George Lucas leaves the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and starts a sabbatical. While on sabbatical, he writes the prequel section of the Star Wars movies.
1994 - The Chijon Family is sentenced to death in South Korea for murdering and eating five people.
1998 - The European Court of Human Rights is instituted.
Births
800-1899
846 - Louis the Stammerer , King of West-Francia (d. 879 )
1339 - Rudolf IV of Austria (d. 1365 )
1351 - Duke Leopold III of Austria
1762 - Spencer Perceval , British Prime Minister (d. 1812 )
1778 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837 )
1798 - Sir Henry Lee Guinness , brewer
1808 - John Taylor , American religious leader
1871 - Stephen Crane , writer (d. 1900 )
1877 - Roger Quilter , composer (d. 1953 )
1880 - Alfred Wegener , meteorologist, geophysicist (d. 1930 )
1880 - Sholom Asch , writer (d. 1957 )
1880 - Grantland Rice , sports writer (d. 1954 )
1886 - Hermann Broch , Austrian author (d. 1951 )
1892 - Alexander Alekhine , chess player (d. 1946 )
1900-1999
1902 - Eugen Jochum , conductor (d. 1987 )
1923 - Gordon R. Dickson , science fiction author (d. 2001 )
1923 - Victoria de los Angeles , Catalan soprano
1929 - Betsy Palmer , actress
1934 - William Mathias , composer (d. 1992 )
1935 - Gary Player , golfer
1940 - Ramesh Chandra Lahoti , Chief Justice of India
1942 - Ralph Klein , Premier of Alberta
1943 - Salvatore Adamo Belgian /Italian singer
1952 - Larry Flynt , magazine publisher
1957 - Lyle Lovett , singer
1957 - Carlos Paião , Portuguese singinr (d. 1988 )
1962 - Anthony Kiedis , singer
1963 - Rick Allen , Def Leppard drummer
1967 - Sophie B. Hawkins , musician
1972 - Toni Collette , actress
1974 - Hello Kitty , fictional Sanrio character
1976 - Matt Chapman , creator of Homestar Runner
Deaths
1399 - John V, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339 )
1894 - Alexander III , Tsar of Russia
1903 - Theodor Mommsen , German author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1902
1924 - William Tilghman , frontier marshal
1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem , President of South Vietnam
1972 - Ezra Pound , American poet (b. 1885 )
1979 - Mamie Eisenhower , First Lady of the United States
1982 - King Vidor , film director
1982 - James Broderick , actor
1983 - Anthony van Hoboken , musicologist
1985 - Phil Silvers , American actor, comedian
1999 - Walter Payton , American football player
2002 - Käte Jaenicke , actress
Holidays
External links
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