1 November
November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining.
Events
0-1499
1500-1899
- 1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the
first time.
- 1521 - The Strait of
Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America,
connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, was first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage.
- 1530 - An approximated 400,000 die after the Netherlands' dikes fail.
- 1604 - At Whitehall
Palace in London, the William Shakespeare tragedy Othello is presented for
the first time.
- 1611 - At Whitehall
Palace in London, William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The
Tempest is presented for the first time.
- 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.
- 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 later merged with Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
- 1859 - The current Cape
Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lighted for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for nineteen miles.
- 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 magazine for the first
time.
1900-1999
- 1914 - World War I: Battle of Coronel fought. This is the first British naval defeat of the war.
- 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 Allies land at Walcheren.
- 1948 - 6,000 are killed as a Chinese merchant
ship explodes and sinks off southern Manchuria.
- 1950 - Puerto Rican nationalists
Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman.
- 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 exploded in mid-air and crashed 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 opened.
- 1963 - President Ngo Dinh
Diem of South Vietnam was 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 - Sandra Miller is awarded 100 US dollar for battery after an
incident in which Mike Tyson grabbed her breasts and insulted her; the jury
found Tyson's behaviour "not outrageous".
- 1993 - The Maastricht
Treaty activates, 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 wrote the prequel Star Wars trilogy).
- 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
1300-1899
- 1339 - Rudolf IV of
Austria (d. 1365)
- 1351 - Duke Leopold III of Austria
- 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
Deaths
- 1894 - Alexander III, Tsar of Russia
- 1903 - Theodor Mommsen,
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, poet
- 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, actor,
comedian
- 1999 - Walter Payton, American
football player
- 2002 - Käte Jaenicke, actress
Holidays
October 31 - November 2 -
October 1 - December 1 - more
historical anniversaries
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