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November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 60 days remaining.
Events
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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 1611 - At Whitehall Palace in London , William Shakespeare 's romantic comedy The Tempest 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 people1960 - 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 Austria1778 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837 )1798 - Sir Henry Lee Guinness, brewer1808 - John Taylor, American religious leader1871 - 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 , actress1934 - 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 publisher1957 - Lyle Lovett , singer1957 - Carlos Paião , Portuguese singinr (d. 1988 ) 1962 - Anthony Kiedis , singer1963 - Rick Allen , Def Leppard drummer1967 - Sophie B. Hawkins , musician1972 - Toni Collette , actress
Deaths 1894 - Alexander III , Tsar of Russia1903 - Theodor Mommsen , author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1902 1924 - William Tilghman , frontier marshal1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem , President of South Vietnam 1972 - Ezra Pound , poet1979 - Mamie Eisenhower , First Lady of the United States 1982 - King Vidor , film director1982 - James Broderick, actor 1983 - Anthony van Hoboken , musicologist1985 - Phil Silvers , actor, comedian1999 - Walter Payton , American football player2002 - Käte Jaenicke, actress
Holidays October 31 - November 2 - October 1 - December 1 - more historical anniversaries
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