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What happened in history on this day: November 1?
On November 1 in ...
- 1210 - King John of England begins imprisoning Jews.
- 1500 - Birth of Benvenuto Cellini sculptor/goldsmith/writer (Perseus).
- 1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome is exhibited to the public for the first time. The epic ceiling fresco was created by artist Michelangelo Buonarroti.
- 1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" first presented.
- 1607 - Birth of Georg Philipp Harsdörfer in Nürnberg; Baroque poet (Pegnesisches Schäfergedicht (1644)) and theorist, a founder of the Pegnitzer Hirtengesellschaft literary society, author (Poetischer Trichter, die Teutsche Dicht und Reimkunst, ohne Behuf der Lateinischen Sprache, in sechs Stunden einzugiessen).
- 1611 - Shakespeare's romantic comedy "The Tempest" first presented.
- 1623 - Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings.
- 1641 - Irish rebellion breaks out.
- 1755 - In Lisbon, Portugal, a magnitude 8.7 earthquake occurs, claiming 70,000-100,000 deaths, one quarter of Lisbon's population. A large tsunami drowns many, and fire ravages the city.
- 1762 - Birth of Spencer Perceval (Tory), British Prime Minister (1809-12).
- 1765 - Stamp Act goes into effect in the British colonies.
- 1776 - Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California.
- 1782 - Birth of Viscount Goderich; British Prime Minister (1827-28).
- 1784 - Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette and his descendants.
- 1787 - First free school in New York City (African Free School) opens.
- 1798 - Birth of Benjamin Lee Baronet Guinness; Irish brewer/Dublin mayor.
- 1815 - Birth of Crawford Williamson Long; surgeon/pioneer (use of ether).
- 1834 - First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game).
- 1838 - The branch mint in New Orleans re-opens.
- 1838 - The first pre-paid envelope is issued by the New South Wales Post Office. The envelope is embossed indicating pre-payment. Cost is 3 pennies for 12 envelopes.
- 1848 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merges with Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
- 1853 - Birth of Jose Santos Zelaya; ruler of Nicaragua (Liberal, 1893-1910).
- 1858 - Proclamation of Queen Victoria is read in all of India, declaring assumption of government of India.
- 1859 - Birth of Charles Brantley Aycock; American politician (Governor-North Carolina).
- 1861 - General George B McClellan is made general in chief of USA armies.
- 1863 - Fortifications are built on Angel Island (San Francisco Bay) by troops.
- 1864 - The US Post Office establishes postal money order system.
- 1870 - Army Signal Services' Division of Telegrams and Reports organizes a national weather service, the forerunner of the US Weather Bureau.
- 1871 - Birth of Stephen Crane; US novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage).
- 1878 - Birth of Carlos Saavedra Lamas in Buenos Aires, Argentina; jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936).
- 1879 - US patent office grants Thomas Edison patent on electric lamp.
- 1880 - Birth of Grantland Rice; sportswriter (New York Herald Tribune 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37).
- 1880 - Birth of Sholem Asch in Poland; Yiddish novelist/playwright (Three Cities).
- 1886 - Birth of Hermann Broch in Austria; novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment).
- 1889 - Birth of Philip John Noel-Baker; statesman, disarmament advocate (Nobel Prize 1959).
- 1890 - Birth of James Barton in New Jersey, USA; Broadway actor (Tobacco Road, Iceman Cometh).
- 1892 - Birth of Alexander Alekhine in Russia; world chess champion (1927-46).
- 1894 - Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris, France.
- 1896 - Birth of Edmund Blunden; English poet/critic (Undertones of War).
- 1902 - Birth of Eugen Jochum in Babenhausen, Bavaria; German conductor (Hamburg Orchestra).
- 1902 - Birth of Nordahl Grieg; Norwegian poet, dramatist, novelist (The Defeat).
- 1911 - First air raid, Italian pilot drops a 4.5-pound bomb on Turkish position at Ain Zara.
- 1913 - Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, first football game versus US Army team, first to use forward pass effectively in football.
- 1915 - Birth of Michael Denison in York, England; actor (The Importance of Being Earnest).
- 1918 - 97 die in New York City subway's worst accident.
- 1919 - Birth of John Secondari in Rome, Italy; newsman, CBS foreign correspondent, news executive and documentary producer for ABC, winner of 20 Emmy awards and 3 Peabody awards.
- 1920 - Birth of James J Kilpatrick in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA; newspaperman (Point-Counterpoint contributor on 60 Minutes TV show).
- 1922 - Birth of George S Irving in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA; singer/actor (Dumplings).
- 1922 - Birth of Jeff Richards in Portland, Oregon, USA; actor (Don't Go Near the Water).
- 1922 - The Ottoman Empire is abolished.
- 1924 - First US NHL franchise, Boston Bruins founded.
- 1924 - Birth of Victoria de los Angeles in Spain; soprano (Mimi - La Boheme).
- 1924 - Forest Peters of Montana State University hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals.
- 1926 - Birth of Betsy Palmer AKA Patricia Bromek in Chicago, Illinois, USA; panelist (I've Got a Secret, Masquerade Party), hostess (Today show, Girl Talk), actress (Knots Landing, Number 96, As the World Turns, Mr Roberts, Friday the 13th movie series).
- 1928 - Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km.
- 1932 - Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program.
- 1934 - In Great Britain, Winston Churchill speaks to his constituency: "Germany is arming, secretly, illegally, and rapidly.".
- 1935 - Birth of Gary Player in South Africa; PGA golfer (US 1965, British 1959, 1968, 1974).
- 1936 - Italian Premier Benito Mussolini coins the term Axis, when referring to the Rome-Berlin axis around which European states may work together.
- 1936 - Rodeo Cowboys Association founded.
- 1937 - Birth of Bill Anderson; country singer ("Still", "From This Pen").
- 1938 - Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match horse race at Pimlico.
- 1939 - First animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) is displayed.
- 1939 - First jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry.
- 1939 - Birth of Barbara Bosson in Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Fay - Hill Street Blues, Hooperman, Murder One).
- 1940 - Birth of Barry Sadler; songwriter/singer ("The Ballad of the Green Berets").
- 1940 - First US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pennsylvania.
- 1941 - The US extends a lend-lease loan of US$1 billion to the Soviet Union.
- 1941 - Birth of Robert Foxworth in Houston, Texas, USA; actor (Chase - Falcon Crest, Frankenstein).
- 1942 - Birth of Larry Flynt; magazine publisher (Hustler).
- 1942 - Birth of Marcia Wallace in Creston, Iowa, USA; actress (Carol - Bob Newhart Show, The Simpsons).
- 1942 - John H Johnson publishes first issue of Negro Digest.
- 1943 - Wartime dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay, California area.
- 1944 - Birth of Keith Emerson in England; musician (Emerson, Lake and Palmer - "Brain Salad Surgery").
- 1944 - Japanese begin launching large balloons with bombs destined for the west coast of North America. The balloons maintain a range of altitude by releasing sandbags or hydrogen automatically during their flight. The bombs are set to be released when all sandbags have been dropped.
- 1945 - First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson.
- 1946 - New York Knicks first basketball game, beating Toronto Huskies 68-66.
- 1946 - West German state of Niedersachsen forms.
- 1947 - United Nations trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom.
- 1948 - Birth of Anna Stuart; actress (Another World).
- 1949 - Birth of Jeannie Berlin in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (The Heartbreak Kid, Portnoy's Complaint).
- 1950 - Birth of Dan Peek; pop singer-musician (America).
- 1950 - Puerto Rican nationalists (Collazo and Torresola) try to kill US President Harry Truman at the Blair House in Washington, DC.
- 1951 - Birth of Khalis Bayyan AKA Ronald Bell; rhythm-and-blues musician (Kool and the Gang).
- 1951 - First atomic explosion witnessed by troops, New Mexico, USA.
- 1951 - Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson.
- 1952 - First hydrogen thermonuclear device (10.4 megatons) exploded by US at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Code name for the project was Ivy Mike.
- 1953 - Birth of Jackie Zeman; actress (Bobbie Spencer - General Hospital).
- 1953 - Birth of Michael Zaslow; actor (One Life to Live, Guiding Light).
- 1953 - Birth of N Jan Davis in Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA; PhD/astronaut (sk:STS-47).
- 1954 - Birth of Ruben Guerrero in Mexico; relay swimmer (Olympic-1968).
- 1954 - India takes over administration of four French Indian settlements.
- 1955 - Time bomb aboard United DC-6 flight kills 44 above Longmont, Colorado.
- 1956 - Delhi becomes a territory of the Indian union.
- 1956 - Indian state of Madhya Pradesh formed.
- 1956 - Indian states of Punjab, Patiala and PEPSU merge as Punjab protection.
- 1956 - Lajos Asztalos, International Chess Master (1950), dies at age 67.
- 1956 - Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact.
- 1958 - Birth of Rachel Ticotin in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Grace - For Love and Honor, American Family, Skin).
- 1959 - First NHL goalie to wear a hockey mask (Jacques Plante).
- 1959 - Birth of Eddie MacDonald; rocker (The Alarm - "Knocking on Heaven's Door").
- 1959 - Gershon Agron, mayor of Jerusalem, dies at age 66.
- 1960 - Benelux treaty goes into effect.
- 1960 - Birth of Elizabeth Dennehy; actress (Guiding Light).
- 1960 - Birth of Fernando Valenzuela; pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers).
- 1960 - Birth of Lyle Lovett; country singer ("Desert Rose Band", "Give Back My Heart").
- 1961 - Birth of Mags Furuholmen in Norway; rocker (Aha - "Take on Me").
- 1961 - Joan McCracken, actress (Claudie The Story of a Marriage), dies at age 38.
- 1962 - Birth of Anthony Kiedis; rock singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers).
- 1962 - Birth of Mags Furuholmen; Pop singer-musician (a-ha).
- 1962 - Birth of Lauren-Marie Taylor; actress (Loving, Ryan's Hope).
- 1962 - Birth of Helene Udy; actress (Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, As the World Turns).
- 1962 - Greece enters the European Common Market.
- 1962 - USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars.
- 1962 - CBS premieres The Lucy Show.
- 1963 - Birth of Rick Allen; rocker (Def Leppard - "Hysteria", "Rock of Ages").
- 1963 - Birth of "Big Kenny" Alphin; country singer (Big and Rich).
- 1963 - Elsa Maxwell, writer (Jack Paar Show), dies at age 80.
- 1963 - Revolt against the Diem regime in South Vietnam.
- 1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese Prime Minister, assassinated in a military coup.
- 1964 - Birth of Joe Leste in San Diego, California, USA; rock vocalist (Bang Tango - "Dancin' on Coals").
- 1964 - George Blanda of Houston Oilers throws NFL-record 37 passes in 68 attempts.
- 1964 - Kansas City Chiefs' Len Dawson passes for six touchdowns vs Denver Broncos (49-39).
- 1965 - First concert at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
- 1965 - Trackless trolley plunges into Nile River, drowning 74 (Cairo, Egypt).
- 1966 - Birth of Willie D; rapper (Geto Boys).
- 1966 - Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh territory created.
- 1966 - NFL awards New Orleans its 16th franchise (All Saints Day).
- 1967 - Death of Benita Hume of bone cancer at age 61; actress (The Halls of Ivy radio and TV show (1955)).
- 1968 - US pro soccer 14 teams merge into one all star team.
- 1969 - Birth of Dale Wallace; country musician (Emerson Drive).
- 1969 - The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 11 weeks.
- 1970 - First regular season San Francisco Giants-New York Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea Stadium.
- 1970 - Discotheque in Grenoble, France, burns, all exits padlocked and 142 die.
- 1972 - Birth of Jenny McCarthy; actress (Jenny, One on One).
- 1972 - Birth of Toni Collette; actress (Tsunami: the Aftermath).
- 1972 - Standard Oil (New Jersey) changes its company name to Exxon.
- 1972 - Germain Gagnon scores first New York Islanders' hat trick.
- 1974 - Fire kills 189 in less than 25 minutes (Sao Paulo, Brazil).
- 1975 - Birth of Bo Bice; rock singer (American Idol runnerup).
- 1975 - Death of Doro Merande at age 77; actress (That Was The Week That Was, Valiant Lady).
- 1976 - Gilbert Island (Kiribati) obtains internal self-government from Great Britain.
- 1976 - CBS airs the 100th episode of Maude TV show.
- 1977 - New York Islanders' Goran Hogosta's only shut-out Calgary Flames 9-0-Trottier four goals.
- 1979 - Edward Bennett Williams buys the Baltimore Orioles for a reported US$12.3 million from Jerold Hoffberger.
- 1979 - Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 million gallons of oil, in US's worst oil tanker spill disaster.
- 1979 - Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urges his people to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand attacks on United States and Israeli interests.
- 1979 - Death of Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (born 1896).
- 1981 - Third meeting of San Francisco Giants-New York Jets, Jets up 2-1 with 26-7 win.
- 1981 - Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from Britain.
- 1981 - Birth of LaTavia Roberson; American singer (Destiny's Child).
- 1982 - Death of James Broderick at age 55 of cancer; actor (Doug - Family).
- 1983 - IBM announces the IBM PCjr. It features an Intel 8088 CPU, 64 kB RAM, detached keyboard, cartridge slots, and joystick, for $670.
- 1984 - Despite Mike Bossy's four goals, New York Islanders lose 5-6 to Montreal Canadians making Islander record when scoring a hat trick 77-3-4.
- 1985 - Nostalgia Television begins on cable.
- 1985 - Death of Phil Silvers AKA Philip Silversmith at age 74 after a heart attack; comedian (Sargeant Bilko - You'll Never Get Rich: The Phil Silvers Show, The Beverly Hillbillies).
- 1986 - Birth of Penn Badgley; actor (Gossip Girl, Bedford Diaries).
- 1986 - Joh Bjelke-Petersen wins election as Premier of Queensland, Australia, with 38.6 percent of the vote.
- 1987 - 22,000 run in New York City Marathon (won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya 2:11:01).
- 1987 - New York Jets retire Don Maynards number 13.
- 1987 - New Orleans Saints shut out Atlanta Falcons 38-0.
- 1987 - Death of Rene Levesque at age 65 following a massive heart attack in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; broadcast journalist (war correspondent in World War II, radio and TV reporter, host of Point de Mire TV show), politician (leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois, Premier of Quebec (1976-1985)).
- 1988 - Helmut Kohl and French President Francois Mitterrand jointly receive the Charlemagne Prize (Karlspreis) of the city of Aachen for their efforts on behalf of European unity.
- 1989 - South Dakota begins legal gambling in Deadwood city.
- 1989 - Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights.
- 1989 - Death of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, American civil rights activist (born 1898).
- 1990 - Last of Margaret Thatcher's original cabinet resigns, Sir Geoffrey Howe becomes Deputy Prime Minister.
- 1990 - Mary Robinson defeats favourite Brian Lenihan to become the first female President of Ireland.
- 1991 - The CBS TV network airs the first episode of The Carol Burnett Show. The series started on NBC as Carol & Co..
- 1991 - Disney releases the film Fantasia on videocassette for US$24.99, and on laserdisc for US$40-100.
- 1993 - The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
- 1993 - Death of Severo Ochoa, Spanish-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1905).
- 1994 - Death of Noah Beery Junior at age 81 from a cerebral thrombosis in California, USA; actor (The Rockford Files, Yellow Rose, Doc Elliot, Quest).
- 1995 - Participants in the Yugoslav War begin negotiations in Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
- 1995 - The U.S. House of Representatives votes to ban "partial birth" abortions by a vote of 288-139.
- 1995 - Intel formally announces and begins shipping the Pentium Pro processor, at speeds of 150 to 200 MHz. The processor incorporates 5.5 million transistors. Prices range from US$974 to $1989.
- 1997 - Birth of Alexander Draper Wolff; American actor, drummer (The Naked Brothers Band).
- 1998 - The European Court of Human Rights is instituted.
- 1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average removes Chevron Corporation, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Union Carbide Corporation, and Sears Roebuck from its index, replacing them with Microsoft Corporation, Intel Corporation, SBC Communications, and Home Depot Incorporated.
- 1999 - Death of Walter Payton of bile duct cancer; American football player (Chicago Bears halfback) (born 1954).
- 2001 - Derek Jeter hits the Major League Baseball's first November home run at the World Series.
- 2004 - A 16-year-old Palestinian Muslim blows himself up in an outdoor market in Tel Aviv, killing three Israelis.
- 2005 - The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall arrive in the United States for a state visit, their first overseas tour since their marriage.
- 2005 - United States Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats force a closed session of the Senate over the Lewis Libby indictment.
- 2005 - Death of Skitch Henderson AKA Lyle Russell Cedric Henderson at age 87; musical director (Bing Crosby), bandleader (The Tonight Show TV show), host (The Tonight Show TV show).
- 2006 - The Stardust Resort & Casino closes after 48 years of business in Las Vegas.
- 2007 - The Election commission of Bangladesh is separated from the Judiciary department.
- 2007 - Martina Hingis of Switzerland announced her second retirement from professional tennis due to doping allegations and injuries.
- 2007 - London's Metropolitan Police Service is found guilty of endangering the public following the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent Brazilian who officers mistook for a suicide bomber.
- 2007 - Death of Paul Tibbets, American general, pilot of the Enola Gay (born 1915).
- 2008 - Bolivian President Evo Morales suspends indefinitely the operations of the US Drug Enforcement Administration in Bolivia.
- 2009 - US lender CIT Group files for bankruptcy protection, arranging with bondholders to reduce debt by US$10 billion. In its filing it showed US$71 billion in finance and leasing assets against total debt of US$64.9 billion, making this the fifth biggest in US corporate history.
- 2009 - In Yas Marina, Abu Dhabi, round 17 of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship is won by Sebastian Vettel.
- 2009 - The FIA Formula 1 World Championship is won by Jenson Button.
- 2009 - In Okayama, Japan, round 11 of the FIA World Touring Car Championship is held. Race 1 is won by Andy Priaulx; race 2 is won by Augusto Farfus.
- 2009 - The FIA World Touring Car Championship is won by Gabriele Tarquini.
- 2013 - Death of Hakimullah Mehsud, Emir of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (born c. 1979).
- 2018 - NASA's Dawn mission concludes after it runs out of hydrazine fuel.
- 2019 - Apple launches Apple TV+ video streaming service.
- 2020 - Former Prime Minister and Minister of Education Maia Sandu is elected as the 6th President of Moldova.
- 2021 - The number of recorded deaths from COVID-19 surpasses 5 million.
- 2022 - Death of Takeoff AKA Kirsnick Khari Ball at age 28, shot and killed at a bowling alley in Houston, Texas, USA; rapper.
- 2022 - Death of Migos at age 28; Georgia rapper ("Versace" song, "Motorsport" song).
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