WillDekkard
11-01-2010, 03:18 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - November 1st
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* 996 Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrξchi (Austria in Old High German).
* 1179 Philip II is crowned King of France.
* 1348 The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
* 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.
* 1604 William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
* 1611 William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
* 1612 (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
* 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 thousand 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, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a 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).
* 1802 Delegates meet at Chillicothe, Ohio to form a state constitutional convention.
* 1805 Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
* 1814 Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
* 1848 In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
* 1859 The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
* 1861 American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the 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.
* 1884 The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
* 1886 Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka is established with 37 students.
* 1894 Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
* 1896 A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
* 1897 The first Library of Congress building opened its doors to the public. The Library had been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
* 1901 Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
* 1911 The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
* 1914 World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
* 1915 Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
* 1916 Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stόrmer government.
* 1918 Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 deaths.
* 1918 Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
* 1920 American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
* 1922 The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
* 1928 The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used, comes into force in Turkey.
* 1937 Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
* 1938 Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
* 1939 The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
* 1941 American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
* 1942 Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 4.
* 1943 World War II: Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
* 1943 World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
* 1944 World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
* 1945 The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro. Australia joins the United Nations.
* 1946 The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks would win 68-66.
* 1948 Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people 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 at Blair House.
* 1950 Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
* 1951 Operation Buster-Jangle: 6,500 American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
* 1952 Operation Ivy The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["M" for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.
* 1954 The Front de Libιration Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
* 1955 The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
* 1956 The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore state are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
* 1957 The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
* 1959 Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.
* 1959 In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.
* 1960 While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
* 1961 50,000 women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.
* 1963 The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
* 1968 The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
* 1970 Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
* 1973 Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
* 1973 The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
* 1981 Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.
* 1982 Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
* 1993 The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
* 2000 Serbia joins the United Nations.
* 2005 First part of the Gomery Report, which discusses allegations of political money manipulation by members of the Liberal Party of Canada, is released in Canada.
* 2009 The inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is held at the Yas Marina Circuit.
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This Date in History - November 1st
c/p from Wikipedia
* 996 Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrξchi (Austria in Old High German).
* 1179 Philip II is crowned King of France.
* 1348 The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
* 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.
* 1604 William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
* 1611 William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
* 1612 (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
* 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 thousand 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, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a 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).
* 1802 Delegates meet at Chillicothe, Ohio to form a state constitutional convention.
* 1805 Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
* 1814 Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
* 1848 In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
* 1859 The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
* 1861 American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the 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.
* 1884 The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
* 1886 Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka is established with 37 students.
* 1894 Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
* 1896 A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
* 1897 The first Library of Congress building opened its doors to the public. The Library had been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
* 1901 Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
* 1911 The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
* 1914 World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
* 1915 Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
* 1916 Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stόrmer government.
* 1918 Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 deaths.
* 1918 Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
* 1920 American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
* 1922 The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
* 1928 The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used, comes into force in Turkey.
* 1937 Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
* 1938 Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
* 1939 The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
* 1941 American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
* 1942 Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 4.
* 1943 World War II: Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
* 1943 World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
* 1944 World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
* 1945 The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro. Australia joins the United Nations.
* 1946 The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks would win 68-66.
* 1948 Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people 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 at Blair House.
* 1950 Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
* 1951 Operation Buster-Jangle: 6,500 American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
* 1952 Operation Ivy The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["M" for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.
* 1954 The Front de Libιration Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
* 1955 The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
* 1956 The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore state are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
* 1957 The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
* 1959 Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.
* 1959 In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.
* 1960 While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
* 1961 50,000 women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.
* 1963 The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
* 1968 The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
* 1970 Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
* 1973 Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
* 1973 The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
* 1981 Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.
* 1982 Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
* 1993 The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
* 2000 Serbia joins the United Nations.
* 2005 First part of the Gomery Report, which discusses allegations of political money manipulation by members of the Liberal Party of Canada, is released in Canada.
* 2009 The inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is held at the Yas Marina Circuit.
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