Historical Events and Current Affairs on November 1

1210 : King John of England begins imprisoning Jews
1248 : Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German emperor
1349 : Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing
1349 : them of poisoning the wells
1462 : Arch duke Albrecht VI van Habsburg occupies Vienna
1512 : Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, 1st exhibited
1570 : Netherlands hit by flood disaster, 1,000s killed
1604 : William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" 1st presented
1611 : Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Tempest" 1st presented
1623 : Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings
1628 : French king Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle
1671 : anti-Dutch treaty
1671 : French King Louis XIV & RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret
1721 : Prince Eugenius of Savoye unveals statue of himself
1755 : Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000
1765 : Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies
1776 : Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California
1783 : Continental Army dissolved; George Washington's "Farewell Address"
1784 : Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette & his descendents
1787 : 1st free school in NYC (African Free School) opens
1800 : 1st president to live in white house (John Adams)
1834 : 1st published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)
1848 : 1st US woman's medical school opens (Boston)
1849 : Dutch govt of Thorbecke forms
1861 : Gen George B McClellan made general in chief of Union armies
1863 : Averell's Raid (on)to Lewisburg, West Virginia
1863 : Fortifications built on Angel Island (SF Bay) by troops
1864 : Tennessee campaign
1865 : Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens
1866 : 1st Civil Rights Bill passes
1867 : "Harpers Bazaar" publishes
1869 : Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra
1870 : US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)
1875 : J Palisa discovers asteroid #151 Abundantia
1876 : King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden)
1877 : Dutch govt of Heemskerk-Van Lynden resigns
1878 : Edward Scripps & John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press)
1885 : Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Immortale Dei
1889 : North & South Dakota entered the union as the 39th & 40th states
1894 : Max Wolf discovers asteroid #391 Ingeborg
1894 : Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris
1896 : 1st bare women breast (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Mag
1904 : George Bernard Shaws "John Bull's Other Island," premieres in London
1905 : Max Wolf discovers asteroids #578 Happelia & #1967 Menzel
1910 : 1st issue of "Crisis" published by editor W E B Du Bois
1914 : Connie Mack asks waivers on Jack Coombs, Eddie Plank & Chief Colby
1914 : German-British fleet battle at Coronel, Chile
1914 : Pope Benedictus Xv's encyclical Ad beatissimi, against integrity
1914 : Von Hindenburg named marshal of Eastern front
1917 : WW1: The 1st US soldiers are killed in combat
1918 : 102 die in a NYC BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn
1918 : Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians
1920 : Eugene O'Neill's "Emperor Jones," premieres in NYC
1920 : Warren Harding elected 29th president
1921 : as American Birth Control League
1921 : National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge
1922 : Ottoman Empire abolished
1922 : Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch Historical Maritime museum in Amsterdam
1923 : Bruno E Lucander forms Aero E/Y (Finnair)
1924 : Forest Peters of Montana State U hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals
1925 : VARA, Vereniging van Workers Radio Amateurs forms in Amsterdam
1926 : Air Commerce Act passes
1928 : 1st celebration of Author's Day
1928 : Bradman scores a century each innings (131 & 133*), NSW v Qld
1928 : Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km
1929 : Lundy, part of British Isles, issue their own stamps
1931 : Dupont introduces synthetic rubber
1932 : Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program
1935 : TS Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral," premieres in London
1936 : Mussolini describes alliance between Italy & Germany as an "axis"
1936 : Rodeo Cowboy's Association founded
1938 : German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires
1938 : Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico
1939 : 1st animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
1939 : 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry
1939 : Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sertum laetitiae
1940 : 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
1940 : Dutch "Curfew" forms (12 AM - 4 AM)
1941 : Chetniks attacks Tito's partizans in Uzice Yugoslavia
1941 : Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima arrive in Pearl Harbor
1942 : 10th day of battle at El Alamein
1942 : John H Johnson publishes 1st issue of Negro Digest
1942 : Vice-admiral Cunningham becomes British commander-in-chief
1943 : Dim-out ban lifted in SF Bay area
1943 : US troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island
1944 : Mary Coyle Chase' "Harvey," premieres in NYC
1944 : Zeeuws & Flanders freed
1945 : 1st issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson
1946 : Charles S Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University
1946 : Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck's right foot is amputated
1946 : German "Country" Nedersaksen forms
1946 : Marken soccer team forms
1946 : Right foot of Cleve Indian's owner Bill Veeck is amputated
1946 : WABC becomes WCBS radio in NYC
1946 : WEAF radio changes call letters to WNBC (NYC)
1946 : West German state of Niedersachsen formed
1947 : "Medium & The Telephone" closes at Barrymore NYC after 211 perfs
1947 : 1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii
1947 : Howard Hughes flies "Spruce Goose," a large wooden airplane
1947 : UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ & UK
1948 : Mao's Red army conquerors Mukden, Manchuria
1948 : Pres Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey
1950 : Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Pres Truman at Blair House
1951 : "Top Banana" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 356 performances
1951 : 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, NM
1951 : Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson
1951 : Johnny Mercers "Top Banana," premieres in NYC
1951 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 : 1st hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in Pacific
1952 : Fusion occurs for 1st time on Earth
1953 : Emile Zatopek runs world record 10K (29:01.6) & 6 mile (28:08.4)
1953 : KCEN TV channel 6 in Temple-Waco, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 : KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 : WHEC TV channel 10 in Rochester, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 : Algeria begins rebellion against French rule
1954 : General Fulgencio Batista elected pres of Cuba
1954 : India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements
1954 : KUON TV channel 12 in Lincoln, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 : US Senate admonishes Joseph Mccarthy because of slander campaign
1955 : Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont Colorado
1956 : Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union
1956 : Indian state of Madhya Pradesh forms
1956 : Indian states of Punjab, Patiala & PEPSU merge as Punjab protection
1956 : Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact
1956 : Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain & Bardeen
1956 : Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Laetamur admodum
1957 : KVII TV channel 7 in Amarillo, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 : KXGN TV channel 5 in Glendive, MT (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 : WICZ TV channel 40 in Binghamton, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 : World longest suspension bridge opens (Mackinac Straits Mich)
1958 : USSR performs nuclear test
1959 : Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo
1959 : WOV-AM in NYC changes call letters to WADO
1960 : Balitmore Oriole shortstop Ron Hansen voted AL Rookie of Year
1960 : Benelux treaty goes into effect
1962 : Cuban missile crisis ends, JFK says USSR is dismantling missile bases
1962 : Greece enters European Common Market
1962 : KYVE TV channel 47 in Yakima, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 : US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1962 : USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars
1962 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1962 : USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 : WNYC TV channel 31 in New York, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 : WZZM TV channel 13 in Grand Rapids, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 : KC Chief Len Dawson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Denver (49-39)
1964 : Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon
1965 : 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, SF
1965 : Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)
1966 : Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created
1966 : Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner
1966 : William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km
1968 : "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 36 perfs
1968 : Detroit Tiger Denny McLain unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award
1968 : Motion Picture Assn of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)
1969 : Beatles' "Abbey Road," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks
1970 : Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked & 142 die
1970 : Fire on Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, 144 die
1970 : KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 : Eisenhower dollar put into circulation
1972 : 1st gay theme TV movie - "That Certain Summer"
1973 : "Molly" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 68 performances
1974 : Fire kills 189 in less than 25 min (Sao Paulo Brazil)
1974 : UN affirms independence of Cyprus
1976 : "Don't Step on My Olive Branch" opens at Playhouse NYC for 16 perfs
1976 : Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule
1976 : W German Gens Krupinski/Franke admit to being Nazis
1977 : Islander Goran Hogosta's only shut-out Flames 9-0-Trottier 4 goals
1977 : Pres Carter raises minimum wages of $2.30 to $3.35 for Jan 1 1981
1977 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 : NY Yankee Ron Guidry unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award
1979 : A L Webber musical "Joseph & Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," premieres
1979 : Bolivia military coup under Gen Busch, pres Guevara flees
1979 : Edward Bennett Williams buys Orioles from Hoffberger for $12.3 million
1979 : Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler
1979 : of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster
1979 : Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons
1980 : USSR performs nuclear test
1981 : 1st Class Mail raised from 18? to 20?
1981 : Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1982 : Andrew "Dice" Clay & George Wendt appear in "Trick or Treatment"
1982 : Major leagues vote not to renew Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's contract
1983 : Pres Reagan established Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday
1984 : Larry Shues "Foreigner," premieres in NYC
1984 : making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-77-3-4
1984 : Willem de Kooning's "Two Women" sells for $1,980,000
1985 : Neth decides definative sites for cruise missiles
1985 : Nostalgia Television begins on cable
1986 : Fire in Sandoz-factory Basel, 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhine
1986 : Last Tycoon, Manila, Skywalker, Smile at Santa Anita
1988 : Actor Jeff Goldblum & actress Gena Davis wed in Las Vegas
1988 : Chris Sabo, wins NL Rookie of Year award
1988 : Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones
1989 : "Les Miserables," opens at Curran Theatre, SF
1989 : Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights
1990 : "Oh, Kay!" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 77 performances
1990 : Last of Margaret Thatcher's original govt resigns, Deputy PM Howe
1990 : Rhetoric escalates as Bush likens Saddam to Hitler
1990 : Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts
1991 : E F Helin & K J Lawrence discover asteroid #7341
1991 : New Dutch Regulations Traffic rules & Traffic signs enforced
1992 : Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) lands (scheduled)
1993 : Atlantic Radio (20 radio stations) becomes American Radio Systems
1993 : STS-58 (Columbia) lands
1994 : K Endate & K Watanabe discover asteroid #7483
1994 : Moslem fundamentalists in Mostaganem Algeria murder 5 children
1995 : "Tempest" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 71 performances

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