Today in History - History - November 1st

1990Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts

1951Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP

1611Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Tempest" 1st presented

1604William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" first presented

1904George Bernard Shaw's "John Bull's Other Island" premieres in London

1954General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba

1928Bradman scores a century each innings (131 & 133*), NSW v Qld

1671French King Louis XIV & RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty

1894Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.

1967"Cool Hand Luke", starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, and Strother Martin, is released

1871Stephen Crane, Newark, New Jersey, novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage), (d. 1900)

1942Larry Flynt, Lakeville, Kentucky, magazine publisher (Hustler)

1880Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)

1935Gary Player, Johannesburg, South African PGA golfer (Brit Open-1959, 68, 74)

1954Actor John Wayne (47) weds actress Pilar Pallete in Kona, Hawaii

1986MLB player Kirby Puckett (24) weds Tonya Hudson (20)

1947Film director D. W. Griffith (72) divorces actress Evelyn Baldwin (37) after 11 years of marriage

1954Actor John Wayne (47) divorces actress Esperanza Baur due to drunken violence after 7 years of marriage

2010Film actor Charlie Sheen (45) divorces socialite Brooke Mueller (33) due to irreconcilable differences after two-and-a-half years of marriage

1982Director Martin Scorsese (39) divorces Isabella Rossellini (30) after 3 years of marriage

1999Walter Payton, American Football Hall of Fame Running Back, dies at 45

1972Ezra Loomis Pound, US poet (Throne), dies at 87