Today in History - History - November 1st

1800John Adams becomes the first US president to live in White House

1951Johnny Mercer's "Top Banana" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 356 performances

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

1951Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP

1951Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella wins 1st of his 3 NL MVP

1984Despite Mike Bossy 4 goals Islanders lose 5-6 to Canadians making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-77-3-4

1990Last of Margaret Thatcher's original government resigns, Deputy PM Howe

1979Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice's musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" premieres

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

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

1878Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Buenos Aires, jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936), (d. 1959)

1880Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)

1940Theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer (36) weds biologist Katherine Harrison Puening

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

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

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

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