Today in History - History - November 1st

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

1951Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP

1959Jacques Plante becomes the first goaltender to wear a mask during a game

1936Benito Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an "axis"

1954US Senate admonishes Joseph McCarthy because of his slander campaigns

1512Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel in the Vatican first exhibited

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

1913Less than a week after the US nonintervention promose, President Woodrow Wilson demands that Mexican dictator Huerta resigns

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

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

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

1880Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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