Today in History - History - November 1st

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

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

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

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

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

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

1950Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Pres Harry Truman at Blair House

1604William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" first presented

1951Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP

1932Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program

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)

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

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

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

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

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