Today in History - History - November 1st

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

1954US Senate admonishes Joseph McCarthy because of his slander campaigns

1951Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP

1952"Ivy Mike", the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the H-bomb design of Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, is detonated in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean

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

1914Connie Mack asks waivers on Jack Coombs, Eddie Plank & Chief Colby

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

1861General George McClellan made general in chief of Union armies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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