Today in History - History - November 1st

1954General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba

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

1951Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP

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

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

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

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

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

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

1910First issue of "Crisis" published by editor W.E.B. Du Bois

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

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

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

1880Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)

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

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

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

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

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

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