Today in History - History - November 1st

1951Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP

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

1861General George McClellan made general in chief of Union armies

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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