Today in History - History - November 1st

1954General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1959Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in Cleveland Browns 38-31 win over Balt

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

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

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

1880Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)

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

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

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

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

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