Today in History - History - November 1st

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

1904George Bernard Shaw's "John Bull's Other Island" premieres in London

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

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

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

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

1861General George McClellan made general in chief of Union armies

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

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

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

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

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

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

1880Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)

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

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

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

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