Notable Historical Events on November 1st
November 1st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
835 |
All Saints Day made compulsory by Pope Gregory IV throughout Frankish Kingdom |
996 |
First recorded use of modern name for Austria in the 'Ostarrîchi Document' |
1210 |
King John of England begins imprisoning Jews |
1248 |
Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German emperor |
1349 |
Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells |
1462 |
Archduke Albrecht VI van Habsburg occupies Vienna |
1512 |
Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel in the Vatican first exhibited |
1570 |
All Saints Flood, tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland; killing more than 1,000 people. |
1604 |
William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" first presented |
1611 |
Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Tempest" 1st presented |
1612 |
(22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky |
1623 |
Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings |
1628 |
French King Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle |
1671 |
French King Louis XIV & RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty |
1683 |
The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties. |
1721 |
Prince Eugenius of Savoye unveals statue of himself |
1755 |
Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000 |
1765 |
Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies |
1776 |
Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California |
1784 |
Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette & his descendents |
1787 |
First free school in NYC (African Free School) opens |
1800 |
John Adams becomes the first US president to live in White House |
1802 |
Delegates meet at Chillicothe, Ohio, to form a state constitutional convention. |
1814 |
Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars. |
1834 |
First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game) |
1848 |
First US women's medical school opens (Boston) |
1849 |
Dutch government of Thorbecke forms |
1859 |
The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions. |
1861 |
General George McClellan made general in chief of Union armies |
1863 |
-8] Averell's Raid (on)to Lewisburg, West Virginia |
1863 |
Fortifications built on Angel Island (SF Bay) by troops |
1865 |
Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens |
1867 |
"Harper's Bazaar" publishes |
1869 |
Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra |
1870 |
US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations) |
1876 |
King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden) |
1876 |
New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved. |
1877 |
Dutch government of Heemskerk-Van Lynden resigns |
1878 |
Edward Scripps & John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press) |
1884 |
The Gaelic Athletic Association is founded to promote Irish sport and games; The association denies membership to the police and army and is immediately infiltrated by the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) |
1885 |
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Immortale Dei |
1886 |
Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka was established with 37 students. |
1894 |
Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris |
1894 |
Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies. |
1896 |
First bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine |
1901 |
Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA. |
1902 |
France and Italy sign an Entente under which Italy agrees to remain neutral if France is attacked; this is France's attempt to neutralize the Triple Entente |
1904 |
George Bernard Shaw's "John Bull's Other Island" premieres in London |
1910 |
First issue of "Crisis" published by editor W.E.B. Du Bois |
1913 |
Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st to use forward pass effectively |
1913 |
Less than a week after the US nonintervention promose, President Woodrow Wilson demands that Mexican dictator Huerta resigns |
1914 |
Connie Mack asks waivers on Jack Coombs, Eddie Plank & Chief Colby |
1914 |
German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile |
1914 |
Pope Benedictus Xv's encyclical Ad beatissimi, against integrity |
1914 |
Von Hindenburg named marshal of Eastern front |
1915 |
Parris Island is officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit Depot. |
1916 |
Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government. |
1917 |
In WW I, the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat |
1918 |
102 die in a NYC BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn |
1918 |
Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians |
1920 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Emperor Jones" premieres in NYC |
1920 |
American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the first International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax. |
1921 |
National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League |
1922 |
Ottoman Empire abolished |
1922 |
Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch Historical Maritime museum in Amsterdam |
1923 |
Bruno E Lucander forms Aero E/Y (Finnair) |
1924 |
1st US NHL franchise, Boston Bruins founded |
1924 |
Forest Peters of Montana State U hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals |
1925 |
VARA, Vereniging van Workers Radio Amateurs forms in Amsterdam |
1926 |
US Air Commerce Act passes |
1928 |
1st celebration of Authors' Day |
1928 |
Bradman scores a century each innings (131 & 133*), NSW v Qld |
1928 |
Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km |
1929 |
Lundy Island, part of British Isles, issue its own stamps |
1931 |
Dupont introduces synthetic rubber |
1932 |
Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program |
1935 |
TS Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral" premieres in London |
1936 |
Benito Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an "axis" |
1936 |
Rodeo Cowboy's Association founded |
1937 |
Stalinists executed by shooting Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community (including three women). |
1938 |
German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires |
1938 |
NL batting champ Ernie Lombardi is named MVP |
1938 |
Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico |
1939 |
First animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed |
1939 |
First jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry |
1939 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sertum laetitiae |
1940 |
1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa |
1940 |
Dutch "Curfew" forms (12 AM - 4 AM) |
1941 |
Chetniks attacks Tito's partizans in Uzice Yugoslavia |
1941 |
Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima arrive in Pearl Harbor |
1942 |
10th day of battle at El Alamein |
1942 |
John H Johnson publishes 1st issue of Negro Digest |
1943 |
Dim-out ban lifted in SF Bay area |
1943 |
US troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island |
1944 |
Mary Coyle Chase's "Harvey" premieres in NYC |
1944 |
Zeeuws & Flanders liberated |
1944 |
World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands. |
1945 |
First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson |
1946 |
Charles S Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University |
1946 |
Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck's right foot is amputated |
1946 |
Marken soccer team forms |
1946 |
NY Knicks 1st basketball game beat Toronto Huskies 68-66 |
1946 |
WABC becomes WCBS radio in NYC |
1946 |
WEAF radio changes call letters to WNBC (NYC) |
1946 |
West German state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) created |
1947 |
"Medium & The Telephone" closes at Barrymore NYC after 211 perfs |
1947 |
First Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii |
1947 |
Howard Hughes flies "Spruce Goose", a huge wooden airplane |
1947 |
UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ & UK |
1948 |
Mao's Red army conquerors Mukden, Manchuria |
1950 |
1st negro player in NBA, (Celtic's Charles Cooper) Ft Wayne Ind |
1950 |
82°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Nov |
1950 |
Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Pres Harry Truman at Blair House |
1950 |
Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican. |
1950 |
Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary. |
1951 |
Johnny Mercer's "Top Banana" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 356 performances |
1951 |
First atomic explosion witnessed by troops, New Mexico |
1951 |
Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella wins 1st of his 3 NL MVP |
1951 |
Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP |
1951 |
Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson |
1951 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
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 |
1953 |
Emile Zatopek runs world record 10K (29:01.6) & 6 mile (28:08.4) |
1953 |
KCEN TV channel 6 in Temple-Waco, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
WHEC TV channel 10 in Rochester, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba |
1954 |
India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements |
1954 |
KUON TV channel 12 in Lincoln, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
US Senate admonishes Joseph McCarthy because of his slander campaigns |
1954 |
The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence against France. |
1955 |
Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont, Colorado |
1956 |
Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union |
1956 |
Indian state of Madhya Pradesh forms |
1956 |
Indian states of Punjab, Patiala & PEPSU merge as Punjab protection |
1956 |
Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact |
1956 |
Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain & Bardeen |
1956 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Laetamur admodum |
1956 |
Formation of Kerala state in India. |
1957 |
KVII TV channel 7 in Amarillo, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
KXGN TV channel 5 in Glendive, MT (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
WICZ TV channel 40 in Binghamton, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
World longest suspension bridge opens (Mackinac Straits Mich) |
1958 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1959 |
Jacques Plante becomes the first goaltender to wear a mask during a game |
1959 |
Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in Cleveland Browns 38-31 win over Balt |
1959 |
Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo |
1959 |
WOV-AM in NYC changes call letters to WADO |
1960 |
Balitmore Oriole shortstop Ron Hansen voted AL Rookie of Year |
1960 |
Benelux treaty goes into effect |
1962 |
Greece enters European Common Market |
1962 |
KYVE TV channel 47 in Yakima, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
1962 |
USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1962 |
WNYC TV channel 31 in New York, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
WZZM TV channel 13 in Grand Rapids, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1964 |
George Blanda of Houston throws NFL-record 37 passes in 68 attempts |
1964 |
KC Chief Len Dawson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Denver (49-39) |
1964 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies' Golf Open |
1964 |
Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon |
1965 |
1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, SF |
1965 |
Ernie Terrel beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing |
1965 |
Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt) |
1966 |
Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created |
1966 |
NFL awards New Orleans its 16th franchise (All Saints Day) |
1966 |
Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner |
1966 |
William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km |
1967 |
"Cool Hand Luke", starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, and Strother Martin, is released |
1968 |
Noel Coward's "Sweet Potato" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 36 perfs |
1968 |
Detroit Tiger Denny McLain unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award |
1968 |
Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X) |
1968 |
US pro soccer 14 teams merged into 1 all star team |
1968 |
University of Suriname opens |
1969 |
The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album goes #1 in US & stays #1 for 11 weeks |
1970 |
1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea |
1970 |
Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked & 142 die |
1970 |
Fire on Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, 144 die |
1970 |
KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1971 |
Eisenhower dollar put into circulation |
1972 |
1st gay theme TV movie - "That Certain Summer" |
1972 |
Germaoin Gagnon scores 1st Islander hat trick |
1973 |
"Molly" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 68 performances |
1973 |
The Indian state of Mysore was renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu . |
1974 |
Fire kills 189 in less than 25 min (Sao Paulo Brazil) |
1974 |
UN affirms independence of Cyprus |
1976 |
"Don't Step on My Olive Branch" opens at Playhouse NYC for 16 perfs |
1976 |
Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule |
1976 |
W German Generals Krupinski and Franke admit to having been Nazis |
1977 |
Islander Goran Hogosta's only shut-out Flames 9-0-Trottier 4 goals |
1977 |
US President Jimmy Carter raises the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st Jan 1981 |
1977 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1978 |
NY Yankee Ron Guidry unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award |
1979 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice's musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" premieres |
1979 |
Bolivia military coup under Gen Busch, pres Guevara flees |
1979 |
Edward Bennett Williams buys Orioles from Hoffberger for $12.3 million |
1979 |
US Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler |
1979 |
Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster |
1980 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1981 |
1st Class US Mail raised from 18 cents to 20 cents |
1981 |
3rd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets up 2-1 with 26-7 win |
1981 |
Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1981 |
Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament |
1982 |
Andrew "Dice" Clay & George Wendt appear in "Trick or Treatment" |
1982 |
Major leagues vote not to renew Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's contract |
1982 |
Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there. |
1984 |
1st NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - Clipper beat Knick, 107-105 |
1984 |
Larry Shue's "Foreigner" premieres in NYC |
1984 |
Willem de Kooning's "Two Women" sells for $1,980,000 |
1984 |
Despite Mike Bossy 4 goals Islanders lose 5-6 to Canadians making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-77-3-4 |
1985 |
Netherlands decides definitive sites for cruise missiles |
1985 |
Nostalgia Television begins on cable |
1986 |
Fire in Sandoz factory in Basel, 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhine |
1986 |
Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Brave Raj, Capote, Lady's Secret, Last Tycoon, Manila, Skywalker, Smile at Santa Anita |
1987 |
17th NYC Women's Marathon won by Priscilla Welch in 2:30:17 |
1987 |
18th NYC Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein in 2:11:01 |
1987 |
22,000 run in NYC Marathon (won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya 2:11:01) |
1987 |
Fukumi Tani wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship |
1987 |
NY Jets retire Don Maynards #13 |
1987 |
New Orleans Saints shutout Atlanta Falcons 38-0 |
1988 |
Chris Sabo, wins National League Rookie of Year award |
1988 |
Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones |
1989 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Curran Theatre, SF |
1989 |
Pakistan beat West Indies by 4 wickets to win Cricket's Nehru Cup |
1989 |
Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights |
1990 |
"Oh, Kay!" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 77 performances |
1990 |
Last of Margaret Thatcher's original government resigns, Deputy PM Howe |
1990 |
Rhetoric escalates as Bush likens Saddam to Hitler |
1990 |
Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts |
1991 |
New Dutch Regulations Traffic rules & Traffic signs enforced |
1991 |
Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa. |
1991 |
Last of Kuwait oil well fires extinguished by well control teams |
1992 |
22nd NYC Women's Marathon won by Lisa Ondieki in 2:24:40 |
1992 |
23rd NYC Marathon won by Willie Mtolo in 2:09:29 |
1992 |
NY Jet Al Toon becomes 10th NFL to catch a pass in 100 straight games |
1992 |
Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) lands (scheduled) |
1993 |
Atlantic Radio (20 radio stations) becomes American Radio Systems |
1993 |
Last day in 1st-class cricket for Mike Whitney, NSW v NZ |
1993 |
STS-58 (Columbia) lands |
1994 |
Muslim fundamentalists in Mostaganem Algeria murder 5 children |
1995 |
"Tempest" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 71 performances |
1998 |
Nichirei Golf International |
1998 |
The European Court of Human Rights is instituted. |
2003 |
Panajot Pano is selected as the Golden Player of Albania by the Football Association of Albania as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee |
2005 |
First part of the Gomery Report, which discusses allegations of political money manipulation, is released in Canada. |
2009 |
The inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is held at the Yas Marina Circuit. |
2012 |
Google's Gmail becomes the world's most popular email service |
2012 |
22 people are killed and 111 injured after a fuel tanker explodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
2012 |
Yellow fever kills 32 people and sickens 50 more in Darfur, Sudan |
2012 |
Acid is poured over a 15 year old girl by her parents after being seen talking to a young man in an "honour killing" in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan |
2012 |
Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe's first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang |
2012 |
2 Iranian fighter jets fire on a US General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international air space |
2012 |
46th Country Music Association Award: Blake Shelton & Miranda Lambert wins |
2015 |
World Series: Kansas City Royals steal Game 4 from New York Mets |
2015 |
Halloween asteroid resembling skull narrowly misses Earth |
2015 |
Breeders' Cup: American Pharoah bids farewell with dominant victory |
2015 |
US Navy finds wreckage believed to be missing cargo ship El Faro |
2016 |
CNN, Brazile part ways amid renewed WikiLeaks controversy |
2016 |
GOP lawmakers criticizes FBI's decision on Clinton investigation |
2017 |
Several people killed by vehicle on New York City bike path |
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