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Nov 1, 1512: Sistine Chapel ceiling opens to public
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, one of Italian artist Michelangelo's finest works, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, the greatest of the Italian Renaissance artists, was born in the small village of Caprese in 1475. The son of a government administrator, he grew up in Florence, a center of the early Renaissance movement, and became an artist's apprentice at age 13. Demonstrating obvious talent, he was taken under the wing of Lorenzo de' Medici, the ruler of the Florentine republic and a great patron of the arts. After demonstrating his mastery of sculpture in such works as the Pieta (1498) and David (1504), he was called to Rome in 1508 to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel—the chief consecrated space in the Vatican.
Michelangelo's epic ceiling frescoes, which took several years to complete, are among his most memorable works. Central in a complex system of decoration featuring numerous figures are nine panels devoted to biblical world history. The most famous of these is The Creation of Adam, a painting in which the arms of God and Adam are stretching toward each other. In 1512, Michelangelo completed the work.
After 15 years as an architect in Florence, Michelangelo returned to Rome in 1534, where he would work and live for the rest of his life. That year saw his painting of the The Last Judgment on the wall above the altar in the Sistine Chapel for Pope Paul III. The massive painting depicts Christ's damnation of sinners and blessing of the virtuous and is regarded as a masterpiece of early Mannerism.
Michelangelo worked until his death in 1564 at the age of 88. In addition to his major artistic works, he produced numerous other sculptures, frescoes, architectural designs, and drawings, many of which are unfinished and some of which are lost. In his lifetime, he was celebrated as Europe's greatest living artist, and today he is held up as one of the greatest artists of all time, as exalted in the visual arts as William Shakespeare is in literature or Ludwig van Beethoven is in music.
Nov 1, 1765: Parliament enacts the Stamp Act
In the face of widespread opposition in the American colonies, Parliament enacts the Stamp Act, a taxation measure designed to raise revenue for British military operations in America.
Defense of the American colonies in the French and Indian War (1754-63) and Pontiac's Rebellion (1763-64) were costly affairs for Great Britain, and Prime Minister George Grenville hoped to recover some of these costs by taxing the colonists. In 1764, the Sugar Act was enacted, putting a high duty on refined sugar. Although resented, the Sugar Act tax was hidden in the cost of import duties, and most colonists accepted it. The Stamp Act, however, was a direct tax on the colonists and led to an uproar in America over an issue that was to be a major cause of the Revolution: taxation without representation.
Passed without debate by Parliament in March 1765, the Stamp Act was designed to force colonists to use special stamped paper in the printing of newspapers, pamphlets, almanacs, and playing cards, and to have a stamp embossed on all commercial and legal papers. The stamp itself displayed an image of a Tudor rose framed by the word "America" and the French phrase Honi soit qui mal y pense—"Shame to him who thinks evil of it."
Outrage was immediate. Massachusetts politician Samuel Adams organized the secret Sons of Liberty organization to plan protests against the measure, and the Virginia legislature and other colonial assemblies passed resolutions opposing the act. In October, nine colonies sent representatives to New York to attend a Stamp Act Congress, where resolutions of "rights and grievances" were framed and sent to Parliament and King George III. Despite this opposition, the Stamp Act was enacted on November 1, 1765.
The colonists greeted the arrival of the stamps with violence and economic retaliation. A general boycott of British goods began, and the Sons of Liberty staged attacks on the customhouses and homes of tax collectors in Boston. After months of protest and economic turmoil, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British House of Commons, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766. However, the same day, Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies.
Parliament would again attempt to force unpopular taxation measures on the American colonies in the late 1760s, leading to a steady deterioration in British-American relations that culminated in the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775.
Nov 1, 1800: John Adams moves into White House
On this day in 1800, President John Adams, in the last year of his only term as president, moved into the newly constructed President's House, the original name for what is known today as the White House.
Adams had been living in temporary digs at Tunnicliffe's City Hotel near the half-finished Capitol building since June 1800, when the federal government was moved from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington, D.C. In his biography of Adams, historian David McCullough recorded that when Adams first arrived in Washington, he wrote to his wife Abigail, at their home in Quincy, Massachusetts, that he was pleased with the new site for the federal government and had explored the soon-to-be President's House with satisfaction.
Although workmen had rushed to finish plastering and painting walls before Adams returned to D.C. from a visit to Quincy in late October, construction remained unfinished when Adams rolled up in his carriage on November 1. However, the Adams' furniture from their Philadelphia home was in place and a portrait of George Washington was already hanging in one room. The next day, Adams sent a note to Abigail, who would arrive in Washington later that month, saying that he hoped "none but honest and wise men [shall] ever rule under this roof."
Although Adams was initially enthusiastic about the presidential mansion, he and Abigail soon found it to be cold and damp during the winter. Abigail, in a letter to a friend, wrote that the building was tolerable only so long as fires were lit in every room. She also noted that she had to hang their washing in an empty "audience room" (the current East Room).
John and Abigail Adams lived in what she called "the great castle" for only five months. Shortly after they moved in, Thomas Jefferson defeated Adams in his bid for re-election. Abigail was happy to leave Washington and departed in February 1801 for Quincy. As Jefferson was being sworn in on March 4, 1801, John Adams was already on his way back to Massachusetts, where he and Abigail lived out the rest of their days at their family farm.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
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 Vatican, Italy 1st 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" 1st 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
1783 - Continental Army dissolved;
George Washington's "Farewell Address"
First US President George
WashingtonFirst US President George Washington 1784 - Maryland grants
citizenship to Lafayette & his descendents
1787 - 1st 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 - 1st published reference to poker
(as Mississippi riverboat game)
1848 - 1st US woman'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 - Gen George B 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
1866 - 1st Civil Rights Bill passes
1867 - "Harpers 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 set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
1885 - Pope Leo XIII publishes
encyclical Immortale Dei
1886 - Ananda College, a leading
Buddhist school in Sri Lanka was established with 37 students.
1889 - North and South Dakota entered
the Union as the 39th and 40th states
1894 - Vaccine for diphtheria announced
by Dr Roux of Paris
Absolute monarch Nicholas IIAbsolute
monarch Nicholas II 1894 - Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his
father, Alexander III, dies.
1896 - 1st 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.
1904 - George Bernard Shaw's "John
Bull's Other Island," premieres in London
1910 - 1st issue of "Crisis"
published by editor W E B Du Bois
1913 - Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st
to use forward pass effectively
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
Baseball Legend Connie MackBaseball
Legend Connie Mack 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 Author's 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, part of British Isles,
issue its own stamps
1931 - Dupont introduces synthetic
rubber
Rocket Scientist Werner von BraunRocket
Scientist Werner von Braun 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 - 1st animal conceived by
artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
1939 - 1st 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
Soviet Union Premier Joseph StalinSoviet
Union Premier Joseph Stalin 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'
"Harvey," premieres in NYC
1944 - Zeeuws & Flanders freed
1944 - World War II: Units of the
British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
1945 - 1st 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 - Right foot of Cleve Indian's
owner Bill Veeck is amputated
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 - 1st Aloha Week Parade held in
Hawaii
1947 - Howard Hughes flies "Spruce
Goose," a large 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 Mercers "Top
Banana" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 356 performances
1951 - 1st atomic explosion witnessed by
troops, NM
1951 - Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy
Campanella wins 1st of his 3 NL MVP
33rd US President Harry Truman33rd US President
Harry Truman 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 - 1st hydrogen device exploded at
Eniwetok Atoll in Pacific Fusion occurs for 1st time on Earth
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 - Algeria begins rebellion against
French rule
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 slander campaign
1954 - The Front de Libération Nationale
fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
1955 - Time bomb aboard United DC-6
kills 44 above Longmont Colorado
US Senator Joseph McCarthyUS Senator
Joseph McCarthy 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 - 1st NHL goalie to wear a hockey
mask (Jacques Plante)
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
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 - 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 - Pres Carter raises minimum wages
of $2.30 to $3.35 from Jan 1 1981
1977 - US performs nuclear test at
Nevada Test Site
1978 - NY Yankee Ron Guidry unanimously
wins AL Cy Young Award
1979 - A L Webber musical "Joseph
& 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 - 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 Shues
"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 - Actor Jeff Goldblum & actress
Gena Davis wed in Las Vegas
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
British Prime Minister Margaret
ThatcherBritish Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 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.
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
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike
TysonHeavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson 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
1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public. 1604 - "Othello," the tragedy by William Shakespeare, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London. 1611 - "The Tempest," Shakespeare's romantic comedy, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London. 1755 - At least 60,000 people were killed in Lisbon, Portugal by an earthquake, its aftershocks and the ensuing tsunami. 1765 - The British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American colonies. The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative power of the colonies. 1800 - U.S. President John Adams became the first president to live in the White House when he moved in. 1848 - The first medical school for women, founded by Samuel Gregory, opened in Boston, MA. The Boston Female Medical School later merged with Boston University School of Medicine. 1856 - The first photography magazine, Daguerreian Journal, was published in New York City, NY. 1861 - Gen. George B. McClellan was made the general-in-chief of the American Union armies. 1864 - The U.S. Post Office started selling money orders. The money orders provided a safe way to payments by mail. 1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations using 24 locations that provided reports via telegraph. 1879 - Thomas Edison executed his first patent application for a high-resistance carbon filament (U.S. Pat. 223,898). 1894 - "Billboard Advertising" was published for the first time. It later became known as "Billboard." 1894 - Russian Emperor Alexander III died. 1904 - The Army War College in Washington, DC, enrolled the first class. 1911 - Italy used planes to drop bombs on the Tanguira oasis in Libya. It was the first aerial bombing. 1936 - Benito Mussolini made a speech in Milan, Italy, in which he described the alliance between Italy and Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Berlin and Rome. 1937 - "Hilltop House" was aired for the first time on CBS Radio. 1937 - "Terry and the Pirates" debuted on NBC Radio. 1940 - "A Night in the Tropics" was released. It was the first movie for Abbott and Costello. 1944 - "Harvey," by Mary Chase, opened on Broadway. 1947 - The famous racehorse Man o' War died. 1949 - In Washington, 55 people were killed when a fighter plane hit an airliner. 1950 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate U.S. President Harry Truman. One of the men was killed when they tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington, DC. 1950 - Charles Cooper became the first black man to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). 1952 - The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. 1954 - Algeria began to rebel against French rule. 1959 - Jacques Plante, of the Montreal Canadiens, became the first goalie in the NHL to wear a mask. 1962 - "The Lucy Show" premiered. 1963 - The USSR launched Polyot I. It was the first satellite capable of maneuvering in all directions and able to change its orbit. 1968 - The movie rating system of G, M, R, X, followed by PG-13 and NC-17 went into effect. 1973 - Leon Jaworski was appointed the new Watergate special prosecutor in the Watergate case. 1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged all Iranians to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand their attacks against the U.S. and Israel. On November 4, Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage. 1981 - The U.S. Postal Service raised the first-class letter rate to 20 cents. 1985 - In the village of Ignacio Aldama, 22 members of a Mexican anti-narcotics squad were killed by alleged drug traffickers. 1987 - Deng Xiaoping retired from China's Communist Party's Central Committee. 1989 - Tens of thousands of refugees to fled to the West when East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia. 1989 - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced the end of a cease-fire with the Contra rebels. 1993 - The European Community's treaty on European unity took effect. 1995 - In Dayton, OH, the Bosnian peace talks opened with the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia present. 1998 - Nicaraguan Vice President Enrique Bolanos announced that between 1,000 and 1,500 people were buried in a 32-square mile area below the slopes of the Casita volcano in northern Nicaragua by a mudslide caused by Hurricane Mitch. 1998 - Iridium inaugurated the first handheld, global satellite phone and paging system.
1512 Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were shown to the public for the first time. 1755 Earthquake, fires, and tsunami leveled Lisbon and claimed 70,000 lives. 1765 The Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the American colonies, went into effect. 1870 The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations. 1936 Benito Mussolini described the new alliance between Nazi Germany and Italy as an "axis" running between Berlin and Rome. 1952 The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb in a test in the Marshall Islands. 1993 The Maastricht Treaty was enacted, establishing the European Union.
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/nov01.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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