Major Events
- 1755 Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000 in Portugal
- 1814 Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars
- 1894 Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Émile Roux of Paris
- 1916 Paul Miliukov delivers in the Russian State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government
- 1922 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk takes Constantinople from Mehmed VI, proclaiming the Republic of Turkey and bringing an end to the Ottoman Empire
- 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
- 2012 Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe's first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang
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Nov 1 in Film & TV
- 1997 "Titanic" directed by James Cameron, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet premieres at the Tokyo International Film Festival (Academy Awards Best Picture 1998)
Nov 1 in Music
- 1969 The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album goes #1 in US and stays #1 for 11 weeks
Nov 1 in Sport
Did You Know?
Turkey passes a new alphabet law switching from the Arabic to the Latin alphabet
Spencer Perceval
Gustav IV Adolf
Stephen Crane
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Alfred Wegener
Larry Flynt
Lyle Lovett
Aishwarya Rai
Anthony Ramos
Jim Steinman
Al Arbour
Gary Player
Fernando Valenzuela
Fun Fact About November 1
Montreal Canadiens’ goal tender Jacques Plante becomes first NHL net-minder to wear a fibreglass protective face mask
Famous Weddings
- 1940 Theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer (36) weds biologist Katherine Harrison Puening
- 1954 Actor John Wayne (47) weds actress Pilar Pallete in Kona, Hawaii
- 1986 MLB player Kirby Puckett (24) weds Tonya Hudson (20)
Famous Divorces
- 1947 Film director D. W. Griffith (72) divorces actress Evelyn Baldwin (37) after 11 years of marriage
- 1954 Actor John Wayne (47) divorces actress Esperanza Baur (34) due to drunken violence after 8 years of marriage
- 1982 Director Martin Scorsese (39) divorces Isabella Rossellini (30) after 3 years of marriage
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Alexander III
Theodor Mommsen
Pietro Badoglio
Ezra Pound
Phil Silvers
Walter PaytonArticles, Photos and Quiz
WHSmith: a Retail Giant Born From a Widow's Might
Nobody wanted to buy the little shop owned by 18th Century widow Anna Smith. So she kept it, and built a business that was to become famous in global retailing.
November 1, 1848
End of the Ottoman Empire
The last Ottoman sultan, Mehmed VI, departs his palace in Istanbul after the abolition of the monarchy
November 1, 1922
