Historical Events on November 1

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• 835 Pope Gregory IV decrees All Saints Day a holy day of obligation for the Catholic religion
• 996 First recorded use of modern name for Austria in the 'Ostarrîchi Document'
• 1179 Phillip II crowned King of France at age 14 in Reims, with his father Louis VII in ill health

• 1248 Earl William II of Holland crowned as King of Germany

• 1349 Black Death Massacre: Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells during the Bubonic Plague; part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe
• 1462 Albert VI of Habsburg lays siege to his brother Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III occupying Vienna

• 1570 All Saints Flood, tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland; killing more than 1,000 people.
• 1590 Army of Moroccan ruler Ahmad al-Mansur led by Spanish Eunuch Jawdar leaves Marrakesh to cross the Sahara to conquer the Songhai Empire

• 1611 Shakespeare's romantic comedy play "Tempest" is first 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

• 1683 The English 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 in Portugal
• 1765 Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies
• 1776 Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California
• 1784 Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette and his descendants
• 1787 First free school in NYC (African Free School) opens

• 1802 Delegates meet at Chillicothe, Ohio, to form a state constitutional convention.

• 1834 First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)
• 1848 Classes begin at Boston Female Medical College, 1st US female medical college

• 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.

• 1863 -8] Averell's Raid (on)to Lewisburg, West Virginia
• 1863 Fortifications built on Angel Island (San Francisco Bay) by troops
• 1865 Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens
• 1869 Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra
• 1870 US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)
• 1876 King Willem III of the Netherlands 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 Gaelic Athletic Association is established in a meeting at Hayes' Hotel, Thurles, County Tipperary; Clare teacher Michael Cusack is credited as founder; objective to promote Irish sport & games

• 1886 Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka was established with 37 students.

• 1896 First bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine
• 1897 Italian football club Juventus F.C. is founded by students in Turin as Sport-Club Juventus
• 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

• 1913 Notre Dame upsets Army, 35-13 in the colleges' inaugural football game; quarterback Gus Dorais (14 of 17 passes, 243 yards, 2 TDs) and receiver Knute Rockne use forward pass effectively
• 1914 German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile

• 1914 Pope Benedictus Xv's encyclical Ad beatissimi, against integrity
• 1915 Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
• 1916 Broadway theatre owner and producer Harry H. Frazee and Hugh Ward buy MLB club the Boston Red Sox for approximately $700,000 from Joseph Lannin
• 1916 Paul Miliukov delivers in the Russian State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government
• 1918 102 die in a NYC BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn
• 1918 Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians

• 1920 American fishing schooner 'Esperanto' defeats Canadian yacht 'Delawana' in the first International Fishing Schooner Championship Races off Halifax, Nova Scotia
• 1921 National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League
• 1922 In an all-American bout, Mickey Walker upsets defending champion Jack Britton in a 15-round points decision at Madison Square Garden, NYC; wins world welterweight boxing crown

• 1923 Bruno E Lucander forms Aero E/Y (Finnair)
• 1924 Boston Bruins officially join the NHL, becoming the first United States based team to enter the League; Montreal Maroons also join NHL, but only last until 1938
• 1925 VARA, Vereniging van Workers Radio Amateurs forms in Amsterdam
• 1926 US Air Commerce Act passes
• 1928 1st celebration of Authors' Day

• 1928 Turkey passes a new alphabet law switching from the Arabic to the Latin alphabet
• 1929 Lundy Island, part of British Isles, issue its own stamps
• 1931 Dupont introduces synthetic rubber

• 1936 Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (then Cowboys' Turtle Association) is established after disagreement with rodeo promoter W.T. Johnson, who finally gives in to cowboys' pay demands

• 1938 German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires

• 1938 Seabiscuit, with George Woolf aboard, beats 1937 Triple Crown winner War Admiral by 3 lengths in Pimlico track record time to win $15,000 in what is regarded as one of the greatest match races in horse racing history
• 1939 First animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
• 1939 First jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry

• 1940 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
• 1940 Dutch "Curfew" forms (12 AM - 4 AM)

• 1942 10th day of battle at El Alamein
• 1942 John H. Johnson publishes 1st issue of Negro Digest
• 1943 Dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area
• 1943 US troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island
• 1944 Mary Chase's stage play "Harvey" opens at the 48th Street Theatre, NYC; runs for 1775 performances
• 1944 World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands
• 1944 Zeeuws & Flanders liberated
• 1945 First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H. Johnson
• 1946 Charles S Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee
• 1946 First Basketball Association of America game; New York Knicks beat Toronto Huskies, 68-66 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
• 1946 Future pope Karol Wojtyla of Poland is ordained to Catholic priesthood
• 1946 West German state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) created
• 1947 First Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii
• 1947 UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ & UK
• 1948 Mao's Red army conquers Mukden, Manchuria
• 1950 82°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Nov

• 1951 1st H Bomb test, code named "Ivy Mike", detonates on Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the north Pacific Ocean

• 1951 Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson
• 1951 US performs 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, Nevada Test Site, New Mexico

• 1953 Czech long distance runner Emile Zatopek sets world 10,000m record 29:01.6 & 6 mile mark 28:08.4 in Stara Boleslav, Czech Republic
• 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 India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements
• 1954 KUON TV channel 12 in Lincoln, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 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 union territory of India
• 1956 Indian state of Madhya Pradesh is formed
• 1956 Indian states of Punjab, Patiala and most of the East Punjab States Union merge as the Punjab State
• 1956 Karnataka (then known as Mysore State) is formed from the merge of Kannada-speaking regions in India
• 1956 Kerala state is formed in India
• 1956 Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact

• 1956 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Laetamur admodum
• 1957 KVII TV channel 7 in Amarillo, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1957 KXGN TV channel 5 in Glendive, Montana (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1957 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan, world longest suspension bridge between anchorages opens
• 1957 WICZ TV channel 40 in Binghamton, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1958 USSR performs nuclear test

• 1959 WOV-AM in NYC changes call letters to WADO
• 1960 Benelux treaty goes into effect
• 1962 Greece enters European Common Market
• 1962 KYVE TV channel 47 in Yakima, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1962 Noble Prize for Physics awarded to Russian physicist Lev Landau for "theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium" [1]
• 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 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 Cleveland running back Jim Brown runs for 149 yards in Browns' 30-17 win at Pittsburgh to become the first NFL player to exceed 10,000 yards career rushing

• 1964 Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson passes for 435 yards and 6 TDs in 49-39 win over Denver Broncos at Municipal Stadium
• 1964 Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon
• 1965 Ernie Terrell retains WBA heavyweight boxing title; beats Canadian George Chuvalo in 15 round points decision in Toronto
• 1965 Promoter Bill Graham books his 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, a benefit for political satirists 'The San Francisco Mime Troupe"
• 1965 Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)
• 1966 Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created

• 1966 NFL awards a franchise to New Orleans; name "Saints" alludes to November 1, All Saints Day in Catholic faith
• 1966 William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km

• 1968 Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)
• 1968 University of Suriname opens
• 1969 The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album goes #1 in US and stays #1 for 11 weeks
• 1970 Fire at Club Cinq-Sept Discotheque in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, kills 146, as all emergency exits were padlocked
• 1970 First NFL regular season New York Giants-Jets game; Giants win 22-10 at Shea Stadium
• 1970 KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting

• 1972 1st gay themed TV movie - "That Certain Summer"
• 1972 Germaoin Gagnon scores 1st Islander hat trick
• 1973 Indian state of Mysore is renamed 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 Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule
• 1976 W German Generals Krupinski and Franke admit to having been Nazis
• 1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1979 Bolivia military coup under General Busch, President Guevara flees
• 1979 Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster
• 1979 US Federal government proposes making a $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler
• 1980 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1981 1st Class US Mail raised from 18 cents to 20 cents
• 1981 Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)

• 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 First NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - LA Clippers beat NY Knicks, 107-105
• 1984 Larry Shue's "Foreigner" premieres in NYC
• 1984 Willem de Kooning's "Two Women" sells for $1,980,000, a then record for a contemporary work of art and for a living artist
• 1985 Netherlands decides definitive sites for cruise missiles

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