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Today in History ~ November 1
Events1210 - King John of England begins imprisoning Jews
1349 - Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells
1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, 1st exhibited
1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.
1611 - Shakespeare's romantic comedy "The Tempest" was first presented at Whitehall.
1755 - An earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal, kills more than 50,000 when it rocked the city three times causing destruction of property, fires and a tsunami.
1765 - The Stamp Act went into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists. [H]
1776 - Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California
1784 - Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette & his descendents
1800 - President John Adams and his family became the first residence of the newly built White House as Washington, D.C., became the new U.S. capital.
1834 - 1st published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)
1861 - General George B. McClellan was made General-in-Chief of the Union armies.
1866 - 1st Civil Rights Bill passes
1867 - "Harpers Bazaar" publishes
1870 - US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)
1878 - Edward Scripps & John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press)
1889 - North & South Dakota entered the union as the 39th & 40th states
1894 - Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris
1896 - 1st bare women breast (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine
1904 - George Bernard Shaw's "John Bull's Other Island," premieres in London
1914 - German-British fleet battle at Coronel, Chile
1914 - Von Hindenburg named marshal of Eastern front
1917 - First US soldiers are killed in combat in WWI
1918 - 102 die in a NYC BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn
1918 - Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians
1918 - The Hapsburg monarchy of Austria-Hungary was dissolved. Vienna became the capital of Austria and Budapest the capital of Hungary.
1920 - Eugene O'Neill's "Emperor Jones," premieres in NYC
1920 - Warren Harding elected 29th president
1921 - National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League
1922 - Ottoman Empire abolished, Turkey becomes a republic.
1928 - Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km
1931 - Dupont introduces synthetic rubber
1932 - Werner von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program
1935 - TS Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral," premieres in London
1936 - Mussolini describes alliance between Italy & Germany as an "axis"
1938 - German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires
1939 - 1st animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
1939 - 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry
1940 - 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
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
1943 - US troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island [H]
1944 - Mary Coyle Chase's "Harvey," premieres in NYC
1945 - 1st issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson
1948 - Mao's Red army conquerors Mukden, Manchuria
1950 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington in an attempt to assassinate President Truman. [H]
1951 - 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, NM
1951 - Johnny Mercers "Top Banana," premieres in NYC
1952 - The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands.
1954 - General Fulgencio Batista elected pres of Cuba
1954 - US Senate admonishes Joseph McCarthy because of slander campaign
1954 - The north African nation of Algeria began its rebellion against French rule.
1955 - Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont Colorado
1956 - Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact
1956 - Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain & Bardeen
1957 - World longest suspension bridge opens (Mackinac Straits Mich)
1959 - Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo
1962 - Greece enters European Common Market
1964 - George Blanda of Houston throws NFL-record 37 passes in 68 attempts
1964 - Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon
1965 - Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)
1968 - Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)
1969 - Beatles' "Abbey Road," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks
1970 - Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked & 142 die
1971 - Eisenhower dollar put into circulation
1973 - Following the "Saturday Night Massacre," Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork appointed Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate special prosecutor, succeeding Archibald Cox.
1979 - A Lloyd Webber musical "Joseph & Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," premieres
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
1984 - Willem de Kooning's "Two Women" sells for $1,980,000
1986 - A warehouse fire in Sandoz-factory in Basel, Switzerland, triggered massive (30 tons of chemicals) pollution of the Rhine River in Switzerland, France, West Germany and the Netherlands.
1988 - Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones
1989 - Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights
1989 - East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia, prompting tens of thousands of refugees to flee to the West.
1989 - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega carried out his threat to suspend a government cease-fire with the Contra rebels.
1990 - Rhetoric escalates as Bush likens Saddam to Hitler
1990 - Iraq announced it would permit hostages' families to visit during the Christmas season, but the offer was condemned by the West as cynical.
1990 - McDonald's, under pressure from environmental groups, said it would replace plastic food containers with paper.
1991 - The Russian Congress of People's Deputies granted Boris Yeltsin sweeping powers to launch and direct radical economic reforms in Russia.
1991 - Clarence Thomas took his place as the newest justice on the Supreme Court. The opening session of the Middle East peace conference recessed in Madrid, Spain.
1993 - The Columbia completed a 14-day flight, the longest mission in U.S. space-shuttle history.
1993 - The European Community's treaty on European unity took effect.
1994 - Moslem fundamentalists in Mostaganem Algeria murder 5 children
1996 - Michigan euthanasia advocate Jack Kevorkian was released on bond, promising not to assist in any more suicides.
1996 - Accused of peddling access to the Oval Office, President Clinton demanded an end to what he called the "escalating arms race" for political money. Bob Dole countered with his own solutions to what he called "a growing scandal" of Democratic financial sins.
2000 - Yugoslavia's new democratic government joined the United Nations after eight years of U.N. ostracism under former strongman Slobodan Milosevic.
2001 - Enron, the large energy trading company, said that the Securities and Exchange Commission had opened a formal investigation into parts of its accounting practices.
Birthdays Today
0846 - Louis II, the Stutterer, King of France (877-79)
1500 - Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/goldsmith/author (Perseus)
1748 - Christoph Rheineck, composer
1757 - Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor
1798 - Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor
1815 - Crawford Williamson Long, surgeon/pioneer (use of ether)
1835 - Godfrey Weitzel, (Union volunteers Major general, died in 1884)
1871 - Stephen Crane, US, novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage)
1880 - Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)
1880 - Sholem Asch, Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright (Three Cities)
1902 - Eugen Jochum, Babenhausen Bavaria, German conductor (Hamburg Orch)
1920 - James J. Kilpatrick (journalist, TV: 60 Minutes: Point-Counterpoint)
1924 - Victoria de los Angeles, Spain, soprano (Mimi-La Boheme)
1926 - Betsy Palmer (TV panelist: I've Got a Secret, What's It For, Masquerade Party; TV host: Today; actress: Knots Landing, The Last Angry Man, It Could Happen to Jane, Mr. Roberts, Friday the 13th series; columnist: Chicago Tribune)
1926 - Lou Donaldson (musician: alto saxophone: LPs: New Faces New Sounds, The Time is Right, Midnight Sun, Here 'Tis, The Natural Soul, Sweet Lou, Sassy Soul Strut; singer: Whiskey Drinkin' Woman)
1935 - Gary Player (World Golf Hall of Famer: British Open champion [ 1959, 1968, 1974]; Masters [1961, 1974, 1978]; PGA [1962, 1972]; PGA Seniors [1986, 1988, 1990]; U.S. Senior Open [1987, 1988])
1937 - 'Whispering' Bill (James) Anderson (songwriter: City Lights, I Missed Me, Happy Birthday to Me; singer: Three Times a Lady, Still, My Life, 8x10; [w/Jan Howard]: For Loving You, If It's All the Same to You, Someday We'll be Together; member of Grand Ole Opry)
1938 - Patrick Buchanan, commentator/politician (Crossfire)
1939 - Barbara Bosson (actress: Hill Street Blues, Cop Rock, Richie Brockelman, Private Eye, Hooperman, The Committee, The Last Starfighter)
1941 - Robert Foxworth (actor: Falcon Crest, Storefront Lawyers, Double Standard, Ants, Frankenstein, Damien: Omen 2)
1942 - Larry Flynt (magazine publisher: Hustler)
1942 - Marcia Wallace (actress: The Bob Newhart Show, My Mom's a Werewolf; Emmy Award-winning voice-over: Mrs. Karbappel: The Simpsons [1991-92])
1944 - Chris Morris (musician: guitar: group: Paper Lace: The Night Chicago Died)
1945 - Rick Grech (musician: bassist, violinist: groups: Family; Blind Faith; Traffic; Crickets; Square Dance Machine)
1947 - Ted Hendricks (Football Hall of Famer: Baltimore Colts, Green Bay Packers, Oakland Raiders: played 215 consecutive games in 15 seasons)
1950 - Jeannie Berlin (actress: The Heartbreak Kid, Portnoy's Complaint, In the Spirit, The Baby Maker)
1957 - Lyle Lovett (Grammy Award-winning singer: Best Male Country Vocal [1989]; Cowboy Man, songwriter: This Old Porch [w/Robert Earl Keen], You Can't Resist It, Closing Time, If I Had a Boat; actor: Ready to Wear, Short
Cuts, The Player)
1960 - Fernando Valenzuela (baseball pitcher: LA Dodgers: Rookie of the Year [1981], Cy Young Award-winner [1981], World Series [1981]; Baltimore Orioles)
1962 - Rick Allen (musician: drums: group: Def Leppard: LPs: Hysteria, Adrenalize)
Famous deaths
1535 - Francesco Sforza, Italian ruler ("Il Sforza del Destino") Milan, dies
1672 - Heinrich Schutz, composer, dies at 87
1750 - Giuseppe Sammartini, composer, dies at 55
1947 - Man O' War (Big Red), racehorse, triple crown winner, dies
1950 - Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate Pres Truman, shot dead
1956 - Pietro Badoglio, Italian general (1922-43), dies at 85
1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese PM, assassinated in a coup at 62
1967 - Benita Hume, actress (Vicky-Thew Halls of Ivy), dies at 61
1968 - Georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80
1975 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53
1979 - Former first lady Mamie Eisenhower died in Washington, D.C., at age 82.
1983 - Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn Catalog), dies at 96
1984 - Norman Krasna, author (Dear Ruth), dies of a heart attack at 74
1985 - Phil Silvers, comedic actor (Sgt Bilko), dies in his sleep at 73
1987 - Rene Levesque, Quebec premier (1976-85), dies at 65
1994 - Syd Dernley, hangman, dies at 73
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