Historical Events on November 1

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• 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'

• 1248 Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German emperor
• 1348 The Black Death reaches London on or about this date
• 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

• 1570 All Saints Flood, tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland; killing more than 1,000 people.

• 1611 Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Tempest" 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
• 1628 French King Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle

• 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 & his descendents
• 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 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
• 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

• 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 Paul Miliukov delivers in the Russian State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government
• 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
• 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 Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch Historical Maritime museum in Amsterdam

• 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

• 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 NL batting champion Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds is named National League MVP; first catcher to win award; Boston Red Sox 1st baseman Jimmie Foxx takes AL award
• 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
• 1939 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sertum laetitiae
• 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 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 First Basketball Association of America game; New York Knicks beat Toronto Huskies 68-66 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
• 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
• 1946 Karol Wojtyla is ordained to Catholic priesthood
• 1947 "Medium & The Telephone" closes at Barrymore NYC after 211 performances
• 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 US performs 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, Nevada Test Site, New Mexico

• 1951 Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson

• 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
• 1953 Herb Thomas, driving his own No. 92 Hudson Hornet wraps up the NASCAR Grand National Championship with 14th-place in 100-mile finale at Atlanta's Lakewood Speedway; Thomas first repeat champion of the series

• 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.
• 1954 Lee Petty with 32 top-10 finishes from 34 races wins NASCAR Grand National Championship by 283 points from Herb Thomas; Petty fails to finish season ending Wilkes 160
• 1955 Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont, Colorado
• 1956 Karnataka (then known as Mysore State) is formed from the merge of Kannada-speaking regions in India
• 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 Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact

• 1956 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Laetamur admodum
• 1956 Kerala state is formed 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 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan, world longest suspension bridge between anchorages opens
• 1958 USSR performs nuclear test

• 1959 Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo
• 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 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 Houston Oilers quarterback George Blanda attempts an AFL record 68 passes (37 completions) in 24-10 loss v Buffalo Bills at War Memorial Stadium
• 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
• 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
• 1965 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco
• 1965 Ernie Terrell retains WBA heavyweight boxing title; beats Canadian George Chuvalo in 15 round points decision in Toronto
• 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 LA Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax becomes first 3-time winner of Cy Young Award; unanimous winner for 2nd straight year; final year only 1 award given for pitchers in both major leagues
• 1966 William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km

• 1968 Noel Coward's "Sweet Potato" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 36 performances
• 1968 Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)
• 1968 University of Suriname opens
• 1968 Detroit pitcher Denny McLain is named unanimous AL Cy Young Award winner after finishing MLB season, 31-6 for World Series winning Tigers
• 1969 The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album goes #1 in US & stays #1 for 11 weeks
• 1970 First NFL regular season New York Giants-Jets game; Giants win 22-10 at Shea Stadium
• 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

• 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 performances
• 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 US Federal government proposes making a $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 Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)
• 1981 Darrell Waltrip wins his 4th straight NASCAR Cup race, the American 500 at North Carolina Motor Speedway; ties Richard Petty record 1967; 12th win of season; goes on to win Winston Cup crown
• 1982 Andrew "Dice" Clay & George Wendt appear in "Trick or Treatment"

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