On This Day in History for 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.

• 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
• 1848 First US women'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.

• 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)
• 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
• 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

• 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.
• 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

• 1923 Bruno E Lucander forms Aero E/Y (Finnair)
• 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
• 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 West German state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) created
• 1946 Karol Wojtyla is ordained to Catholic priesthood
• 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 First atomic explosion witnessed by troops, New Mexico

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• 846 Louis the Stammerer, King of West Francia (877-79) (d. 879)
• 1339 Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (d. 1365)
• 1351 Duke Leopold III of Austria (d. 1386)
• 1500 Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/goldsmith/author (Perseus)
• 1526 Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, queen of Sweden and duchess of Finland (d. 1583)
• 1530 Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (d. 1563)
• 1539 Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
• 1549 Anna of Austria, fourth wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1580)
• 1567 Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (d. 1626)
• 1578 Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
• 1585 Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)
• 1607 Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (d. 1658)
• 1611 François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (d. 1656)
• 1629 St. Oliver Plunkett, last Catholic martyr to die in England. (d. 1681)
• 1636 Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (d. 1711)
• 1643 John Strype, English historian and biographer (d. 1737)
• 1704 Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (d. 1779)
• 1720 Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
• 1727 Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University (d. 1797)
• 1757 Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor, born in Possagno, Republic of Venice (d. 1822)

• 1778 Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
• 1782 Viscount Goderich, (Tory), British PM (1827-28)
• 1798 Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor
• 1808 John Taylor, American religious leader (d. 1887)
• 1815 Crawford Williamson Long, surgeon/pioneer (use of ether)
• 1815 Douglas Hancock Cooper, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1879)
• 1825 Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1890)
• 1835 Godfrey Weitzel, German-American Major General (Union Army), born in Pirmasens, Germany (d. 1884)
• 1838 Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama of Tibet, born in Lithang (d. 1856)
• 1853 Jose Santos Zelaya, (L), ruler of Nicaragua (1893-1910)
• 1859 Charles Brantley Aycock, (Gov-NC)
• 1860 Boies Penrose, United States Senator from Pennsylvania (d. 1921)

• 1878 Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter (d. 1925)
• 1879 Pal Teleki-von Szek, geographer/premier Hungary (1920-21, 39-41)

• 1880 Sholem Asch, Polish-Jewish novelist and playwright (East River, Three Cities), born in Kutno, Poland (d. 1957)
• 1886 Hermann Broch, Austrian novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment)
• 1887 L. S. Lowry, British painter of industrial scenes, born in Stretford, England (d. 1976)
• 1889 Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman/disarmament advocate (Nobel 1959)
• 1896 Edmund Blunden, English poet/critic (Undertones of War)
• 1897 Naomi Mitchison, Scottish author (African Heroes, Return to Fairy Hill), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1999)
• 1902 Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet/dramatist/novelist (The Defeat), born in Bergen, Norway (d. 1943)
• 1903 Gerard "Ge" Nabrink, Dutch anarchist/co-founder (NVSH)
• 1903 Jean Tardieu, French dramatist, born in St Germain de Joux (d. 1995)
• 1903 Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
• 1905 Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (d. 1960)
• 1907 Terence Tenison Cuneo, artist
• 1911 Henri Troyat, French author and historian (d. 2007)
• 1911 Donald William Kerst, American Physicist who developed the betatron (device to accelerate electron beams), born in Madison, Wisconsin
• 1917 Clarence E Miller, (Rep-R-OH, 1967- )
• 1917 Margaret Taylor Burroughs, American author/house painter (Black Queen)
• 1917 Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, American sci-fi author (Anything Box)
• 1921 Ilse Aichinger, Austrian author
• 1923 Edward A de Jongh, Antillian author (The Arch)
• 1923 Gordon R[upert] Dickson, Canadian sci-fi author (Genetic General)
• 1924 Robert N Rapoport, social anthropologist
• 1924 Suleyman Demirel, President of Turkey (1993-2000) and Prime Minister, born in Isparta, Atabey (d. 2015)
• 1929 Nicholas Mavroules, (Rep-D-MA, 1979- )
• 1929 Rudy [Herman R] Kousbroek, literary (Leopold the Buch)
• 1930 A. R. Gurney, American playwright
• 1934 Aat Veldhoen, Dutch artist
• 1934 Hugh Bidwell, mayor (London)
• 1934 Umberto Agnelli, Italian CEO (Fiat) and politician
• 1935 Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003)

• 1939 Barbara Bosson, actress (Fay-Hill St Blues, Hooperman), born in Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania
• 1940 Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Chief Justice of India
• 1941 Alfio Basile, Argentine football coach
• 1942 John M Spratt Jr, (Rep-D-SC, 1983- )

• 1944 Oscar Temaru, President of French Polynesia
• 1946 Dennis Muren, American special effects artist
• 1946 Yuko Shimizu, Japanese illustrator (creator of Hello Kitty), born in Kyoto, Japan
• 1949 Michael D. Griffin, NASA chief administrator
• 1950 Tony Hymphris, political activist
• 1953 N Jan Davis, PhD/astronaut (STS 47, 60, 85), born in Cocoa Beach, Florida
• 1956 Charles Moore, British editor-in-chief (Sunday Telegraph)
• 1958 Jim Steinmeyer, Illusion creator

• 1961 Louise Boije af Gennäs, Swedish writer and novelist
• 1963 Antonella Ella, Italian entertainer
• 1966 Jeremy Hunt, British politician and Foreign Secretary (2018-), born in London, England
• 1966 Willie D, American hip hop artist, famous for being a member of The Geto Boys
• 1967 Carla van de Puttelaar, Dutch photographer
• 1971 Vikram Chatwal, Indian hotelier
• 1979 Henry Shefflin, Irish hurler

• 2014 Counting star Jessa Duggar weds Ben Seewald at the First Baptist Church in Bentonville, Ark

• 921 Richard, Duke of Burgundy
• 955 Henry I, Duke of Bavaria, dies from an illness at 34 or 36
• 1296 Guillaume Durand, French writer (b. 1230)
• 1391 Amadeus VII of Savoy (b. 1360)
• 1399 John V, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)
• 1535 Francesco Sforza, Italian ruler (Milan), dies
• 1546 Giulio Romano, Italian painter/architect (Ondergang der Titanen), dies
• 1588 Jean Daurat, French poet (b. 1508)
• 1596 Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)
• 1642 Jean Nicolet, French explorer (b. 1598)
• 1676 Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (b. 1589)
• 1678 William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)
• 1700 Carlos II, King of Spain (reigns 1665-1700), dies at 39
• 1750 Gustaaf W van Imhoff, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1736-40), dies at 45
• 1770 Alexander Cruden "Alexander the Corrector", Scottish biblical scholar and eccentric, compiler of a concordance to King James Bible, dies at 71
• 1814 Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
• 1841 Antoine Philippe Vischer, comte de Celles, Belgian-French politician, dies at 61
• 1877 Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, American politician (Governor of Indiana), dies of a stroke at 56
• 1879 Zachariah Chandler, American merchant and politician (found Republican Party), dies at 65
• 1881 Jacques Perk, Dutch poet (Iris, Wood Song), dies at 22
• 1888 Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1838)
• 1894 Tsar Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845) Reigned from 1881

• 1907 Alfred Jarry, French writer (ubu Roi), dies at 33
• 1914 Christopher "Kit" Cradock, English admiral, dies in battle
• 1935 Émile Francqui, Belgian soldier and diplomat, dies at 72
• 1941 Camille Melloy, [the Paepe], Belgian priest/poet (Requiem), dies at 50
• 1955 W H van Eemlandt, [Haasse], author (Treasure Hunter of Amstel), dies
• 1955 Dale Carnegie, American writer (b. 1888)
• 1956 Pietro Badoglio, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (1943-44) and Italian General (1922-43), dies at 85
• 1959 Gershon Agron, mayor of Jerusalem, dies at 66
• 1961 Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist and author, dies at 97
• 1963 Elsa Maxwell, American author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 80
• 1968 Georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80
• 1971 Gertrud von Le Fort, German writer (The Eternal Woman), dies at 95

• 1979 Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (1953-61), dies of a stroke at 82
• 1984 Norman Krasna, author (Dear Ruth), dies of a heart attack at 74
• 1987 René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec, dies at 65
• 1991 Joseph Papp, US theater producer (A Chorus Line, Hair), dies at 70
• 1992 Jeremias Chitunda, vice-chairman (Angolese Unita-rebellion), dies
• 1993 Anatoli Voronov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 12a backup), dies at 63
• 1993 A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (b. 1911)
• 1993 Severo Ochoa, Spanish-American physician and biochemist (Nobel 1959), dies at 88
• 1994 Richard Krautheimer, art historian, dies at 97
• 1994 Syd Dernley, British hangman (1949-54), dies at 73
• 1995 Brian Lenihan, snr, Irish politician and minister, dies at 64
• 1995 Desmond Shawe-Taylor, British critic and writer (co-author of The Record Guide), dies at 88
• 1995 James Ralph Darling, teacher, dies at 96
• 1995 Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author, dies at 53
• 1996 Junius Richard Jayawardene, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1977-78), dies at 90
• 1996 Maati Bouabid, Prime Minister of Morroco (1979-83), dies
• 1999 Theodore Hall, American physicist and Atomic Spy for the Soviet Union, dies at 74
• 2006 William Styron, American novelist (Confess of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice), dies at 81
• 2007 Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General (b. 1915)
• 2008 Jacques Piccard, Swiss ocean explorer (b. 1922)
• 2010 Ernesto Presas, Filipino martial artist (b. 1945)
• 2011 Dorothy Howell Rodham, Mother of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (b. 1919)
• 2017 Ray Robinson, American magazine editor and biographer (Lou Gehrig), dies of a stroke at 96
• 2018 Amal Hussain, Yemeni famine victim who raised world's awareness, dies aged 7

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