November 1

November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining.

Events:

• 79 - Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying Pompeii and Herculaneum
• 1512 - The Sistine Chapel opens
• 1683 - British crown colony of New York subdivided into 12 counties
• 1755 - Lisbon is destroyed by an earthquake
• 1765 - Parliament enacts the Stamp Act
• 1861 - Abraham Lincoln appoints George McClellan as commander of the Union Army
• 1914 - Battle of Coronel fought -- first British naval defeat of the First World War.
• 1922 - Ottoman Empire abolished
• 1927 - Ford Model A begins production
• 1943 - United States Marines invade Bougainville in the Solomon Islands
• 1950 - Puerto Rican nationalists attempt to assassinate President Harry Truman
• 1952 - The first hydrogen bomb is exploded by the United States on the island of Enewetak in the Bikini Atoll
• 1960 - While campaigning for President of the United States, John Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps
• 1981 - Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom
• 1993 - European Union established
• 1998 - European Court of Human Rights instituted

Births:

• 1778 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (+ 1837)
• 1798 - Sir Henry Lee Guinness[?], brewer
• 1801 - Vincenzo Bellini, composer
• 1871 - Stephen Crane, writer (+ 1900)
• 1880 - Alfred Wegener, meteorologist, geophysicist
• 1880 - Sholom Asch[?], writer (+ 1957)
• 1880 - Grantland Rice[?], sports writer (+ 1954)
• 1892 - Alexander Alekhine, chess player (+ 1946)
• 1923 - Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction author (+ 2001)
• 1929 - Betsy Palmer[?], actress
• 1935 - Gary Player[?], golfer
• 1943 - Salvatore Adamo[?] Belgian/Italian singer.
• 1952 - Larry Flynt, magazine publisher
• 1957 - Lyle Lovett[?], singer
• 1962 - Anthony Kiedis[?], singer
• 1967 - Sophie B. Hawkins, musician
• 1972 - Toni Collette[?], actress

Deaths:

• 1903 - Theodor Mommsen, author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1902
• 1924 - William Tilghman[?], frontier marshal
• 1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (+ 1963)
• 1972 - Ezra Pound, poet
• 1979 - Mamie Eisenhower[?], First Lady
• 1982 - King Vidor, film director
• 1982 - James Broderick[?], actor
• 1985 - Phil Silvers[?], actor, comedian
• 1999 - Walter Payton, American football player

Holidays:

• Catholicism - Festival of All Saints. Holiday in Spain.
• Mexico and United States - The Day of the Dead

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

October 31 - November 2 - October 1 - December 1 - more historical anniversaries