November 1

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

Events

1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
1604 - At Whitehall Palace in London, the William Shakespeare tragedy Othello is presented for the first time.
1611 - At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time.
1683 - British crown colony of New York subdivided into 12 counties.
1755 - 1755 Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing 60,000 - 90,000 people.
1765 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
1800 - US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
1848 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
1861 - American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George McClellan as commander of the Union Army, replacing the aged General Winfield Scott.
1870 - In the United States, the newly-created Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast: �High winds at Chicago and Milwaukee... and along the Lakes.
1894 - Russian Tsar Alexander III dies and is succeeded by his son Nicholas II.
1914 - World War I: Battle of Coronel fought - A Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Craddock is met and defeated by the superior German forces led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee. This is the first British naval defeat of the war.
1922 - The Ottoman Empire is abolished and its last sultan, Mehmed VI abdicates.
1927 - After revolutionizing the automobile industry with the highly successful Ford Model T, Ford Motor Company begins production of the Ford Model A (a very different design).
1943 - World War II: Operation Goodtime launched - United States Marines invade Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
1950 - While staying at the Blair-Lee House in Washington, D.C. during White House repairs, Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman.
1952 - Nuclear testing: The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["m" for megaton], at Eniwetok island in the Bikini atoll located in the Pacific Ocean.
1960 - While campaigning for President of the United States, John Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
1969 - After seven years off the top of the charts, Elvis Presley's song "Suspicious Minds," hits No. 1 on the Billboard Music charts (this was the last time any song by Presley hit no. 1 while he was still alive).
1973 - Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
1979 - Iran hostage crisis: Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged his people to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand attacks on United States and Israeli interest (on November 4 militants seized the US embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage).
1981 - Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.
1993 - The Maastricht Treaty activates, formally establishing the European Union.
1994 - George Lucas leaves the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and starts a sabbatical (while on sabbatical, he wrote the prequel Star Wars trilogy).
1998 - The European Court of Human Rights is instituted.