Events on November 1 76
Year 365
The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities.
Year 996
Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
Year 1141
Empress Matilda's reign as 'Lady of the English' ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title of King of England.
Year 1348
The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
Year 1512
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
Year 1520
The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.
Year 1555
French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Year 1604
William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
Year 1611
Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
Year 1612
During the Time of Troubles, Polish troops are expelled from Moscow's Kitay-gorod by Russian troops under the command of Dmitry Pozharsky (22 October O.S.) .
Year 1688
William III of Orange sets out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to seize the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution.
Year 1755
In Portugal, Lisbon is totally devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between 60,000 and 90,000 people.
Year 1765
The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
Year 1790
Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
Year 1800
John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
Year 1814
Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars.
Year 1848
In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
Year 1861
American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
Year 1870
In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
Year 1884
The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
Year 1894
Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
Year 1894
Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
Year 1896
A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
Year 1897
The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
Year 1901
Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
Year 1911
World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
Year 1914
World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
Year 1914
World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
Year 1916
In Russia, Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the government of Boris Stürmer.
Year 1918
Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 102 deaths.
Year 1920
American fishing schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian fishing schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Year 1922
Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
Year 1928
The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
Year 1937
Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
Year 1938
Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
Year 1941
American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
Year 1942
World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends three days later with an American victory.
Year 1943
World War II: In the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
Year 1943
World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
Year 1944
World War II: A United States Army Air Forces F-13 Superfortress conducted the first flight by an Allied aircraft over the Tokyo region of Japan since the 1942 Doolittle Raid.
Year 1945
The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
Year 1948
Six thousand people die when a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks off southern Manchuria.
Year 1950
Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
Year 1950
Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
Year 1951
Operation Buster-Jangle: Six thousand five hundred American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
Year 1952
The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.
Year 1954
The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
Year 1955
The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
Year 1956
The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act; Kanyakumari district is joined to Tamil Nadu from Kerala.
Year 1956
The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
Year 1957
The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
Year 1960
While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
Year 1963
The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
Year 1968
The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
Year 1973
Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
Year 1973
The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
Year 1979
In Bolivia, Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional government of Wálter Guevara.
Year 1982
Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio; a Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
Year 1984
After the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India on 31 October 1984, by two of her Sikh bodyguards, anti-Sikh riots erupts.
Year 1987
British Rail Class 43 (HST) hits the record speed of 238 km/h for rail vehicles with on-board fuel to generate electricity for traction motors.
Year 2012
A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, killing 26 people and injuring 135.