On This Day — November 1

Famous events, births, and deaths from November 1 in history, plus the public holidays, religious observances, sports, and national days happening on this date today.

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76 events · 205 births · 86 deaths recorded for November 1.

🕰️ Notable Events on November 1

2012 — A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, killing 26 people and injuring 135. Wikipedia ↗
2000 — The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations. Wikipedia ↗
1993 — The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
1981 — Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom. Wikipedia ↗
1979 — In Bolivia, Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional government of Wálter Guevara. Wikipedia ↗
1973 — Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor. Wikipedia ↗
1973 — The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu. Wikipedia ↗
1970 — Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people. Wikipedia ↗
1968 — The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X. Wikipedia ↗
1963 — The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens. Wikipedia ↗
1963 — The 1963 South Vietnamese coup begins Wikipedia ↗
1960 — While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
1956 — The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued. Wikipedia ↗
1955 — The Vietnam War begins. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
1954 — The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
1950 — Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House. Wikipedia ↗
1950 — Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary. Wikipedia ↗
1948 — Six thousand people die when a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks off southern Manchuria. Wikipedia ↗
1948 — Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, is enthroned. Wikipedia ↗
1945 — The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro. Wikipedia ↗
1944 — World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
1943 — World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul. Wikipedia ↗
1942 — World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends three days later with an American victory. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
1938 — Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing. Wikipedia ↗
1937 — Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community. Wikipedia ↗
1928 — The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet. Wikipedia ↗
1922 — Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates. Wikipedia ↗
1920 — American fishing schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian fishing schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
1918 — Western Ukraine separates from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
1914 — World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
1901 — Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
1896 — A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time. Wikipedia ↗
1894 — Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
1884 — The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary. Wikipedia ↗
1870 — In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast. Wikipedia ↗
1861 — American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
1814 — Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars. Wikipedia ↗
1805 — Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition. Wikipedia ↗
1800 — John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House). Wikipedia ↗
1790 — Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster. Wikipedia ↗
1765 — The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America. Wikipedia ↗
1755 — In Portugal, Lisbon is totally devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between 60,000 and 90,000 people. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
1683 — The British Crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties. Wikipedia ↗
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.) . Wikipedia ↗
1611 — Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London. Wikipedia ↗
1604 — William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London. Wikipedia ↗
1570 — The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast. Wikipedia ↗
1555 — French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Wikipedia ↗
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. Wikipedia ↗
1512 — The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time. Wikipedia ↗
1503 — Pope Julius II is elected. Wikipedia ↗
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". Wikipedia ↗
1214 — The port city of Sinope surrenders to the Seljuq Turks. Wikipedia ↗
1179 — Philip II is crowned King of France. Wikipedia ↗
1141 — Empress Matilda's reign as 'Lady of the English' ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title of King of England. Wikipedia ↗
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). Wikipedia ↗
365 — The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities. Wikipedia ↗

🎂 Notable Births on November 1

1995 — Margarita Mamun, Russian gymnast Wikipedia ↗
1994 — James Ward-Prowse, English footballer Wikipedia ↗
1991 — Eyþór Arnarson, Icelandic skier Wikipedia ↗
1991 — Reece Brown, English footballer Wikipedia ↗
1991 — Jiang Yuyuan, Chinese gymnast Wikipedia ↗
1988 — Masahiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball player Wikipedia ↗
1986 — Penn Badgley, American actor and television personality Wikipedia ↗
1986 — Ksenija Balta, Estonian high jumper, sprinter, and heptathlete Wikipedia ↗
1984 — Miloš Krasić, Serbian footballer Wikipedia ↗
1983 — Matt Moulson, Canadian ice hockey player Wikipedia ↗
1983 — Yuko Ogura, Japanese model and singer Wikipedia ↗
1983 — Josh Wicks, American soccer player Wikipedia ↗
1983 — Jon Wilkin, English rugby player Wikipedia ↗
1982 — Bradley Orr, English footballer Wikipedia ↗
1982 — Warren Spragg, English-Italian rugby player Wikipedia ↗
1980 — Bilgin Defterli, Turkish footballer Wikipedia ↗
1979 — Milan Dudić, Serbian footballer Wikipedia ↗
1979 — Alex Prager, American photographer and director Wikipedia ↗
1976 — Sergei Artyukhin, Russian-Belarusian wrestler (d. 2012) Wikipedia ↗
1975 — Bo Bice, American singer and musician Wikipedia ↗
1975 — Keryn Jordan, South African footballer (d. 2013) Wikipedia ↗
1975 — Megan Wing, Canadian figure skater and coach Wikipedia ↗
1974 — V. V. S. Laxman, Indian cricketer Wikipedia ↗
1973 — Geoff Horsfield, English footballer and manager Wikipedia ↗
1972 — Toni Collette, Australian actress Wikipedia ↗
1972 — Paul Dickov, Scottish footballer and manager Wikipedia ↗
1972 — Jenny McCarthy, American actress and model Wikipedia ↗
1970 — Sherwin Campbell, Barbadian cricketer Wikipedia ↗
1969 — Tie Domi, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster Wikipedia ↗
1967 — Tina Arena, Australian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress Wikipedia ↗
1967 — Carla van de Puttelaar, Dutch photographer Wikipedia ↗
1966 — Willie D, American rapper and entrepreneur Wikipedia ↗
1966 — Mary Hansen, Australian singer and musician (Stereolab) (d. 2002) Wikipedia ↗
1966 — Gary Howell, American businessman and politician Wikipedia ↗
1966 — Jeremy Hunt, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Health Wikipedia ↗
1965 — Patrik Ringborg, Swedish conductor Wikipedia ↗
1964 — Sophie B. Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Wikipedia ↗
1963 — Rick Allen, English rock drummer (Def Leppard) Wikipedia ↗
1963 — Nita Ambani, Indian businesswoman Wikipedia ↗
1963 — Mark Hughes, Welsh footballer and manager Wikipedia ↗
1963 — Big Kenny, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Wikipedia ↗
1962 — Sharron Davies, English swimmer Wikipedia ↗
1962 — Magne Furuholmen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist Wikipedia ↗
1962 — Anthony Kiedis, American singer-songwriter Wikipedia ↗
1961 — Louise Boije af Gennäs, Swedish author and screenwriter Wikipedia ↗
1961 — Nicky Grist, Welsh race car driver Wikipedia ↗
1961 — Calvin Johnson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Wikipedia ↗
1961 — Heng Swee Keat, Singaporean politician Wikipedia ↗
1960 — Tim Cook, American businessman and engineer, current CEO of Apple Inc. Wikipedia ↗
1960 — Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican baseball player, coach, and sportscaster Wikipedia ↗
1959 — Susanna Clarke, English author and educator Wikipedia ↗
1958 — Mark Austin, English journalist Wikipedia ↗
1958 — Joe DeRenzo, American drummer, composer, and producer Wikipedia ↗
1958 — Robert Hart, English singer-songwriter Wikipedia ↗
1957 — Lyle Lovett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Wikipedia ↗
1957 — Murray Pierce, New Zealand rugby player Wikipedia ↗
1955 — Beth Leavel, American actress and singer Wikipedia ↗
1955 — Mike Mendoza, English radio host and politician Wikipedia ↗
1953 — Jan Davis, American engineer and astronaut Wikipedia ↗
1953 — Paul Wellings, English ecologist and academic Wikipedia ↗
1951 — Ronald Bell, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and producer Wikipedia ↗
1951 — Fabrice Luchini, French actor and screenwriter Wikipedia ↗
1951 — Craig Serjeant, Australian cricketer and chemist Wikipedia ↗
1950 — Mitch Kapor, American computer programmer and businessman, founded Lotus Software and Electronic Frontier Foundation Wikipedia ↗
1950 — Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Wikipedia ↗
1950 — Dan Peek, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2011) Wikipedia ↗
1949 — David Foster, Canadian singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer Wikipedia ↗
1949 — Michael D. Griffin, American physicist and engineer Wikipedia ↗
1949 — Belita Moreno, American actress and acting coach Wikipedia ↗
1948 — Phil Myre, Canadian ice hockey player and coach Wikipedia ↗
1948 — Amani Abeid Karume, Zanzibar accountant and politician, 6th President of Zanzibar Wikipedia ↗
1948 — Bill Woodrow, English sculptor and academic Wikipedia ↗
1947 — Nick Owen, English journalist Wikipedia ↗
1947 — Jim Steinman, American songwriter and producer Wikipedia ↗
1946 — Ric Grech, British rock musician (d. 1990) Wikipedia ↗
1946 — Yuko Shimizu, Japanese graphic designer, created Hello Kitty Wikipedia ↗
1945 — Narendra Dabholkar, Indian author and activist, founded Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (d. 2013) Wikipedia ↗
1945 — John Williamson, Australian singer-songwriter Wikipedia ↗
1944 — Kinky Friedman, American singer-songwriter and author Wikipedia ↗
1944 — Bobby Heenan, American wrestler, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2017) Wikipedia ↗
1944 — Oscar Temaru, French-Polynesian soldier and politician, President of French Polynesia Wikipedia ↗
1944 — Rafic Hariri, Lebanese businessman and politician 60th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2005) Wikipedia ↗
1943 — Salvatore Adamo, Italian-Belgian singer-songwriter Wikipedia ↗
1943 — Jacques Attali, French economist and civil servant Wikipedia ↗
1942 — Larry Flynt, American publisher, founded Larry Flynt Publications Wikipedia ↗
1942 — Ralph Klein, Canadian journalist and politician, 12th Premier of Alberta (d. 2013) Wikipedia ↗
1942 — Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian (d. 2013) Wikipedia ↗
1941 — Alfio Basile, Argentinian footballer and manager Wikipedia ↗
1941 — Robert Foxworth, American actor and director Wikipedia ↗
1941 — John Pullin, English rugby player Wikipedia ↗
1940 — Roger Kellaway, American pianist and composer Wikipedia ↗
1940 — Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Indian lawyer and jurist, 35th Chief Justice of India Wikipedia ↗
1940 — Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott, English academic and politician Wikipedia ↗
1940 — Barry Sadler, American sergeant, author, actor, and singer-songwriter (d. 1989) Wikipedia ↗
1937 — Bill Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter Wikipedia ↗
1936 — Eddie Colman, English footballer (d. 1958) Wikipedia ↗
1936 — Katsuhisa Hattori, Japanese composer and conductor Wikipedia ↗
1936 — Shizuka Kamei, Japanese lawyer and politician Wikipedia ↗
1935 — Gary Player, South African golfer and sportscaster Wikipedia ↗
1935 — Edward Said, Palestinian-American theorist, author, and academic (d. 2003) Wikipedia ↗
1934 — Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-Italian businessman and politician (d. 2004) Wikipedia ↗
1934 — Gillian Knight, English soprano and actress Wikipedia ↗
1934 — William Mathias, Welsh pianist and composer (d. 1992) Wikipedia ↗
1933 — Antoine Kohn, Luxembourgian footballer and manager (d. 2012) Wikipedia ↗
1932 — Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015) Wikipedia ↗
1932 — Francis Arinze, Nigerian cardinal Wikipedia ↗
1931 — Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestler and coach (d. 1972) Wikipedia ↗
1931 — Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer Wikipedia ↗
1931 — Arne Pedersen, Norwegian footballer and manager (d. 2013) Wikipedia ↗
1930 — A. R. Gurney, American playwright and author (d. 2017) Wikipedia ↗
1930 — Russ Kemmerer, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014) Wikipedia ↗
1929 — Nicholas Mavroules, American lawyer and politician (d. 2003) Wikipedia ↗
1928 — James Bradford, American weightlifter (d. 2013) Wikipedia ↗
1927 — Vic Power, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach (d. 2005) Wikipedia ↗
1927 — Marcel Ophüls, documentary filmmaker Wikipedia ↗
1926 — Stephen Antonakos, Greek-American sculptor (d. 2013) Wikipedia ↗
1926 — Betsy Palmer, American actress and game show panelist (d. 2015) Wikipedia ↗
1924 — Süleyman Demirel, Turkish engineer and politician, 9th President of Turkey (d. 2015) Wikipedia ↗
1924 — Jean-Luc Pépin, Canadian academic and politician, 19th Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 1995) Wikipedia ↗
1923 — Victoria de los Ángeles, Spanish soprano and actress (d. 2005) Wikipedia ↗
1923 — Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian-American author (d. 2001) Wikipedia ↗
1923 — Menachem Elon, German-Israeli academic and jurist (d. 2013) Wikipedia ↗
1923 — Carlos Páez Vilaró, Uruguayan painter and sculptor (d. 2014) Wikipedia ↗
1922 — George S. Irving, American actor (d. 2016) Wikipedia ↗