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