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November 1 in history

312 sourced entries recorded on November 1, from 82 BCE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 82 BCESulla defeats an army of Samnites and Lucanians alliance in the Battle of the Colline Gate.source
  • 241The Battle of Samhain is fought in Ireland (approximate date).source
  • 365The Alamanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities.source
  • 731Synod of Rome: Gregory III summons a council at the shrine of Saint Peter. All western bishops participate, including the Roman nobility. Gregory condemns Iconoclasm as a heresy.source
  • 835Pope Gregory IV promotes the celebration of the feast of All Saints on this day throughout the Frankish Empire.source
  • 996Otto III grants the Bavarian bishopric of Freising 30 "royal hides" of land (about 800 hectares, or 2,000 acres - 800 hectares is 2,000 acres) in Neuhofen an der Ybbs (Lower Austria). A document (the oldest known) marks the first use of the name Ostarrîchi, meaning "Eastern Realm" (Austria in Old High German).source
  • 1007King Henry II of Germany founds the Diocese of Bamberg during a synod held in Frankfurt.source
  • 1009Berber forces led by Sulayman ibn al-Hakam defeat the Umayyad caliph Muhammad II in the battle of Alcolea. He enters the city of Córdoba, which is sacked by Berbers and Castillans. Sulayman is elected as caliph of the Caliphate of Córdoba.source
  • 1076A frost begins that lasts until April 1077.source
  • 1124Beltrán de Risnel confirms two charters of issued by King Alfonso VII during the reign of Queen Urraca of León and Castile.source
  • 1141The Anarchy in the Kingdom of England – Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester is exchanged by Empress Matilda for King Stephen, who reassumes the throne of England.source
  • 1179The 14-year-old Philip II is crowned at Rheims by Archbishop William of the White Hands. He becomes joint ruler of France, together with his father King Louis VII.source
  • 1210John orders that Jews across the country have to pay a tallage, a sum of money to the king. Those who do not pay are arrested and imprisoned. Many Jews are executed or leave the country.source
  • 1214Siege of Sinope: The Seljuk Turks under Sultan Kaykaus I capture the strategic Black Sea port city of Sinope – at the time held by the Empire of Trebizond (one of the Byzantine successor states formed after the Fourth Crusade). Emperor Alexios I of Trebizond leads an army to break the siege, but he is defeated and captured. His capture forces the Byzantines to accept tributary status to Kaykaus.source
  • 1223King Louis VIII of France issues an ordinance prohibiting the kingdom's officials from registering debts owed to Jewish moneylenders, and limiting the lenders to a recovery of the principal amount owed, without interest.source
  • 1254Edward marries Eleanor of Castile in the Cistercian monastery of Las Huelgas at Burgos.source
  • 1301Charles of Valois, son of the late King Philip III ("Philip the Bold"), is summoned to Italy by Pope Boniface VIII to restore peace between the Guelphs and Ghibellines. He enters Florence, and allows the Neri ("Black Guelphs") to return to the city. Charles installs a new government under Cante dei Gabrielli as Chief Magistrate (podestà), leading to the permanent exile of Dante Alighieri, Italian poet and philosopher, from the city.source
  • 1347The Black Death spreads to Aix-en-Provence in France.source
  • 1348The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro because they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".source
  • 1368Elizabeth of Pomerania, wife of the Charles IV, is crowned as the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Urban V.source
  • 1385Sigismund of Luxembourg, Margrave of Brandenburg and son of the late Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, enforces a 1373 agreement of betrothal and marries Mary, Queen of Hungary, citing an agreement that had been made by King Louis I of Hungary.source
  • 1389The Antipope John XXIII, reigning from Avignon, crowns Louis II of Anjou as King of Naples, although the underage King Ladislaus has been recognized as the rightful monarch by the late Pope Urban VI of Rome. Louis II will move to Naples on August 6, 1390, while Ladislaus flees, but since his troops cannot occupy the entire Neapolitan kingdom, Louis is only recognized in the French-occupied areas of Naples.source
  • 1399At Nantes, Jean V of the House of Montfort begins his reign of 43 years as the Duke of Brittany (Bretagne), an independent duchy that is now part of France, upon the death of his father, Jean IV.source
  • 1420Hussite Wars: Battle of Vyšehrad – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, fails and is ejected from Bohemia.source
  • 1424Zhu Zhanji is designated as the Crown Prince of Ming dynasty China by his father, the Hongxi Emperor. The Emperor dies eight months later and Zhu Zhanji becomes the Xuande Emperor on June 27, 1425.source
  • 1437On All Saints Day, five weeks before his 16th birthday, King Henry VI of England has a second coronation ceremony at Merton Priory, near London. Henry had previously been crowned in 1429 at Westminster at the age of seven.source
  • 1448On the day that had been scheduled for England to transfer its territory in France at Le Mans, Maine and Anjou back to French control, English diplomats Nicholas Molyneux, Osbert Mundford and Thomas Direhill meet at Le Mans with the French representatives Guilaume Cousinot II and Jean Havart. However, Fulk Eyton and Sir Matthew Gough, who had been empowered by King Henry VI of England to make the transfer, deliberately avoid attending and the English commissioners declare that no transfer will be made until just compensation will be made to Englishmen who are losing their land. Cousinot and Havart renew their demands for transfer to take place as scheduled and nothing is accomplished.source
  • 1478The Spanish Inquisition begins as Pope Sixtus IV promulgates the papal bull Exigit sinceras devotionis affectus, permitting the Crown of Castile, at the request of Queen Isabella, to create the office of Inquisitor General, with the Dominican bishop Tomás de Torquemada to prosecute accused heretics.source
  • 1501November 1 (All Saints) – Amerigo Vespucci discovers and names Baía de Todos os Santos, in Brazil.source
  • 1503Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, Bishop of Ostia, is elected the 216th Roman Catholic Pontiff at the end of the year's second papal conclave and takes the papal name Pope Julius II. Della Rovere had received 15 of 32 votes in the September voting for a plurality, but still short of a majority. Julius II reigns for a little more than nine years until his death in 1513.source
  • 1508At the age of 16, Prince Wolfgang of the House of Ascania becomes the new ruler of the German principality of Anhalt-Köthen, succeeding his father Waldemar VI. In 1521, he will meet Martin Luther and, in 1525, will introduce the Reformation to his principality, making Anhalt-Köthen only the second nation (after the Electorate of Saxony) to officially adopt Protestantism.source
  • 1512The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.source
  • 1520Christian II formally elected monarch of Sweden.source
  • 1520Christian II is crowned king of Sweden in Nikolai Church. The coronation is followed by a three-day feast in Stockholm.source
  • 1535Eighteen days after the death of Francesco II Sforza, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain Charles V claims the Duchy of Milan as his inheritance under Sforza's will. King François of France disputes the claim of Charles, citing the French right to rule Milan, Genoa and Asti, and the dispute leads to war between France and the Empire.source
  • 1537In what is now the Central American nation of Honduras, the Spanish conquistadore Alonso de Cáceres arrives at the Peñol de Cerquín, the mountaintop fortress of King Lempira of the Lencas, the indigenous leader of the resistance against European rule. Cáceres sends envoys to request Lempira to surrender. In response, Lempira has the Spanish messengers executed.source
  • 1539Joachim II Hector introduces Lutheranism in the Margraviate of Brandenburg, becoming the second Prince-Elector after the Prince-Elector of Saxony to turn Protestant.source
  • 1541King Henry VIII of England is first informed of that the Queen consort, Catherine Howard, has been having an affair with Thomas Culpeper.source
  • 1554English captain John Lok, commanding three ships (the Trinitie, the Bartholomew and the John Evangelist), departs from Dartmouth in England to voyage to the Guinea Coast at West Africa.source
  • 1555French Navy Vice-Admiral Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon leads a small fleet of two ships and 200 soldiers and colonists to take possession of Serigipe Island, near modern-day Rio de Janeiro in Brazil at Guanabara Bay, and builds Fort Coligny.source
  • 1576Coronation of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.source
  • 1589Henry IV of France is repulsed in an attempt to capture Paris from the Catholic League.source
  • 1604The first recorded performance of William Shakespeare's tragedy, Othello, takes place at the Palace of Whitehall in London.source
  • 1611At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's last solo play, The Tempest, is given its earliest reported performance.source
  • 1623The Battle of Anjar is fought in modern-day Lebanon as the Druze emir Fakhr al-Din II defeats an invasion by Mustafa Pasha al-Hannaq, the Ottoman Governor of Damascus, and takes him prisoner.source
  • 1623Fire at Plymouth Colony destroys several buildings.source
  • 1625November 1–7 – Cádiz Expedition: English forces commanded by Admiral George Villiers (which set out from Plymouth on October 8) are decisively defeated by the Spanish at Cádiz.source
  • 1683The English crown colony of the Province of New York is subdivided into 12 counties: Albany, Dutchess, Orange, Ulster, and Westchester (upstate); Kings, New York County, Queens, Richmond (within New York City); Suffolk (eastern Long Island), and two areas not in New York state, Dukes County (now in Massachusetts) and Cornwall County (now 11 counties in Maine).source
  • 1695The Parliament of Ireland passes the Sunday Observance Act to promote Sabbatarianism.source
  • 1716Two new laws go into effect in the Highlands of Scotland to prevent a threat to Britain's ruling House of Hanover by the Jacobites who supported the restoration of the House of Stuart. The Disarming Act requires government authorisation to carry swords and firearms, and the amendments to the Treason Act 1714 permit trials for treason to take place in any court in England, regardless of where the crime was committed.source
  • 1716Disarming Act, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, comes into effect, intended to prevent clansmen in the Highlands from having weapons.source
  • 1720The Commanding Major Generals South of Dovre is established. It was a four-general board to lead the Norwegian Army following the Great Northern War.source
  • 1744Second Silesian War: The Prussian Army, under the command of Field Marshal Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, begins the bombardment of Prague. The Bohemian capital surrenders after two weeks.source
  • 1745Pope Benedict XIV issues the encyclical Vix pervenit, referred to in English as "On Usury and Other Dishonest Profit", to the bishops of Italy, condemning the charging of interest on loans as a sin against the Roman Catholic Church.source
  • 1755the Spanish Arch in Galway is partially destroyed by a tsunami generated by the Lisbon earthquake which is felt across Munster.source
  • 1755Lisbon earthquake felt in Scotland.source
  • 1756Wanlockhead Miners' Library set up.source
  • 1765The Stamp Act goes into effect in the thirteen American colonies.source
  • 1767Scottish-born American merchant and shipowner Andrew Sprowle of Portsmouth, Virginia, establishes the Gosport Shipyard on the western shore of the Elizabeth River in the Virginia Colony, on the site of what will eventually become the Norfolk Naval Shipyard.source
  • 1769A party of the expedition of Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola becomes the first Europeans to reach San Francisco Bay. Sergeant Jose Francisco de Ortega and his group accidentally discover the area while searching for Drakes Bay in Alta California.source
  • 1787The first secondary school open to girls in Sweden, Societetsskolan, is founded in Gothenburg.source
  • 1796King Gustav IV Adolf is declared of age and the guardian government of Duke Charles is dissolved.source
  • 1800U.S. President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).source
  • 1800Middlebury College is granted its charter by the Vermont General Assembly.source
  • 1813October 24–November 5 – Persia and Russia sign the Treaty of Gulistan at the end of the Russo-Persian War, by which Persia loses modern-day Georgia, Dagestan and most of Azerbaijan to Russia.source
  • 1814The Congress of Vienna formally opens in Austria to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, with the European powers agreeing upon the redrawing of national borders following the victory over France; it will last until June 9, 1815.source
  • 1814The first group of patriot prisoners are sent to the Juan Fernández Islands.source
  • 1814The Congress of Vienna formally opens in Austria to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, with the European powers agreeing upon the redrawing of national borders following the victory over France; it will last until 9 June 1815.source
  • 1814Francis Rawdon-Hastings, the Governor-General of India declares war on Kingdom of Nepal and Anglo-Nepalese War begins.source
  • 1816December 3 – 1816 United States presidential election: James Monroe defeats Rufus King.source
  • 1824Miami University (chartered 1809) delivers its first classes in Oxford, Ohio.source
  • 1825George Thompson establishes the Aberdeen Line of shipping to the Empire.source
  • 1828The wedding of Prince Frederick (VII) and Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark takjes place in Copenhagen.source
  • 1838Lord Durham leaves Quebec.source
  • 1841Daniel O'Connell is elected as the first Roman Catholic Lord Mayor of Dublin in centuries.source
  • 1843The foundation stone for the first Beaumaris Pier is laid.source
  • 1848In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, the Boston Female Medical School (which later merges with Boston University School of Medicine), opens.source
  • 1848The first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merges with Boston University School of Medicine), opens in Boston, Massachusetts.source
  • 1849Alfred Ollivant becomes Bishop of Llandaff.source
  • 1851First national census held in New Zealand, counting European dwellings and population only.source
  • 1851Saint Petersburg–Moscow Railway officially opens in Russia.source
  • 1856Anglo-Persian War: War is declared between Great Britain and Persia.source
  • 1856Anglo-Persian War: War is declared between Britain and Persia in response to a Persian invasion of Afghanistan with the objective of capturing Herat.source
  • 1857The Indus Valley Region (i.e., Pakistan Region) is incorporated as part of British India, for the next 90 years until 1947.source
  • 1858the end of the British East India Company's rule in India is proclaimedsource
  • 1859The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lighted for the first time (its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for 19 miles).source
  • 1864A massive cyclone and tidal wave destroys Masulipatnam and kills nearly 30,000 people.source
  • 1870In 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".source
  • 1876The British Colony of New Zealand dissolves its 9 provinces and replaces them with 63 counties.source
  • 1876October 28-November 5 - Hagi Rebellionsource
  • 1882An Austrian barque, the Petroslava, is wrecked on Skokholm with the loss of 10 of its 11 crew members.source
  • 1883Mater Infirmorum Hospital in Belfast admits its first patients.source
  • 1884Leicester City F.C. play their first match, as Leicester Fosse Football Club, in England.source
  • 1884The Irish Gaelic Athletic Association is founded in Thurles, Ireland.source
  • 1886The biggest Buddhist boys' school in Sri Lanka, Ananda College, is founded in Colombo.source
  • 1887The Helvetia wrecked off Worms Head, Rhossili (remains can still be seen at low tide).source
  • 1889Portrush life-boat The Robert and Agnes Blair, going to the aid of the schooner Dryad, capsized off the coast at Portballintrae with the loss of three of her thirteen crew.source
  • 1889new building under construction at Templeton's Carpet Factory on Glasgow Green collapses killing 29 women in adjacent weaving sheds.source
  • 1893First Matabele War: Battle of Bembezi, British South Africa Company defeats an assault by the Matabele.source
  • 1894Emperor Alexander III of Russia is succeeded by his son, Nicholas II.source
  • 1894The first issue of Billboard magazine is published in Cincinnati, Ohio by William Donaldson and James Hennegan. Initially, it covers the advertising and bill posting industry, and is at the time known as Billboard Advertising.source
  • 1895Max Skladanowsky and his brother Emil present a short film at the Berlin Wintergarten theatre in Germany using the movie projector they have developed.source
  • 1897Juventus FC is founded as an association football club in Turin.source
  • 1898Charles Dupuy forms a new government as Prime Minister of France following the resignation of Henri Brisson.source
  • 1901Standard Bank opens its second branch in Johannesburg on Eloff Street.source
  • 1901The Sigma Phi Epsilon college fraternity is founded in Richmond, Virginia.source
  • 1902France attempts to neutralize Triple Alliance, signing agreement with Italy to remain neutral in Africa.source
  • 1906International Exhibition opens in Christchurch, New Zealand.source
  • 1906The International Exhibition begins in Hagley Park, Christchurch.source
  • 1910Coal miners are balloted for strike action by the South Wales Miners' Federation following a lock-out, resulting in 12,000 men working for the Cambrian Combine beginning a 10-month strike.source
  • 1911The 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.source
  • 1911Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Capt. Scott's Terra Nova Expedition sets out for the South Pole from his base camp.source
  • 1913Establishment of C.F. Uniãosource
  • 1914World War I: Battle of Coronel – A British Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock is met in the eastern Pacific and defeated by superior German forces led by Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee in the first British naval defeat of the war, resulting in the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.source
  • 1914World War I: Battle of Coronelsource
  • 1914The 38 ships carrying the NZEF (10 ships) and the AIF (28 ships) leave Perth, Western Australia. Although expecting to sail to England, they will receive orders to land in Egypt while crossing the Indian Ocean.source
  • 1914The first contingent of the First Australian Imperial Force leaves for Egypt.source
  • 1916Pavel Milyukov delivers his "stupidity or treason" speech in the Russian State Duma, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.source
  • 1916The first 40-hour work week officially begins, in the Endicott-Johnson factories of Western New York.source
  • 1916a general coal strike began in eastern Australia.source
  • 1917The British Desert Mounted Corps begins the Battle of Tel el Khuweilfe, in the direction of Hebron and Jerusalem.source
  • 1917A mob damages German property in Petropolis, including the restaurant Brahma (completely destroyed), the Gesellschaft Germania, the German school, the company Arp, and the German Journal.source
  • 1917November 1 to 30: Swanson Bay, British Columbia, records 88 in of precipitation for the month, which remains the highest officially recorded for one calendar month in North America.source
  • 1918The Polish–Ukrainian War is inaugurated, by the proclamation of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in Galicia, with a capital at Lwów.source
  • 1918Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 dead.source
  • 1919Vigerslev train crash takes place in the Valby district of Copenhagen.source
  • 1919The Coal Strike of 1919 begins in the United States, by the United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis; a final agreement is reached on December 10.source
  • 1921Transvaal – Pretoria West to Roberts Heights, 7 mi 38 ch.source
  • 1922The Ottoman Empire is abolished after 600 years, and its last sultan, Mehmed VI, abdicates, leaving for exile, initially in Malta, on November 17.source
  • 1922A broadcast receiving licence with a fee of ten shillings is introduced in the United Kingdom.source
  • 1923The Finnish flag carrier airline Finnair is started, as Aero oy.source
  • 1923The 1923 Victorian Police strike begins in Australia, with half of the Victoria Police force standing down over the use of labor spies. Rioting and looting take place in Melbourne city centre.source
  • 1923The 1923 Victorian Police strike begins, with half of the Victoria Police force standing down over the use of labour spies. Rioting and looting takes place in the Melbourne city centre.source
  • 1927İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (the 5th government).source
  • 1927The Palestine pound, the currency of the British Mandate of Palestine between 1927 and 1948, goes into circulation.source
  • 1928Turkey passes a law switching the country from the Arabic to the Latin-based modern Turkish alphabet.source
  • 1928The Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company broadcasts for the first time.source
  • 1929Conscription in Australia ends.source
  • 1929An annular solar eclipse is seen over the Atlantic Ocean and Africa.source
  • 1930Beginning of the Vargas Era: the ruling junta hands power and the presidential palace to Getúlio Vargas.source
  • 1932The Kennedy–Thorndike experiment is published, showing that measured time as well as length is affected by motion, in accordance with the theory of special relativity.source
  • 1934October 20–November 3 – Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first eastward crossing of the Pacific Ocean, from his native Brisbane, Australia, to San Francisco, in the Lockheed Altair Lady Southern Cross. The November 3 Hawaii–San Francisco leg is the first eastward flight from Hawaii to North America.source
  • 1935The magnitude 6.2 Timiskaming earthquake shakes western Quebecsource
  • 1936Louis MacNeice's translation of The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is premiered in London.source
  • 1938Catalogue wins the Melbourne Cup.source
  • 1939November 1–2 – WWII: Physicist Hans Ferdinand Mayer writes the Oslo Report on German weapons systems, and passes it to the British Secret Intelligence Service.source
  • 1942The Cruzeiro "antigo" is adopted as the official currency.source
  • 1942Carl Fredrik Kolderup, geologist (born 1869).source
  • 1942WWII: North Atlantic convoy SC 107 is heavily attacked by U-boats, sinking 15 ships.source
  • 1944December 7 – Delegates of 52 nations meet at the International Civil Aviation Conference in Chicago, to plan for postwar international cooperation, framing the constitution of the International Civil Aviation Organization.source
  • 1945International Labour Organization's new constitution comes into effect.source
  • 1945Telechron introduces the model 8H59 Musalarm, the first clock radio.source
  • 1948A boiler and ammunition explosion aboard merchant ship Xuan Huai evacuating troops of the Republic of China Army from Yingkou, China for Taiwan causes thousands of deaths.source
  • 1948Athenagoras I is elected the 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.source
  • 1948The Foley Square trial of Eugene Dennis and ten other CPUSA leaders begins, in New York City.source
  • 1949Seretse Khama and his British wife Ruth Williams Khama are declared forbidden in South Africa.source
  • 1950Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate U.S. President Harry S. Truman, who is staying at the Blair-Lee House in Washington, D.C. during White House repairs.source
  • 1950Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" at the Vatican and defines a new dogma of Roman Catholicism, the Munificentissimus Deus, which says that God took Mary's body into Heaven after her death (the "Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary").source
  • 1951Desert Rock exercises, the first military exercises for nuclear war, with infantry troops included, are held in the Nevada desert.source
  • 1952Nuclear testing and Operation Ivy: The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike", at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, with a yield of 10.4 megatons.source
  • 1952Nuclear testing: Operation Ivy: The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike", at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, with a yield of 10.4 megatons.source
  • 1954The FLN attacks representative and public buildings of the French colonial power.source
  • 1954The movement towards Algerian independence from France starts with the founding of the National Liberation Front.source
  • 1955Official start date of the Vietnam War between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and Republic of Vietnam; the north is allied with the Viet Cong.source
  • 1955A time bomb explodes in the cargo hold of United Airlines Flight 629, a Douglas DC-6B, over Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and 5 crew members on board.source
  • 1956The States Reorganisation Act of India reforms the boundaries and names of Indian states. Three new states, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, are formed.source
  • 1956The film Oklahoma! (1955), previously released to select cities in Todd-AO, now receives a U.S. national release in CinemaScope, since not all theatres are yet equipped for Todd-AO. To accomplish this, the film has actually been shot twice, rather than printing one version in two different film processes, as is later done.source
  • 1957The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at this time, opens in the United States, to connect Michigan's two peninsulas.source
  • 1959In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.source
  • 1959Montreal Canadiens Jacques Plante becomes the first ice hockey goalie to wear a protective face mask during a game against the New York Rangers at the Montreal Forumsource
  • 1960Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican-American baseball player (died 2024)source
  • 1961The U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission's federal order banning segregation at all interstate public facilities officially comes into effect.source
  • 1961The Hungry generation Movement is launched in Calcutta, India.source
  • 1961The Hungry generation movement is launched in Calcutta.source
  • 1961A Panair do Brasil plane crashes near Recife airport, leaving 45 dead and 43 injured.source
  • 1962The Soviet Union begins dismantling its missiles in Cuba.source
  • 1962The comic book antihero Diabolik first appears in Italy.source
  • 1962Magne Furuholmen, keyboardist and artistsource
  • 1963Arecibo Observatory, a radio telescope, officially begins operation in Puerto Rico.source
  • 1965A trolleybus plunges into the Nile at Cairo, Egypt, killing 74 passengers.source
  • 1968The airline Ansett-ANA is renamed Ansett.source
  • 1970The Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, kills 146.source
  • 1973James Flanagan, first and only Roman Catholic Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, replaces Graham Shillington.source
  • 1974Henry Kissinger briefly visits to talk with Daoud for a grand total of four hours, then departs the country for Iran via Kabul Airport.source
  • 1974The World Tourism Organization (WTO) is established.source
  • 19772060 Chiron, first of the outer Solar System asteroids known as Centaurs, is discovered by Charlie Kowal.source
  • 1981Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom.source
  • 1984Abortion is legalized through a new law.source
  • 1984November 1–4 – Anti-Sikh mass murder takes place in Delhi and various parts of India following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.source
  • 1984November 1 and 9 – Two separate hotel fires occur in Manila. The first breaks out at the Ambassador Hotel, a tourist hotel in Ermita, causing deaths of ten or eleven people. Eight days later, another engulfs a part of the Las Palmas Hotel, killing at least six, three of them foreigners.source
  • 1986Queensland, Australia: Joh Bjelke-Petersen wins his final election as Premier of Queensland with 38.6% of the vote. He resigns on December 1, 1987, following revelations of his involvement with corruption released in the Fitzgerald Inquiry.source
  • 1986Sandoz chemical spill: A major environmental disaster near Basel, Switzerland pollutes the Rhine, when an agrochemical storehouse catches on fire.source
  • 1987The InterCity 125 breaks the world speed record for a diesel-powered train, reaching 238 km/h (147.88 mph).source
  • 1989The President of Nicaragua ends a ceasefire with U.S.-backed contras that has been in effect since April 1988.source
  • 1989The border between East Germany and Czechoslovakia is reopened.source
  • 1989The National Youth Council is formed as a division of the People's Association to work on youth matters.source
  • 1990South Africa's anti-apartheid leader, Nelson Mandela began a four-day visit to Malaysia.source
  • 1991Jean Dupong is appointed President of the Council of State.source
  • 1991October 28–November 4 – The 1991 Perfect Storm strikes the northeastern U.S. coast and Atlantic Canada, causing over US$200 million of damage and resulting in 12 direct fatalities.source
  • 1991October 31–November 3 – The Halloween blizzard hits the U.S. Upper Midwest, killing 22 people and causing US$100 million in damage.source
  • 1992October 30 - November 1: Halloween Massacre, also known as the Three Day War.source
  • 1993The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.source
  • 1993SingTel is listed on the then Stock Exchange of Singapore (present day Singapore Exchange) after an IPO in October.source
  • 1994SES launches its fourth satellite, Astra 1D.source
  • 1995Participants in the Yugoslav Wars begin negotiations at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.source
  • 1995The last signal is received from NASA's Pioneer 11 spacecraft.source
  • 1997Thai Sky TV Station Broadcasting ceased at 6:00 AM.source
  • 19981998 Indonesia Open ends.source
  • 2000The Museo Botero opens to the public in La Candelaria, Bogotá, available free of charge.source
  • 2000The privatisation contract of the Petromidia Refinery is approved between Fondul Proprietății de Stat and Rompetrol Group BV Rotterdam for the sum of 615 million USD.source
  • 2001An interim government in Burundi begins the peace process for the Burundian Civil War.source
  • 2001Allan Simonsen replaces Paul Philipp as coach of the Luxembourg national football team.source
  • 2006Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko: Litvinenko, former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service and critic of the Putin administration, is poisoned with Polonium-210. He dies of acute radiation syndrome on 23 November, causing widespread accusations that the Russian government was behind the poisoning.source
  • 2008Satoshi Nakamoto publishes "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System".source
  • 2008October 30–November 4 – Floods affected Northern and Central Vietnam.source
  • 2012Yellow fever kills 32 people and sickens at least 50 more in the Darfur region of Sudan.source
  • 2012October 22 – November 2 – Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds spanning 900 miles (1,400 km)), wreaks havoc, resulting in 233 total deaths and $68.7 billion (2012 USD) damage.source
  • 2014Bangladesh faces a nationwide blackout.source
  • 2016The number of people globally using mobile devices to access the internet overtakes those using desktop computers for the first time, having been preceded by the U.S. two years prior.source
  • 2018Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert is appointed Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq; Thom de Graaf becomes Vice-President of the Council of Statesource
  • 2018NASA's Dawn mission concludes after it runs out of hydrazine fuel.source
  • 2020All Saints Day (Public and Roman Catholic holiday)source
  • 2021October 31–November 13 – The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Glasgow, after being postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19. A deal is agreed by world leaders, which includes a "phasedown" of unabated coal power, a 30% cut in methane emissions by 2030, plans for a halt to deforestation by 2030, and increased financial support for developing countries.source
  • 20222022 Israeli legislative election: A bloc of right-wing and far-right political parties led by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wins a 64-seat majority (out of 120), allowing him to be sworn in as Prime Minister of Israel for a third time in December.source
  • 2023The first AI Safety Summit takes place in the United Kingdom, with 28 countries signing a "world first agreement" on how to manage the riskiest forms of artificial intelligence.source
  • 2023November 1–2 — All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day are celebrated in both the Christian and Haitian Vodou religion.source
  • 2024The government blocks access to social media until 11 November, citing issues of public safety and threats to national security. The ban is lifted on 2 November following public uproar.source

Births

  • 846Louis the Stammerer, king of West Francia (died 879)source
  • 1202Enni, Japanese Buddhist monk and teacher (died 1280)source
  • 1287Nasr of Granada, Al-Andaluse ruler (died 1322)source
  • 1288Ivan I, Grand Duke of Moscow (died 1341)source
  • 1299Elizabeth de Comyn, English noblewoman (died 1372)source
  • 1326Wartislaw V, Duke of Pomerania, German nobleman and co-ruler (died 1390)source
  • 1339Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (died 1365)source
  • 1351Leopold III, Duke of Austria (died 1386)source
  • 1419Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (died 1485)source
  • 1498Giovanni Ricci, Italian cardinal (died 1574)source
  • 1522Andrew Corbet, English landowner and politician (died 1578)source
  • 1526Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John III of Sweden (died 1583)source
  • 1527William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, English noble and politician (died 1597)source
  • 1530Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (died 1563)source
  • 1530Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and political theorist (d.1563)source
  • 1542Tarquinia Molza, Italian singer (died 1617)source
  • 1544Hasan Kafi Pruščak, Bosnian scholar and judge (died 1615)source
  • 1550Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, Prince-Bishop of Osnabruck and Paderborn (died 1585)source
  • 1567Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (died 1626)source
  • 1570Phineas Pett, English shipwright and member of the Pett Dynasty (died 1647)source
  • 1585Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician and astronomer (died 1652)source
  • 1596Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter (died 1669)source
  • 1609Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (died 1676)source
  • 1623Zhu Youlang, Prince of Gui, the Yongli Emperor, the 4th and last emperor of the Southern Ming dynasty of China (died 1662)source
  • 1625Oliver Plunkett, Irish archbishop, martyr and saint (died 1681)source
  • 1629Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (died 1681)source
  • 1636Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (died 1711)source
  • 1652William Lowndes, English politician (died 1724)source
  • 1661Louis, Grand Dauphin, eldest son and heir of Louis XIV of France (died 1711)source
  • 1686Colin Campbell, Scottish businessman (died 1757)source
  • 1704Erland Broman, royal favorite (died 1757)source
  • 1752Józef Zajączek, Polish general, politician (died 1826)source
  • 1757Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor (died 1822)source
  • 1762Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1812)source
  • 1762Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated 1812)source
  • 1782F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1859)source
  • 1799Thomas Baldwin Marsh, American religious leader (died 1866)source
  • 1808John Taylor, American Mormon leader (died 1887)source
  • 1837John Leary, American businessman, politician, and civic leader (died 1905)source
  • 1864Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (died 1918)source
  • 1871Stephen Crane, American writer (died 1900)source
  • 1924Süleyman Demirel, prime minister (30th, 31st, 32nd, 39th, 41st, 43rd and 49th government of Turkey)source
  • 1967Tina Arena, Australian singer-songwritersource
  • 1973Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress, Miss World 1994source
  • 1996Lil Peep, American rapper (died 2017)source

Deaths

  • 934Beornstan, bishop of Winchestersource
  • 955Henry I, Duke of Bavariasource
  • 970Boso, bishop of Merseburgsource
  • 1038Herman I, Margrave of Meissen, German noblemansource
  • 1102Anna Dalassena, Byzantine noblewomansource
  • 1127Zhang Bangchang, ruler of Da Chu (born 1081)source
  • 1239Robert of Esztergom, Hungarian prelatesource
  • 1296Guillaume Durand, French canonist and writersource
  • 1322Dagi Khatun, Mongol noblewoman and empresssource
  • 1324John de Halton, English bishopsource
  • 1391Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy (born 1360)source
  • 1399Duke John IV of Brittany (born 1339)source
  • 1406Joanna, Duchess of Brabant (born 1322)source
  • 1423Nicholas Eudaimonoioannes, Byzantine diplomatsource
  • 1463The last emperor of Trebizond, David Megas Komnenos, is beheaded in Constantinople two years after his capture by the Ottoman Empire, by orders of the Sultan Mehmed II, in addition to his sons Basil and Manuel and his daughter Anna (who had been a concubine of the Sultan) and two other people.source
  • 1463Emperor David of Trebizond (born c. 1408)source
  • 1488Johannes Crabbe, Flemish abbot and bibliophilesource
  • 1496Filippo Buonaccorsi (Filip Callimachus), Italian humanist writer (born 1437)source
  • 1524John Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming, Lord Chancellor of Scotland since 1517, is assassinated by John Tweedie of Drummelzier (chief of Clan Tweedie) and others.source
  • 1575Simon Vigor, Catholic bishop (b c.1515)source
  • 1597Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (born 1555)source
  • 1612Charles, Count of Soissons, prince du sang and military commander (born 1566)source
  • 1642Jean Nicolet, French explorer (born 1598)source
  • 1665Sir John Perceval, 1st Baronet, Irish nobleman (born 1629)source
  • 1675Guru Tegh Bahadur, 9th Sikh Guru (born 1621)source
  • 1678William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (born 1601)source
  • 1678William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (born 1601)source
  • 1700Charles II of Spain, King of Spain; last Habsburg ruler of the Spanish Empire (born 1661)source
  • 1700Charles II, the last Spanish king of the House of Habsburg, dies at the Royal Alcazar of Madrid aged 38, leaving no children; his last will makes Philip of Anjou his heir.source
  • 1730Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, Italian soldier and naturalist (born 1658)source
  • 1750Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff, Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (born 1705)source
  • 1755More than 40,000 people are killed by the 8.5 magnitude earthquake in Lisbon, Portuguese Empire. The tremor begins at 9:40 in the morning local time off of the Atlantic coast of Portugal and sends a tsunami that strikes the coasts of Portugal, Spain and Morocco.source
  • 1804Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German naturalist (born 1748)source
  • 1860Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), Empress Consort of Russian Emperor Nicholas I (born 1798)source
  • 1877Oliver P. Morton, American politician (born 1823)source
  • 1890Júlio Ribeiro, naturalist novelist, philologist, journalist and grammarian (born 1845; tuberculosis)source
  • 1894Emperor Alexander III of Russia (born 1845)source
  • 1970Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Zygfryd Wolniak and three other people are killed in an attack on a group of diplomats at Karachi airport in Pakistan.source
  • 1972Ezra Pound, American poet (born 1885)source
  • 1982King Vidor, 88, American film director, film producer, and screenwriter, heart attacksource