History Events on November 01

Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.

#Abolition_of_the_Ottoman_sultanate

Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.

#The_Tempest

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.

#Strait_of_Magellan

Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, is enthroned.

#Athenagoras_I_of_Constantinople

World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends three days later with an American victory.

#World_War_II

The port city of Sinope surrenders to the Seljuq Turks.

#Sinop,_Turkey

The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.

#All_Saints'_Flood_(1570)

Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom.

#Antigua_and_Barbuda

William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.

#William_Shakespeare

The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.

#Maastricht_Treaty

The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.

#Mackinac_Bridge

Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.

#Watergate_scandal

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.

#Operation_Buster-Jangle

Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.

#Seabiscuit

The British Crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.

#Province_of_New_York

The 1963 South Vietnamese coup begins

#1963_South_Vietnamese_coup

The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.

#National_Liberation_Front_(Algeria)

The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Matabele War of 1893.

#Battle_of_Bembezi

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.

#British_Rail_Class_43_(HST)

Hungarian Revolution: Imre Nagy announces Hungary's neutrality and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. Soviet troops begin to re-enter Hungary, contrary to assurances by the Soviet government. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich secretly defect to the Soviets.

#Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956

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.

#1_November_1944_reconnaissance_sortie_over_Japan

In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.

#National_Weather_Service

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.

#Kerala

Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.

#Club_Cinq-Sept_fire

In Russia, Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the government of Boris Stürmer.

#Pavel_Milyukov

Philip II is crowned as 'King of France'.

#Philip_II_of_France

Western Ukraine separates from Austria-Hungary.

#West_Ukrainian_People's_Republic

Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.

#Pope_Pius_XII

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.

#United_Airlines_Flight_629

The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.

#Sistine_Chapel

John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).

#John_Adams

World War II: In the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.

#Battle_of_Empress_Augusta_Bay

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.

#Library_of_Congress

The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.

#Springhill_mining_disaster

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.

#Honda

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.

#Ansel_Adams

The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.

#North_Korea

The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.

#Serbia_and_Montenegro

Nuclear weapons testing: 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.

#Nuclear_weapons_testing

The Vietnam War begins.

#Vietnam_War

American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.

#American_Civil_War

Pope Julius II is elected.

#Pope_Julius_II

The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.

#Stamp_Act_1765

In Bolivia, Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional government of Wálter Guevara.

#Alberto_Natusch

In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.

#Boston

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.

#Italo-Turkish_War

While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.

#John_F._Kennedy

Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.

#Edmund_Burke

Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.

#Puerto_Rico

Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars.

#Congress_of_Vienna

World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.

#First_Australian_Imperial_Force

Berber forces led by Sulayman ibn al-Hakam defeat the Umayyad caliph Muhammad II of Córdoba in the battle of Alcolea.

#Berbers

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.

#World_War_I

The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities.

#Alemanni

The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.

#Arecibo_Observatory

Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.

#Nicholas_II_of_Russia

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).

#Otto_III,_Holy_Roman_Emperor

After the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India on 31 October 1984, by two of her Sikh bodyguards, anti-Sikh riots erupts.

#Assassination_of_Indira_Gandhi

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.) .

#Time_of_Troubles

The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.

#Mysore

In Portugal, Lisbon is totally devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between 60,000 and 90,000 people.

#Lisbon

A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, killing 26 people and injuring 135.

The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.

Six thousand people die when a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks off southern Manchuria.

World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.

World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.

Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.

The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.

American fishing schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian fishing schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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.

Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.

A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.

Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.

The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.

Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.

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.

French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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".

Empress Matilda's reign as 'Lady of the English' ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title of 'King of England'.