Today is Tuesday, November 1, the 306th day of 2016. There are 60 days left in the year.
79 ― Pompei buried by Mt Vesuvius
1210 ― King John of England begins imprisoning Jews
1512 ― Michelangelo’s paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, 1st exhibited
1604 ― William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Othello” 1st presented
1611 ― Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “The Tempest” 1st presented
1623 ― Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings
1755 ― Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000
1765 ― Stamp Act went into effect in the British colonies
1776 ― Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California
1784 ― Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette & his descendants
1787 ― 1st free school in NYC (African Free School) opens
1800 ― 1st President to live in the white house (John Adams)
1834 ― 1st published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)
1848 ― 1st US women’s medical school opens (Boston)
1861 ― Gen George B McClellan made general in chief of Union armies
1863 ― Fortifications built on Angel Island (San Francisco Bay) by troops
1870 ― US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)
1894 ― Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris
1910 ― 1st issue of “The Crisis” published by editor W E B Du Bois
1913 ― Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st to use forward pass effectively
1918 ― 97 die in NYC subway’s worst accident
1922 ― Ottoman Empire abolished
1924 ― 1st US NHL franchise, Boston Bruins founded
1924 ― Forest Peters of Montana State U hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals
1928 ― 1st celebration of Author’s Day
1928 ― Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km
1929 ― Lundy, part of the British Isles, issue their own stamps
1932 ― Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program
1936 ― Mussolini describes alliance between Italy & Germany as an “axis”
1936 ― Rodeo Cowboy’s Association founded
1938 ― Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico
1939 ― 1st animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
1939 ― 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry
1940 ― 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
1942 ― John H Johnson publishes 1st issue of Negro Digest
1943 ― Dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area
1945 ― 1st issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson
1946 ― Charles S Johnson becomes 1st black President of Fisk University
1946 ― NY Knicks 1st basketball game beat Toronto Huskies 68-66
1946 ― West German state of Niedersachsen formed
1947 ― 1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii
1947 ― UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ & UK
1950 ― 1st negro player in NBA, (Celtic’s Charles Cooper) Fort Wayne IN
1950 ― Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at the Blair House
1951 ― 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, NM
1951 ― Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson
1952 ― 1st hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific
1952 ― Fusion occurred for the 1st time on Earth
1954 ― Algeria begins rebellion against French rule
1954 ― ndia takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements
1955 ― Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont Colorado
1956 ― Delhi becomes a territory of the Indian union
1956 ― Indian state of Madhya Pradesh formed
1956 ― Indian states of Punjab, Patiala & PEPSU merge as Punjab protection
1956 ― Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact
1959 ― 1st NHL goalie to wear a hockey mask (Jacques Plante)
1959 ― WOV-AM in New York City changes call letters to WADO
1960 ― Benelux treaty goes into effect
1962 ― Greece enters the European Common Market
1962 ― USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars
1963 ― Revolt against the Diem regime in South Vietnam
1964 ― George Blanda of Houston throws NFL-record 37 passes in 68 attempts
1964 ― Kansas City Chief Len Dawson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Denver (49-39)
1965 ― 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco
1965 ― Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)
1966 ― Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created
1966 ― NFL awards New Orleans its 16th franchise (All Saints Day)
1966 ― William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km
1968 ― US pro soccer 14 teams merged into 1 all star team
1969 ― Beatles’ “Abbey Road,” album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks
1970 ― 1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea
1970 ― Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked & 142 die
1971 ― Eisenhower dollar put into circulation
1972 ― Germain Gagnon scores 1st Islander hat trick
1974 ― Fire kills 189 in less than 25 min (Sao Paulo Brazil)
1976 ― Gilbert Is (Kiribati) obtains internal self-gov’t from Britain
1977 ― Islander Goran Hogosta’s only shut-out Flames 9-0-Trottier 4 goals
1979 ― Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler
1979 ― Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US’s worst oil spill disaster
1981 ― 1st Class Mail raised from 18 to 20
1981 ― 3rd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets up 2-1 with 26-7 win
1981 ― Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1982 ― Andrew “Dice” Clay & George Wendt appear in “Trick or Treatment”
1984 ― Despite Mike Bossy 4 goals Islanders lose 5-6 to Canadians making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-77-3-4
1985 ― Nostalgia Television begins on cable
1987 ― 22,000 run in NYC Marathon (won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya 2h11m1s)
1987 ― New Orleans Saints shutout Atlanta Falcons 38-0
1987 ― NY Jets retire Don Maynards #13
1988 ― Actor Jeff Goldblum & actress Geena Davis wed in Las Vegas
1988 ― Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones
1989 ― Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights
1990 ― Last of Margaret Thatcher’s original cabinet resigns, Deputy PM Sir Geoffrey Howe
1990 ― Rhetoric escalates as Bush likens Saddam to Hitler
1990 ― Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts
1993 ― European Union comes into existence