WEDNESDAY, Nov. 01, 2023

1604 — William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" first presented

1611 — Shakespeare's romantic comedy "The Tempest" first presented

1787 — First free school in NYC (African Free School) opens

1800 — First President to live in the white house (John Adams)

1848 — First U.S. women's medical school opens (Boston)

1870 — U.S. Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)

1922 — Ottoman Empire abolished

1939 — First animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed

1950 — Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at the Blair House

1952 — Fusion occurred for the first time on Earth

1979 — Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in U.S.'s worst oil spill disaster

1981 — Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1990 — Rhetoric escalates as Bush likens Saddam to Hitler

1993 — European Union comes into existence