Today is Thursday, November 1, the 305th day of 2007. There are 62 days left in the year.
79 _ Pompei buried by Mt. Vesuvius
1210 _ King John of England begins imprisoning Jews
1604 _ William Shakespeare's tragedy ``Othello" first presented
1755 _ Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000
1784 _ Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette and his descendants
1922 _ The Ottoman Empire abolished
1936 _ Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an ``axis"
1946 _ The West German state of Niedersachsen formed
1954 _ Algeria begins rebellion against French rule
1956 _ The Indian state of Madhya Pradesh formed
1960 _ The Benelux treaty goes into effect
1962 _ Greece enters the European Common Market
1971 _ The Eisenhower dollar put into circulation
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
1993 _ European Union comes into existence