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'''November 1''' is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. {| align=right id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"|Oct – '''November''' – Dec |- style="background:#ccccff; text-align:center;" |width=14%| Su |width=14%| Mo |width=14%| Tu |width=14%| We |width=14%| Th |width=14%| Fr |width=14%| Sa |- style="text-align:center;" |   | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |- style="text-align:center;" | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |- style="text-align:center;" | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |- style="text-align:center;" | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |- style="text-align:center;" | 28 | 29 | 30 ||colspan=4|   |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"| 2004 day arrangement
All days |} == Events == * 1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time. * 1521 - The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, was first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage. * 1530 - An approximated 400,000 die after the Netherlands' dikes fail. * 1604 - At Whitehall Palace in London, the William Shakespeare tragedy ''Othello'' is presented for the first time. * 1611 - At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's romantic comedy ''The Tempest'' is presented for the first time. * 1683 - The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties. * 1755 - Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty and ninety thousand people. * 1765 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America. * 1800 -In the United States, the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House). Construction was completed * 1848 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with Boston University School of Medicine), opens. * 1859 - The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lighted for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for nineteen miles. * 1861 - American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George McClellan as commander of the Union Army, replacing the aged General Winfield Scott. * 1870 - In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast. * 1876 - New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved. * 1894 - Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies. * 1896 - A picture showing the naked breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time. * 1914 - World War I: Battle of Coronel fought. This is the first British naval defeat of the war. * 1918 - Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 dead. * 1922 - The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates. * 1939 - The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is shown to the world. * 1943 - World War II: Operation Goodtime launched - United States Marines invade Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. * 1948 - 6,000 are killed as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks off southern Manchuria. * 1950 - Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman. * 1951 - US soldiers are exposed to an atomic explosion for training purposes in Desert Rock, Nevada; participation was not voluntary. * 1952 - Operation Ivy - The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["m" for megaton], at Eniwetok island in the Bikini atoll located in the Pacific Ocean. * 1954 - The Front de Lib�ration Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence. * 1955 - A United Airlines DC-6B exploded in mid-air and crashed near Longmont, Colorado killing 44 people * 1960 - While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps. * 1963 - The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opened. * 1963 - President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam was overthrown and executed in a coup d'�tat led by General Duong Van Minh. * 1969 - After seven years off the top of the charts, Elvis Presley's song "Suspicious Minds," hits No. 1 on the Billboard Music charts. * 1973 - Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor. * 1981 - Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom. * 1990 - Sandra Miller is awarded 100 US dollar for battery after an incident in which Mike Tyson grabbed her breasts and insulted her; the jury found Tyson's behaviour "not outrageous". * 1993 - The Maastricht Treaty activates, formally establishing the European Union. * 1994 - George Lucas leaves the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and starts a sabbatical (while on sabbatical, he wrote the prequel Star Wars trilogy). * 1994 - The Chijon Family is sentenced to death in South Korea for murdering and eating five people. * 1998 - The European Court of Human Rights is instituted. ==Births== *1339 - Rudolf IV of Austria (d. 1365) *1778 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837) *1798 - Sir Henry Lee Guinness, brewer *1871 - Stephen Crane, writer (d. 1900) *1877 - Roger Quilter, composer (d. 1953) *1880 - Alfred Wegener, meteorologist, geophysicist (d. 1930) *1880 - Sholom Asch, writer (d. 1957) *1880 - Grantland Rice, sports writer (d. 1954) *1886 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (d. 1951) *1892 - Alexander Alekhine, chess player (d. 1946) *1902 - Eugen Jochum, conductor (d. 1987) *1923 - Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction author (d. 2001) *1923 - Victoria de los Angeles, soprano *1929 - Betsy Palmer, actress *1934 - William Mathias, composer (d. 1992) *1935 - Gary Player, golfer *1940 - Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Chief Justice of India *1942 - Ralph Klein, Premier of Alberta *1943 - Salvatore Adamo Belgian/Italian singer *1952 - Larry Flynt, magazine publisher *1957 - Lyle Lovett, singer *1962 - Antony Kiedis, singer *1963 - Rick Allen, Def Leppard drummer *1967 - Sophie B. Hawkins, musician *1972 - Toni Collette, actress ==Deaths== *1894 - Alexander III, Tsar of Russia *1903 - Theodor Mommsen, author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1902 *1924 - William Tilghman, frontier marshal *1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam *1972 - Ezra Pound, poet *1979 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States *1982 - King Vidor, film director *1982 - James Broderick, actor *1983 - Anthony van Hoboken, musicologist *1985 - Phil Silvers, actor, comedian *1999 - Walter Payton, American football player * 2002 - K�te Jaenicke, actress ==Holidays== *National holiday of Algeria *Catholicism - Holy Day of Obligation All Saints Day. Holiday in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Lithuania and Croatia. *L� Samhna the traditional first day of Winter in modern Ireland, see also Samhain *Mexico and United States - The Day of the Dead * World Vegan Day ---- October 31 - November 2 - October 1 - December 1 - more historical anniversaries {| border="0" id="toc" style="margin: 0 auto" align=center |align=center| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |} af:11-01 bg:1 ноември ca:1 de novembre cy:1 Tachwedd da:1. november de:1. November et:1. november es:1 de noviembre eo:1-a de novembro fr:1er novembre fy:1 novimber hr:1. studenog is:1. n�vember it:1 novembre he:1 בנובמבר lt:Lapkričio 1 lb:1. November hu:November 1 nl:1 november ja:11月1日 nn:1. november no:1. november oc:1 de novembre pl:1 listopada ro:1 noiembrie ru:1 ноября sl:1. november fi:1. marraskuuta sv:1 november tr:1 Kasım uk:1 листопада zh:11月1日