SomeFacts | November 1

On this day - November 1

1141 — Empress Matilda's reign as "Lady of the ...

1179 — Philip II is crowned King of France.

1214 — The port city of Sinope surrenders to the Seljuq Turks.

1348 — The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of ...

1503 — Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere is elected Pope and takes the ...

1512 — The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is ...

1520 — The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of ...

1555 — French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in ...

1570 — The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.

1612 — During the Time of Troubles, Polish troops are expelled from ...

1683 — The British Crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 ...

1688 — William III of Orange sets out a second time from ...

1755 — In Portugal, Lisbon is totally devastated by a massive ...

1765 — The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen ...

1790 — Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in ...

1800 — John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to ...

1805 — Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third ...

1814 — Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map ...

1848 — In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, ...

1861 — American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints ...

1870 — In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the ...

1893 — The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive ...

1894 — Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Native Americans, and Annie Oakley ...

1894 — Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after ...

1896 — A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in ...

1897 — Italian Sport-Club Juventus is founded by a group of students ...

1897 — The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the ...

1905 — Lahti, a city in Finland, is granted city rights by Tsar ...

1911 — World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place ...

1914 — World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ...

1914 — World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war ...

1916 — In Russia, Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the ...

1918 — Western Ukraine separates from Austria-Hungary.

1918 — Malbone Street wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in US ...

1918 — World War I: With a brave action carried out into the waters ...

1922 — Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the ...

1923 — The Finnish airline Aero O/Y (now Finnair) is founded.

1928 — The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish ...

1937 — Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of ...

1938 — Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a ...

1941 — American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a ...

1942 — World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the ...

1943 — World War II: The 3rd Marine Division, United States Marines, ...

1944 — World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren.

1945 — The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first ...

1948 — Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, is ...

1949 — All 55 people on board Eastern Air Lines Flight 537 are killed ...

1950 — Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo ...

1951 — Operation Buster–Jangle: Six thousand five hundred United ...

1952 — Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully ...

1954 — The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the ...

1955 — The bombing of United Air Lines Flight 629 occurs near ...

1955 — The establishment of a Military Assistance Advisory Group in ...

1956 — The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia ...

1956 — Hungarian Revolution: Imre Nagy announces Hungary's ...

1956 — The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore are ...

1957 — The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension ...

1963 — The 1963 South Vietnamese coup begins.

1963 — The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the ...

1968 — The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating ...

1970 — Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 ...

1973 — The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to ...

1973 — Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new ...

1976 — Burundian president Michel Micombero is deposed in a bloodless ...

1979 — Griselda Álvarez becomes the first female governor of a state ...

1979 — In Bolivia, Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup ...

1981 — Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1982 — Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce ...

1984 — After the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of ...

1987 — British Rail Class 43 (HST) hits the record speed of 238 km/h ...

1991 — President of the Chechen Republic Dzhokhar Dudayev declares ...

1993 — The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the ...

1997 — Titanic premieres publicly at Tokyo festival, launching a ...

2000 — Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.

2000 — Chhattisgarh officially becomes the 26th state of India, ...

2001 — Turkey, Australia, and Canada agree to commit troops to the ...

2009 — An Ilyushin Il-76 crashes near the Mir mine after takeoff from ...

2011 — Mario Draghi succeeds Jean-Claude Trichet and becomes the ...

2012 — A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in the Saudi Arabian ...

2024 — A concrete canopy collapses at the Novi Sad railway station, ...