TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: NOV 1
0079 The city of Pompeii is buried by eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
1210 King John of England begins imprisoning Jews
1512 Michelangelo’s painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling is exhibited for the first time.
1755 A great earthquake at Lisbon, Portugal, kills over 50,000 people.
1765 The British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American colonies. The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative power of the colonies.
1784 Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette & his descendants
1800 U.S. President John Adams became the first president to live in the White House when he moved in.
1814 Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars
1869 Louis Riel seizes Fort Garry, Winnipeg, during the Red River Rebellion.
1870 The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations.
1894 The last Tsar of Russia took over the reign of the empire after his father, Alexander III died. Nicholas was forced to abdicate in 1917 and was executed a year later along with his family.
1911 The first bomb launched from an aircraft was used by the Italians in the Italo-Turkish War. Prior to this, bombs were dropped using unmanned balloons.
1923 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company buys the rights to manufacture Zeppelin dirigibles.
1936 Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini announces the Rome-Berlin axis after Count Ciano’s visit to Germany.
1950 Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate U.S. President Harry Truman. One of the men was killed when they tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington, DC.
1952 “Ivy Mike”, the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the H-bomb design of Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, is detonated in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean
1955 A bomb hidden in checked luggage of United Airlines Flight 629 exploded over Longmont, Colorado killing all 44 people on board.
1966 NFL awards New Orleans its 16th franchise (All Saints Day)
1967 The first issue of Rolling Stone hits the streets.
1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson calls a halt to bombing in Vietnam, hoping this will lead to progress at the Paris peace talks.
1970 Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked & 142 die
1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged all Iranians to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand their attacks against the U.S. and Israel. On November 4, Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage.
1979 Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler
1982 Honda opens a plant in Marysville, Ohio, becoming the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the US.
1989 Tens of thousands of refugees to fled to the West when East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia.
1993 The Maastricht Treaty that created a common currency, the Euro, for European Union countries came into force
1995 In Dayton, OH, the Bosnian peace talks opened with the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia present.
1998 Iridium inaugurated the first handheld, global satellite phone and paging system.
2012 Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe’s first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
