TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: NOVEMBER 1
0079 Pompei buried by Mt Vesuvius https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/pompeii
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 The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative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.
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
1861 Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, 50 year-veteran and leader of the U.S. Army at the onset of the Civil War, retires. General George McClellan is appointed general-in-chief of the Union armies.
1894 Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris
1894 Nicholas II became Tsar of Russia. 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 Italian planes perform the first aerial bombing on Tanguira oasis in Libya.
1936 Benito Mussolini made a speech in Milan, Italy, in which he described the alliance between Italy and Nazi Germany as an “axis” running between Berlin and Rome.
1945 John H. Johnson publishes the first issue of Ebony magazine.
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.
1955 United Airlines Flight 629 blows up over Colorado. 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)
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.
1982 Honda opens a plant in Marysville, Ohio, becoming the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the US.
1993 Maastricht Treaty comes into force. The Maastricht Treaty that created a common currency, the Euro, for European Union countries came into force
1994 The Amazon.com domain name was registered.
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, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
