TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: NOV 1

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

0835 – All Saints Day made compulsory by Pope Gregory IV throughout Frankish Kingdom

1179 – Phillip II crowned King of France aged 14 at Reims, with his father Louis VII in ill health

1210 – King John of England begins imprisoning Jews

1348 – The Black Death reaches London on or about this date

1349 – Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells

1512 – Michelangelo’s paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.

1570 – All Saints Flood, tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland; killing more than 1,000 people.

1604 – William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Othello” first presented

1683 – The English crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.

1755 – At least 60,000 people were killed in Lisbon, Portugal by an earthquake, its aftershocks and the ensuing tsunami.

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 The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative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 and 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

1848 – The first medical school for women, founded by Samuel Gregory, opened in Boston, MA. The Boston Female Medical School later merged with Boston University School of Medicine.

1861 – Gen. George B. McClellan was made the general-in-chief of the American Union armies.

1864 – The U.S. Post Office started selling money orders. The money orders provided a safe way to payments by mail.

1870 – The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations using 24 locations that provided reports via telegraph.

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.

1904 – The Army War College in Washington, DC, enrolled the first class.

1911 – Italy used planes to drop bombs on the Tanguira oasis in Libya. It was the first aerial bombing.

1921 – National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League

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.

1937 – Stalinists execute by shooting Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan’s Lutheran community (including three women).

1940 – 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa

1941 – Ansel Adams shoots ‘Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico’, one of his most famous photographs

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

1954 – Algeria began to rebel against French ru

1954 – US Senate admonishes Joseph McCarthy because of his slander campaigns

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.

1963 – The USSR launched Polyot I. It was the first satellite capable of maneuvering in all directions and able to change its orbit.

1968 – The movie rating system of G, M, R, X, followed by PG-13 and NC-17 went into effect.

1970 – Fire at Club Cinq-Sept Discotheque in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, kills 146, as all emergency exits were padlocked

1973 – Leon Jaworski was appointed the new Watergate special prosecutor in the Watergate case.

1976 – W German Generals Krupinski and Franke admit to having been Nazis

1977 – US President Jimmy Carter raises the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st Jan 1981

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 – US Federal government proposes making a $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler

1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.

1985 – In the village of Ignacio Aldama, 22 members of a Mexican anti-narcotics squad were killed by alleged drug traffickers.

1989 – Tens of thousands of refugees to fled to the West when East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia.

1990 – Rhetoric escalates as George Bush likens Saddam Hussein to Adolf Hitler

1991 – Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.

1993 – The Maastricht Treaty that created a common currency, the Euro, for European Union countries came into force

1994 – Muslim fundamentalists in Mostaganem Algeria murder 5 children

1998 – Nicaraguan Vice President Enrique Bolanos announced that between 1,000 and 1,500 people were buried in a 32-square mile area below the slopes of the Casita volcano in northern Nicaragua by a mudslide caused by Hurricane Mitch.

1998 – Iridium inaugurated the first handheld, global satellite phone and paging system.

2005 – First part of the Gomery Report, which discusses allegations of political money manipulation, is released in Canada.

2012 – 22 people are killed and 111 injured after a fuel tanker explodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2012 – Acid is poured over a 15 year old girl by her parents after being seen talking to a young man in an “honour killing” in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan

2012 – Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe’s first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang

2017 – UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon resigns due to his behavior towards women, part of wider scandal of sexual harassment by UK politicians

2018 – Google employees stage mass walkout to protest the company’s handling of sexual harassment

2020 – Gunmen kill at least 32 people, set fire to homes in Oromia state, Ethiopia, in attack blamed on rebel Oromo Liberation Army

REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com