About November 1
November 1, 2024 is the 306th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 60 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 89 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 1
- 1512 –The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
- 1611 –William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
- 1683 –The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
- 1688 –William III of Orange sets out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to invade England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution.
- 1765 –The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
- 1790 –Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
- 1848 –In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
- 1859 –The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
- 1870 –In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
- 1884 –The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes’s Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
- 1886 –Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka is established with 37 students.
- 1896 –A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
- 1897 –The first Library of Congress building opened its doors to the public. The Library had been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
- 1920 –American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
- 1943 –World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
- 1951 –Operation Buster-Jangle: 6,500 American soldiers are exposed to ‘Desert Rock’atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
- 1955 –The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
- 1959 –Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.
- 1963 –The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
- 1973 –The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
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