About November 1
November 1, 2021 is the 305th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 60 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 92 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 1
- 996 –Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
- 1179 –Philip II is crowned King of France.
- 1348 –The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus “royalists.”
- 1555 –French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 1604 –William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
- 1612 –(22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
- 1790 –Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
- 1814 –Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
- 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.
- 1901 –Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
- 1916 –Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous “stupidity or treason” speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
- 1937 –Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan’s Lutheran community.
- 1945 –Australia joins the United Nations.
- 1950 –Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
- 1951 –Operation Buster-Jangle: 6,500 American soldiers are exposed to ‘Desert Rock’atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
- 1953 –Andhra Pradesh attained statehood on 1 November 1953, with Kurnool as its capital.
- 1956 –The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore state are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
- 1973 –Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
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