About November 1
November 1, 2023 is the 305th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 60 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 101 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 1
- 1179 –Philip II is crowned King of France.
- 1512 –The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
- 1520 –The Strait of Magellan is discovered, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during the first global circumnavigation voyage.
- 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
- 1814 –Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
- 1870 –In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
- 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.
- 1901 –Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
- 1945 –Australia joins the United Nations.
- 1945 –The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
- 1948 –Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned.
- 1950 –Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
- 1952 –Operation Ivy – The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed “Mike” [“M” for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.
- 1954 –The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
- 1960 –While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
- 1968 –The Motion Picture Association of America’s film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
- 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.
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