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
- 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.”
- 1512 –The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1901 –Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
- 1938 –Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed “the match of the century” in horse racing.
- 1948 –Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned.
- 1948 –Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people are killed as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
- 1950 –Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
- 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.
- 1953 –Andhra Pradesh attained statehood on 1 November 1953, with Kurnool as its capital.
- 1954 –The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
- 1959 –Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.
- 1960 –While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
- 1961 –50,000 women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.
- 1963 –The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
- 1968 –The Motion Picture Association of America’s film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
- 1993 –The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
- 2000 –Serbia joins the United Nations.
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