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
- 365 –The Alamanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities.
- 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).
- 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.”
- 1765 –The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
- 1800 –US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
- 1814 –Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
- 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.
- 1911 –The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
- 1914 –World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
- 1916 –Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous “stupidity or treason” speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
- 1918 –Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 deaths.
- 1920 –American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
- 1922 –The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
- 1939 –The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
- 1941 –American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
- 1945 –Australia joins the United Nations.
- 1950 –Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
- 1954 –The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
- 1959 –In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.
- 1981 –Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.
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