November 01
Tuesday 01, 2005:
2005 - released on dvd.
Monday 01, 2004:
The Bank of Japan issues a new series of 1000, 5000, and 10,000 yen notes. Both old and the new series will circulate together.
Sunday 01, 1998:
The European Court of Human Rights is instituted.
Tuesday 01, 1994:
The Chijon Family is sentenced to death in South Korea for murdering and eating five people.
Monday 01, 1993:
The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
Thursday 01, 1990:
A New York City civil jury awards Sandra Miller $100 for battery after an incident in which Mike Tyson grabbed her breasts and insulted her; the jury found Tyson's behavior "not outrageous".
Sunday 01, 1981:
Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.
Saturday 01, 1980:
Wayanad district formed in the state of Kerala, India.
Thursday 01, 1973:
Formation of Karnataka state in India.
Saturday 01, 1969:
After seven years off the top of the charts, Elvis Presley hits No. 1 on the Billboard Music charts with his song "Suspicious Minds."
Friday 01, 1963:
President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is overthrown and executed in a coup d'état led by General Duong Van Minh.
Tuesday 01, 1960:
While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
Thursday 01, 1956:
Formation of Kerala state in India.
Tuesday 01, 1955:
A United Airlines DC-6B explodes in mid-air and crashes near Longmont, Colorado, killing 44 people
Monday 01, 1954:
The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
Saturday 01, 1952:
The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" , at Eniwetok island in the Bikini atoll located in the Pacific Ocean.
Thursday 01, 1951:
US soldiers are exposed to an atomic explosion for training purposes in Desert Rock, Nevada; participation was not voluntary.
Wednesday 01, 1950:
Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
Monday 01, 1948:
Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 are killed as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
Wednesday 01, 1944:
The British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
Monday 01, 1943:
United States Marines invade Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
Wednesday 01, 1939:
The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is shown to the world.
Wednesday 01, 1922:
The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
Friday 01, 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 dead.
Sunday 01, 1914:
World War I: the first British naval defeat of the war, the Battle of Coronel is fought off of the coast of Chile.
Friday 01, 1901:
Sigma Phi Epsilon, a national men's collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
Sunday 01, 1896:
A picture showing the naked breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
Thursday 01, 1894:
Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
Wednesday 01, 1876:
New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
Wednesday 01, 1871:
The Stamford to Bourne, Lincolnshire turnpike road was freed from tolls.
Tuesday 01, 1870:
In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
Friday 01, 1861:
American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George McClellan as commander of the Union Army, replacing the aged General Winfield Scott.
Tuesday 01, 1859:
The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lighted for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for 19 miles (30 kilometers).
Wednesday 01, 1848:
In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which will later merge with Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
Saturday 01, 1800:
US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
Monday 01, 1790:
Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in disaster.
Friday 01, 1765:
The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
Saturday 01, 1755:
Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty and ninety thousand people.
Monday 01, 1683:
The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
Tuesday 01, 1611:
William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
Monday 01, 1604:
William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
Sunday 01, 1592:
At the Battle of Busan, the outnumbered Korean navy defeats a larger Japanese army.
Saturday 01, 1530:
An approximated 400,000 die after the Netherlands' dikes fail.
Monday 01, 1520:
The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage.
Friday 01, 1512:
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
Tuesday 01, 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).
Wednesday 01, 79:
Pompeii is buried by Mount Vesuvius.
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