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Celebrate November 1:
All Saints Day - Also known as All Hallows Day this celebration was first held in the year 835. This day is to honor all those saints who do not have a special feast day of their own.
Birthday of the Bra - New York debutante Mary Jacob invented the modern lightweight bra in 1914.
Forward Pass Day - This day forward passes were first used when Notre Dame beat Army 35 to 15.
First Hydrogen Bomb - Exploded on this day in 1952 at Eniwetok Atoll.
Money Order Day - On this day in 1864, the U.S. Post Office introduced the first money orders.
National Authors Day - This celebration was first proposed by Mrs. Nellie Burt McPherson to celebrate American authors and to encourage and inspire new authors. It has been celebrated on November 1, since 1928. It is sponsored today by Mrs. Sue Cole - the granddaughter of Nellie.
Plan Your Epitaph Day - Held on the day that is often called the 'Day of the Dead,' this day is to encourage one to think of the words they would like to see on
their own tombstone. Write your own epitaph - and make it great. Sponsor: Dead or Alive.
Born on this Day
1470: Edward V, King of England.
1500: Benevenuto Cellini
1609: Judge Matthew Hale
1636: Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux
1757: Italian sculptor Antonio Canova
1762: Spencer Perceval, British Prime
Minister.
1871: Journalist and novelist Stephen Crane
(The Red Badge of Courage)
1880: Sportswriter-poet Grantland Rice and
Polish author Sholem Asch
1920: Newspaper columnist James J. Kilpatrick
1926: Musician (alto saxophone) Lou Donaldson
(New Faces New Sounds, The Time is Right, Midnight Sun, Here 'Tis, The Natural Soul)
1926: Betsy Palmer (TV panelist: I've Got a
Secret - Actress: Knots Landing, The Last Angry Man, It Could Happen to Jane, Mr. Roberts)
1929: Actress Betsy Palmer
1935: Golfer Gary Player (Masters [1961, 1974,
1978]; PGA [1962, 1972]; PGA Seniors [1986, 1988, 1990]; U.S. Senior Open [1987, 1988])
1937: Country singer/songwriter 'Whispering' Bill(James) Anderson (writer: City Lights, I Missed Me, Happy Birthday to Me - singer:
Three Times a Lady, Still, My Life, If It's All the Same to You, Someday We'll be
Together)
1939: Actress Barbara Bosson (Hill Street
Blues, Cop Rock, Richie Brockelman, Private Eye, Hooperman, The Committee, The Last
Starfighter)
1941: Actor Robert Foxworth (Falcon Crest,
Storefront Lawyers, Double Standard, Ants, Frankenstein, Damien: Omen 2)
1942: Actress Marcia Wallace (The Bob Newhart
Show, My Mom's a Werewolf)
1942: Magazine publisher (Hustler) Larry Flynt
1944: Musician (guitar) Chris Morris (Paper
Lace: The Night Chicago Died)
1945: Musician (groups: Family; Blind Faith;
Traffic; Crickets; Square Dance Machine)
1947: Football Hall of Famer Ted Hendricks
1949: Actress Jeannie Berlin (The Heartbreak
Kid, Portnoy's Complaint, In the Spirit, The Baby Maker) some sources list 1950
1950: Pop singer-musician Dan Peek (formerly
with America)
1951: Rhythm-and-blues musician Ronald Bell (Kool and the Gang)
1954: Country singer-songwriter-producer Keith
Stegall
1957: Country singer Lyle Lovett (Best Male
Country Vocal [1989])
1958: Actress Rachel Ticotin
1959: Rock musician Eddie MacDonald (The
Alarm)
1960: Baseball pitcher Fernando Valenzuela
1962: Rock singer Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot
Chili Peppers)
1962: Pop singer-musician Mags Furuholmen
(a-ha)
1963: Rock musician Rick Allen (Def Leppard)
1966: Rapper Willie D (Geto Boys)
1972: Actress Toni Collette
1972: Actress Jenny McCarthy
1972: Rock musician Andrew Gonzales (Reel Big
Fish)
1976: Actress Helene Udy ("Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman")
0079: Pompei buried by Mt Vesuvius.
0670: Death of St. Omer
1141: The rebel Earl of
Glouchester exchanged for King Stephen of England
1216: Fourth Lateran Council
begins
1503: Election of Julius II
as Pope
1512: Michelangelo's
paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.
1604:, William Shakespeare's
tragedy "Othello" was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.
1611: Shakespeare's romantic
comedy "The Tempest" was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.
1623: Fire at Plymouth,
Massachusetts destroys several buildings .
1755: An earthquake in
Lisbon, Portugal, killed 60,000 people. (killed about 2/3 of the population)
1765: The Stamp Act went
into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
1848: The first medical
school exclusively for women opened its doors to twelve students. The Boston Female
Medical School was founded by Samuel Gregory. Twenty-six years later, the school merged
with Boston University School of Medicine becoming one of the first coed medical colleges
in the world.
1861: General George B.
McClellan was made General-in-Chief of the Union armies.
1864: The US Post Office
began selling money orders.
1870: The United States
Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations, using reports gathered by
telegraph from 24 locations.
1871: Twenty-year-old Gustav
Mahler wrote that he had become a vegetarian. He said he thought it would regenerate the
human race if everybody stopped eating meat.
1894: The publication,
"Billboard Advertising" appeared for the first time. The periodical cost 10
cents. Today, the weekly magazine costs about $250 a year and is known as
"Billboard", the longtime bible of the radio and music industry.
1911: The famous soprano
Mary Garden put her mouth where other people's money was, she sold her kisses for charity.
One winning bidder reported, quote, "she is some kisser."
1918: The Hapsburg monarchy
of Austria-Hungary was dissolved. Vienna became the capital of Austria and Budapest the
capital of Hungary.
1922: Following the collapse
of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey became a republic.
1923: Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company buys the rights to manufacture Zeppelin dirigibles.
1936: Rodeo Cowboy’s
Association founded.
1936: In a speech in Milan,
Italy, Benito Mussolini described the alliance between his country and Nazi Germany as an
"axis" running between Rome and Berlin.
1940: "A Night in the Tropics", the first movie for (Bud) Abbott and (Lou) Costello, was released.
1944: The whimsical tale
about an invisible rabbit named "Harvey" opened in New York City. One year
later, the play by Mary Chase, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
1950: Two Puerto Rican
nationalists tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington in an attempt to
assassinate President Truman. Today's History Focus
1950: Charles Cooper, the
first black man to play in the National Basketball Association, hit the hardwood.
1952: The United States
exploded the first hydrogen bomb, in a test at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands.
1954: The western African
nation of Algeria began its rebellion against French rule.
1968: Lyndon B. Johnson
calls a halt to bombing in Vietnam, hoping this will lead to progress at the Paris peace
talks.
1968: George Harrison became
the first Beatle to release a solo album, "Wonderwall Music," the movie
soundtrack.
1968: The current movie
rating system of G, M, R, X, followed by PG-13 and now, NC-17, went into. The Production
Code Administration hands out the ratings.
1969: Elvis Presley scored
his first number-one hit in more than seven years with "Suspicious Minds." It
would turn out to be his last.
1969: The last album of The
Beatles reached #1 on the album chart. "Abbey Road" was the top LP for a total
of eleven weeks (nonconsecutively).
1972: The poet Ezra Pound
died leaving behind not just his poetry but a good deal of music criticism which he wrote
under the name Walter Atheling. Ezra Pound also wrote a book on harmony and composed two
works that he called "anti-operas."
1973: In the wake of the
"Saturday Night Massacre," Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork appointed Leon
Jaworski to be the new Watergate special prosecutor, succeeding Archibald Cox.
1975: Elton John's
"Island Girl" hit number one on the "Billboard Hot 100." The song
parked itself at the top of the hit heap for 3 weeks.
1983: The U.S. House of
Representatives voted 403-23 in favor of legislation to apply the War Powers Resolution to
the U.S.-led military operation in Grenada, four days after the Senate passed its own
legislation.
1984: Indians turned out by
the hundreds of thousands to pay respects to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who'd been
assassinated the day before by two Sikh security guards.
1985: 22 members of a
Mexican anti-narcotics squad were killed by alleged drug traffickers in the village of
Ignacio Aldama.
1986: Anglican hostage
negotiator Terry Waite, on another visit to Lebanon, temporarily dropped from sight after
announcing progress in efforts to free kidnapped Westerners.
1987: Chinese leader Deng
Xiaoping retired from the Communist Party's Central Committee.
1987: Ibrahim Hussein of
Kenya won the New York City Marathon in two hours, eleven minutes and one second;
Priscilla Welch of Britain led the women in two hours, 30 minutes and 16 seconds.
1988: Israeli voters went to
the polls in parliamentary elections that resulted in a narrow victory for the right-wing
Likud bloc, requiring the creation of a coalition government.
1989: East Germany reopened
its border with Czechoslovakia, prompting tens of thousands of refugees to flee to the
West.
1989: Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega announced the end of a unilateral cease-fire with the Contra rebels.
1990: During a trip to Orlando, Florida, President Bush accused Iraqi forces of engaging in "barbarism" and "brutality," adding, "I don't believe that Adolf Hitler ever participated in anything of that nature."
1991: Clarence Thomas took
his place as the newest justice on the US Supreme Court.
1992: The space shuttle
"Columbia" landed at Cape Canaveral, Florida, ending a ten-day mission that
included the deployment of an Italian satellite.
1992: South African runner
Willie Mtolo won the New York City marathon; Australia's Lisa Ondieki won the women's
title.
1993: The space shuttle
"Columbia" landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, ending a two-week
mission.
1993: In an address to
pediatricians, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton accused insurance companies of waging a
deceitful campaign against the administration's health plan.
1994: The Senate
Intelligence Committee released a report saying that CIA Director R. James Woolsey's
response to the Aldrich Ames spy case was "seriously inadequate," but that his
predecessors were ultimately to blame.
1995: Bosnia peace talks
opened in Dayton, Ohio, with the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia present.
1995: The House voted to ban so-called "partial birth" abortions by a vote of 288-139.
1996: Accused of peddling
access to the Oval Office, President Clinton demanded an end to what he called the
"escalating arms race" for political money. Bob Dole countered with his own
solutions to "a growing scandal" of Democratic financial sins.
1997: Chinese President
Jiang Zemin defended his government during an appearance at Harvard University, but
conceded that China had made mistakes. Meanwhile, about 2,000 people demonstrated outside
both for and against the Chinese government.
1998:John Kagwe of Kenya won
the New York City Marathon for the second straight year; Franca Fiacconi became the first
Italian to win the women's division.
1998: The military arm of
the radical Islamic group Hamas made an unprecedented threat against Yasser Arafat,
demanding the Palestinian leader halt a crackdown against it, or face violent
vengeance.
1999: Former Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton, the NFL's all-time leading rusher, died of bile duct cancer at age 45.
1999: Coast Guard crews searching for clues in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, which claimed 217 lives, found the first large piece of wreckage off the New England coast.
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