1 November

The 1t o November is the 305t day o the year (306t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 60 days bidin.

Events

1512: The ceilin o the Sistine Chaipel

The Lisbon yirdquauk o 1755

1952: Ivy Mike bomb test ower Eniwetok Atoll

1981: Banner o Antigua an Barbuda

• 996 - First documentit mention o Austrick.
• 1197 - Philip II o Fraunce is crouned.
• 1512 - Michelangelo finishes pentin the ruif o the Sistine Chaipel.
• 1520 - Ferdinand Magellan's expedeetion enters the nou-named Magellan Strait in the far sooth o Sooth Americae.
• 1570 - The Aw Saunts' Day fluid kills ower 20,000 fowk in the Netherlands.
• 1700 - King Charles II o Spain dees, spairkin the War o the Spaingie Succession.
• 1755 - 1755 Lisbon yirdquauk: A major yirdquauk hits Lisbon, Portugal an is felt aroond Europe an North Africae.
• 1800 - John Adams becomes the first US Preses tae wal in the White House.
• 1814 - The Congress o Vienna stairts.
• 1876 - The North Sea Canal in the Netherlands opens.
• 1894 - Nicholas II o Roushie becomes Tsar.
• 1897 - Juventus F.C. is foondit.
• 1918 - Wastren Ukraine gains unthirldom frae Austrick-Hungary.
• 1922 - The Ottoman Sultanate is dissolved.
• 1945 - Australie jyns the Unitit Naitions.
• 1952 - The Unitit States detonates the "Ivy Mike" hydrogen bomb ower Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
• 1954 - Algerie's War o Unthirldom (frae Fraunce) stairts.
• 1956 - In Indie, the states o Andhra Pradesh, Mysore (nou Karnataka) an Kerala are creatit.
• 1956 - Hungarian Revolution o 1956: Hungary propales its withdrawal frae the Warsaw Pact, leadin the Soviet Union tae intervene.
• 1956 - The Springhill Minin Disaster in Nova Scotia, Canadae, kills 39 fowk.
• 1970 - The St.-Laurent-du-Pont nichtclub fire in Fraunce kills 146 fowk.
• 1981 - Antigua an Barbuda achieves unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
• 1984 - Anti-Sikh riotin occurs in Indie efter the assassination o Indira Gandhi.
• 1986 - A chemical fire naur Basel, Swisserland, pollutes the Rhine.
• 1993 - The Maastricht Treaty becomes effective, creatin the European Union.
• 1995 - Peace talks stairt in Dayton, Ohio, tae solve the conflict in Bosnie an Herzegovinae.
• 2000 - The Indie state o Chhattisgarh is creatit.
• 2000 - The Republic o Serbie an Montenegro jyns the Unitit Naitions.
• 2003 - Jean-Claude Trichet becomes Heid o the European Central Bank.
• 2011 - Mario Draghi becomes Heid o the European Central Bank.
• 2012 - A fuel tanker lorry crashes an splodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabie, killin 26 fowk.
• 2014 - A massive pouer grid failur affects Bangladesh.
• 2015 - The Inglis Wikipaedia reaches five million airticles.
• 2019 - Christine Lagarde becomes Heid o the European Central Bank.

Births

Alfred Wegener

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

• 846 - Louis the Stammerer, Frankish king (d. 879)
• 1757 - Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor (d. 1822)
• 1762 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1812)
• 1778 - Gustav IV Adolf o Swaden (d. 1837)
• 1778 - Mary Brunton, Scots novelist (d. 1818)
• 1782 - F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscoont Goderich, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1859)
• 1828 - Balfour Stewart, Scots pheesicist (d. 1887)
• 1871 - Stephen Crane, American writer (d. 1900)
• 1878 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politeecian (d. 1959)
• 1880 - Alfred Wegener, German geopheesicist an meteorologist (d. 1930)
• 1886 - Hermann Broch, Austrick writer (d. 1951)
• 1889 - Philip Noel-Baker, Breetish politeecian, athlete an activist (d. 1982)
• 1897 - Naomi Mitchison, Scots novelist an poet (d. 1999)
• 1924 - Süleyman Demirel, Preses o Turkey (d. 2015)
• 1935 - Edward Said, Palestinian-American writer an intellectual (d. 2003)
• 1935 - Gary Player, Sooth African gowfer
• 1942 - Marcia Wallace, American actress (d. 2013)
• 1947 - Gordon Brown, Scots rugby union player (d. 2001)
• 1950 - Robert B. Laughlin, American pheesicist
• 1960 - Tim Cook, American businessman, CEO o Apple Inc.
• 1962 - Anthony Kiedis, American sangster
• 1966 - Jeremy Hunt, Inglis politeecian
• 1972 - Toni Collette, Australie actress
• 1972 - Paul Dickov, Scots fitbawer
• 1973 - Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Indie actress an model
• 1974 - Stephen Gallacher, Scots gowfer
• 1988 - Scott Arfield, Scots-Canadian fitbawer
• 1993 - Sean Kelly, Scots fitbawer

Daiths

• 1700 - Charles II o Spain (b. 1661)
• 1835 - William Motherwell, Scots poet, antiquary an jurnalist (b. 1797)
• 1894 - Alexander III o Roushie (b. 1845)
• 1903 - Theodor Mommsen, German historian an writer (b. 1817)
• 1956 - Pietro Badoglio, Italian general an politeecian (b. 1871)
• 1972 - Ezra Pound, American poet (b. 1885)
• 1993 - Severo Ochoa, Spaingie biochemist (b. 1905)
• 2015 - Günter Schabowski, German politeecian (b. 1929)

Halidays

Aw Saunts' Day in a Pols kirkyard

• Aw Saunts' Day
• Day o the Dead, seicont day (Mexico)
• Independence Day (Antigua an Barbuda)
• Naitional Day (Algerie)
• Foondation Day (Kerala, Karnataka)
• Warld Vegan Day