Today in History - November 1
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79AD Nov 1,
Pompeii was buried by eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. [see Aug 24]
(HN, 11/1/98)
636 Nov 1, Nicholas
Boileau-Despreaux, French poet, was born. He was also a critic and
official royal historian and wrote "Lutrin. "
(HN, 11/1/99)
834 Nov 1, This day was declared
to be All Saints’ Day by the Catholic Church. [see 835AD]
(SFC, 10/31/01, p.C2)
835 Nov 1, After the spread
of Christianity through the west, the Roman Catholic Church in 835 A.D.
made November 1 a church holiday to honor all the saints. This
celebration was called All Saint's Day or All Hallows and the day
before it--October 31--was called All Hallow's Eve (later Halloween).
Pope Gregory extended the Feast of All Saints on Nov 1 to France and
Germany. [see 834AD]
(PTA, 1980, p.204)(HNPD, 10/31/99)
846 Nov 1, Louis II, the
Stutterer, King of France (877-79), was born.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1210 Nov 1, King John of England
began imprisoning Jews.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1349 Nov 1, Duke of Brabant
ordered the execution of all Jews in Brussels. He accused them of
poisoning the wells.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1355 Nov 1, During the
Hundred Years’ War (1337-1457) an English invasion army under Black
Prince Edward (25) landed at Calais.
(DoW, 1999, p.213)(PC, 1992 ed, p.131)
1470 Nov 1, Edward V, King of
England, was born. [see Nov 3]
(HN, 11/1/98)
1500 Nov 1, Benvunuto Cellini
(d.1571), Italian goldsmith and sculptor, was born. His 1545
autobiography greatly influenced the Renaissance.
(HN, 11/1/00)(WSJ, 2/14/00, p.A20)
1512 Nov 1, Michelangelo's
paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were completed and first
exhibited to the public.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.10)(AP, 11/1/97)(HN, 11/1/98)
1535 Nov 1, Francesco Sforza,
Italian ruler ("Il Sforza del Destino") Milan, died.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1582 Nov 1, Maurice of Nassau, the
son of William of Orange, became the governor of Holland, Zeeland and
Utrecht.
(HN, 11/1/98)
1604 Nov 1, William Shakespeare's
tragedy "Othello" was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.
(AP, 11/1/99)
1611 Nov 1, Shakespeare's romantic
comedy "The Tempest" was first presented at Whitehall.
(AP, 11/1/99)
1630 Nov 1-1630 Nov 30, In Italy
12,000 inhabitants of Venice died of plague. 80,000 people died over a
period of 17 months.
(WSJ, 9/7/05,
p.D14)(www.turismovenezia.it/eng/dynalay.asp?PAGINA=913)
1636 Nov 1, Nicholas Boileaus,
French poet and historian, was born.
(HN, 11/1/00)
1672 Nov 1, Heinrich Schutz
(87), composer, died. Pupil of Giovanni Gabrielli from 1609-1672, he
was employed by the Elector of Saxony in 1615 and became Kapellmeister
two years later. While employed by the Elector, Schütz made
several visits to Italy and served three two-year terms as guest court
conductor in Copenhagen. Schütz's works include one opera (a first
in the German language), Easter and Christmas oratorios, three
passions, numerous polychoral Psalm settings in the style of his
teacher, Gabrielli, other sacred concerted works in Latin and German,
and Italian madrigals.
(http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/schutz.html)
1688 Nov 1, William of Orange set
sail for England at the head of a fleet of 500 ships and 30,000 men. He
intended too oust his father-in-law King James II. The Dutch
parliament, the States General, funded William with 4 million guilders.
Amsterdam financiers provided another 2 million. Some of this was used
to print 60,000 copies of his “Declaration” (of the reasons inducing
him to appear in arms in the Kingdom of England), which were
distributed in England. In 2008 Lisa Jardine authored “Going Dutch: How
England Plundered Holland’s Glory.”
(WSJ, 8/28/08, p.A13)
1748 Nov 1, Christoph Rheineck,
composer, was born.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1750 Nov 1, Giuseppe Sammartini
(55), composer, died.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1755 Nov 1, An 8.7 earthquake hit
Lisbon, Portugal, and killed some 70,000 people. Heavy damage resulted
from ensuing fires and tsunami flooding in Morocco and nearly a quarter
of a million people were killed. In 2008 Nicholas Shrady authored “The
Last Day: Wrath, Ruin and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake.”
(HN,
11/1/98)(http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqsmosde.html)(Econ, 4/5/08,
p.86)
1757 Nov 1, Antonio Canova
(d.1822), Italian sculptor, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Canova)
1762 Nov 1, Spencer Perceval,
British Prime Minister, was born.
(HN, 11/1/98)
1765 Nov 1, The Stamp Act went
into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
(AP, 11/1/97)(HN, 11/1/98)
1769 Nov 1-1769 Nov 3, Sgt. Jose
Francisco Ortega with his scouting party first looked upon SF Bay from
the vicinity of Point Lobos.
(SFEC, 2/9/97, p.W4)
1776 Nov 1, Father Junipero Serra
arrived at the site of Mission of San Juan Capistrano and re-founded
it. His mission was to convert the members of the Acagchemem tribe
called Juanenos by the Spaniards. The tribe at the time was
experiencing the end of a 7-year draught.
(HT, 3/97,
p.58)(http://gocalifornia.about.com/cs/missioncalifornia/a/capistranohist.htm)
1783 Nov 1, Continental Army
dissolved and George Washington made his "Farewell Address." [See Nov 2]
(MC, 11/1/01)
1784 Nov 1, Maryland granted
citizenship to Lafayette and his descendents.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1798 Nov 1, Benjamin Lee Guinness,
Irish brewer and Dublin mayor, was born.
(HN, 11/1/00)(MC, 11/1/01)
1800 Nov 1, John and Abigail Adams
moved into “the President’s House” in Washington DC. It became known as
the White House during the Roosevelt administration.
(SFEC, 5/7/00, p.T8)(MC, 11/1/01)
1815 Nov 1, Crawford Williamson
Long, surgeon and pioneer (use of ether), was born.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1818 Nov 1, James Renwick,
architect, was born. His work included St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC.
(HN, 11/1/00)
1828 Nov 1, Balfour Steward,
Scottish physicist and meteorologist, was born.
(HN, 11/1/00)
1834 Nov 1, The 1st published
reference to poker was as Mississippi riverboat game.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1835 Nov 1, Godfrey Weitzel,
(Union volunteers Major general, died in 1884), was born.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1861 Nov 1, Lieutenant General
Winfield Scott, 50 year veteran and leader of the U.S. Army at the
onset of the Civil War, retired. Gen. George B. McClellan was made
General-in-Chief of the Union armies.
(AP, 11/1/97)(HN, 11/1/98)
1866 Nov 1, Belle Starr
[née Myra Maybelle Shirley], “Bandit Queen” and wild woman of
the west, married James C. Reed (d.1874) in Collins County, Texas.
(www.thehistorynet.com/we/blbanditqueenbellestar/)
1866 Nov 1, 1st Civil Rights Bill
passed.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1867 Nov 1, "Harpers Bazaar"
published.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1869 Nov 1, Louis Riel seized Fort
Garry, Winnipeg, during the Red River Rebellion. Louis Riel, Metis
leader, helped stage an uprising against the influx of white settlers
in Manitoba that resulted in a provisional government that he led.
Manitoba was admitted as Canada’s 5th province and the Metis were
allocated 1.4 million acres of land, but Riel fled charged with failing
to stop the execution of Thomas Scott, an English Protestant captured
during the fighting.
(SFC, 1/22/98, p.B2)(HN, 11/1/98)(Reuters, 11/22/02)
1870 Nov 1, The U.S. Weather
Bureau made its first meteorological observations, using reports
gathered by telegraph from 24 locations.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1871 Nov 1, Steven Crane, poet and
novelist, was born. He is best remembered as the author of “The Red
Badge of Courage” (1895), a realistic portrayal of one soldier's Civil
War battle experience. Crane's novels and short stories, which were
influenced by the French Naturalistic writers, showed individuals at
the mercy of natural and social forces. In the early 1890s Crane became
a freelance writer in the Bowery area of New York City and, resulting
from his firsthand observation of poverty in the slums, he wrote
“Maggie: A Girl of the Streets” (1893), a book considered shocking at
the time. Crane covered the Greco-Turkish War in 1897 and the
Spanish-American War in 1898 as a news correspondent. His later
short-story collections, such as “The Open Boat” and “Other Tales of
Adventure” (1898), are recognized as masterpieces of the form. Stephen
Crane died of tuberculosis in 1900 at the age of 28.
(WSJ, 8/6/98, p.A13)(HNPD, 11/1/98)(HN, 11/1/98)
1880 Nov 1, Sholem Asch,
Polish-born American novelist, was born. He wrote "The Nazarene" and
"The Apostle, Mary."
(HN, 11/1/99)
1880 Nov 1, Grantland Rice,
American sportswriter, was born.
(HN, 11/1/00)
1880 Nov 1, Alfred L Wegener,
German meteorologist (continental shift), was born.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1894 Nov 1, A vaccine for
diphtheria was announced by Dr. Roux of Paris.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1896 Nov 1, The 1st bare women
breast (Zulu) appeared in National Geographic Mag.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1902 Nov 1, Nordahl Brun Greig,
Norwegian writer, was born. He was a wartime hero during WWII.
(HN, 11/1/00)
1902 Nov 1, Eugen Jochum, German
conductor (Hamburg Orch), was born in Babenhausen, Bavaria.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1904 Nov 1, George Bernard Shaw's
"John Bull's Other Island," premiered in London.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1909 Nov 1, In San Francisco a ban
on cows went into effect, except for a narrow district that was set
apart for handling cattle to be slaughtered. A new ordnance made it
unlawful to keep more than 2 cows and provided that when 2 cows are
kept within city limits, at least an acre of land must be provided for
their pasturage.
(SSFC, 3/22/09, DB p.50)
1911 Nov 1, Italian planes
performed the first aerial bombing on Tanguira oasis in Libya. Lt.
Giulio Cavotti dropped a hand grenade on an oasis outside of Tripoli.
In 2001 Sven Lindqvist authored “A History of Bombing.”
(HN, 11/1/98)(SFC, 4/22/01, BR p.3)
1914 Nov 1, Von Hindenburg was
named marshal of Eastern front.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1914 Nov 1, German and British
fleets battled at Coronel, Chile.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1917 Nov 1, First US soldiers were
killed in combat in WW I.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1918 Nov 1, During a
wildcat strike a replacement motorman, behind schedule, was speeding a
Brighton Beach bound train down what is today the Franklin Avenue
shuttle. The train derailed on a curve and hit a tunnel wall on the
approach to the Prospect Park Station. 102 died in a NYC BMT subway
derailment at Malbone Street, Brooklyn.
(www.bmt-lines.com/history.html)
1918 Nov 1, Yugoslav battleship
Viribus Unitis was sunk by Italians.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1920 Nov 1, Eugene O'Neill's
"Emperor Jones," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1922 Nov 1, The Ottoman Empire
ended as Turkey’s Grand National Assembly abolished the sultanate. In
2006 Caroline Finkel authored “Osman’s Dream: The History of the
Ottoman Empire.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire)(WSJ,
4/11/06, p.D8)
1923 Nov 1, Victoria de Los
Angeles, Spanish opera soprano, was born.
(HN, 11/1/00)
1923 Nov 1, Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company bought the rights to manufacture Zeppelin dirigibles.
(HN, 11/1/98)
1924 Nov 1, Victoria de los
Angeles, soprano (Mimi-La Boheme), was born in Spain.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1924 Nov 1, Bill Tilghman
(b.1854), legendary Oklahoma marshal, was gunned down by a drunk in
Cromwell, Oklahoma, while trying to arrest Wiley Lynn, a corrupt
prohibition officer.
(HN,
11/1/98)(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAtilghman.htm)
1928 Nov 1, The Graf Zeppelin set
an airship distance record of 6384 km (3,966 mls).
(MC, 11/1/01)
1930 Nov 1, Albert Ramsdell
Gurney, American playwright, was born. His work included “Love Letters”
and “The Dining Room.”
(HN, 11/1/00)
1931 Nov 1, Dupont introduced
synthetic rubber. [see Nov 3]
(MC, 11/1/01)
1932 Nov 1, Werner von Braun was
named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1934 Nov 1, Jeanette MacDonald
arrived in San Francisco for the upcoming premier of “The Merry Widow,”
in which she co-starred with Maurice Chevalier.
(SSFC, 11/1/09, DB p.42)(TVM, 1977, p.470)
1935 Nov 1, T.S. Eliot's "Murder
in the Cathedral," premiered in London.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1936 Nov 1, The Rodeo Cowboy’s
Association was founded.
(HN, 11/1/98)
1936 Nov 1, 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 after Count
Ciano’s visit to Germany.
(AP, 11/1/97)(HN, 11/1/98)
1938 Nov 1, Seabiscuit raced
against Triple Crown War Admiral at Pimlico and won the match race. In
2001 Laura Hillenbrand authored “Seabiscuit: An American Legend.” Over
6 years the horse won 33 victories with record earnings of $437,730.
(WSJ, 3/9/00, p.W9)
1938 Nov 1, German colonel-general
Gerd von Runstedt retired.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1939 Nov 1, The 1st animal, a
rabbit, conceived by artificial insemination was displayed.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1939 Nov 1, 1st jet plane, a
Heinkel He 178, was demonstrated to German Air Ministry.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1940 Nov 1, 1st US air raid
shelter was made in Fleetwood, Pa.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1940 Nov 1, The Iceland skating
rink opened in Berkeley, Ca., with an appearance by Sonya Henie, the
former Olympic champion and Hollywood actress. The facility closed in
2007.
(SFC, 1/19/07, p.B2)
1941 Nov 1, Japanese marine staff
officers Suzuki and Maejima arrived in Pearl Harbor.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1941 Nov 1, Chetniks attacked
Tito's partisans in Uzice, Yugoslavia.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1942 Nov 1, The 10th day of battle
at El Alamein (Egypt).
(MC, 11/1/01)
1943 Nov 1, American troops
invaded Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
(HN, 11/1/98)
1944 Nov 1, "Harvey," a comedy by
Mary Coyle Chase about a man and his invisible friend, a 6-foot-tall
rabbit, opened on Broadway.
(AP, 11/1/99)
1944 Nov 1, Gen. Patton greeted
the 761st Tank Battalion, an all black unit, near Nancy, France. They
had no day off until linking Russian allies on May 5, 1945.
(SSFC, 5/30/04, p.B4)
1945 Nov 1, John H. Johnson
published the first issue of Ebony magazine.
(HN, 11/1/98)
1947 Nov 1, Man O' War (Big Red),
racehorse and triple crown winner, died.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1948 Nov 1, During the
Chinese Civil War (1945-1949) Mao's Red army conquered Mukden,
Manchuria.
(DoW, 1999, p.113)
1950 Nov 1, Two members of a
Puerto Rican nationalist movement, Oscar Collazo and Griselio
Torresola, tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington to
assassinate President Truman. The attempt failed, and one of the pair
Griselio Torresola, was shot dead. On July 24, 1952, Truman commuted
Collazo’s death sentence to life imprisonment, on the same day he
signed an act enlarging the self-government of Puerto Rico. In 2005
Stephen Hunter authored “American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry
Truman.”
(AP, 11/1/97)(HN, 11/1/98)(HNQ, 1/24/02)(WSJ,
11/8/05, p.D8)
1951 Nov 1, Johnny Mercer's "Top
Banana," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1951 Nov 1, A new US federal law
took effect that required bookies, lottery operators and punchboard
dealers to purchase a $50 gambling stamp.
(SFC, 1/25/02, p.G6)
1951 Nov 1, The 1st atomic
explosion, witnessed by troops, was at Yucca Flat, Nevada. Members of
the 1st Battalion, 188th Airborne Infantry Regiment from Ft. Campbell,
Kentucky, were the first unwitting test participants to be sent to that
facility by the Atomic Energy Commission and The Department of Defense
in a series of nuclear tests, code named "Buster-Jangle."
(www.angelfire.com/tx/atomicveteran/exposed.html)
1951 Nov 1, The Algerian National
Liberation Front began guerrilla warfare against the French.
(HN, 11/1/98)
1952 Nov 1, The United
States exploded the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Ivy Mike," in a
test at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. The element einsteinium was
discovered in the debris of the 1st hydrogen bomb test. In 2002 Greg
Herken authored "Brotherhood of the Bomb: the Tangled Lives and
Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller."
(AP, 11/1/07)(NH, 7/02, p.35)(SSFC, 10/12/02, p.M1)
1954 Nov 1, The US Senate
admonished Joseph McCarthy for his slander campaign.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1954 Nov 1, Algerian nationalists
began their successful eight-year rebellion against French rule. [see
Oct 31]
(AP, 11/1/06)
1954 Nov 1, General Fulgencio
Batista was elected president of Cuba.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1955 Nov 1, A time bomb aboard
United DC-6 killed 44 above Longmont, Colorado. Jack Gilbert Graham
rigged a time bomb for the Denver to Seattle flight and put it into his
mother’s suitcase in order to collect the insurance money. Graham was
executed in the gas chamber Jan 11, 1957.
(MC, 11/1/01)(AWC, 1982)
1955 Nov 1, Dale Carnegie
(b.1888), author of “How to Win Friends and Influence People” (1937),
died of Hodgkin’s disease. In 2006 he was inducted into the Hall of
Famous Missourians in Jefferson City, Missouri; joining the likes of
Harry S Truman and Walt Disney.
(http://tinyurl.com/m73my)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Carnegie)
1956 Nov 1, Walter Brattain, John
Bardeen and William Shockley were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics
for the invention of the transistor. The trio invented the transistor
in 1948 at the Bell Laboratories. William Schockley, co-developer of
the transistor, founded Schockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Palo Alto
this year. Two of his hires, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, later went
on to start Intel Corp. Tim Jackson in 1998 published "Inside Intel."
(SFEC, 8/17/97, BR p.4)(WSJ, 2/13/98, p.A13)(HNQ,
12/23/99)
1956 Nov 1, The Nagy government of
Hungary withdrew from the Warsaw Pact.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1956 Nov
1, Pietro Badoglio (85), Italian general (1922-43), Premier of Italy
(1943-44), died.
(www.fact-index.com/p/pi/pietro_badoglio.html)
1957 Nov 1, World longest
suspension bridge opened in Mackinac Straits, Mich.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1959 Nov 1, Patrice Lumumba was
arrested in the Belgian Congo.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1960 Nov 1, US Pres. Eisenhower
announced that the US would take all steps necessary to defend its
naval base at Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay.
(AH, 4/07, p.18)
1961 Nov 1, Pres. J.F. Kennedy
signed executive order 10971 creating a board of three members to
investigate a dispute between TWA and certain of its employees.
(www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/jfkeo/eo/10971.htm)
1962 Nov 1, Greece entered the
European Common Market.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1962/index_en.htm)
1962 Nov 1, The Russian Mars 1
Flyby was launched but communications failed en route.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)
1963 Nov 1-1963 Nov 2, South
Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother were assassinated in
a military coup. Coup leader Duong Van Minh explained that "They had to
be killed… Pres. Diem was too much respected among simple, gullible
people in the countryside." A 3rd brother was later tricked into
surrendering to US forces and was turned over to coup leaders and
killed by firing squad. Col. Nguyen Van Thieu helped organize the coup
that killed Pres. Ngo Dinh Diem.
(AP, 11/2/97)(SFEM, 4/11/99, p.42)(SFEC, 4/23/00,
p.A19)(SFC, 10/1/01, p.B2)
1964 Nov 1, The Vietcong assaulted
the Bien Hoa airport at Saigon, South Vietnam.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1965 Nov 1, In Cairo, Egypt,
a trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1968 Nov 1, Lyndon B. Johnson's
halt to bombing in Vietnam went into effect at 8 AM, Washington time.
(www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/681031.asp)
1968 Nov 1, The Motion Picture
Association of America unveiled its new voluntary film rating system: G
for general audiences, M for mature audiences (later changed to GP,
then PG), R for restricted audiences, and X (later changed to NC-17)
for adults only.
(AP, 11/1/08)
1968 Nov 1, Georgios Papandreou
(b.1888), Greek minister and 3-time premier, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Papandreou,_senior)
1970 Nov 1, A discotheque near
Grenoble, France, burned. All exits were padlocked and 142 people died.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/1/newsid_2537000/2537937.stm)
1971 Nov 1, The Eisenhower dollar
was put into circulation.
(www.coinresource.com/guide/photograde/pg_$1ike.htm)
1972 Nov 1, Ezra Pound (b.1885),
American poet, died in Italy. In 2007 A. David Moody authored “Ezra
Pound: Poet: The Young Genius 1885-1920.”
(Econ, 10/20/07,
p.117)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound)
1973 Nov 1, 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.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1974 Nov 1, Yuko Shimizu, Sanrio
designer and creator of Hello Kitty, set Nov 1 as Hello Kitty’s
birthday and her parents as George and Mary White of London.
(SSFC, 12/26/04, p.M2)
1974 Nov 1, The UN General
Assembly unanimously passed the first of countless resolutions calling
all states to respect the sovereignty, independence, territorial
integrity and non-alignment of the Republic of Cyprus.
(www.cyprus-conflict.net/Greek%20v%20Turk%20narr%20-%201974.htm)
1975 Nov 1, Pier Paolo Pasolini
(b.1922), Italian poet, author and director was murdered. A young male
prostitute was tried and convicted for the murder in 1976.
(http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/pasolini.htm)
1978 Nov 1, The Carter
administration announced a multipart support package for the US dollar.
The Treasury planned to use gold sales, foreign borrowing and a draw on
reserves with the IMF to defend the dollar. The Federal Reserve raised
the discount rate a full point.
(WSJ, 1/18/05, p.A1)
1978 Nov 1, The US Dept. of
Justice filed its first statement of contentions and proof, settling
out detailed charges against AT&T, which eventually led to its
breakup.
(www.porticus.org/bell/att_divestiture.html#chroniclenewsupdate)
1978 Nov 1, In Dallas, Texas,
Jonathan Bruce Reed attacked Wanda Jean Wadle and her roommate,
Kimberly Pursley. He'd apparently entered their apartment by posing as
a maintenance man. In 1979 Reed was convicted and condemned to death
for the rape-slaying of Wanda Jean Wadle at her apartment. In 2009 an
appeals court ruled that Reed could be freed because prosecutors
improperly excluded blacks from his jury in the belief that blacks
empathize with defendants.
(AP, 1/14/09)
1978 Nov 1, Uganda, following its
invasion into Tanzania, formally annexed a section across the Kagera
River boundary.
(www.onwar.com/aced/chrono/c1900s/yr75/ftanzaniauganda1978.htm)
1979 Nov 1, The tanker Burmah
Agate, spilled 10.7 million gallons of oil off Galveston Bay, Texas, in
US's worst oil spill disaster.
(http://tinyurl.com/2jwxd3)
1979 Nov 1, Mamie Doud Eisenhower
(b.1896), wife of former Pres. "Ike" Eisenhower, died at a family farm
in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
(AP,
11/1/99)(www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/me34.html)
1980 Nov 1, Conservative Edward
Seaga (b.1930) began serving as PM of Jamaica. He defeated Michael
Manley as Jamaica was nearly bankrupt, and became a close ally of US
Pres. Reagan. Seaga served as PM for the Labor Party until 1989.
(SFC, 3/8/96,
p.A21)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Seaga)
1981 Nov 1, Antigua and Barbuda
gained independence from Britain.
(http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Constitutions/Antigua/antigua-barbuda.html)
1983 Nov 1, IBM released PC DOS
version 2.1.
(http://www.e-articles.info/e/a/title/DOS-Versions/)
1983 Nov 1, Anthony van Hoboken
(b.1887), Dutch musicologist, died in Zurich. He is best known for his
Haydn Catalog (1957).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_van_Hoboken)
1984 Nov 1, Norman Krasna
(b.1909), American writer and film producer, died of a heart attack.
The 1947 film “Dear Ruth” was based on his writings.
(www.filmreference.com/Writers-and-Production-Artists-Ja-Kr/Krasna-Norman.html)
1985 Nov 1, Phil Silvers (b.1911),
American comedic actor (Sgt. Bilko), died in his sleep.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Silvers)
1986 Nov 1, In Japan seven charred
bodies of women of the cult Friends of Truth were found on a beach.
Their leader had recently died in a hospital.
(SFC, 3/27/97, p.A19)
1986 Nov 1, A fire in a Sandoz
factory in Basel left 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhine.
(http://tinyurl.com/yhsjad)
1987 Nov 1, Ibrahim Hussein of
Kenya won the New York City Marathon in two hours, 11 minutes and one
second; Priscilla Welch of Britain led the women in two hours, 30
minutes and 16 seconds.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1987 Nov 1, Chinese leader Deng
Xiaoping retired from the Communist Party's Central Committee.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1987 Nov 1, Rene Levesque
(b.1922), Quebec premier (1976-85), died at age 65.
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4258)
1988 Nov 1, 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.
(AP, 11/1/98)
1989 Nov 1, East Germany reopened
its border with Czechoslovakia, prompting tens of thousands of refugees
to flee to the West.
(AP, 11/1/99)
1989 Nov 1, A Scandinavian
Airlines System (SAS) and Finnair ban on smoking took effect for all
Nordic flights.
(http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/13/suppl_1/i20)
1990 Nov 1, 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.”
(AP, 11/1/00)
1991 Nov 1, Clarence Thomas took
his place as the newest justice on the US Supreme Court.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1991 Nov 1, The 3-day session of
the Middle East peace conference recessed in Madrid, Spain. The
conference led to Israeli deals with Jordan and the Palestinians and
established the principle of land for peace.
(AP,
11/1/01)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Conference_of_1991)(Econ,
5/24/08, p.68)
1992 Nov 1, The space shuttle
Columbia landed at Cape Canaveral, Fla., ending a 10-day mission that
included the deployment of an Italian satellite.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1993 Nov 1, In an address to
pediatricians, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton accused insurance
companies of waging a deceitful campaign against the administration's
health plan.
(AP, 11/1/98)
1993 Nov 1, The space shuttle
Columbia landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, ending a
two-week mission.
(AP, 11/1/98)
1994 Nov 1, The US Senate
Intelligence Committee released a report saying CIA Director R. James
Woolsey's response to the Aldrich Ames spy case was "seriously
inadequate," but that his predecessors were ultimately to blame for the
scandal.
(AP, 11/1/99)
1994 Nov 1, In Cherry Hill, Pa.,
Len Jenoff and Paul Daniels clubbed to death Carol Neulander (52), the
wife of Rabbi Fred J. Neulander (53), under a contract from Rabbi
Neulander. Neulander stood trial in 2001 in New Jersey. He was
convicted of murder Nov 20, 2002 and sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A18)(SFC, 11/21/02, p.A6)(SFC,
11/23/02, p.A4)
1994 Nov 1, Syd Dernley (73),
British hangman, died. In 1989 he authored “The Hangman's Tale: Memoirs
of a Public Executioner.”
(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/1994/misc.html)(www.smsfx.com/author/Syd-Dernley/)
1995 Nov 1, The US House voted to
ban so-called “partial birth” abortions by a vote of 288-to-139.
(AP, 11/1/00)
1995 Nov 1, Bosnia peace talks for
the countries of the former Yugoslavia were launched in Dayton, Ohio,
with the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia present.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(AP, 11/1/00)
1996 Nov 1, 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.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1996 Nov 1, In Burma the
government program to attract visitors “Visit Myanmar Year” began with
tighter security measures.
(SFEC, 11/10/96, p.T5)
1996 Nov 1, In the Dominican
Republic Pres. Fernandez fired his commander-in-chief Lt. Gen’l. Juan
Bautista Rojas Tobar after he was accused of involvement in the 1994
slaying of Narciso Gonzalez.
(SFC, 11/25/96, p.A9)
1996 Nov 1, In Germany a new law
governing store hours will take effect. Bakeries will be allowed to
sell fresh bread on Sunday mornings, though other stores must remain
closed.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.A12)
1996 Nov 1, In Guatemala a
Brazilian-made turboprop crashed near Flores in Peten province and 14
people enroute to the Mayan site of Tikal were killed.
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.C1)
1996 Nov 1, In Israel Nahum
Kurman, the security chief of a Jewish settlement, was charged killing
the 11-year-old Palestinian boy, Hilmi Shousha.
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.C1)
1996 Nov 1, Five police officers
were slain in southern Mexico and another outside Mexico City. The EPR
claimed responsibility.
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.A9)
1996 Nov 1, Norway announced a $24
million donation to educate girls in 19 African countries. The gift
went to UNICEF’s African Education for All program.
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.C1)
1997 Nov 1, 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.
(AP, 11/1/98)
1997 Nov 1, Indonesia shut down 16
insolvent banks and planned austerity measures.
(SFEC,11/2/97, p.A18)
1997 Nov 1, Iraq announced that
American weapons inspectors working with the UN would not be allowed to
resume work on Nov 3.
(SFEC,11/2/97, p.A17)
1997 Nov 1, Russia’s Pres. Boris
Yeltsin met with Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto at
Krasnoyarsk to discuss economic cooperation.
(SFEC,11/2/97, p.A22)
1998 Nov 1, John Kagwe of Kenya
won the NY Marathon for the second consecutive year in 2:8:45. Franca
Fiacconi of Italy won among the women in 2:25:17.
(WSJ, 11/2/98, p.A1)(AP, 11/1/99)
1998 Nov 1, Weekend rain caused
severe flooding in central Kansas and Oklahoma. The Whitewater and
Walnut Rivers topped a 35-foot levee.
(SFC, 11/3/98, p.A3)
1998 Alfred Mitchell Bingham,
founder of the Depression-era socialist magazine “Common Sense,” died
at age 93.
(WSJ, 11/6/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 1, In Bangladesh the
first Peace Corps volunteers arrived. 17 US college will study Bangla,
the local language, for 3 months and then teach English to school
teachers.
(SFC, 11/2/98, p.A14)
1998 Nov 1, In Colombia some 1,000
rebels attacked a police base in Mitu, capital of Vaupes province with
missiles shaped from propane cylinders. As many as 60 officers were
believed killed. 80 police officers were reported killed and 45 taken
prisoner by the FARC rebels.
(SFC, 11/2/98, p.A14)(WSJ, 11/2/98, p.A1)(SFC,
11/3/98, p.A9)
1998 Nov 1, In Guatemala 10
Americans were killed when their C-47 cargo plane crashed while on a
mission to distribute medicines and medical care.
(SFC, 11/3/98, p.A11)
1998 Nov 1, In Macedonia a 2nd
round of elections was scheduled. Right-wing parties unseated the
ruling ex-Communists.
(WSJ, 11/2/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 1, 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.
(AP, 11/1/99)
1999 Nov 1, Pres. Clinton met with
Middle East leaders in Oslo.
(SFC, 11/1/99, p.A13)
1999 Nov 1, 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.
(AP, 11/1/00)
1999 Nov 1, Former Chicago Bear
NFL star Walter Payton died at age 45 from a rare cancer of the bile
duct. He made the NFL Hall of Fame in 1993.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A1,15)
1999 Nov 1, In China a 5.6
earthquake shook Shanxi and Hebei provinces and some 20,000 people were
left homeless.
(SFC, 11/13/99, p.D8)
1999 Nov 1, In Bad Reichenhall,
Germany, a teenage gunman and his sister were found dead after
commandos stormed the house from which the boy had shot and killed 2
pedestrians and injured 8 others.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 1, In Hong Kong Disney
announced a new theme park. Hong Kong will put up $2.88 billion and
have a 57% stake.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 1, In Lebanon Israeli
warplanes fired some 2 dozen missiles at 6 Hezbollah targets in Iqlim
al-Tuffah.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 1, Mexico increased its
border deposit for US registered vehicles from $11 to as much as $800
for new models for travel beyond the 15-mile border zone.
(SFC, 10/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 1, In Panama the US
handed over Howard Air Force Base, Fort Kobbe and the Farfan
residential zone.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A14)
2000 Nov 1, In Chechnya rebels
killed 14 Russian soldiers in a series of raids.
(WSJ, 11/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 1, 3 Israelis and 6
Palestinians were killed in West Bank clashes.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Nov 1, In Serbia Flora
Brovina, an Albanian activist, was released from prison after serving
18 months for alleged terrorism.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
2000 Nov 1, Yugoslavia was
accepted into the United Nations after eight years of U.N. ostracism
under former strongman Slobodan Milosevic.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)(AP, 11/1/01)
2001 Nov 1, The New York Yankees
took a 3-2 games lead over the Arizona Diamondbacks as they won game
five of the World Series, 3-2, in a contest that ended after midnight.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2001 Nov 1, President Bush issued
Executive Order 13233 allowing past presidents, beginning with Ronald
Reagan in 1980, to have as much say as incumbent presidents in keeping
some of their White House papers private.
(SSFC, 1/6/02, p.D4)(AP, 11/1/02)(SFC, 1/21/08, p.C5)
2001 Nov 1, Pres. Bush extended
sanctions against Sudan for one year.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D5)
2001 Nov 1, US planes made their
heaviest assaults to date in northern Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 1, Anthrax spores were
found in 4 mailrooms in Rockville, Md., a postal facility in Kansas
City, 3 new locations in a Manhattan processing center and a 6th postal
facility in Florida.
(WSJ, 11/2/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 1, A NY state cell phone
law went into effect. It required motorists to use hand-free systems
for use while driving.
(WSJ, 10/31/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 1, United Airlines
reported a record 3rd quarter loss of $1.16 billion.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.B1)
2001 Nov 1, In Colombia Carlos
Arturo Pinto (53), a regional prosecutor, was shot to death in Cucuta
by 2 men on motorcycle. Pinto had replaced Maria del Rosario, who was
shot to death in July.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D5)
2001 Nov 1, In Georgia Pres.
Shevardnadze fired his government as demonstrators took to the streets
and demanded changes.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D2)
2001 Nov 1, Israeli helicopter
missiles killed 2 Palestinians in a taxi in the West Bank. Yasser
Asideh was identified as a suicide bomber being driven to a target by
Fahami Abu Eisha.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D2)
2001 Nov 1, In Pakistan a
statement attributed to bin Laden accused the government of supporting
a Christian crusade and urged people to defend their faith.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 1, It was reported that
the tri-border area of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil had a
long-standing presence of Islamic extremist organizations.
(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A3)
2002 Nov 1, A US judge upheld the
2001 proposed settlement between Microsoft and the Dept. of Justice.
(SFC, 11/2/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 1, West Coast dockworkers
and shipping lines reached a tentative agreement on key issues.
(SFC, 11/2/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 1, Scientists reported
that 22-47% of Earth's plant species are in danger of becoming extinct
due to human activity.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A4)
2002 Nov 1, In Bahrain Islamic and
secular candidates won run-off votes for seats in the parliament,
according to final results. 2 women lost in run-off races.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2002 Nov 1, Queen Elizabeth II’s
surprise revelation that she knew butler Paul Burrell had taken some of
Princess Diana's possessions for safekeeping prompted prosecutors to
drop theft charges against the servant.
(AP, 11/1/03)
2002 Nov 1, Israel Amir (99), the
first commander of the Israeli air force (1948), died in a Tel Aviv
hospital.
(AP, 11/2/02)(SFC, 11/2/02, p.A22)
2002 Nov 1, Jakov Sirotkovic (80),
a prominent economist and high-ranking member of the Communist party in
the former Yugoslavia (head of the Cabinet in Croatia), died.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2002 Nov 1, In Morocco a fire
erupted at an overcrowded Sidi Moussa jail in coastal El Jadida,
killing at least 49 inmates and injuring dozens of other people.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2002 Nov 1, Russian lawmakers
passed amendments that would sharply curb news coverage of
anti-terrorist operations and prohibit the media from carrying rebel
statements, a legislative step officials called increasingly urgent in
light of last week's hostage crisis.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2002 Nov 1, A Russian spacecraft
carrying two cosmonauts and a Belgian astronaut docked with the
international space station.
(AP, 11/1/03)
2002 Nov 1, In South Korea Kim
Hong-up, the 2nd son of President Kim Dae-jung was sentenced to jail
and fined on graft charges, closing one chapter in scandals that have
marred the ageing democracy leader's final year in office.
(AP, 11/1/02)
2003 Nov 1, Democratic
presidential candidate Howard Dean stirred controversy within his party
by telling the Des Moines Register he wanted to be "the candidate for
guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks." The former Vermont
governor explained that he intended to encourage the return of Southern
voters who had abandoned the Democrats for decades but were disaffected
with the Republicans.
(AP, 11/1/04)
2003 Nov 1, Two small rebel
groups, the last rebel holdouts in eastern Congo, agreed to join the
country's transitional government. Leaders, Patrick Masunzu and Aaron
Nyamushebwa, agreed to join the government and integrate their forces
into a new national army.
(AP, 11/4/03)
2003 Nov 1, About 100,000 people
took to the streets of Berlin to demonstrate against Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder's plans to trim Germany's generous welfare state.
(AP, 11/1/03)
2003 Nov 1, In western India a
tourist bus skidded off a mountain road near Mahabaleshwar and fell
into a gorge, killing 22 people and injuring 30 others.
(AP, 11/2/03)
2003 Nov 1, In Iraq a roadside
bomb killed at least two US soldiers in Mosul.
(AP, 11/1/03)
2003 Nov 1, It was reported that
over a dozen members of Saddam Hussein's government have been shot dead
in the streets of Basra over the last month.
(SFC, 11/1/03, p.A8)
2003 Nov 1, Yehiel Shemi (81), an
Israeli sculptor renowned for his abstract works in metal, died.
(AP, 11/2/03)
2003 Nov 1, Macedonia launched a
lottery to reduce the number of light arms held by the public. An
amnesty for turning in arms was set to expire Dec 15.
(SSFC, 12/14/03, p.A14)
2003 Nov 1, It was reported that
central Sudan was experiencing its worst grasshopper attack in 3
decades. At least 11 people died and more than 16,000 were hospitalized
with a respiratory illness doctors link to an annual locust invasion.
(SFC, 11/1/03, p.A8)(AP, 11/2/03)
2003 Nov 1, Taipei, Taiwan, held
the Chinese world's 1st gay pride parade.
(USAT, 2/5/04, p.10A)
2004 Nov 1, US Chief Justice
Rehnquist (80) disclosed that he has thyroid cancer.
(SFC, 11/2/04, p.A2)
2004 Nov 1, Roberto Lavagna
unveiled a plan to restructure, at about 30% the original debt, $100
million of sovereign bonds that Argentina defaulted on 3 years earlier.
(Econ, 11/6/04, p.40)
2004 Nov 1, James Edward, Baron
Hanson (b.1922), English conservative industrialist, died at his
Berkshire home. He built his businesses through the process of
leveraged buyouts through Hanson PLC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hanson,_Baron_Hanson)(Econ,
11/6/04, p.68)
2004 Nov 1, Botswana voters gave
the ruling Botswana Democratic Party 44 of parliament’s 57 seats. Pres.
Festus Mogae promised to fight poverty and AIDS.
(Econ, 11/6/04, p.50)
2004 Nov 1, Iraqi gunmen in
Baghdad seized an American, a Nepalese and 4 Iraqi hostages working for
a Saudi supplier to the US military. American contract worker Roy
Hallums was one of several people kidnapped during an armed assault on
the Baghdad compound where he lived; Hallums was rescued by coalition
forces on Sept. 7, 2005.
(WSJ, 11/2/04, p.A1)(AP, 11/1/05)
2004 Nov 1, Gunmen killed Hatim
Kamil, deputy governor of Baghdad, on his way to work.
(AP, 11/1/04)
2004 Nov 1, Diaa Najm, an Iraqi
freelance television cameraman, was killed while filming clashes
between U.S. troops and insurgents in Ramadi.
(AP, 11/1/04)
2004 Nov 1, Libya’s PM Shukri
Ghanem said he intends to abolish some five billion dollars worth of
subsidies on electricity, fuel and basic food items in a move to
liberalize the economy.
(AFP, 11/1/04)
2004 Nov 1, A Palestinian (16)
blew himself up in a crowded outdoor market in central Tel Aviv,
killing three Israelis and wounding 32. This was the 117th suicide
bombing since Israeli-Palestinian fighting broke out in 2000. 494
Israelis have been killed in the attacks. Israeli troops killed 3
activists in Nablus and a boy (12) throwing stones in Askar.
(AP, 11/1/04)(SFC, 11/2/04, p.A5)
2004 Nov 1, Puerto Ricans long
have been U.S. citizens but cannot vote for the U.S. president, a
situation that former Gov. Pedro Rossello promises to change if elected
to return to the island's top job.
(AP, 11/1/04)
2004 Nov 1, UN nuclear agency
chief Mohamed ElBaradei urged Iran to suspend uranium enrichment and
called on North Korea to dismantle its weapons program.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, President Bush
outlined a $7.1 billion strategy to prepare for the danger of a
pandemic influenza outbreak, saying he wanted to stockpile enough
vaccine to protect 20 million Americans against the current strain of
bird flu.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, Democrats forced the
Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session,
questioning intelligence President Bush had used in the run-up to the
war in Iraq; Republicans derided the move as a political stunt.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2005 Nov 1, The US Federal Reserve
raised its benchmark interest rate another quarter point for the 12th
time to 4%.
(SFC, 11/2/05, p.D1)
2005 Nov 1, The US Postal Rate
Commission approved a 2-cent increase effective Jan 2006.
(SFC, 11/2/05, p.A2)
2005 Nov 1, Residents of Denver,
Colorado, voted to legalize the possession of small amounts of
marijuana for adults. Authorities said state possession laws will be
applied instead. State residents voted to suspend their Taxpayer’s Bill
of Rights and gave up more than $3 billion in tax refunds to help the
state deal with a recession.
(AP, 11/2/05)(SFC, 11/3/05, p.A5)
2005 Nov 1, Skitch Henderson (87),
the Grammy-winning conductor who lent his musical expertise to Frank
Sinatra and Bing Crosby before founding the New York Pops (1983) and
becoming the first "Tonight Show" bandleader (1954), died in New Haven,
Conn.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 1, Militants ambushed
police on a southern Afghan mountain and killed five officers.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 1, Albania's armed forces
chief said their antiquated air force of Soviet-designed MiG aircraft,
which killed 35 Albanian pilots but no enemies, is finally on its way
to the museum and the scrapheap.
(Reuters, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, In Bosnia 2 children
in Doribaba died when they were playing with a hand grenade and pulled
the security pin.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 1, Britain's Competition
Commission (CC) gave approval to proposed takeovers of the London Stock
Exchange by the German Deutsche Boerse or the pan-European market
Euronext, but attached conditions.
(AFP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, The first Czech online
daily without a paper edition, Aktualne.cz, was launched overnight.
(AFP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, Two Islamic militants
jailed in the 1981 killing of President Anwar Sadat were released after
more than two decades behind bars. Nageh Ibrahim and Fouad el-Dawalibi
were founding members of al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya, once Egypt's largest
Islamic militant group.
(AP, 11/8/05)
2005 Nov 1, In Ethiopia riot
police clashed with dozens of opposition supporters in Addis Ababa,
fatally shooting at least five people and wounding some 20 others in
renewed protests of the disputed May elections.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, French police fired
tear gas and rioters hurled Molotov cocktails as violence hit a poor
Paris suburb for the fifth straight night in unrest that officials said
had also spread to neighboring towns.
(AFP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, In Iraq 500 prisoners
walked free from the US military's Abu Ghraib jail, released in a
goodwill gesture to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, Israel's Yad Vashem
Holocaust Memorial opened a Holocaust film library with help from
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, An Israeli missile
strike on a car killed two Palestinians in the Jebaliya refugee camp,
Hassan Madhoun (37), a leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and
Fawzi Abu Kara (32) of Hamas.
(AP, 11/1/05)(SFC, 11/2/05, p.A12)
2005 Nov 1, Japanese artist Hiro
Yamagata announced plans to recreate Afghanistan's destroyed Bamiyan
Buddhas using as many as 240 laser beam images, a giant project that
could also bring electricity to local people.
(AFP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, Gunfire erupted and at
least four inmates were killed at two Kyrgyz prisons after riot police
entered to restore order following a bloody uprising.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, A trade union said a
strike at the Dutch operations of Royal Dutch Shell PLC over pensions
will be broadened to include the company's natural-gas production in
the north of the Netherlands.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, Officials from North
and South Korea agreed to meet next month to work out details on
competing as a unified team for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, In the Philippines 6
US Marines took part in a rape at the former US naval base at Subic
Bay. The incident soon fueled anti-US demonstrations in Manila and
objections to US presence in the Philippines. Prosecutors later
contended the victim (22) was attacked in a van at Subic Bay by Lance
Cpl. Daniel Smith as Lance Cpl. Keith Silkwood, Lance Cpl. Dominic
Duplantis and Staff Sgt. Chad Carpentier cheered on the assault. In
Dec, 2006, Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith (21) from St. Louis, was convicted
of raping a Filipino woman and sentenced to 40 years in prison. He was
the first American soldier convicted of wrongdoing in the Philippines
since the country shut down US bases here the early 1990s. In 2009 his
accuser submitted a five-page affidavit to an appeals court saying she
now doubts her own version of events. In March it was revealed that
Smith had paid the victim $2000 in damages and that she had gone to
live in America with her American boyfriend. On April 23, 2009, the
Philippine Court of Appeals overturned the ruling against Smith,
indicating the sexual act was consensual.
(WSJ, 11/22/05, p.A13)(AP, 6/26/06)(AP, 12/4/06)(AP,
3/18/09)(Econ, 5/2/09, p.43)
2005 Nov 1, Police surrounded
opposition headquarters and clashed with protesters on the
semiautonomous archipelago of Zanzibar (Tanzania) as the ruling party
was declared the winner of presidential and parliamentary elections. 9
people died in related violence and the opposition made allegations of
rigging.
(AP, 11/1/05)(WSJ, 11/2/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 1, The UN General
Assembly adopted a landmark resolution that will create the first
international day of commemoration for the six million Jews and other
victims of the Nazi Holocaust. The International Day of Commemoration
will be held every year on Jan. 27.
(AP, 11/1/05)
2005 Nov 1, UN Sec. Gen. Kofi
Annan said he would name Martti Ahtisaari, a former Finish president,
as special envoy to start talks on Kosovo’s future.
(AP, 11/15/05)(Econ, 1/21/06, p.51)
2006 Nov 1, US President George W.
Bush renewed US economic sanctions on Sudan for one year and left open
the door to imposing new ones linked to the violence in Darfur.
(AFP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, Senator John Kerry,
D-Mass., apologized to "any service member, family member or American"
offended by his "botched joke" about how young people might get "stuck
in Iraq" if they did not study hard and do their homework.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2006 Nov 1, In Indiana Stephanie
Wagner, a missing 16-year-old girl, was found dead in a field.
Authorities jailed Danny R. Rouse (51), her restaurant co-worker and a
convicted child murderer, who confessed to killing the teen. Rouse was
released from prison in March after serving more than 26 years for
murdering a 5-year-old Kansas boy in 1979.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 1, In Lawrenceville, Ga.,
Khalid Adem (30), an Ethiopian immigrant, was convicted of genital
mutilation of his 2-year-old daughter. He was sentenced to 10 years in
prison.
(SFC, 11/2/06, p.A3)
2006 Nov 1, CVS announced that it
would acquire Caremark Rx, a big pharmacy benefits manager, for about
$21 billion in stock. This was America’s largest health-services
takeover.
(Econ, 11/4/06, p.75)
2006 Nov 1, Adrienne Shelly
(b.1966), actress and director, was found by her husband hanging by a
bed sheet in their Manhattan apartment in an apparent suicide. In 2008
Diego Pillco (20), an illegal immigrant from Ecuador, pleaded guilty to
manslaughter and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Shelly)(SFC,
3/14/08, p.A4)
2006 Nov 1, William Styron (81),
novelist from the American South, died in Massachusetts. His books
included “The Confessions of Nat Turner” (1967) and “Sophie’s Choice”
(1979). In 1953 he had helped establish the Paris Review.
(SFC, 11/2/06, p.B7)(Econ, 11/11/06, p.95)
(AP, 11/24/06)
2006 Nov 1, Alexander Litvinenko,
a former KGB agent, met with Mario Scaramella, an Italian muckraker, at
a Picadilly sushi bar. He also met with 2 or more visiting ex-KGB
Russians. On Nov 23 Litvinenko died of poisoning from radioactive
element polonium-210. In 2007 British prosecutors requested the
extradition of Andrei Lugovoi, one of the former KGB agents present at
the meeting, in order to charge him with murder.
(Econ, 12/16/06, p.22)(WSJ, 5/23/07, p.A14)
2006 Nov 1, An ammonia gas leak in
central China killed one person, injured six and forced the evacuation
of about 20,000 residents. Ammonia gas leaked out of a broken pipe at a
chemical fertilizer factory in the Dawu county of Hubei province.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, In Colombia the
peasant-based FARC killed 16 police officers and a civilian at a remote
outpost in an attack that appeared to be part of a coordinated national
offensive.
(AP, 11/2/06)(WSJ, 11/2/06, p.A1)
2006 Nov 1, Congo's government
welcomed a decision by the US to impose sanctions on seven warlords and
businessmen who are accused of fueling instability in this vast
country's lawless east.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, Fiji's prime minister
insisted that his government would not step down despite pressure from
the country's military commander, whose relentless criticism of the
administration has raised fears of a possible coup.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, Bangalore, India,
changed its name to Bengaluru, the same as its name in Kannada, the
local language. Bangalore, according to state historians, got its name
from Bendakalooru (the town of boiled beans) after a king strayed into
the area during a hunting trip in the late 14th century.
(SFC, 11/2/06, p.C1)(AFP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 1, Ignoring widespread
condemnation, Iran awarded the top prize in a Holocaust cartoon contest
to a Moroccan artist for his depiction of Israel's security wall with a
picture of the Auschwitz concentration camp on it.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 1, In Iraq unknown gunmen
riding in a private car shot dead police officer Izzaddin Abbas in
central Baghdad as he rode his motorcycle home. A clerk with the
Ministry of Industry was shot and killed in northeastern Baghdad as he
was driving to work. Two court officials were killed when a their jeep
exploded as it crossed a bridge leading over the Tigris. A car bomb and
a mortar attack killed two police officers and six civilians. A police
officer was among three people shot dead in the northern city of Mosul.
Mosul police also discovered the charred body of an apparent murder
victim. The bodies of three people who were shot after being
blindfolded and bound at the wrists were found dumped in the capital's
eastern districts. US military killed Rafa al-Ithawi, also known as Abu
Taha, a mid-ranking member of al-Qaida in Iraq and his driver in an air
strike in Ramadi. Gunmen abducted a man who coached blind athletes and
the head of Iraq's national basketball federation.
(AP, 11/1/06)(AFP, 11/1/06)(AP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 1, Israeli troops, backed
by tanks and helicopter gunships, killed at least six Palestinian
militants. The raid left 9 Palestinians and a soldier dead.
(AP, 11/1/06)(WSJ, 11/2/06, p.A1)
2006 Nov 1, In Nigeria a court of
appeal in Ibadan, capital of the southwestern Oyo state, declared
unconstitutional the removal earlier this year of governor Rasheed
Ladoja by local lawmakers. Ladoja was impeached by a faction of the
state parliament on January 12 for alleged corruption and abuse of
office and was replaced by his deputy, Adebayo Alao-Akala.
(AFP, 11/4/06)
2006 Nov 1, North Korea said it
was returning to nuclear disarmament talks to get access to its frozen
overseas bank accounts, a vital source of hard currency.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, A Swedish freighter
capsized and sank in a storm on the Baltic Sea, forcing its 14-member
crew to jump overboard to save themselves. Rescue officials said
helicopters plucked all but one man from the high waves and chilly
waters. The 500-foot-long Finnbirch went down between the Swedish
islands of Gotland and Oland.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, In Turkey a court
acquitted a 92-year-old retired archaeologist who was put on trial for
writing in a book that Islamic-style head scarves date back more than
5,000 years, several millennia before the birth of Islam, and were worn
by priestesses who initiated young men into sex.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, The UN Security
Council voted unanimously to extend Ivory Coast's transitional
government for a final year and give new powers to the country's
unelected prime minister to implement a peace plan and prepare for
long-delayed elections.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, The UN Security
Council agreed on a list of banned items that could be used to make
nuclear, chemical and biological weapons or ballistic missiles and
ordered all countries to prevent North Korea from importing or
exporting the items.
(AP, 11/1/06)
2006 Nov 1, Venezuela’s President
Hugo Chavez handed public workers $3 billion in Christmas bonuses 1 1/2
months early, angering opposition leaders who called it part of a
cynical pattern of public handouts ahead of a December presidential
election.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 1, Venezuela and
US-backed Guatemala agreed to withdraw from the race and support
Panama, a compromise reached after voting in the UN General Assembly
dragged through 47 rounds of balloting.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2007 Nov 1, A defiant
Democratic-controlled Congress voted to provide health insurance to an
additional 4 million lower-income children; President Bush vowed
swiftly to cast his second straight veto on the issue.
(AP, 11/1/08)
2007 Nov 1, A federal jury
convicted Vic Kohring, a former Alaska lawmaker, of corruption charges
involving tax protections sought by oil companies as part of plans for
a multibillion-dollar natural gas pipeline.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, Florida’s high court
ruled that the state’s lethal injection procedures aren’t cruel and
unusual, which could clear the way for an execution.
(WSJ, 11/2/07, p.A1)
2007 Nov 1, Chrysler LLC said it
plans to cut up to 12,000 jobs, or up to 15 percent of its workforce,
as part of an effort to slash costs and match slowing demand for some
vehicles.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, General Mills recalled
about 5 million frozen pizzas sold nationwide under the Totino's and
Jeno's labels because of possible E. coli contamination.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, An alliance including
Google announced a plan to make social networks as open as Netscape’s
browser made the web.
(Econ, 11/3/07, p.78)
2007 Nov 1, Retired Air Force
Brigadier Gen. Paul Tibbets (92), who'd piloted the B-29 bomber Enola
Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died in Columbus, Ohio.
(AP, 11/1/08)
2007 Nov 1, Taliban militants
attacked a police checkpoint in Nad Ali district, in the southern
Helmand province, killing five officers and wounding three others. In
Kandahar province hundreds of Taliban militants fled from Arghandab
district following three days of fighting which left more than 50
militants dead and hundreds displaced.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, Bosnian PM Nikola
Spiric resigned in protest at an international envoy's decision to
impose EU-backed reforms, deepening the country's worst post-war
political crisis.
(AFP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, London's Metropolitan
Police force was convicted of breaching health and safety laws in the
fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian, who officers
mistook for a suicide bomber on July 22, 2005.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, China’s government for
the first time in 17 months allowed an increase of about 10% in the
retail prices of petrol, diesel and kerosene. The government also said
more than 700 toy factories in southern China have been banned from
exporting what they produce as part of a crackdown on shoddy products.
(Econ, 11/24/07, p.46)(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, Floodwaters and
mudslides spawned by Tropical Storm Noel killed at least 143 people
including 84 in the Dominican Republic and 57 in Haiti. By this evening
Noel was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane and rains continued to
pound the area.
(AP, 11/1/07)(AP, 11/4/07)
2007 Nov 1, The Markets in
Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) went into effect across 30
countries in Europe. It drops traditional rules that required banks and
brokers to use national exchanges for reporting and trading equities,
opening Europe's exchanges to the threat of new competition.
(Econ, 10/27/07,
p.83)(www.efinancialnews.com/homepage/specialfeatures/2449084355)
2007 Nov 1, A top UN official said
South American traffickers are moving billions of dollars worth of
cocaine through Guinea-Bissau, amid growing demand in Europe, an amount
so large it dwarfs all other economic sectors combined and could
destabilize the coup-prone country.
(AP, 11/3/07)
2007 Nov 1, Dominique
Strauss-Kahn, former French finance minister, took over as head of the
IMF. By convention the IMF chief is European.
(Econ, 11/3/07, p.88)
2007 Nov 1, The Indian government
proposed to recruit retired soldiers to patrol tiger sanctuaries in the
hopes of saving the last of the cats after an official report confirmed
a drastic drop in wild tiger numbers.
(AP, 11/2/07)
2007 Nov 1, Bombs and shootings
killed at least 21 people in attacks across Baghdad and its northern
suburbs. US and Iraqi troops arrested 85 suspected insurgents in
operations around the country. Two US airmen and an Air Force civilian
were killed by an explosive near Balad Air Base.
(AP, 11/1/07)(WSJ, 11/2/07, p.A1)(AP, 11/2/07)
2007 Nov 1, The Israel’ military
announced that its forces operating in the Gaza Strip this week had
uncovered and destroyed seven tunnels used by Palestinian militants to
smuggle arms and people.
(AP, 11/2/07)
2007 Nov 1, Italy's president
signed a decree allowing the expulsion of EU citizens "for reasons of
public safety" to fight "episodes of heavy violence and ferocious
crime." This followed the Oct 30 attack on a 47-year-old woman as she
walked along a road after dark toward barracks where she lived. She was
beaten, dragged through mud and left half naked in a ditch. The woman
died 2 days later. Police arrested Nicolae Mailat a Romanian in his
20s, who lives in a shack in one of several sprawling settlements on
the outskirts of Rome.
(AP, 11/2/07)
2007 Nov 1, Japan's defense
minister ordered ships supporting US-led forces in Afghanistan to
return home after opposition lawmakers refused to support an extension
of the mission, saying it violated the country's pacifist constitution.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, Pakistani security
forces in the Swat region killed at least 60 militant supporters of a
pro-Taliban cleric, hours after a suicide attack on a Pakistan Air
Force bus killed eight and wounded 40. Militants said they had captured
44 members of the Frontier Corps and were holding them hostage.
(AP, 11/1/07)(SFC, 11/2/07, p.A21)
2007 Nov 1, The UN said nearly
90,000 people have fled Mogadishu in recent days following the heaviest
fighting to shake the war-battered city in months. About 40 people,
mostly Somalis, drowned while crossing the Gulf of Aden on their way to
Yemen in a desperate attempt to escape gunbattles back home. About 90
others survived and managed to reach the Yemeni southern shores of
Shokara after their rickety vessels capsized.
(AP, 11/1/07)(AP, 11/3/07)
2007 Nov 1, State media reported
that Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe signed a law giving him more
power to choose his successor. The new law also provides for
simultaneous presidential and parliamentary polls next year.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, The UN General
Assembly's disarmament committee approved a resolution calling for all
nuclear weapons to be taken off high alert, despite objections from the
United States, Britain and France.
(AP, 11/1/07)
2007 Nov 1, Soldiers used tear
gas, plastic bullets and water cannons to scatter tens of thousands who
massed to protest constitutional reforms that would permit Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez to run for re-election indefinitely.
(AP, 11/2/07)
2008 Nov 1, Members of the
Machinists Union, representing some 27,000 workers in Washington,
Oregon, and Kansas, ratified a new contract with the Boeing Co. ending
an 8-week strike.
(SSFC, 11/2/08, p.A4)
2008 Nov 1, A gunman fatally shot
Cincinnati minister Rev. Donald Fairbanks Sr. and wounded a church
deacon just after the two men arrived at a northern Kentucky church to
attend a funeral. Frederick L. Davis, of Covington, quickly surrendered
to police and was charged with murder, first degree assault, criminal
mischief and violating an emergency protection order.
(AP, 11/2/08)
2008 Nov 1, Yma Sumac (b.1922),
Peruvian-born singer known as the “Nightingale of the Andes,” died in
LA. Her voice was said to range over 4½ octaves. Her first
album, “Voice of the Xtabay” (1950) soared to the top of the LP charts.
(SFC, 11/4/08, p.B4)
2008 Nov 1, In southern
Afghanistan Dutch Major General Mart de Kruif replaced Canadian Major
General Marc Lessard as head of 19,000 mostly British, Canadian, Dutch
and US NATO-led soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force
(ISAF).
(AP, 11/1/08)
2008 Nov 1, In Australia the badly
decomposed body of Chen Liu (27) was found in Sydney, about two weeks
after a friend reported him missing. 34 nails were found during a
post-mortem examination of Liu's body, and were located mainly in his
skull. They were fired from an 85 mm nail gun at close range.
(AP, 4/24/09)
2008 Nov 1, Bolivian President Evo
Morales suspended US anti-drug operations as Washington's relations
with his leftist government spiraled downward.
(AP, 11/2/08)
2008 Nov 1, It was reported that
British Major Sebastian Morley, commander of SAS (Special Air Service)
troops in Afghanistan, has resigned, reportedly in disgust at equipment
failures that he believes led to the death of four of his troops.
(AFP, 11/1/08)
2008 Nov 1, Britain’s PM Gordon
Brown left for a tour of oil-rich Gulf states, hoping to persuade them
to give extra funds to help countries hit by the world economic turmoil.
(AP, 11/1/08)
2008 Nov 1, Five migrants were
rescued after 15 days lost at sea. One died the next day. A total of 33
Dominican migrants were trying to reach Puerto Rico by boat when they
were reported missing by relatives in mid-October. Survivors said they
lost their way after the captain abandoned the ship. The survivors ate
their dead comrades to stay alive. Four Dominicans were later charged
with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly helping to organize the
illegal boat trip to Puerto Rico that ended in the deaths of 29
migrants.
(AP, 11/2/08)(AP, 11/11/08)
2008 Nov 1, Three Tunisian men
accused of terrorism links by Italian prosecutors arrived in Milan
under heavy security after being extradited from Britain. Habib
Ignaoua, Mohamed Khemiri and Ali Chehidi were arrested in the London
and Manchester areas last year as part of coordinated raids across
Europe against an alleged Italian-based network recruiting fighters for
Iraq and Afghanistan.
(AP, 11/2/08)
2008 Nov 1, Tutsi-led rebels
tightened their hold on newly seized swaths of eastern Congo, forcing
tens of thousands of frightened, rain-soaked civilians out of makeshift
refugee camps and stopping some from fleeing to government-held
territory. Congolese soldiers killed nine fighters from Uganda's Lord's
Resistance Army (LRA) after 30-50 rebels attacked a village in
northeast Democratic Republic of Congo.
(AP, 11/2/08)(AFP, 11/2/08)
2008 Nov 1, Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak promised to push ahead with economic reform and step up
efforts to combat poverty, despite the impact of the international
financial crisis on Egypt's economy.
(AP, 11/2/08)
2008 Nov 1, In Iraq a police quick
reaction force for Anbar province moved to the border town of Qaim,
about 200 miles northwest of Baghdad, to prevent al-Qaida from moving
into the area from Syria. Unknown assailants gunned down a policeman on
a foot patrol along Palestine Street in Shiite eastern Baghdad.
(AP, 11/1/08)
2008 Nov 1, Malaysia defended its
recognition of Kosovo as an independent state, a move that caused
Serbia to expel the Southeast Asian nation's ambassador.
(AP, 11/1/08)
2008 Nov 1, The top officer of
Mexico's federal police force quit amid allegations that drug gangs
have infiltrated senior levels of crime-fighting agencies. Acting
federal police Commissioner Gerardo Garay said he was stepping aside
"to place myself at the orders of legal judicial authorities to clear
up any accusation against me."
(AP, 11/1/08)
2008 Nov 1, In South Africa
thousands of dissidents in the African National Congress met to pave
the way for a new South African party, the Congress of the People
(COPE) in a bitter split from the movement that led the anti-apartheid
struggle.
(AFP, 11/1/08)(Econ, 12/13/08, p.58)
2008 Nov 1, Sri Lanka's defense
ministry said its warships sank at least four rebel boats and killed at
least 14 guerrillas while the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
said they destroyed a navy fast attack craft and a hovercraft. Security
forces took control of a two-kilometer (1.25-mile) rebel bunker line
north of Kilinochchi amidst heavy fire.
(AFP, 11/1/08)
2008 Nov 1, Jacques Piccard
(b.1922), a scientist and underwater explorer who plunged deeper
beneath the ocean than any other man, died in Geneva, Switzerland.
(AP, 11/1/08)
2008 Nov 1, Zimbabwe opposition
leader Morgan Tsvangirai called for a truth commission to examine
atrocities in the country dating back to the massacres of ethnic
minorities in the 1980s.
(AFP, 11/1/08)
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