What are the important events that happened on November 1? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 1: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 1 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 19, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,840,320 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectahexagon’ day.
Scorpio is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,333 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 1 Historical Events
- 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).
- 1520 –The Strait of Magellan is discovered, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during the first global circumnavigation voyage.
- 1755 –Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty thousand and ninety thousand people.
- 1848 –In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
- 1901 –Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
- 1922 –The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
- 1928 –The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used, comes into force in Turkey.
- 1943 –World War II: Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
- 1948 –Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned.
- 1952 –Operation Ivy – The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed “Mike” [“M” for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.
Who were born on November 1?
- 1847 –Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1930)
- 1936 –Shizuka Kamei, Japanese politician
- 1950 –Mitch Kapor, American computer programmer and businessman
- 1958 –Charlie Kaufman, American screenwriter
- 1963 –Rick Allen, British musician (Def Leppard)
- 1966 –Barbara Becker, German actress and model
- 1973 –Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress and Miss World, 1994
- 1973 –Geoff Horsfield, English footballer
- 1983 –Josh Wicks, American soccer player
- 1988 –Ai Fukuhara, Japanese table tennis player
Who died on November 1?
- 1678 –William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)
- 1888 –Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1838)
- 1907 –Alfred Jarry, French writer (b. 1873)
- 1938 –Charles Weeghman, American restaurateur and owner of Chicago Cubs (b.1874)
- 1968 –George Papandreou, Greek politician (b. 1888)
- 1985 –Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (b. 1911)
- 2004 –Mac Dre, American rapper (b. 1970)
- 2004 –Terry Knight, American music promoter (b. 1943)
- 2005 –Michael Piller, American screenwriter (b. 1948)
- 2008 –Jacques Piccard, Swiss ocean explorer (b. 1922)
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