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, 1,730,419,200 seconds 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.
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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
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.
1555 –
French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1800 –
US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
1859 –
The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
1870 –
In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
1901 –
Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
1915 –
Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
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 deaths.
1950 –
Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
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?
1727 –
Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, Russian educator (d. 1797)
1880 –
Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist (d. 1930)
1880 –
Sholom Asch, Polish-born American writer (d. 1957)
1929 –
Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (d. 2003)
1935 –
Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003)
1951 –
Fabrice Luchini, French actor
1951 –
Ronald Bell, American singer and saxophonist (Kool & the Gang)
1955 –
Mike Mendoza, British radio personality
1962 –
Magne Furuholmen, Norwegian musician (a-ha)
1971 –
Vikram Chatwal, Indian hotelier
Who died on November 1?
955 –
Henry I, Duke of Bavaria
1596 –
Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)
1907 –
Alfred Jarry, French writer (b. 1873)
1962 –
Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1942)
1970 –
Robert Staughton Lynd, American historian (b. 1892)
1983 –
Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (b. 1887)
1993 –
A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (b. 1911)
2008 –
Jacques Piccard, Swiss ocean explorer (b. 1922)
2008 –
Nathaniel Mayer, American soul musician (b. 1944)
2008 –
Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer (b. 1922)
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