Today in History - November 1
1478 - The Spanish Inquisition was established.
1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were shown to the public for the first time.
1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" was first performed, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1755 - Earthquake, fores and a tsunami leveled Lisbon and claimed more than 70,000 lives.
1765 - The Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the American colonies, went into effect.
1861 - Gen. George B. McClellan was made general-in-chief of the Union armies during the Civil War.
1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations.
1936 - Benito Mussolini described the new alliance between Nazi Germany and Italy as an "axis" running between Berlin and Rome.
1946 - Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was ordained as a priest in Poland.
1949 - An Eastern Airlines DC-4 collided in midair with a Lockheed P-38 fighter plane near Washington National Airport, killing all 55 people aboard the DC-4 and seriously injuring the pilot of the P-38.
1950 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. One of the assailants was killed.
1952 - The United States detonated its first hydrogen bomb in a test in the Marshall Islands.
1954 - Algeria began a successful rebellion against French rule.
1973 - Following the “Saturday Night Massacre,” Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork appointed Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate special prosecutor, succeeding Archibald Cox.
1979 - Former first lady Mamie Eisenhower died in Washington, D.C. at age 82.
1989 - East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia, prompting tens of thousands of refugees to flee to the West.
1991 - Clarence Thomas was sworn in as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1993 - The Maastricht Treaty was enacted, establishing the European Union.
1995 - Bosnia peace talks opened in Dayton, Ohio, with the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia present.
2003 - 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.)
2016 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon fired the commander of the peacekeeping force in South Sudan after an independent investigation sharply criticized the military response to deadly attacks in July on a U.N. compound housing 27,000 displaced people.
2020 - Two days before Election Day, the Texas Supreme Court denied a Republican-led petition to toss nearly 127,000 ballots cast at drive-thru voting places in the Houston area. (A federal judge also rejected that effort the following day.)
Birthdays
24 - Alex Wolff (actor/musician)
24 - Kaylee Bryant (actress)
24 - Max Burkholder (actor)
27 - Pabllo Vittar (singer)
35 - Penn Badgley (actor)
37 - Natalia Tena (actress)
40 - Matt Jones (actor)
46 - Bo Bice (singer)
48 - Aishwarya Rai (actress)
48 - David Berman (actor)
49 - Jenny McCarthy (actress/model/TV host)
49 - Toni Collette (actress)
52 - Dale Wallace (musician)
57 - Sophie B. Hawkins (singer)
58 - "Big Kenny" Alphin (country singer)
60 - Helene Udy (actress)
61 - Tim Cook (Apple CEO)
63 - Rachel Ticotin (actress)
64 - Lyle Lovett (country singer)
72 - Belita Moreno (actress)
72 - Jeannie Berlin actress)
80 - Robert Foxworth (actor)
82 - Barbara Bosson (actress)
84 - Bill Anderson (country singer)
86 - Gary Player (golfer)
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Today in Sports History - November 1
1902 - Nebraska defeats Haskell 28-0.
1913 - Notre Dame defeated Army 35-13. It was the first time the forward pass was used as a main offensive weapon in football.
1913 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 18-9.
1919 - Cockeye State defeats Nebraska 3-0.
1924 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 14-6.
1924 - The Boston Bruins become the first U.S. team to join the NHL; the Montreal Maroons franchise also joined the league.
1930 - Nebraska and Pittsburgh play to a 0-0 tie.
1941 - Kansas State defeats Nebraska 12-6.
1947 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 47-6.
1952 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 10-6.
1958 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 31-0.
1959 - Jacques Plante, of the Montreal Canadiens, became the first goalie in the NHL to wear a mask.
1964 - Jim Brown (Cleveland Browns) became the first NFL player to exceed 10,000 yards rushing.
1964 - Houston Oilers quarterback George Blanda attempts an AFL record 68 passes (with 37 completions) in a 24-10 loss to the Buffalo Bills.
1966 - The NFL awards a franchise to New Orleans; the name "Saints" alludes to November 1, All Saints Day in Catholic faith.
1966 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers becomes the first three-time winner of the Cy Young Award. (This was also the final year that only one award was handed out...the following year the honor went to a pitcher in each league.)
1969 - Nebraska defeats #18 Colorado 20-7.
1975 - #3 Nebraska defeats #12 Missouri 30-7.
1980 - #8 Nebraska defeats #15 Missouri 38-16.
1982 - MLB owners vote to not renew the contract of Bowie Kuhn as commissioner.
1986 - #9 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 38-0.
1987 - The New York Jets retire Don Maynard's #13.
1997 - #1 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 69-7.
1998 - Steve Young and Jerry Rice connect on their 80th career touchdown in the San Francisco 49ers 36-22 loss to the Green Bay Packers; the 80 scores eclipses the old NFL record held by the Miami Dolphins tandem of Dan Marino and Mary Clayton.
2000 - Pat Riley becomes just the second coach in NBA history to accumulate 1,000 regular season victories, joining Lenny Wilkens.
2001 - Dan Neil (Denver Broncos) was fined $15,000 for an illegal block that broke the leg of Bryan Cox (New England Patriots).
2003 - Arkansas defeats Kentucky 71-63 in seven overtimes in what tied for the then-longest college football game in NCAA history.
2003 - John Gagliardi ties Eddie Robinson as college football's career victories leader with his 408th win, guiding Division III St. John's to a 15-12 victory over St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
2003 - Wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald of Pittsburgh sets a new NCAA record with a touchdown reception in his 14th consecutive game in a 24-13 win over Boston College.
2003 - #16 Texas defeats #12 Nebraska 31-7.
2007 - Joe Torre, the winningest manager on MLB postseason history, moves from the New York Yankees to the Los Angeles Dodgers with a 3-year, $13 million contract.
2007 - Five-time Grand Slam tennis winner Martina Hingis admits testing positive for cocaine during Wimbledon; she announces her retirement with no desire to fight with anti-doping authorities.
2008 - #4 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 62-28.
2010 - The San Francisco Giants defeated the Texas Rangers in five games to win their first World Series since relocating from New York in 1958.
2014 - #17 Nebraska defeats Purdue 35-14.
2015 - The Kansas City Royals defeated the New York Mets in five games to win their first World Series since 1985 and second in franchise history.
2017 - The Houston Astros defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games to win their first World Series crown.
2018 - Twenty-year-old Russian Evgeni Malkin scores in the 1st period to become the first NHL player in 89 years with goals in his first 6 games as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Kings, 4-3 in Los Angeles.
1478 - The Spanish Inquisition was established.
1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were shown to the public for the first time.
1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" was first performed, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1755 - Earthquake, fores and a tsunami leveled Lisbon and claimed more than 70,000 lives.
1765 - The Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the American colonies, went into effect.
1861 - Gen. George B. McClellan was made general-in-chief of the Union armies during the Civil War.
1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations.
1936 - Benito Mussolini described the new alliance between Nazi Germany and Italy as an "axis" running between Berlin and Rome.
1946 - Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was ordained as a priest in Poland.
1949 - An Eastern Airlines DC-4 collided in midair with a Lockheed P-38 fighter plane near Washington National Airport, killing all 55 people aboard the DC-4 and seriously injuring the pilot of the P-38.
1950 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. One of the assailants was killed.
1952 - The United States detonated its first hydrogen bomb in a test in the Marshall Islands.
1954 - Algeria began a successful rebellion against French rule.
1973 - Following the “Saturday Night Massacre,” Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork appointed Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate special prosecutor, succeeding Archibald Cox.
1979 - Former first lady Mamie Eisenhower died in Washington, D.C. at age 82.
1989 - East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia, prompting tens of thousands of refugees to flee to the West.
1991 - Clarence Thomas was sworn in as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1993 - The Maastricht Treaty was enacted, establishing the European Union.
1995 - Bosnia peace talks opened in Dayton, Ohio, with the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia present.
2003 - 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.)
2016 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon fired the commander of the peacekeeping force in South Sudan after an independent investigation sharply criticized the military response to deadly attacks in July on a U.N. compound housing 27,000 displaced people.
2020 - Two days before Election Day, the Texas Supreme Court denied a Republican-led petition to toss nearly 127,000 ballots cast at drive-thru voting places in the Houston area. (A federal judge also rejected that effort the following day.)
Birthdays
24 - Alex Wolff (actor/musician)
24 - Kaylee Bryant (actress)
24 - Max Burkholder (actor)
27 - Pabllo Vittar (singer)
35 - Penn Badgley (actor)
37 - Natalia Tena (actress)
40 - Matt Jones (actor)
46 - Bo Bice (singer)
48 - Aishwarya Rai (actress)
48 - David Berman (actor)
49 - Jenny McCarthy (actress/model/TV host)
49 - Toni Collette (actress)
52 - Dale Wallace (musician)
57 - Sophie B. Hawkins (singer)
58 - "Big Kenny" Alphin (country singer)
60 - Helene Udy (actress)
61 - Tim Cook (Apple CEO)
63 - Rachel Ticotin (actress)
64 - Lyle Lovett (country singer)
72 - Belita Moreno (actress)
72 - Jeannie Berlin actress)
80 - Robert Foxworth (actor)
82 - Barbara Bosson (actress)
84 - Bill Anderson (country singer)
86 - Gary Player (golfer)
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Today in Sports History - November 1
1902 - Nebraska defeats Haskell 28-0.
1913 - Notre Dame defeated Army 35-13. It was the first time the forward pass was used as a main offensive weapon in football.
1913 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 18-9.
1919 - Cockeye State defeats Nebraska 3-0.
1924 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 14-6.
1924 - The Boston Bruins become the first U.S. team to join the NHL; the Montreal Maroons franchise also joined the league.
1930 - Nebraska and Pittsburgh play to a 0-0 tie.
1941 - Kansas State defeats Nebraska 12-6.
1947 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 47-6.
1952 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 10-6.
1958 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 31-0.
1959 - Jacques Plante, of the Montreal Canadiens, became the first goalie in the NHL to wear a mask.
1964 - Jim Brown (Cleveland Browns) became the first NFL player to exceed 10,000 yards rushing.
1964 - Houston Oilers quarterback George Blanda attempts an AFL record 68 passes (with 37 completions) in a 24-10 loss to the Buffalo Bills.
1966 - The NFL awards a franchise to New Orleans; the name "Saints" alludes to November 1, All Saints Day in Catholic faith.
1966 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers becomes the first three-time winner of the Cy Young Award. (This was also the final year that only one award was handed out...the following year the honor went to a pitcher in each league.)
1969 - Nebraska defeats #18 Colorado 20-7.
1975 - #3 Nebraska defeats #12 Missouri 30-7.
1980 - #8 Nebraska defeats #15 Missouri 38-16.
1982 - MLB owners vote to not renew the contract of Bowie Kuhn as commissioner.
1986 - #9 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 38-0.
1987 - The New York Jets retire Don Maynard's #13.
1997 - #1 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 69-7.
1998 - Steve Young and Jerry Rice connect on their 80th career touchdown in the San Francisco 49ers 36-22 loss to the Green Bay Packers; the 80 scores eclipses the old NFL record held by the Miami Dolphins tandem of Dan Marino and Mary Clayton.
2000 - Pat Riley becomes just the second coach in NBA history to accumulate 1,000 regular season victories, joining Lenny Wilkens.
2001 - Dan Neil (Denver Broncos) was fined $15,000 for an illegal block that broke the leg of Bryan Cox (New England Patriots).
2003 - Arkansas defeats Kentucky 71-63 in seven overtimes in what tied for the then-longest college football game in NCAA history.
2003 - John Gagliardi ties Eddie Robinson as college football's career victories leader with his 408th win, guiding Division III St. John's to a 15-12 victory over St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
2003 - Wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald of Pittsburgh sets a new NCAA record with a touchdown reception in his 14th consecutive game in a 24-13 win over Boston College.
2003 - #16 Texas defeats #12 Nebraska 31-7.
2007 - Joe Torre, the winningest manager on MLB postseason history, moves from the New York Yankees to the Los Angeles Dodgers with a 3-year, $13 million contract.
2007 - Five-time Grand Slam tennis winner Martina Hingis admits testing positive for cocaine during Wimbledon; she announces her retirement with no desire to fight with anti-doping authorities.
2008 - #4 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 62-28.
2010 - The San Francisco Giants defeated the Texas Rangers in five games to win their first World Series since relocating from New York in 1958.
2014 - #17 Nebraska defeats Purdue 35-14.
2015 - The Kansas City Royals defeated the New York Mets in five games to win their first World Series since 1985 and second in franchise history.
2017 - The Houston Astros defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games to win their first World Series crown.
2018 - Twenty-year-old Russian Evgeni Malkin scores in the 1st period to become the first NHL player in 89 years with goals in his first 6 games as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Kings, 4-3 in Los Angeles.