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.
1755 - Earthquake, fires 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, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
1861 - Gen. George B. McClellan was made general-in-chief of the Union armies.
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.
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 the 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 on the United States Supreme Court.
1993 - The Maastricht Treaty was enacted, establishing the European Union.
1995 - Bosnia peace talks opened in Dayton, Ohio.
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.)
2010 - Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, 61, was convicted by a jury in Erie, Pennsylvania, of participating in a bizarre plot in which a pizza delivery driver was forced to rob a bank wearing a metal bomb collar that later exploded, killing him. (Diehl-Armstrong was later sentenced to life in prison.)
2019 - House investigators called Energy Secretary Rick Perry to testify in the impeachment inquiry; he was the first Trump Cabinet member asked to appear before the House. (Perry failed to appear for the closed-door hearing.)
2019 - Chicago teachers and more than 300,000 students returned to classrooms following an 11-day strike.
2019 - Google announced it was buying Fitbit for $2.1 billion.
Birthdays
23 - Alex Wolff (actor)
23 - Max Burkholder (actor)
28 - Marina Laswick (model)
30 - JoJo Fletcher (reality star)
33 - Ileana D'Cruz (actress)
34 - Penn Badgley (actor)
36 - Natalia Tena (actress)
39 - Matt Jones (actor)
45 - Bo Bice (singer)
47 - David Berman (actor)
47 - Aishwarya Rai (actress)
48 - Jenny McCarthy (actress/talk show host)
48 - Toni Collette (actress)
56 - Sophie B. Hawkins (singer)
57 - "Big Kenny" Alphin (country singer)
57 - Rick Allen (musician)
59 - Helene Udy (actress)
60 - Tim Cook (CEO of Apple)
62 - Rachel Ticotin (actress)
63 - Lyle Lovett (country singer)
71 - Jeannie Berlin (actress)
85 - Gary Player (golfer)
===============================================
Today in Sports History - November 1
1902 - Nebraska defeated Haskell 28-0.
1913 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 18-9.
1913 - Notre Dame defeated Army 35-13 in a game that featured the forward pass used for the first time as a main offensive weapon in football.
1919 - Cockeye State defeated Nebraska 3-0.
1924 - The Boston Bruins officially join the NHL and become the first U.S.-based team to enter the league. The Montreal Maroons are also admitted to the league (the franchise would fold in 1938).
1924 - Nebraska defeated Missouri 14-6.
1930 - Nebraska and Pittsburgh played to a 0-0 tie.
1938 - Seabiscuit, with George Woolf aboard, beats 1937 Triple Crown winner War Admiral by three lengths at Pimlico track in record time to win a $15,000 purse in what is regarded as one of the greatest match races in horse racing history.
1941 - Kansas State defeated Nebraska 12-6.
1946 - The New York Knicks defeat the Toronto Huskies 68-66 in the first game of the Basketball Association of America.
1947 - Missouri defeated Nebraska 47-6.
1952 - Missouri defeated Nebraska 10-6.
1953 - Herb Thomas, driving his own No. 92 Hudson Hornet wraps up the NASCAR Grand National Championship with 14th-place in 100-mile finale at Atlanta's Lakewood Speedway; Thomas first repeat champion of the series.
1958 - Missouri defeated Nebraska 31-0.
1959 - Jacques Plante, of the Montreal Canadiens, became the first goalie in the NHL to wear a mask.
1964 - Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns became the first player in NFL history to exceed 10,000 yards rushing.
1964 - Houston Oilers quarterback George Blanda attempts an AFL record 68 passes (37 completions) in a 24-10 loss to the Buffalo Bills.
1964 - Len Dawson of the Kansas City Chiefs throws for 435 yards and 6 TDs in a 49-39 win over the Denver Broncos.
1966 - The NFL awards a franchise to New Orleans, with the nickname "Saints" referring 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.
1968 - Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers wins the Cy Young Award after a 31-6 season.
1969 - Nebraska defeated #18 Colorado 20-7.
1975 - #3 Nebraska defeated #12 Missouri 30-7.
1980 - #8 Nebraska defeated #15 Missouri 38-16.
1982 - MLB owners vote not to renew the contract of Commissioner Bowie Kuhn; he is eventually replaced by Peter Ueberroth.
1986 - #9 Nebraska defeated Kansas State 38-0.
1987 - The New York Jets retire Don Maynard's #13.
1992 - Al Toon of the New York Jets becomes the 10th player in NFL history to make a reception in 100 straight games.
1994 - The Chicago Bulls retire Michael Jordan's #23.
1997 - North Carolina State receiver Torry Holt catches five touchdown passes in a 48-35 loss to Florida State.
1997 - #1 Nebraska defeated Oklahoma 69-7.
1998 - Steve Young and Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers hook up for their 80th career touchdown in a 36-22 loss to the Green Bay Packers, eclipsing the previous record held by Miami Dolphins tandem Dan Marino and Mark 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 of the Denver Broncos was fined $15,000 for an illegal block that broke the leg of Bryan Cox (New England Patriots).
2003 - #16 Texas defeated #12 Nebraska 31-7.
2003 - Arkansas defeats Kentucky 71-63 in seven overtimes, tying for the longest game in college football history.
2003 - John Gagliardi ties Eddie Robinson as college football's career victory leader with his 408th win, guiding Division III St. John's to a 15-12 victory over St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
2003 - University of Pittsburgh Larry Fitzgerald establishes a new NCAA record with a touchdown reception in his 14th straight game.
2007 - Five-time Grand Slam tennis winner Martina Hingis admits testing positive for cocaine during Wimbledon; maintaining her innocence, she retires from tennis citing no desire to fight with anti-doping authorities.
2008 - #4 Oklahoma defeated Nebraska 62-28.
2010 - The San Francisco Giants defeated the Texas Rangers in five games to win their first World Series since moving to California in the late 1950s.
2014 - #17 Nebraska defeated Purdue 35-14.
2015 - The Kansas City Royals defeated the New York Mets in five games to win their second World Series, and first since 1985.
2017 - The Houston Astros win their first World Series in franchise history, defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games.
2018 - 20-year-old Russian Evgeni Malkin scores in the first period to become the first NHL player in 89 years with goals in his first six games as the Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Los Angeles Kings 4-3.
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.
1755 - Earthquake, fires 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, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
1861 - Gen. George B. McClellan was made general-in-chief of the Union armies.
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.
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 the 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 on the United States Supreme Court.
1993 - The Maastricht Treaty was enacted, establishing the European Union.
1995 - Bosnia peace talks opened in Dayton, Ohio.
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.)
2010 - Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, 61, was convicted by a jury in Erie, Pennsylvania, of participating in a bizarre plot in which a pizza delivery driver was forced to rob a bank wearing a metal bomb collar that later exploded, killing him. (Diehl-Armstrong was later sentenced to life in prison.)
2019 - House investigators called Energy Secretary Rick Perry to testify in the impeachment inquiry; he was the first Trump Cabinet member asked to appear before the House. (Perry failed to appear for the closed-door hearing.)
2019 - Chicago teachers and more than 300,000 students returned to classrooms following an 11-day strike.
2019 - Google announced it was buying Fitbit for $2.1 billion.
Birthdays
23 - Alex Wolff (actor)
23 - Max Burkholder (actor)
28 - Marina Laswick (model)
30 - JoJo Fletcher (reality star)
33 - Ileana D'Cruz (actress)
34 - Penn Badgley (actor)
36 - Natalia Tena (actress)
39 - Matt Jones (actor)
45 - Bo Bice (singer)
47 - David Berman (actor)
47 - Aishwarya Rai (actress)
48 - Jenny McCarthy (actress/talk show host)
48 - Toni Collette (actress)
56 - Sophie B. Hawkins (singer)
57 - "Big Kenny" Alphin (country singer)
57 - Rick Allen (musician)
59 - Helene Udy (actress)
60 - Tim Cook (CEO of Apple)
62 - Rachel Ticotin (actress)
63 - Lyle Lovett (country singer)
71 - Jeannie Berlin (actress)
85 - Gary Player (golfer)
===============================================
Today in Sports History - November 1
1902 - Nebraska defeated Haskell 28-0.
1913 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 18-9.
1913 - Notre Dame defeated Army 35-13 in a game that featured the forward pass used for the first time as a main offensive weapon in football.
1919 - Cockeye State defeated Nebraska 3-0.
1924 - The Boston Bruins officially join the NHL and become the first U.S.-based team to enter the league. The Montreal Maroons are also admitted to the league (the franchise would fold in 1938).
1924 - Nebraska defeated Missouri 14-6.
1930 - Nebraska and Pittsburgh played to a 0-0 tie.
1938 - Seabiscuit, with George Woolf aboard, beats 1937 Triple Crown winner War Admiral by three lengths at Pimlico track in record time to win a $15,000 purse in what is regarded as one of the greatest match races in horse racing history.
1941 - Kansas State defeated Nebraska 12-6.
1946 - The New York Knicks defeat the Toronto Huskies 68-66 in the first game of the Basketball Association of America.
1947 - Missouri defeated Nebraska 47-6.
1952 - Missouri defeated Nebraska 10-6.
1953 - Herb Thomas, driving his own No. 92 Hudson Hornet wraps up the NASCAR Grand National Championship with 14th-place in 100-mile finale at Atlanta's Lakewood Speedway; Thomas first repeat champion of the series.
1958 - Missouri defeated Nebraska 31-0.
1959 - Jacques Plante, of the Montreal Canadiens, became the first goalie in the NHL to wear a mask.
1964 - Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns became the first player in NFL history to exceed 10,000 yards rushing.
1964 - Houston Oilers quarterback George Blanda attempts an AFL record 68 passes (37 completions) in a 24-10 loss to the Buffalo Bills.
1964 - Len Dawson of the Kansas City Chiefs throws for 435 yards and 6 TDs in a 49-39 win over the Denver Broncos.
1966 - The NFL awards a franchise to New Orleans, with the nickname "Saints" referring 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.
1968 - Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers wins the Cy Young Award after a 31-6 season.
1969 - Nebraska defeated #18 Colorado 20-7.
1975 - #3 Nebraska defeated #12 Missouri 30-7.
1980 - #8 Nebraska defeated #15 Missouri 38-16.
1982 - MLB owners vote not to renew the contract of Commissioner Bowie Kuhn; he is eventually replaced by Peter Ueberroth.
1986 - #9 Nebraska defeated Kansas State 38-0.
1987 - The New York Jets retire Don Maynard's #13.
1992 - Al Toon of the New York Jets becomes the 10th player in NFL history to make a reception in 100 straight games.
1994 - The Chicago Bulls retire Michael Jordan's #23.
1997 - North Carolina State receiver Torry Holt catches five touchdown passes in a 48-35 loss to Florida State.
1997 - #1 Nebraska defeated Oklahoma 69-7.
1998 - Steve Young and Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers hook up for their 80th career touchdown in a 36-22 loss to the Green Bay Packers, eclipsing the previous record held by Miami Dolphins tandem Dan Marino and Mark 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 of the Denver Broncos was fined $15,000 for an illegal block that broke the leg of Bryan Cox (New England Patriots).
2003 - #16 Texas defeated #12 Nebraska 31-7.
2003 - Arkansas defeats Kentucky 71-63 in seven overtimes, tying for the longest game in college football history.
2003 - John Gagliardi ties Eddie Robinson as college football's career victory leader with his 408th win, guiding Division III St. John's to a 15-12 victory over St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
2003 - University of Pittsburgh Larry Fitzgerald establishes a new NCAA record with a touchdown reception in his 14th straight game.
2007 - Five-time Grand Slam tennis winner Martina Hingis admits testing positive for cocaine during Wimbledon; maintaining her innocence, she retires from tennis citing no desire to fight with anti-doping authorities.
2008 - #4 Oklahoma defeated Nebraska 62-28.
2010 - The San Francisco Giants defeated the Texas Rangers in five games to win their first World Series since moving to California in the late 1950s.
2014 - #17 Nebraska defeated Purdue 35-14.
2015 - The Kansas City Royals defeated the New York Mets in five games to win their second World Series, and first since 1985.
2017 - The Houston Astros win their first World Series in franchise history, defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games.
2018 - 20-year-old Russian Evgeni Malkin scores in the first period to become the first NHL player in 89 years with goals in his first six games as the Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Los Angeles Kings 4-3.