History for November 1

History for November 1 - On-This-Day.com:
Stephen Crane 1871, James Kilpatrick 1920, Larry Flynt 1942 


Marcia Wallace 1942, Lyle Lovett 1957, Toni Collette 1972 


1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public. 


1604 - "Othello," the tragedy by William Shakespeare, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London. 


1765 - The British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American colonies. The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative power of the colonies. 


1861 - Gen. George B. McClellan was made the general-in-chief of the American Union armies. 


1936 - Benito Mussolini made a speech in Milan, Italy, in which he described the alliance between Italy and Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Berlin and Rome. 


1950 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate U.S. President Harry Truman. One of the men was killed when they tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington, DC. 


1973 - Leon Jaworski was appointed the new Watergate special prosecutor in the Watergate case.
 

1993 - The European Community's treaty on European unity took effect.