History for November 1

History for November 1 - On-This-Day.com:
Stephen Crane 1871, James Kilpatrick 1920, Gary Player 1935


Larry Flynt 1942, Kinky (Richard) Friedman 1944, Jenny McCarthy 1972
    

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


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 The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative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.


1800 - U.S. President John Adams became the first president to live in the White House when he moved in.


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.


1952 - The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.


1959 - Jacques Plante, of the Montreal Canadiens, became the first goalie in the NHL to wear a mask.