This day in history – November 1

• 835 All Saints Day made compulsory by Pope Gregory IV throughout Frankish Kingdom.

• 1512 Michelangelo’s paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel in the Vatican first exhibited.

• 1570 All Saints Flood, tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland; killing more than 1 000 people.

• 1755 Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50 000.

• 1834 First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game).

• 1848 First US women’s medical school opens (Boston).

• 1878 Edward Scripps and John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press).

• 1896 First bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine.

• 1928 First celebration of Authors’ Day.

• 1931 Dupont introduces synthetic rubber

• 1936 Rodeo Cowboy’s Association founded

• 1939 First animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed.

• 1941 Ansel Adams shoots ‘Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico’, one of his most famous photographs

• 1965 Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)

• 1969 The Beatles’ “Abbey Road” album goes #1 in US & stays #1 for 11 weeks

• 1974 Fire kills 189 in less than 25 min (Sao Paulo Brazil)

• 1979 Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice’s musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” premieres.

• 1984 Willem de Kooning’s “Two Women” sells for $1 980 000.

• 1986 Fire in Sandoz factory in Basel, 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhine

• 1990 Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tysonfondling her breasts

• 1991 Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.

• 1997 “Titanic” directed by James Cameron, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet premieres at the Tokyo International Film Festival (Academy Awards Best Picture 1998)

• 1998 The European Court of Human Rights is instituted.

• 2012 Google’s Gmail becomes the world’s most popular email service.

• 2012 22 people are killed and 111 injured after a fuel tanker explodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

• 2012 Yellow fever kills 32 people and sickens 50 more in Darfur, Sudan.

• 2012 Acid is poured over a 15 year old girl by her parents after being seen talking to a young man in an “honour killing” in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.

• 2012 Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe’s first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang.

Source: www.onthisday.com