November 1 birthdays & history

Famous people born on November 1

• 1973Aishwarya Rai, Indian model and actress
• 1935Edward Said, Palestinian-American theorist, author, and academic
• 1924Süleyman Demirel, Turkish engineer and politician, 9th President of Turkey
• 1880Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist
• 1636Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic
• 1960Tim Cook, American businessman and engineer, executive chairman of Apple Inc.
• 1950Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1530Étienne de La Boétie, French philosopher and judge
• 1871Stephen Crane, American poet, novelist, and short story writer
• 1962Anthony Kiedis, American singer-songwriter

What happened on November 1

• 1800John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
• 1824The disposable ship Columbus arrived in the The Downs off England, becoming, at that time, the largest vessel to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1848In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
• 1870In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
• 1896A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
• 1897The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
• 1921Frances Kyle and Averil Deverell were called to the Bar of Ireland, becoming the first female barristers in Ireland or Great Britain.
• 1956The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka were formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
• 1959After being struck in the face with a hockey puck, Jacques Plante played the rest of the game wearing a face mask, now mandatory equipment for goaltenders in ice hockey.
• 1972Elvis on Tour, a concert film that documented Elvis Presley's tour throughout the United States, opened.
• 1981The Associated State of Antigua gained independence from the United Kingdom as Antigua and Barbuda.
• 1998Karl Bushby set off from Punta Arenas, Chile, to walk around the world towards England, completing the journey in 2026.

Also observed on November 1

• Anniversary of the Revolution (Algeria)
• Chavang Kut (Mizo people of Northeast India, Bangladesh, Burma)
• Chhattisgarh Rajyotsava (Chhattisgarh, India)
• Coronation of the fifth Druk Gyalpo (Bhutan)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Antigua and Barbuda from the United Kingdom in 1981.
• Karnataka Rajyotsava (Karnataka, India)