San Diego Union-Tribune (Sunday)
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Sunday, Nov. 1, the 306th day of 2020. There are 60 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight
On Nov. 1, 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington, D.C., in a failed attempt to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. (One of the pair was killed, along with a White House police officer.)
On this date
In 1478, the Spanish Inquisition was established.
In 1512, Michelangelo’s justcompleted paintings on the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel were publicly unveiled by the artist’s patron, Pope Julius II.
In 1765, the Stamp Act, passed by the British Parliament, went into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln named Maj. Gen. George B. Mcclellan Generalin-chief of the Union armies, succeeding Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott.
In 1870, the United States Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations.
In 1936, in a speech in Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini described the alliance between his country and Nazi Germany as an “axis” running between Rome and Berlin.
In 1945, Ebony, a magazine geared toward Black readers, was first published.
In 1952, the United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb, code-named “Ivy Mike,” at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
In 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.
In 1989, East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia, prompting tens of thousands of refugees to flee to the West.
In 1991, Clarence Thomas took his place as the newest justice on the Supreme Court.
In 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.)
Ten years ago: Marjorie Diehlarmstrong, 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.) The San Francisco Giants won the World Series with a 3-1 victory over the Texas Rangers in Game 5.
Today’s birthdays
World Golf Hall of Famer Gary Player is 85. Actor Robert Foxworth is 79. Magazine publisher Larry Flynt is 78. Singer-humorist Kinky Friedman is 76. Singer Lyle Lovett is 63. Actor Rachel Ticotin is 62. Apple CEO Tim Cook is 60. Actor Helene Udy is 59. Singer-musician Mags Furuholmen (a-ha) 58. Singer Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers) is 58. Musician Rick Allen (Def Leppard) is 57. Singer Sophie B. Hawkins is 56. Actor Toni Collette is 48. Actor-talk show host Jenny Mccarthy is 48. Singer Bo Bice is 45.