DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Sunday, Nov. 1, the 306th day of 2020. There are 60 days left in the year.
On this date:
1478: The Spanish Inquisition was established.
1512: Michelangelo’s just-completed paintings on the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel were publicly unveiled by the artist’s patron, Pope Julius II.
1765: The Stamp Act, passed by the British Parliament, went into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
1861: During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln named Maj. Gen. George B. Mcclellan General-in-chief of the Union armies, succeeding Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott.
1870: The United States Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations.
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.
1945: Ebony, a magazine geared toward Black readers, was first published.
1952: The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb, code-named “Ivy Mike,” at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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.
1989: East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia, prompting tens of thousands of refugees to flee to the West.
1991: Clarence Thomas took his place as the newest justice on the Supreme
Court.
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.)
Country singer Bill Anderson is 83. Actor Barbara Bosson (“Hill Street Blues”) is 81. Actor Robert Foxworth (“Falcon Crest”) is 79. “Hustler” publisher Larry Flynt is 78. Country singer Kinky Friedman is 76. Actor Jeannie Berlin (“The Heartbreak Kid”) is 71. Actor Belita Moreno (“Diary of a Wimpy
Kid”) is 71. Country singer-songwriter Keith Stegall is 66. Singer Lyle Lovett is 63. Actor Rachel Ticotin is 62. Bassist Eddie Macdonald of The Alarm is 61. Actor Helene Udy (“Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”) is 59. Singer Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers is 58. Singer-keyboardist Mags Furuholmen of Aha is 58. Drummer Rick Allen of Def Leppard is 57. Country singer Big Kenny of Big and Rich is 57. Singer Sophie B. Hawkins is 56. Rapper Willie D of the Geto Boys is 54. Keyboardist Dale Wallace of Emerson Drive is 51. Actor Toni Collette (“The United States of Tara”) is 48. Actor and TV personality Jenny Mccarthy is 48. Actor Dave Berman (“CSI”) is 47. Actor Penn Badgely (“Gossip Girl”) is 34.