1st november anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1609
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Sir Matthew Hale, English legal scholar and Lord Chief Justice"
  • 1757
  • "Birth of Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor (One of the greatest exponents of Neoclassicism)"
  • 1907
  • Terence Cuneo born 1907 (died 1996). Painter of railway trains and of portraits.
• event
  • 1604
  • Othello first presented
  • 1611
  • The Tempest first presented
  • 1755
  • Great Britain
  • Lisbon Earthquake
  • 1939
  • The first animal (a rabbit) born after being conceived by artificial insemination was shown to the world
  • 1948
  • "6,000 people were killed off the coast of southern Manchuria when a Chinese merchant ship exploded and sunk."
  • 1959
  • "The first stretch of the M1 motorway was opened. Britains first motorway service station also opened that day, at Watford Gap"
  • 1959
  • "Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper Jacques Plante became the first player to wear a protective mask in a professional game, after being struck in the face"
  • 1989
  • East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia
  • 1993
  • "The Maastricht Treaty came into effect, formally establishing the European Union."
  • 1998
  • The European Court of Human Rights was founded in Strasbourg .
• Death
  • 1979
  • "Death of Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (195361)"
  • 1982
  • United States
  • "Death of King Vidor, American film director"
  • 1988
  • "Death of Louis Johnson, New Zealand poet ."