Daily Calendar for Thursday, November 1, 2029
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Thursday, November 1, 2029
Born
- Antonio Canova (sculptor) –
- George Rapp (religious leader) –
- James Renwick, Jr. (architect) –
- Stephen Crane (American writer) –
- Robert Foxworth (actor) –
- Lyle Lovett (Singer-songwriter; born in Klein, Texas) –
- Fernando Valenzuela (baseball player) –
- Rick Allen (drummer of Def Leppard) –
- Sophie B. Hawkins (musician) –
- Toni Collette (actress) –
Died
- Ezra Pound (poet) –
- Mamie Eisenhower (U.S. First Lady) –
- Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (pilot of U.S. B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay, whose crew dropped first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during WWII; bomb nicknamed Little Boy was dropped on August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m. local time) –
Events
- Michelangelo’s fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was unveiled –
- Great earthquake at Lisbon, Portugal, accompanied by fire and flood, killed between sixty and ninety thousand people and destroyed the city –
- The first medical school for women opened in Boston, Massachusetts, founded by Samuel Gregory –
- First national weather service in U.S. began operation –
- Rainbow Bridge, an international bridge at Niagara Falls, opens to the public –
- U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt placed United States Coast Guard under Navy control –
- Two Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to assassinate President Harry Truman following a week of political unrest on the island –
- In Toronto, CBLT made its first hockey TV broadcast as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Boston Bruins 3-2 –
- The Mackinac Bridge, connecting Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas, opened to traffic –
- Montreal Canadiens goalie Jacques Plante put on a face mask and became the first NHL goalie to regularly use face protection –
- First direct flight from Canada to USSR –
- Elvis Presley scored his first number-one hit in more than seven years with Suspicious Minds.” It would be his last” –
- The Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey changes its name to Exxon Corp –
- Boston Bruins’ Ray Bourque signed a five-year, $12 million contract –
- The San Francisco Giants won the World Series. It was the first time the Giants won a World Series since relocating from New York to San Francisco at the close of the 1957 season. –
- The Houston Astros won the World Series (against the LA Dodgers) for the first time in the club’s history –
Weather
- A Hatteras hurricane battered the Union fleet attacking Carolina ports –