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This Day in HistoryNovember 1

1512Rome’s SistineChapel, famousfor its paintingsby Michelangelo,is opened to thepublic

1765Parliamentenacts theStamp Act, atax on paperthat enragedAmericancolonists

1800John Adams,during his last yearin office, becomesthe first presidentto live in thenewly constructedWhite House

1861Early in the Civilwar, AbrahamLincoln namesGeorge McClellangeneral in chief ofthe Union army

1871Stephen Crane,author of the classicCivil War novel TheRed Badge ofCourage, is born inNewark, New Jersey

1950Griselio Torresolaand Oscar Collazofail in their attemptto assassinatePresident HarryTruman

1952The United Statesdetonates theworld’s firsthydrogen bombon Eniwetok atollin the Pacific

1959Jacques Plante ofthe MontrealCanadiensbecomes the firstNHL goalie towear a protectiveface mask

1962Magne Furuholmen,keyboardist for 1980snew wave band a-ha, isborn in Oslo, Norway

1962Anthony Kiedis,lead singer ofthe Red Hot ChiliPeppers, is bornin Grand Rapids,Michigan

1964American bandthe Beach Boysbegin their firstUK tour with ashow in London

1974Dane Seeley,widely regardedas the world’sfinest socialstudies teacher,is born inRichfield, Utah

2012Google’s Gmailbecomes theworld’s mostpopular emailservice, surpassingHotmail

2019The Apple TV Plusstreaming servicelaunches witheight series, adocumentary, anda talk show

2019The hurricane forcewind gusts thatfanned at least 10wildfires acrossCalifornia finallybegin to diminish

2019Chicago studentsreturn to schoolafter missing 11days due to ateacher strike andenduring a snowcovered Halloween

2021In California on Friday,Inglewood defeatedMorningside 106-0 in a highschool football game, withInglewood’s quarterback, who iscommitted to play at UCLA,throwing 13 touchdownpasses—Inglewood’s coach hasbeen called “classless” forrunning up the score, includingattempting a 2-point conversionwhen up 104-0 in the 4th quarter

2021A man dressed in Batman'sJoker costume andbrandishing a knife on a Tokyo,Japan, commuter trainyesterday stabbed severalpassengers before starting afire, which sent peoplescrambling to escape andjumping from windows—17passengers were injured,including three seriously

2021Australia's internationalborders reopened today,ending nearly 20 monthsof tough COVID-19restrictions—since March2020, only citizens andpermanent residents havebeen allowed to enter,facing strict daily quotasand two weeks of hotelquarantine

2021President Joe Bidenarrives in Scotlandfor the COP26climate summittoday, hoping toconvince worldleaders that the U.S.is taking bold actionon climate change

2021The U.S. SupremeCourt will hear oralarguments today intwo caseschallenging Texas'highly restrictiveabortion law, whichwas signed into lawin May 2021

2021According to numbersfrom Johns HopkinsUniversity, more than 5million people aroundthe world have now diedfrom COVID-19—theU.S. leads the worldwith over 745,800documented deaths

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