November 1
1512. The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is revealed to the public.
1604. Shakespeare's Othello debuts.
1755. Lisbon, Portugal is practically wiped off the map by an earthquake and tsunami, killing between 60,000 to 90,000 people.
1800. The Executive Mansion, later renamed the White House, is first occupied, by John Adams.
1814. The Congress of Vienna opens to redraw Europe's political map in the wake of the fall of Napoleon. The "Final Act" will be signed, ironically, a few days before Waterloo as Napoleon had since escaped his exile and sought to reestablish his empire.
1896. National Geographic includes a photograph of a woman's bare breast for the first time. Unrelatedly, teenage boys everywhere start taking much longer trips to the bathroom.
1911. Again the little-known Turko-Italian War makes it mark as the first bomb is dropped from an airplane.
1938. Seabiscuit defeats Triple Crown champion War Admiral in a race dubbed "the Match of the Century."
1959. Montreal Canadians goalie Jacques Plante, who clearly also needed a skirt (or was the first goalie with an IQ over 80 -- and wanted to keep it that way, you decide), is the first goalie to don a face mask in a NHL game. Unrelatedly, the script for the first Friday the 13th movie starts being written the next day.
Monsieur Plante:
1982. Honda becomes the first Asian car company to begin production in the US, when it opens its Marysville, Ohio plant. It will start producing Honda Accords. Detroit probably didn't realize for whom the bell tolled.