November 1 is the 305th day of the year. There are 60 days remaining until the end of the year.
+ 1611 – Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
+ 1800 – John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
+ 1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
+ 1894 – Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
+ 1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
+ 1973 – Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
( Births )
+ 1937 – Bill Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter
+ 1944 – Kinky Friedman, American singer-songwriter and author
+ 1957 – Lyle Lovett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer