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on this day 11/1
1512 – Michelangelo’s paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.
1604 – “Othello,” the tragedy by William Shakespeare, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.
1611 – “The Tempest,” Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.
1755 – At least 60,000 people were killed in Lisbon, Portugal by an earthquake, its aftershocks and the ensuing tsunami.
1765 – The British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American colonies. The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative power of the colonies.
1800 – U.S. President John Adams became the first president to live in the White House when he moved in.
1848 – The first medical school for women, founded by Samuel Gregory, opened in Boston, MA. The Boston Female Medical School later merged with Boston University School of Medicine.
1856 – The first photography magazine, Daguerreian Journal, was published in New York City, NY.
1861 – Gen. George B. McClellan was made the general-in-chief of the American Union armies.
1864 – The U.S. Post Office started selling money orders. The money orders provided a safe way to payments by mail.
1870 – The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations using 24 locations that provided reports via telegraph.
1879 – Thomas Edison executed his first patent application for a high-resistance carbon filament (U.S. Pat. 223,898).
1890 – African-Americans are disenfranchised. The Mississippi Plan, approved on November 1, used literacy and “understanding” tests to disenfranchise black American citizens. Similar statutes were adopted by South Carolina (1895), Louisiana (1898), North Carolina (1900), Alabama (1901), Virginia (1901), Georgia (1908), and Oklahoma (1910). blackfacts.com
1894 – “Billboard Advertising” was published for the first time. It later became known as “Billboard.”
1894 – Russian Emperor Alexander III died.
1898 – Allen, C. W. Self_leveling table Nov. 1, 1898 Patent No.613,436 blackfacts.com
1904 – The Army War College in Washington, DC, enrolled the first class.
1911 – Italy used planes to drop bombs on the Tanguira oasis in Libya. It was the first aerial bombing.
1936 – Benito Mussolini made a speech in Milan, Italy, in which he described the alliance between Italy and Nazi Germany as an “axis” running between Berlin and Rome.
1937 – “Hilltop House” was aired for the first time on CBS Radio.
1937 – “Terry and the Pirates” debuted on NBC Radio.
1940 – “A Night in the Tropics” was released. It was the first movie for Abbott and Costello.
1944 – “Harvey,” by Mary Chase, opened on Broadway.
1947 – The famous racehorse Man o’ War died.
1949 – In Washington, 55 people were killed when a fighter plane hit an airliner.
1950 – Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate U.S. President Harry Truman. One of the men was killed when they tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington, DC.
1952 – The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
1954 – Algeria began to rebel against French rule.
1959 – Jacques Plante, of the Montreal Canadiens, became the first goalie in the NHL to wear a mask.
1963 – The USSR launched Polyot I. It was the first satellite capable of maneuvering in all directions and able to change its orbit.
1968 – The movie rating system of G, M, R, X, followed by PG-13 and NC-17 went into effect.
1973 – Leon Jaworski was appointed the new Watergate special prosecutor in the Watergate case.
1979 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged all Iranians to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand their attacks against the U.S. and Israel. On November 4, Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage.
1981 – The U.S. Postal Service raised the first-class letter rate to 20 cents.
1985 – In the village of Ignacio Aldama, 22 members of a Mexican anti-narcotics squad were killed by alleged drug traffickers.
1987 – Deng Xiaoping retired from China’s Communist Party’s Central Committee.
1989 – Tens of thousands of refugees to fled to the West when East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia.
1989 – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced the end of a cease-fire with the Contra rebels.
1993 – The European Community’s treaty on European unity took effect.
1994 – The Amazon.com domain name was registered.
1995 – In Dayton, OH, the Bosnian peace talks opened with the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia present.
1998 – Nicaraguan Vice President Enrique Bolanos announced that between 1,000 and 1,500 people were buried in a 32-square mile area below the slopes of the Casita volcano in northern Nicaragua by a mudslide caused by Hurricane Mitch.
1998 – Iridium inaugurated the first handheld, global satellite phone and paging system.
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1950 – Earl Lloyd, first Black player in the NBA
On October 31, 1950, 21-year-old Earl Lloyd becomes the first African American to play in an NBA game when he takes the court in the season opener for the Washington Capitols.
Lloyd grew up in Jim Crow Virginia and went to West Virginia State, where he was the star of the school’s championship basketball team. He didn’t know he’d been drafted by the NBA until he ran into a friend on campus who told him she’d heard a rumor that he’d be moving to Washington. It turned out that the Capitols had picked him in the ninth round of the draft. Two other Black players joined the NBA that season—the Celtics drafted Chuck Cooper in the second round and the New York Knicks got Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton from the Harlem Globetrotters—but the Knicks and the Celts didn’t start their seasons until November. As a result, Lloyd became a coincidental pioneer: the first Black player to make his debut in the NBA.
Joining an all-white team was intimidating, Lloyd remembered, but his teammates—most of whom had played on integrated college teams—were immediately welcoming. Some fans, however, were less kind. As the announcer read the Capitols’ lineup on that first night of the season, a white man in the front row used a racial slur
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1974 – Muhammad Ali wins the Rumble in the Jungle
On October 30, 1974, 32-year-old Muhammad Ali becomes the heavyweight champion of the world for the second time when he knocks out 25-year-old champ George Foreman in the eighth round of the “Rumble in the Jungle,” a match in Kinshasa, Zaire. Seven years before, Ali had lost his title when the government accused him of draft-dodging and the boxing commission took away his license. His victory in Zaire made him only the second dethroned champ in history to regain his belt.
The “Rumble in the Jungle” (named by promoter Don King, who’d initially tagged the bout “From the Slave Ship to the Championship!” until Zaire’s president caught wind of the idea and ordered all the posters burned) was Africa’s first heavyweight championship match. The government of the West African republic staged the event—its president, Mobutu Sese Seko, personally paid each of the fighters $5 million simply for showing up—in hopes that it would draw the world’s attention to the country’s enormous beauty and vast reserves of natural resources. Ali agreed. “I wanted to establish a relationship between American blacks and Africans,” he wrote later. “The fight was about racial problems, Vietnam. All of that.” He added: “The Rumble in the Jungle was a fight that made the whole country more conscious.”
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Toy Recalls – 2023
Hazard:
The activity centers’ straps can detach or break while a child is in the activity center, posing fall and injury hazards to the child.
Hazard:
If a water bead is ingested, it expands and can pose ingestion, choking and intestinal obstruction hazards inside a child’s body, resulting in severe discomfort, vomiting, dehydration and a risk of death to a child.
** Infanttech Recalls Zooby Video Baby Monitors for Cars Due to Fire Hazard (Recall Alert)
Hazard:
The baby monitor’s battery can malfunction, overheat and burst, posing a fire hazard.
Hazard:
When using the recalled bath toys, particularly in a bathtub or wading pool, a child can slip and fall or sit onto the hard plastic top fin of the shark, posing risks of impalement, lacerations and punctures.
** Juratoys Recalls Children’s Activity Tables Due to Choking Hazard
Hazard:
The activity table contains a silver metal bell which can detach from its metal arch, posing a choking hazard to young children.
** TARGET
Ouwoer Direct Kids Bike Helmet due to risk of head injury.
- Primark Children’s Bamboo Plates due to risk of lead and chemical exposure hazards.
- Smocked Runway Whimsy Children’s Pajamas due to violation of federal flammability
standards and burn hazard. - Patagonia Infant Capilene Base Layer due to choking hazard.
- Clark Associates Lancaster Table & Seating High Chairs due to fall hazard.
- Kids Preferred “My First” Disney-Character Figurines due to choking hazard.
- Betsy & Lace Children’s Nightgowns due to violation of federal flammability standards
and burn hazard. - Hatley USA Children’s Pajamas due to violation of federal flammability standards and
burn hazard and children’s headbands due to violation of federal lead content ban. - Oaks Apparel Company Children’s Nightgowns due to violation of federal flammability
standards and burn hazards.
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** The activity centers were sold between November 2020 and October 2023 for about $70.
Recalled model numbers are WA105FZW and WA105GML.
Contact Dorel Juvenile Group for a replacement.
Consumers who have the recalled items will be instructed to cut through the straps of the activity centers and send a photo of the cut straps to Dorel to receive a free replacement.
Dorel can be reached toll-free at 877-657-9546 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday ET, or by email at CoscoActivityCenterRecall@djgusa.com
The company can also be reached online at coscokids.com/ or safety1st.com/us-en/. Click on “Safety Notices and Recalls” at the top of the page for more information.
More information
The National Safety Council has more on child safety at home.
SOURCE: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, news release, Oct. 26, 2023
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