A birthday on the globe
1 November on the globe: what happened in the world on this day, and who was born
For 1 November, the English Wikipedia lists 89 events and 253 births. 44 of the events stand at their places as rays of light; 15 more are dashed circles, where the sentence links only to a country or a sea. The taller the ray, the longer ago it happened. The people born that day come further down, as blue points.
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The Earth on 1 November
The picture on the globe was assembled by NASA from satellite photographs taken in November 2004: the snow, the ice and the green are those of the month.
On 1 November the Sun passes straight overhead at noon along the parallel of 14.4° south. In London, the day lasts about 9 hours 40 minutes.
Beyond 76° south the Sun no longer sets; beyond 76° north it no longer rises.
The line between day and night is tilted on the globe exactly as on this day of the year. On the dark side you can see the lights of towns.
Britain & Ireland · The Downs
1824
The disposable ship Columbus arrived in the The Downs off England, becoming, at that time, the largest vessel to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
On the map: The Downs.
Europe · Sistine Chapel
1512
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
On the map: Sistine Chapel.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Romanian and Chinese.
Europe · Lahti
1905
Lahti, a city in Finland, is granted city rights by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last Grand Duke of Finland.
On the map: Lahti.
Europe · European Central Bank
2011
Mario Draghi succeeds Jean-Claude Trichet and becomes the third president of the European Central Bank.
On the map: European Central Bank.
Asia · Rodong Sinmun
1945
The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
On the map: Rodong Sinmun.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
Asia · Kanyakumari
1956
The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act; Kanyakumari district is joined to Tamil Nadu from Kerala. Delhi was established as a union territory.
On the map: Kanyakumari.
Asia · Mysore
1973
The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
On the map: Mysore.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
Latin America · Rio de Janeiro
1555
French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
On the map: Rio de Janeiro.
Latin America · Arecibo Observatory
1963
The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
On the map: Arecibo Observatory.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish and Romanian.
Latin America · Punta Arenas
1998
Karl Bushby set off from Punta Arenas, Chile, beginning his attempt to walk around the world towards England, a journey that remains ongoing.
On the map: Punta Arenas.
North America · Boston
1848
In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
On the map: Boston.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish and Chinese.
North America · Library of Congress
1897
The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
On the map: Library of Congress.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Chinese.
North America · Hernandez, New Mexico
1941
American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
On the map: Hernandez, New Mexico.
1 November
What the other Wikipedias remember#
For these years the English list has nothing on this day. The events below come from the same day’s lists on Wikipedia in Spanish and were translated for this page.
From Wikipedia in Spanish · Palace of Whitehall
1604
At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's play Othello is performed for the first time.
On the map: Palace of Whitehall.
Translated from the list on Wikipedia in Spanish.
From Wikipedia in Spanish · Palace of Whitehall
1611
At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is performed for the first time.
On the map: Palace of Whitehall.
Translated from the list on Wikipedia in Spanish.
1 November
Born on 1 November#
The English Wikipedia lists 253 births for this day. The blue points are the birthplaces of 59 of these people: those written about in the most Wikipedia editions, where Wikidata gives a place of birth.
Born on 1 November
1973
Aishwarya Rai, Indian model and actress
Place of birth: Mangaluru.
Born on 1 November
1935
Edward Said, Palestinian-American theorist, author, and academic (died 2003)
Place of birth: Jerusalem.
Born on 1 November
1880
Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist (died 1930)
Place of birth: Berlin.
Born on 1 November
1636
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (died 1711)
Place of birth: Paris.
Born on 1 November
1960
Tim Cook, American businessman and engineer, current CEO of Apple Inc.
Place of birth: Mobile.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1963
Mark Hughes, Welsh footballer and manager
Place of birth: Wrexham.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1984
Natalia Tena, English actress and musician
Place of birth: London.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1959
Susanna Clarke, English author and educator
Place of birth: Nottingham.
1 November
Number one in the charts that week
At the cinema
An animal recorded that day
The record can be seen in GBIF, which brings together wildlife records from around the world.
All your birthdays
The weather that day
Data: Met Office Hadley Centre (HadCET); NOAA (GHCN-Daily, Mauna Loa).
Above the Earth
Sources: Jonathan McDowell, GCAT (launches); GFZ Potsdam (Kp index). Days are counted in Universal Time.
Football that day
International matches played that day:
Source: the “International football results” dataset kept by Mart Jürisoo (CC0).
Also that day
The earthquake’s page at the USGS
Source: the USGS catalogue. The day is counted in Universal Time (UTC).
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Below: 1 November through the years.
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Everything Wikipedia lists for 1 November
The list is the English Wikipedia’s, in its own wording, as it stood in October 2026. 30 events have no place on the map: the sentence links to no place with coordinates, only to places too wide to mark, or to several countries.
- 365
Roman Emperor Valentinian I learns the Alemanni have crossed the Rhine and invaded Gaul.
Europe · GaulWikipedia: Valentinian I - 996
Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
Europe · Archdiocese of Munich and FreisingWikipedia: Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor - 1141
Empress Matilda's reign as "Lady of the English" ends as Stephen of Blois regains the title of "King of England".
Britain & Ireland · Kingdom of EnglandWikipedia: Empress Matilda - 1179
Philip II is crowned King of France.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Philip II of France - 1214
The port city of Sinope surrenders to the Seljuq Turks.
Asia · Siege of SinopeWikipedia: Siege of Sinope - 1348
The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
Europe · SaguntoWikipedia: Union of Valencia - 1503
Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere is elected Pope and takes the name Julius II.
no place on the mapWikipedia: List of popes - 1512
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
Europe · Sistine ChapelWikipedia: Sistine Chapel - 1520
The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Strait of Magellan - 1555
French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Latin America · Rio de JaneiroWikipedia: Huguenots - 1570
The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.
no place on the mapWikipedia: All Saints' Flood - 1612
During the Time of Troubles, Polish troops are expelled from Moscow's Kitay-gorod by Russian troops under the command of Dmitry Pozharsky (22 October O.S.).
Europe · Kitay-gorodWikipedia: Time of Troubles - 1683
The British Crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Province of New York - 1688
William III of Orange sets out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to seize the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution.
Europe · HellevoetsluisWikipedia: Glorious Revolution - 1755
In Portugal, Lisbon is totally devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 people.
Oceans · 1755 Lisbon earthquakeWikipedia: 1755 Lisbon earthquake - 1765
The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
North America · Thirteen ColoniesWikipedia: Parliament of Great Britain - 1790
Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
no place on the mapWikipedia: French Revolution - 1800
John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
North America · White HouseWikipedia: White House - 1805
Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
Europe · Austrian EmpireWikipedia: War of the Third Coalition - 1814
Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars.
Europe · Congress of ViennaWikipedia: Congress of Vienna - 1824
The disposable ship Columbus arrived in the The Downs off England, becoming, at that time, the largest vessel to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
Britain & Ireland · The DownsWikipedia: Disposable ship - 1848
In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
North America · BostonWikipedia: Boston - 1861
American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
no place on the mapWikipedia: American Civil War - 1870
In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
no place on the mapWikipedia: National Weather Service - 1893
The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Matabele War of 1893.
Africa · Battle of BembeziWikipedia: Battle of Bembezi - 1894
Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Native Americans, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
North America · Edison's Black MariaWikipedia: Buffalo Bill - 1894
Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
Asia · Russian EmpireWikipedia: Nicholas II - 1896
A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
no place on the mapWikipedia: National Geographic - 1897
Italian Sport-Club Juventus is founded by a group of students of Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio.
Europe · Liceo Classico Massimo d'AzeglioWikipedia: Juventus FC - 1897
The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
North America · Library of CongressWikipedia: Library of Congress - 1905
Lahti, a city in Finland, is granted city rights by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last Grand Duke of Finland.
Europe · LahtiWikipedia: Lahti - 1911
World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
Europe · Kingdom of ItalyWikipedia: Italo-Turkish War - 1914
World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
Oceania · Albany, Western AustraliaWikipedia: First Australian Imperial Force - 1914
World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
Latin America · Battle of CoronelWikipedia: World War I - 1916
In Russia, Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the government of Boris Stürmer.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Pavel Milyukov - 1918
Malbone Street wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 102 deaths.
North America · Flatbush AvenueWikipedia: Malbone Street wreck - 1918
Western Ukraine separates from Austria-Hungary.
no place on the mapWikipedia: West Ukrainian People's Republic - 1918
World War I: With a brave action carried out into the waters of the Austro-Hungarian port of Pula, two officers of the Italian Regia Marina sink with a manned torpedo the enemy battleship SMS Viribus Unitis.
Europe · PulaWikipedia: Pula - 1921
Frances Kyle was called to the Bar of Ireland, becoming the first female barrister in Ireland or Great Britain.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Frances Kyle - 1922
Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
Asia · Ottoman EmpireWikipedia: Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate - 1923
The Finnish airline Aero O/Y (now Finnair) is founded.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Finnair - 1928
The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Turkish alphabet - 1937
Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
Asia · Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist RepublicWikipedia: Stalinism - 1938
Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Seabiscuit - 1941
American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
North America · Hernandez, New MexicoWikipedia: Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico - 1942
World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal campaign and ends three days later with an American victory.
Oceania · Matanikau OffensiveWikipedia: Matanikau Offensive - 1943
World War II: The 3rd Marine Division, United States Marines, landing on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands, secures a beachhead, leading that night to a naval clash at the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay.
Oceania · Battle of Empress Augusta BayWikipedia: 3rd Marine Division - 1944
World War II: An American F-13 Superfortress made the first flight by an Allied aircraft over Tokyo since the Doolittle Raid in April 1942.
Oceans · Doolittle RaidWikipedia: 1 November 1944 reconnaissance sortie over Japan - 1944
World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren.
Europe · Battle of Walcheren CausewayWikipedia: Battle of Walcheren Causeway - 1945
The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
Asia · Rodong SinmunWikipedia: North Korea - 1948
Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, is enthroned.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Athenagoras I of Constantinople - 1949
All 55 people on board Eastern Air Lines Flight 537 are killed when the Douglas DC-4 operating the flight collides in mid-air with a Bolivian Air Force Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft over Alexandria, Virginia.
North America · Eastern Air Lines Flight 537Wikipedia: Eastern Air Lines Flight 537 - 1950
Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
North America · Attempted assassination of Harry S. TrumanWikipedia: Attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman - 1951
Operation Buster–Jangle: Six thousand five hundred United States Army soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
North America · Operation Buster–JangleWikipedia: Operation Buster–Jangle - 1952
Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.
Oceans · Ivy MikeWikipedia: Ivy Mike - 1954
The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Algerian War - 1955
The bombing of United Air Lines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
North America · United Air Lines Flight 629Wikipedia: United Air Lines Flight 629 - 1955
The establishment of a Military Assistance Advisory Group in South Vietnam marks the beginning of American involvement in the conflict.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Military Assistance Advisory Group - 1956
Hungarian Revolution: Imre Nagy announces Hungary's neutrality and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. Soviet troops begin to re-enter Hungary, contrary to assurances by the Soviet government. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich secretly defect to the Soviets.
Europe · Hungarian People's RepublicWikipedia: Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - 1956
The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act; Kanyakumari district is joined to Tamil Nadu from Kerala. Delhi was established as a union territory.
Asia · KanyakumariWikipedia: Kerala - 1956
The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
North America · Springhill, Nova ScotiaWikipedia: Springhill mining disasters - 1957
The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Mackinac Bridge - 1959
After being struck in the face with a hockey puck, Jacques Plante played the rest of the game wearing a face mask, now mandatory equipment for goaltenders in ice hockey.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Hockey puck - 1959
Dominique Mbonyumutwa, one of the few Hutu sub-chiefs in colonial Rwanda, was attacked by Tutsi activists, precipitating the Rwandan Revolution.
Africa · Ruanda-UrundiWikipedia: Dominique Mbonyumutwa - 1963
The 1963 South Vietnamese coup begins.
Asia · 1963 South Vietnamese coup d'étatWikipedia: 1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état - 1963
The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
Latin America · Arecibo ObservatoryWikipedia: Arecibo Observatory - 1968
The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Motion Picture Association - 1970
Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
Europe · Club Cinq-Sept fireWikipedia: Club Cinq-Sept fire - 1972
Elvis on Tour, a concert film that documented Elvis Presley's tour throughout the United States, opened.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Elvis on Tour - 1973
The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
Asia · MysoreWikipedia: Mysore - 1973
Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Watergate scandal - 1976
Burundian president Michel Micombero is deposed in a bloodless military coup d'état by deputy Jean-Baptiste Bagaza.
Africa · BurundiWikipedia: 1976 Burundian coup d'état - 1979
Griselda Álvarez becomes the first female governor of a state of Mexico.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Griselda Álvarez - 1979
In Bolivia, Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional government of Wálter Guevara.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Alberto Natusch - 1981
Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom.
Latin America · Antigua and BarbudaWikipedia: Antigua and Barbuda - 1982
Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio; a Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
North America · Marysville, OhioWikipedia: Honda - 1984
After the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India on 31 October 1984, by two of her Sikh bodyguards, anti-Sikh riots erupt.
Asia · Assassination of Indira GandhiWikipedia: Assassination of Indira Gandhi - 1987
British Rail Class 43 (HST) hits the record speed of 238 km/h for rail vehicles with on-board fuel to generate electricity for traction motors.
no place on the mapWikipedia: British Rail Class 43 - 1991
President of the Chechen Republic Dzhokhar Dudayev declares sovereignty of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria from the Russian Federation.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Head of the Chechen Republic - 1993
The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
Europe · European UnionWikipedia: Maastricht Treaty - 1997
Titanic premieres publicly at Tokyo festival, launching a global blockbuster career.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Titanic - 1998
Karl Bushby set off from Punta Arenas, Chile, beginning his attempt to walk around the world towards England, a journey that remains ongoing.
Latin America · Punta ArenasWikipedia: Karl Bushby - 2000
Chhattisgarh officially becomes the 26th state of India, formed from sixteen districts of eastern Madhya Pradesh.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Chhattisgarh - 2000
Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
Europe · Serbia and MontenegroWikipedia: Serbia and Montenegro - 2001
Turkey, Australia, and Canada agree to commit troops to the invasion of Afghanistan.
no place on the mapWikipedia: United States invasion of Afghanistan - 2009
An Ilyushin Il-76 crashes near the Mir mine after takeoff from Mirny Airport in Yakutia, killing all 11 aboard.
Asia · 2009 Mirny Il-76 crashWikipedia: 2009 Mirny Il-76 crash - 2011
Mario Draghi succeeds Jean-Claude Trichet and becomes the third president of the European Central Bank.
Europe · European Central BankWikipedia: Mario Draghi - 2012
A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, killing 26 people and injuring 135.
Asia · RiyadhWikipedia: List of tank truck fires and explosions - 2024
A concrete canopy collapses at the Novi Sad railway station, killing 16 people and injuring 3.
Europe · Novi Sad railway station canopy collapseWikipedia: Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse
What the other Wikipedias remember
For these years the English list has nothing on this day. The events below come from the same day’s lists on Wikipedia in Spanish and were translated for this page.
- 1604
At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's play Othello is performed for the first time.
Britain & Ireland · Palace of WhitehallTranslated from the list on Wikipedia in SpanishWikipedia: Palacio de Whitehall - 1611
At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is performed for the first time.
Britain & Ireland · Palace of WhitehallTranslated from the list on Wikipedia in SpanishWikipedia: Palacio de Whitehall
Who was born on 1 November
In order of how many Wikipedia editions have an article about each. The first 60 of 253 are shown.
- 1973
Aishwarya Rai, Indian model and actress
MangaluruWikipedia: Aishwarya Rai - 1935
Edward Said, Palestinian-American theorist, author, and academic (died 2003)
JerusalemWikipedia: Edward Said - 1924
Süleyman Demirel, Turkish engineer and politician, 9th President of Turkey (died 2015)
İslamköyWikipedia: Süleyman Demirel - 1880
Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist (died 1930)
- 1636
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (died 1711)
- 1960
Tim Cook, American businessman and engineer, current CEO of Apple Inc.
MobileWikipedia: Tim Cook - 1950
Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1530
Étienne de La Boétie, French philosopher and judge (died 1563)
Sarlat-la-CanédaWikipedia: Étienne de La Boétie - 1944
Rafic Hariri, Lebanese businessman and politician 60th Prime Minister of Lebanon (died 2005)
- 1871
Stephen Crane, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (died 1900)
NewarkWikipedia: Stephen Crane - 1757
Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor and educator (died 1822)
PossagnoWikipedia: Antonio Canova - 1962
Anthony Kiedis, American singer-songwriter
Grand RapidsWikipedia: Anthony Kiedis - 846
Louis the Stammerer, Frankish king (died 879)
- 1889
Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1982)
- 1762
Spencer Perceval, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1812)
MayfairWikipedia: Spencer Perceval - 1878
Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959)
Buenos AiresWikipedia: Carlos Saavedra Lamas - 1778
Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (died 1837)
Stockholm PalaceWikipedia: Gustav IV Adolf - 1987
Ileana D'Cruz, Indian film actress
MumbaiWikipedia: Ileana D'Cruz - 1911
Henri Troyat, French historian and author (died 2007)
MoscowWikipedia: Henri Troyat - 1942
Larry Flynt, American publisher, founded Larry Flynt Publications (died 2021)
Magoffin CountyWikipedia: Larry Flynt - 1963
Mark Hughes, Welsh footballer and manager
WrexhamWikipedia: Mark Hughes - 1984
Miloš Krasić, Serbian footballer
MitrovicaWikipedia: Miloš Krasić - 1986
Penn Badgley, American actor and television personality
BaltimoreWikipedia: Penn Badgley - 1972
Toni Collette, Australian actress
- 1996
Lil Peep, American rapper (died 2017)
AllentownWikipedia: Lil Peep - 1661
Louis, Grand Dauphin, heir apparent to the throne of France (died 1711)
FontainebleauWikipedia: Louis, Grand Dauphin - 1984
Natalia Tena, English actress and musician
LondonWikipedia: Natalia Tena - 1596
Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter (died 1669)
CortonaWikipedia: Pietro da Cortona - 1864
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (died 1918)
- 1966
Jeremy Hunt, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Health
LondonWikipedia: Jeremy Hunt - 1992
Filip Kostić, Serbian footballer
KragujevacWikipedia: Filip Kostić - 1886
Hermann Broch, Austrian-American author and poet (died 1951)
ViennaWikipedia: Hermann Broch - 1526
Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John III of Sweden (died 1583)
- 1782
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1859)
- 1902
Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian journalist, author, poet, and playwright (died 1943)
BergenWikipedia: Nordahl Grieg - 1942
Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian (died 2013)
CrestonWikipedia: Marcia Wallace - 1972
Jenny McCarthy, American actress and model
Evergreen ParkWikipedia: Jenny McCarthy - 1943
Salvatore Adamo, Italian-Belgian singer-songwriter
- 1949
David Foster, Canadian singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
VictoriaWikipedia: David Foster - 1339
Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (died 1365)
- 1838
11th Dalai Lama (died 1856)
KangdingWikipedia: 11th Dalai Lama - 1932
Francis Arinze, Nigerian cardinal
EziowelleWikipedia: Francis Arinze - 1943
Jacques Attali, French economist and civil servant
AlgiersWikipedia: Jacques Attali - 1351
Leopold III, Duke of Austria (died 1386)
- 1889
Hannah Höch, German painter and photographer (died 1978)
- 1959
Susanna Clarke, English author and educator
NottinghamWikipedia: Susanna Clarke - 1994
James Ward-Prowse, English footballer
PortsmouthWikipedia: James Ward-Prowse - 1919
Hermann Bondi, English-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (died 2005)
ViennaWikipedia: Hermann Bondi - 1963
Nita Ambani, Indian businesswoman
MumbaiWikipedia: Nita Ambani - 1923
Victoria de los Ángeles, Spanish soprano and actress (died 2005)
BarcelonaWikipedia: Victoria de los Ángeles - 1935
Gary Player, South African golfer and sportscaster
JohannesburgWikipedia: Gary Player - 1996
Jeongyeon, South Korean singer
SuwonWikipedia: Jeongyeon - 1997
Nordi Mukiele, French footballer
MontreuilWikipedia: Nordi Mukiele - 2000
Gonzalo Plata, Ecuadorian footballer
GuayaquilWikipedia: Gonzalo Plata - 1848
Jules Bastien-Lepage, French painter (died 1884)
DamvillersWikipedia: Jules Bastien-Lepage - 1951
Fabrice Luchini, French actor and screenwriter
9th arrondissement of ParisWikipedia: Fabrice Luchini - 1880
Sholem Asch, Polish-American author and playwright (died 1957)
- 1941
Alfio Basile, Argentinian footballer and manager
Bahía BlancaWikipedia: Alfio Basile - 1947
Jim Steinman, American songwriter and producer (died 2021)
ClaremontWikipedia: Jim Steinman - 1941
Robert Foxworth, American actor and director
HoustonWikipedia: Robert Foxworth
What is celebrated on 1 November
- Anniversary of the Revolution (Algeria)
- Chavang Kut (Mizo people of Northeast India, Bangladesh, Burma)
- Chhattisgarh Rajyotsava (Chhattisgarh, India)
- Christian feast day: Austromoine
- Christian feast day: Benignus of Dijon
- Christian feast day: Caesarius of Africa
- Christian feast day: Santa Muerte (Folk Catholicism, Mexico and Southwestern United States)
- Christian feast day: November 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Coronation of the fifth Druk Gyalpo (Bhutan)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Antigua and Barbuda from the United Kingdom in 1981.
- Karnataka Rajyotsava (Karnataka, India)
- Kerala Day (Kerala, India)
- Liberty Day (United States Virgin Islands)
- International Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome Awareness Day
A greeting link for someone
Type a name and, if you like, the year of birth. The link opens with a greeting, and beside each event it says how old the person turned that day, or how many years before their birth it happened.
The name and the year go only into the link you send.
All 366 days
How the globe is made
Where the events come from
Each edition of this page uses the day’s list from Wikipedia in its own language: Romanian, English, Spanish, Chinese. The lists are written by volunteers and differ from one edition to the next; the text of each event is Wikipedia’s, with a link to the article. A row that appears twice in a list is shown once. The lists have not been checked event by event: they are Wikipedia’s, mistakes included.
For events before 1582, and for countries that moved to the Gregorian calendar later (Britain in 1752, Russia in 1918), the same day may be counted Old Style in one list and New Style in another.
The chapter “What the other Wikipedias remember” adds up to five events a day from the lists of the other three editions, only for years in which the English list has nothing on that day. They were translated for this page, passed the same filters as the tour, and are not counted among the events of the English list.
How an event gets onto the map
The place comes from Wikidata. If the sentence links to the article about the event itself (a battle, an opening, an earthquake), dated to the same year, the ray stands on its coordinates or on those of its location. Otherwise it stands on the first place the sentence links to: a town, a building, a mountain, an island. This second step can be wrong: sometimes the sentence only mentions the place. That is why the page says, under each event, which place the ray stands on.
When the sentence links to a single state or province, or to a single sea, lake or desert larger than 5,000 km², the globe shows a dashed circle, not a ray. The circle has the area Wikidata gives, with its radius kept between 1.2° and 16°, or a radius of 4.5° when Wikidata gives no area; it says only that the sentence links to that place. Organisations, ships, spacecraft, museum objects, rivers, mountain ranges, languages and continents are never used as places. When a sentence names several states and no exact place, the event stays in the list only.
What the height means
The height of a ray shows how many years have passed, on a logarithmic scale: 10 years, 100 years and 1,000 years are equal steps apart; anything older than about 2,600 years has the tallest ray. The colour runs from pale yellow for recent years to violet for antiquity.
Where the tour stops
In each region the tour stops at up to three events (five in Britain and Ireland), chosen mainly by three things: whether Wikipedia’s editors put the event in the “On this day” box of their main page (the English, Spanish and Chinese editions), how many Wikipedia editions have an article about it, and how many of the four lists include it. Events whose sentence or article is about a war, an attack, a crime or a disaster are left out of the tour; they stay in the whole list, in Wikipedia’s wording. The filter is a list of words and a list of Wikidata types, so it can miss some.
The tour of births names the people with articles in the most editions and leaves aside those whom the list or Wikidata describes as rulers, politicians, commanders, leaders of movements or criminals; they stay in the list.
The Earth and the Sun
The daytime images are NASA’s Blue Marble Next Generation mosaics, one for each month of 2004; the night side is Black Marble 2016. The tilt of the line between day and night is computed for the day; the hour is chosen so that the place being read is in daylight. The latitude where the Sun stands overhead is the average of the four years of the leap cycle; in a given year it can differ by up to 0.4°.
The day you were born
The number ones come from the weekly lists on Wikipedia: Billboard for the United States (from 1940; the Hot 100 from August 1958), the UK Singles Chart (from November 1952), Los 40 Principales for Spain (from July 1966) and, for Romania, the Romanian Top 100 and Airplay 100 (2001–2021, with missing weeks). The page shows the chart of the week in which the day of birth falls, with its date; Billboard and the UK chart are dated at the end of their week. For Romania before 2001 and for China these sources have no weekly chart.
The films are those that reached cinemas in the United States up to ten days before or three days after that day (some of them in a few cinemas at first), from the English Wikipedia’s yearly lists (from 1968), in order of how many editions have an article about them. The events “in those days” are the ones on the neighbouring days’ lists that carry the year of birth, passed through the same filter as the tour.
The day of birth, year included
The Moon, the star sign and the constellation are worked out by the page itself, for noon Universal Time on the day. The lit part of the Moon is rounded and can differ by a few per cent from that at the hour of birth. The sign follows the usual zodiac of twelve equal parts starting at the March equinox; the constellation is the one the Sun actually stood in front of, by the borders set by the International Astronomical Union, and within a day of a border the page does not name it. When the Sun changes sign while it is that day anywhere on Earth, the page gives the moment of crossing, rounded to ten minutes and accurate to within about a quarter of an hour, and the clock time in a few cities, with the time zone and summer time of that year.
The year in the Chinese calendar is the one your device’s own calendar gives for the date, checked against the Hong Kong Observatory’s tables. “All your birthdays” uses the same sources as the rest of the chapter for the same day in every year since the birth: the temperature, well-known launches that took place on that very day, matches of the teams the edition follows, snow deeper than 10 cm and strong geomagnetic storms. The three things at the top and the four on the picture are chosen in a fixed order (the song, the animal, a full Moon, a well-known launch before an ordinary earthquake); on the picture you can change them.
When the link carries a year of birth, the page adds a few things about that exact day. The weather is the Met Office’s Central England temperature record and the readings from New York’s Central Park; the “usual high” is the average of the daily highs of 1961–1990 for that date, with two days either side. The carbon dioxide figure is the monthly mean at the Mauna Loa observatory, where measurements begin in March 1958.
The earthquake is the one with the largest magnitude in the USGS catalogue for that day, counted in Universal Time. Before the 1960s the catalogue has gaps even above magnitude 5.5, so in the older years many days have no earthquake. The page gives only the magnitude and the place: the country the epicentre falls in or, when the epicentre is at sea within 300 km of a coast, the nearest country; farther out, only the ocean.
The launches are those that reached orbit or left for the Moon and the planets, from Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT catalogue. If nothing left that day, the page shows the nearest launch within three days before or after, and says how many days away it was. The geomagnetic storm appears only when the Kp index reached at least 5 in one of the day’s eight three-hour intervals.
The animal comes from GBIF: an observation made by a person (the animal seen or heard, or its tracks), dated to that exact day, with coordinates and a CC0 or CC BY licence. Only a few hundred well-known species are searched (mammals, birds, turtles, butterflies); of those noted that day, mammals and species with articles in many Wikipedia editions come first; birds noted almost every day, and species used recently, wait their turn. Observations dated 1 January are left out, because records without a day are often filed there. An observation shows that the animal was recorded there, not how many animals there were.
The matches are those between national teams. Only matches of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, Canada and Australia are shown, along with those at the big final tournaments. The picture to send is drawn in the page from the day’s globe and the facts above, and stays on your device until you send it.
Sources
- Events, births and holidays: the day’s page on Wikipedia, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates, places of birth and the number of editions: Wikidata (CC0).
- The Earth by day: NASA Blue Marble Next Generation. The Earth by night: NASA Black Marble 2016.
- Borders and regions: Natural Earth.
- World population and births per year: UN World Population Prospects 2024.
- Charts and films: Wikipedia’s lists for Billboard, the UK Singles Chart, Los 40 Principales, Romanian Top 100, Airplay 100 and American films by year (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Weather: Met Office Hadley Centre, HadCET (Open Government Licence) and NOAA GHCN-Daily, New York Central Park. Carbon dioxide: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Mauna Loa.
- Earthquakes: the USGS catalogue. Launches: Jonathan McDowell, GCAT (CC BY). Kp index: GFZ Potsdam (CC BY 4.0). Matches: International football results, Mart Jürisoo (CC0).
- Animal observations: GBIF, with a link to each record; species names come from Wikidata.