On this day 1st November
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Facts
1755 Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000 in Portugal
1814 Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
1894 Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris
1916 Paul Miliukov delivers in the Russian State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
1952 "Ivy Mike", the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the H-bomb design of Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, is detonated in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean
2012 Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe's first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang
Deaths
921 Richard, Duke of Burgundy
1296 Guillaume Durand, French writer (b. 1230)
1672 Heinrich Schutz, German composer, dies at 87
1881 Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris), dies at 22
1927 Florence Mills, dancer/singer, dies in NYC at 31
1972 Ezra Loomis Pound, US poet (Throne), dies at 87
1985 Phil Silvers, comedic actor (Sgt Bilko), dies in his sleep at 73
1994 Syd Dernley, British hangman (1949-54), dies at 73
1999 Walter Payton, American Football Hall of Fame Running Back, dies at 45
2011 Dorothy Howell Rodham, Mother of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (b. 1919)
Born on this day
1960 Tim Cook, American businessman (CEO of Apple Inc. 2011-), born in Mobile, Alabama
Florence Mills
Ezra Loomis Pound
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