Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On November 1, 1952, Ivy Mike unleashed a thermonuclear fireball that left only a crater where an island had been.
On November 1, 1755, a quake, fire, and tsunami flattened Lisbon while the city was at All Saints' Day Mass.
On a London winter's night, the King's own players staged a jealous tragedy that would haunt the stage for centuries.
On November 1, 1512, Pope Julius II said Mass beneath a ceiling that had quietly remade Western art.
