November 1 - European Union (EU) Established

1993 -European Union established . The Maastricht Treaty comes into effect, formally establishing the European Union (EU). The treaty was drafted in 1991 by delegates from the European Community meeting at Maastricht in the Netherlands and signed in 1992. The agreement called for a strengthened European parliament, the creation of a central European bank, and common foreign and security policies. The treaty also laid the groundwork for the establishment of a single European currency, to be known as the "euro." By 1993, twelve nations had ratified the Maastricht Treaty on European Union: Great Britain, France, Germany, the Irish Republic, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Austria, Finland, and Sweden became members of the EU in 1995. After suffering through centuries of bloody conflict, the nations of Western Europe were finally united in the spirit of economic cooperation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_European_Union

Other events:
79    Pompeii is buried by Mount Vesuvius
996   Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, the oldest known document using the name Ostarrichi (Austria in Old High German)
1478 � Pope Sixtus IV issued a papal bull extending the power of the Inquisition to Spain. The Inquisition, established in some countries in the thirteenth century, was responsible for the torture and execution of many people with mental illness. In Seville, inquisitors Miguel de Morcillo and Juan de San Martin burned about 500 people in three years. In Aragon, inquisitor Thomas de Torquemada was said to be especially ruthless in the pursuit of deviance.
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1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.
1592 - The Battle of Busan was a naval battle of the first phase of the Seven Year War between Korea and Japan.
1765 - Parliament enacts the Stamp Act. In the face of widespread opposition in the American colonies, Parliament enacts the Stamp Act, a taxation measure designed to raise revenue for British military operations in America. 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 The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative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 - President John Adams became the first US president to live in the White House when he moved in.
1963 - The Arecibo Observatory, with the world�s largest radio telescope, officially opened in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
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.

Discoveries/Inventions/New Technology:
1520 - Ferdinand Magellan navigates the Strait of Magellan, the passage south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, for the first time.
1864 - The U.S. Post Office started selling money orders. The money orders provided a safe way to make 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).
1939 - The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is shown to the world.
1963 - The USSR launched Polyot I. It was the first satellite capable of maneuvering in all directions and able to change its orbit.
1997 It is discovered that 2^2'976'221 � 1 is a Mersenne prime (the 36th - there are only 39) (Mersenne prime numbers are primes of the form 2^n � 1, which requires n to be prime; and it is equivalent to [2^(n�1)]�(2^n � 1) being equal to the sum of its factors other than itself, i.e. a �perfect number�). They can all be found (with their dates of discovery) at http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/math/prime/mersenne.html.
1998 - Iridium inaugurated the first handheld, global satellite phone and paging system.
1998 Regular digital TV broadcasts begin-Broadcasters in the nation's ten largest markets officially begin broadcasting digital signals. A few stations had broadcast individual digital TV shows earlier in the year, but November 1 marked the date that the National Broadcasting Association and the Federal Communications Commission had chosen as the deadline for regular digital TV transmission. However, at the time, few people had purchased a high-definition television set capable of receiving the digital signal.

Today in Women�s History:
1848 - The first medical school for women, founded by Samuel Gregory, opened in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Female Medical School later merged with Boston University School of Medicine.
1872: On this day, Susan B. Anthony registered to vote in Rochester, New York. On November 5th, she was arrested for attempting to cast a ballot.


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