Today in 1800 John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion, which is now known as the White House.

The On This Day In History archives at “Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia” contains over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 60 days remaining until the end of the year.

EVENTS

365 - The Alamanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and to defend the Gallic tribe.

996 – First documented mention of Austria.

1141 - Empress Matilda's reign as "Lady of the English" ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title King of England.

1197 - Philip II is crowned King of France.

1503 - Pope Julius II is elected.

1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited for the first time.

1520 - Ferdinand Magellan and his crew enter the now-named Magellan Strait, linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, south of mainland South America. It is navigated by November 28.

1555 - French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony near present-day Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. It lasts only 12 years.

1570 - The All Saints' Day flood devastates the Dutch coast.

1604 - William Shakespeare's play Othello is performed for the first time at Whitehall Palace, London.

1611 - William Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time at Whitehall Palace, London.

1683 - The British crown colony of New York is sub-divided into 12 counties.

1700 - King Charles II of Spain dies at the age of almost 39, sparking the War of the Spanish Succession.

1755 – A major Earthquake and subsequent Tsunamis hit the city of Lisbon, Portugal, as thousands are killed, and the effects of the earthquake are felt around Europe, Morocco and Algeria.

1765 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.

1800 - John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion, which is now known as the White House.

1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.

1814 - The Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the political map of Europe after the defeat the defeat of France, following the Napoleonic Wars.

1848 - The first medical school for women opens in Boston, Massachusetts.

1859 - The current Cape Lookout lighthouse in North Carolina is lit for the first time.

1861 - American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army.

1876 - The Dutch North Sea canal is opened by William III of the Netherlands.

1894 – Tsar Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.

1896 - A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears on the covers of National Geographic magazine for the first time.

1897 - The Library of Congress building in Washington, DC is opened to the public.

1897 - Juventus F.C. is founded.

1911 - The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat occurs, during the Italo-Turkish War.

1914 - World War I: First British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany at the Battle of Coronel off the coast of Chile, in the Pacific Ocean. HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth are lost.

1918 – Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

1922 – The last Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed VI, abdicates.

1928 - An alphabet reform takes effect in Turkey.

1939 - The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.

1941 - American photographer Ansel Adams takes an iconic image of moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico.

1942 - World War II: The Matanikau Offensive begins in the Guadalcanal Campaign, ending a US victory on November 4.

1945 - Australia joins the UN.

1946 - Karol Woityla, the future Pope John Paul II, is ordained as a priest in Krakow, Poland.

1948 - Off southern Manchuria, China, a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks, killing 6,000 people.

1950 - Puerto Rican nationalists attempt to kill US President Harry S. Truman.

1952 – Operation Ivy: The United States detonates a large hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It yields the power of 10 megatons.

1954 – The Algerian War of Independence begins.

1955 - The bombing of the United Airlines Flight 629 near Longmont, Colorado, kills 44 people.

1956 – Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Mysore State (now Karnataka) become states of India.

1956 - Kanyahurri district is joined to Tamil Nadu, from Kerala.

1956 - The Springhill Mining Disaster in Nova Scotia kills 39 people. 88 are rescued.

1957 - The Mackinac Bridge opens to traffic, connecting Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas.

1959 - Montreal Canadiens ice hockey goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.

1963 - A military coup occurs in South Vietnam against Ngo Dinh Diem, who is then killed.

1970 - A fire at a nightclub in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, kills 146 people.

1973 – Mysore state is renamed Karnataka.

1981 – Antigua and Barbuda becomes independent (separate) from the United Kingdom.

1982 - Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the US.

1984 - Anti-Sikh ethnic riots occur in India, following the fatal shooting of Indira Gandhi the previous day.

1986 – A chemical fire near Basel, Switzerland, pollutes the river Rhine.

1993 – The Maastricht Treaty enters into force.

1995 - Peace talks begin in Dayton, Ohio, in order to try to find a solution to the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

1996 - Al-Jazeera begins broadcasting by satellite from Doha, Qatar.

1998 - The European Court of Human Rights is created in Strasbourg.

2000 – Serbia joins the UN.

2000 - The Indian state of Chhattisgarh is created out of parts of eastern Madhya Pradesh.

2003 - Jean-Claude Trichet becomes President of the European Central Bank.

2011 - Mario Draghi becomes President of the European Central Bank.

2012 - A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 26 people.

2013 - Senior Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is killed by a US drone strike.

2014 - A massive power outage affects Bangladesh after a failure on the main power supply from India.

2015 - The English Wikipedia reaches the milestone of 5 million articles.

2015 - Parliamentary elections in Turkey result in the governing AK Party regaining the majority that it lost nearly five months earlier.

2016 - Iraqi forces enter the city of Mosul in the battle to recapture it from the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

2018 - NASA's Dawn mission finishes after it runs out of fuel.

2019 - Christine Lagarde becomes President of the European Central Bank.