WHAT HAPPENED ON 1. NOVEMBER
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Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition. (1. November 1805)

Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars. (1. November 1814)

In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens. (1. November 1848)

The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (31 km) in good conditions. (1. November 1859)

American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott. (1. November 1861)

In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast. (1. November 1870)

New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved. (1. November 1876)

The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary. (1. November 1884)

Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka is established with 37 students. (1. November 1886)

Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies. (1. November 1894)

Thomas Edison films American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, which is instrumental in her hiring by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show. (1. November 1894)

A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time. (1. November 1896)

The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public. The Library had been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol. (1. November 1897)

Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia. (1. November 1901)

The first dropping of a bomb from an aircraft in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War. (1. November 1911)

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. (1. November 1914)

Parris Island is officially designated a United States Marine Corps Recruit Depot. (1. November 1915)

Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government. (1. November 1916)

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. (1. November 1918)

Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. (1. November 1918)