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White House / Ivy Mike / Titanic / Big Bang

On This Day (November 1): Your quick daily trip back in time.

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Fatih Taskiran
November 01, 2025

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Good morning — it’s Saturday, November 1. Today we're exploring the White House, first aerial bombing, first NBA game, Titanic movie, first thermonuclear weapon, and much more—quick and clear.

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🚀 Time Machine

-1755

Over 50,000 people were killed in the Lisbon earthquake in Portugal.

-1800

President John Adams moved into the newly constructed President's House, the original name for the White House.

-1814

After the Napoleonic Wars, the Congress of Vienna opened to redraw the European political map.

-1894

Dr. Émile Roux introduces a vaccine for diphtheria in Paris.

-1911

Italian lieutenant Giulio Gavotti drops three grenades from his plane over a Turkish camp in Libya, marking the world's first aerial bombing.

-1928

Turkey switched to the Latin alphabet from the Arabic alphabet.

-1946

-1952

US detonates first thermonuclear weapon, hydrogen bomb "Ivy Mike", on Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific.

-1993

The Maastricht Treaty came into effect, creating the European Union.

-1997

-2012

Scientists find light from the universe's first stars, estimated to have formed 500 million years after the Big Bang.

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📸 Snapshot

Churchill sits in the wreckage of Adolf Hitler's chair from the bunker in Berlin, 1945

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