Template:Encarta:Selected anniversaries/November 1


 * 1) 1611 – The first recorded performance of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest was held at the Palace of Whitehall in London, exactly seven years to the day after the first certainly known performance of his tragedy Othello was held in the same building.
 * 2) 1755 – A 9.0 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami destroyed Lisbon, killing between 10,000 and 100,000 people in Portugal and Morocco.
 * 3) 1800 – John Adams became the first President of the United States to take residence in the Executive Mansion, later re-named the White House (pictured today).
 * 4) 1928 – As part of the reforms implemented under the leadership of Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the current 29-letter Turkish alphabet was established to replace the Ottoman Turkish alphabet as the official writing system of the Turkish language.