November 1st


1348: The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists". You don't have to work so hard to attack the Jews these days... you just have to go to the UN.


1512: The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time. The New York Times pans it as "too religious."


1805: Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition. While he's gone, half of Paris invades his wife.


1946: The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks would win 68-66, and then go on to father 15 illegitimate children.