Today in history: What happened on November 1st? Developments on November 1st...

1512 - The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo over four years, was shown to the public for the first time.

1604 - Shakespeare's play Othello was performed for the first time in London.

1755 - Lisbon Earthquake: A very violent earthquake struck Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. The earthquake triggered a tsunami, and approximately 90 thousand people died.

1920 - The Venizelos Cabinet in Greece fell.

1922 - The Ottoman Sultanate, which lasted for 623 years, was abolished by a decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

1927 - Gazi Mustafa Kemal was elected president for the second time.

1928 - The law regarding the new Turkish alphabet was adopted by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

1934 - President Mustafa Kemal Pasha said, "The measure of a nation's new change is its ability to grasp the change in music. The music that is being attempted to be played today is far from being of a value that would make one proud."

1939 - The first rabbit born via artificial insemination was introduced to the press.

1954 - The National Liberation Front (FLN) was founded in Algeria against French occupation, and the Algerian War of Independence began.

1955 - A DC-6 passenger plane belonging to a US airline exploded near Colorado: 44 people died.

1956 - Hungary announced its withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. Prime Minister Imre Nagy requested that Hungary be recognized as a neutral state.

1959 - Nationalist leader Patrice Lumumba was arrested following anti-white uprisings in the Congo.

1962 - The Soviets launched their first rocket to Mars.

1967 - Greek police caught and arrested Rauf Denktaş, one of the leaders of the Turkish Cypriot community, as he was entering the island secretly.

1968 - Aydınlık began to be published again as a monthly magazine under the leadership of Doğu Perinçek and Vahap Erdoğdu.

1970 - A fire in a dance hall in France led to the death of 144 young people.

1981 - Antigua and Barbuda gained its independence from the United Kingdom.

1982 - Ataol Behramoğlu won the Lotus Literature Prize of the Afro-Asian Writers' Association.

1983 - A new legal regulation regarding the National Intelligence Organization was enacted, and Law No. 2937 on "State Intelligence Services and the National Intelligence Organization" was passed.

1993 - The Maastricht Treaty came into force; the European Union was officially established.

1996 - NTV Television was founded.

1998 - The European Court of Human Rights was established.

2001 - The Varyag ship, which China purchased from Ukraine, passed through the Bosphorus in Istanbul.

2007 - With a decision taken at the United Nations General Assembly meeting, November 2 was accepted as World Autism Awareness Day, to be observed annually starting in 2008, in order to create awareness about autism and find solutions to problems worldwide.

2008 - TRT Çocuk began broadcasting.

2010 - The People's Voice Party (HAS Party) was founded under the leadership of Numan Kurtulmuş.

2014 - November 1 was declared "World Kobani Day" with a call for "global mobilization for Kobani and humanity" against ISIS, made by the EU Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) and the Peace Camping initiative to support the resistance against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

2015 - The 26th term parliamentary elections were held in Turkey. Election results: AK Party 49.50% (317 deputies), CHP 25.32% (134 deputies), MHP 11.90% (40 deputies), HDP 10.76% (59 deputies), and other parties received 2.52% of the votes and won the respective number of seats.