So you want to have a drink but you aren't sure why? Here are some GREAT reasons to call your friends over and have a party.

November 1st


- All Saints Day, a Holy Day of Obligation (Roman Catholic Church. A holiday in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta (for schools only), Mauritius, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain)
- Andhra Pradesh Formation Day (Andhra Pradesh)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Day of the Innocents, The first day of Day of the Dead or El Dia de los Muertos celebration. (Mexico)
- Day of the leaders of the Bulgarian National Revival (Bulgaria)
- Haryana Foundation Day (Haryana)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Antigua and Barbuda from the United Kingdom in 1981.
- Karnataka Foundation Day (Karnataka)
- Kerala Foundation Day (Kerala)
- National day (Algeria)
- The first day of Samhain, officially started at Samhain Eve, at the sunset of October 31. (Gaels, Welsh people and Neopagans)
- World Vegan Day (International)

November 1st


- 2000 - Serbia joins the United Nations.
- 1993 - The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
- 1982 - Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
- 1981 - Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1973 - Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
- 1973 - The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
- 1970 - Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
- 1968 - The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
- 1963 - The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
- 1961 - 50,000 women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.
- 1960 - While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
- 1959 - Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.
- 1959 - In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.
- 1957 - The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
- 1956 - The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore state are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
- 1955 - The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
- 1954 - The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
- 1953 - Andhra Pradesh attained statehood on 1 November 1953, with Kurnool as its capital.
- 1952 - Operation Ivy – The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["M" for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.
- 1951 - Operation Buster-Jangle: 6,500 American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
- 1950 - Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
- 1950 - Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
- 1948 - Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people are killed as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
- 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.
- 1945 - The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro. Australia joins the United Nations.
- 1944 - World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
- 1943 - World War II: Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
- 1943 - World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
- 1942 - Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 4.
- 1941 - American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
- 1939 - The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
- 1938 - Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
- 1937 - Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
- 1928 - The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used, comes into force in Turkey.
- 1922 - The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
- 1920 - American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
- 1918 - 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 93 deaths.
- 1918 - Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- 1916 - Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
- 1915 - Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
- 1914 - 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.
- 1911 - The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
- 1901 - Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
- 1897 - The first Library of Congress building opened its doors to the public. The Library had been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
- 1896 - A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
- 1894 - Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
- 1886 - Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka is established with 37 students.
- 1884 - The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
- 1876 - New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
- 1870 - In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
- 1861 - American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
- 1859 - 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 (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
- 1848 - 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.
- 1814 - Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
- 1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
- 1802 - Delegates meet at Chillicothe, Ohio to form a state constitutional convention.
- 1800 - US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
- 1790 - Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
- 1765 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
- 1755 - Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty thousand and ninety thousand people.
- 1683 - The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
- 1612 - (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
- 1611 - William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
- 1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
- 1520 - The Strait of Magellan is discovered, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during the first global circumnavigation voyage.
- 1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
- 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."
- 1179 - Philip II is crowned King of France.
- 996 - Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).

November 1st


- 1988 - Ai Fukuhara, Japanese table tennis player
- 1988 - Masahiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
- 1986 - Penn Badgley, American actor
- 1984 - Miloš Krasi?, Serbian footballer
- 1984 - Natalia Tena, English actress
- 1983 - Yuko Ogura, Japanese model
- 1983 - Josh Wicks, American footballer
- 1983 - Jon Wilkin, English rugby league footballer
- 1982 - Warren Spragg, English-born Italian rugby player
- 1979 - Coco Crisp, American baseball player
- 1979 - Delgado, Angolan footballer
- 1979 - Milan Dudi?, Serbian footballer
- 1979 - Henry Shefflin, Irish hurler
- 1978 - Mary Kate Schellhardt, American actress
- 1978 - Jessica Valenti, American feminist writer and blogger
- 1978 - Manju Warrier, Indian actress
- 1978 - Mike Sadavoy, Morning Radio Show Host
- 1976 - Matt Chapman, American cartoonist and voice actor
- 1976 - Logan Marshall-Green, American actor
- 1975 - Bo Bice, American singer
- 1975 - Scott "Skippy" Chapman, American musician
- 1975 - Megan Wing, Canadian figure skater
- 1974 - V. V. S. Laxman, Indian cricketer
- 1973 - Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress and Miss World, 1994
- 1973 - Assia, Algerian singer
- 1973 - Geoff Horsfield, English footballer
- 1972 - Jenny McCarthy, American "Playmate of the Year" and TV actress
- 1972 - Toni Collette, Australian actress
- 1972 - Sean Roberge, Canadian actor (d. 1996)
- 1972 - Paul Dickov, Scottish footballer
- 1971 - Vikram Chatwal, Indian hotelier
- 1969 - Tie Domi, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968 - Park Shin-yang, South Korean actor
- 1967 - Sophie B. Hawkins, American musician
- 1967 - Tina Arena, Australian singer
- 1967 - Carla van de Puttelaar, Dutch photographer
- 1966 - Willie D, American hip hop artist, famous for being a member of The Geto Boys
- 1966 - Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (d. 2002)
- 1965 - Inka Friedrich, German actress
- 1965 - Patrik Ringborg, Swedish conductor
- 1964 - Daran Norris, American actor
- 1963 - Rick Allen, British drummer (Def Leppard)
- 1963 - Kenny Alphin, American guitarist (Big & Rich)
- 1963 - Monty Sopp, American professional wrestler
- 1963 - Mark Hughes, Welsh footballer
- 1963 - Katja Riemann, German actress
- 1962 - Sharron Davies, British swimmer
- 1962 - Anthony Kiedis, American singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- 1962 - Magne Furuholmen, Norwegian guitarist and keyboardist (a-ha)
- 1961 - Louise Boije af Gennäs, Swedish writer and novelist
- 1961 - Calvin Johnson, American musician (Beat Happening, The Halo Benders, Dub Narcotic Sound System)
- 1961 - Kim Krizan, American screenwriter
- 1961 - Nicky Grist, WRC Co-Driver
- 1960 - Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican baseball player
- 1959 - Eriko Hara, Japanese voice actress
- 1958 - Joe DeRenzo, American musician
- 1958 - Charlie Kaufman, American screenwriter
- 1958 - Jim Steinmeyer, Illusion creator
- 1958 - Rachel Ticotin, American actress
- 1957 - Lyle Lovett, American singer
- 1957 - Peter Ostrum, American actor
- 1957 - Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (d. 1988)
- 1955 - Beth Leavel, American musical theatre actress
- 1955 - Mike Mendoza, British radio personality
- 1953 - Jan Davis, American astronaut
- 1951 - Belita Moreno, American actress
- 1951 - Ronald Bell, American singer and saxophonist (Kool & the Gang)
- 1951 - Fabrice Luchini, French actor
- 1950 - Mitch Kapor, American computer programmer and businessman
- 1950 - Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1950 - Dan Peek, American guitarist (America)
- 1949 - Michael D. Griffin, NASA chief administrator
- 1949 - David Foster, Canadian musician and composer
- 1948 - Phil Myre, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1947 - Jim Steinman, American songwriter
- 1946 - Ric Grech, English rock bassist (Family, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Traffic) (d. 1990)
- 1946 - Dennis Muren, American special effects artist
- 1946 - Lynne Russell, ex-CNN news anchor
- 1944 - Bobby Heenan, American professional wrestling manager and commentator
- 1944 - Oscar Temaru, President of French Polynesia
- 1943 - Salvatore Adamo, Italian-born Belgian singer
- 1943 - John McEnery, English actor
- 1943 - Jacques Attali, French economist
- 1942 - Larry Flynt, American magazine publisher
- 1942 - Ralph Klein, Premier of Alberta
- 1942 - Marcia Wallace, American actress
- 1941 - Alfio Basile, Argentine football coach
- 1940 - Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Chief Justice of India
- 1940 - Barry Sadler, American singer (d. 1989)
- 1939 - Barbara Bosson, American actress
- 1937 - Bill Anderson, American country music singer and songwriter
- 1936 - Eddie Colman, English footballer (d. 1958)
- 1936 - Katsuhisa Hattori, Japanese composer
- 1936 - Shizuka Kamei, Japanese politician
- 1935 - Gary Player, South African golfer
- 1935 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003)
- 1934 - Umberto Agnelli, Italian automobile executive (d. 2004)
- 1934 - Gillian Knight, English mezzo-soprano
- 1934 - William Mathias, British composer (d. 1992)
- 1932 - John Clark, English-born actor/director
- 1932 - Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1932 - Francis Arinze, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate
- 1931 - Chosuke Ikariya, Japanese comedian (d. 2004)
- 1931 - Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer
- 1930 - A. R. Gurney, American playwright
- 1929 - Nicholas Mavroules, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts (d. 2003)
- 1928 - Emmaline Henry, American actress (d. 1979)
- 1927 - Victor Pellot, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1926 - Lou Donaldson, American jazz alto saxophonist
- 1926 - Betsy Palmer, American actress
- 1924 - Colette Renard, French actress and singer (d. 2010)
- 1924 - Süleyman Demirel, 9th President of Turkey
- 1924 - Jean-Luc Pépin, French Canadian politician (d. 1995)
- 1923 - Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian author (d. 2001)
- 1923 - Victoria de los Angeles, Spanish soprano (d. 2005)
- 1921 - John W. Peterson, American songwriter (d. 2006)
- 1920 - James Kilpatrick, American journalist (d. 2010)
- 1920 - Ted Lowe, English former snooker commentator
- 1917 - Clarence E. Miller, American politician
- 1914 - Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (d. 2006)
- 1912 - Gunther Plaut, German-born Canadian rabbi and writer
- 1911 - Henri Troyat, French author and historian (d. 2007)
- 1906 - Johnny Indrisano, American boxer and actor (d. 1968)
- 1905 - Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (d. 1960)
- 1903 - Max Adrian, Irish actor (d. 1973)
- 1903 - Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
- 1902 - Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian lyric poet (d. 1943)
- 1902 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987)
- 1898 - Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (d. 1960)
- 1896 - Edmund Blunden, English poet, author and critic (d. 1974)
- 1889 - Hannah Höch, German Dada artist (d. 1978)
- 1889 - Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1982)
- 1887 - L. S. Lowry, British painter of industrial scenes (d. 1976)
- 1886 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (d. 1951)
- 1886 - Sakutar? Hagiwara, Japanese writer of free-style verse (d. 1942)
- 1881 - Edward Van Sloan, American actor (d. 1964)
- 1880 - Sholom Asch, Polish-born American writer (d. 1957)
- 1880 - Grantland Rice, American sports writer (d. 1954)
- 1880 - Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist (d. 1930)
- 1878 - Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter (d. 1925)
- 1878 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959)
- 1877 - Roger Quilter, British composer (d. 1953)
- 1872 - Louis Dewis, Belgian Post-Impressionist painter (d. 1946)
- 1871 - Stephen Crane, American writer (d. 1900)
- 1864 - Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (d. 1918)
- 1862 - Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer and organist (d. 1941)
- 1860 - Boies Penrose, United States Senator from Pennsylvania (d. 1921)
- 1852 - Honinbo Shuei, Japanese Go player (d. 1907)
- 1847 - Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1930)
- 1838 - Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama (d. 1856)
- 1808 - John Taylor, American religious leader (d. 1887)
- 1782 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1859)
- 1778 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
- 1762 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1812)
- 1757 - Antonio Canova, Italian artist (d. 1822)
- 1727 - Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University (d. 1797)
- 1720 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
- 1704 - Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (d. 1779)
- 1661 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (d. 1725)
- 1643 - John Strype, English historian and biographer (d. 1737)
- 1636 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (d. 1711)
- 1629 - St. Oliver Plunkett, last Catholic martyr to die in England. (d. 1681)
- 1611 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (d. 1656)
- 1607 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (d. 1658)
- 1585 - Jan Bro?ek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)
- 1578 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
- 1567 - Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (d. 1626)
- 1549 - Anna of Austria, fourth wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1580)
- 1539 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
- 1530 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (d. 1563)
- 1526 - Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, queen of Sweden and duchess of Finland (d. 1583)
- 1351 - Duke Leopold III of Austria (d. 1386)
- 1339 - Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (d. 1365)
- 846 - Louis the Stammerer, King of West Francia (d. 879)