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Today is Thursday, Nov. 1, the 305th day of 2018. There are 60 days left in the year.
Highlights in history
• In 1512, Michelangelo's just-completed paintings on the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel were publicly unveiled by the patron's artist, Pope Julius II.
• In 1870, the U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations.
• In 1952, the United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb, code-named "Ivy Mike," at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
• In 1991, Clarence Thomas took his place as the highest justice on the Supreme Court.
• In 1995, Bosnia peace talks opened in Dayton, Ohio, with the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia present.
• One year ago: Federal prosecutors brought terrorism charges against the man accused in the Manhattan truck rampage a day earlier that left eight people dead; Prosecutors said Sayfullo Saipov had asked to display the Islamic State group's flag in the hospital where he was recovering from police gunfire.
Birthdays
• 76: Larry Flynt, publisher magazine
• 74: Kinky Friedman, country singer-humorist
• 56: Anthony Kiedis, Red Hot Chili Peppers
• 54: Sophie B. Hawkins, singer
• 34: Natalia Tena, actress
• 21: Max Burkholder, actor
Thought for today
"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented." – Lady Edith Sitwell, English poet (1887-1964)
Source: Associated Press
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