Hello king of cowboys, goodbye magic man

• On Nov. 1, 1512, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, one of Italian artist Michelangelo’s finest works, is exhibited for the first time. The most famous of the panels devoted to biblical world history is The Creation of Adam, a painting in which the arms of God and Adam are stretching toward each other.

• On Nov. 6, 1899, James Ward Packard’s first Model A automobile is completed and test-driven through the streets of Warren, Ohio. The single-seat buggy was built around a one-cylinder engine and featured wire wheels, a steering tiller, automatic spark advance and chain drive.

• On Nov. 5, 1911, Roy Rogers, the King of the Cowboys, is born in Cincinnati. When cowboy star Gene Autry quit in a dispute with Republic Pictures, Rogers gained more exposure and his career took off. Starring with his horse, Trigger, and co-star Dale Evans, Rogers soon became one of Hollywood’s top-10 moneymakers.

• On Oct. 31, 1926, Harry Houdini, the most celebrated magician and escape artist of the 20th century, dies of peritonitis in a Detroit hospital, 12 days after he was punched in the stomach by a student after a lecture in Montreal. The punch ruptured Houdini’s appendix.