Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 1
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November 1: National Day in Algeria (1954); Independence Day in Antigua and Barbuda (1981); All Saints' Day in Western Christianity; World Vegan Day
- 1520 – Portuguese maritime explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European expedition to navigate the Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans.
- 1611 – The first recorded performance of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest was held at the Palace of Whitehall in London, exactly seven years to the day after the first certainly known performance of his tragedy Othello was held in the same building.
- 1755 – A 9.0 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami destroyed Lisbon, killing between 10,000 and 100,000 people in Portugal and Morocco.
- 1800 – John Adams became the first President of the United States to take residence in the Executive Mansion, later re-named the White House (pictured today).
- 1928 – As part of the reforms implemented under the leadership of Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the current 29-letter Turkish alphabet was established to replace the Ottoman Turkish alphabet as the official writing system of the Turkish language.
- 1963 – The Arecibo Observatory, with the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, officially opened in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.