Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 1
This is a list of selected November 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Images
Use only ONE image at a time
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Turkish road sign – "Welcome to Europe" -
Goaltender mask worn by Jacques Plante -
Ngo Dinh Diem -
The White House, c. mid-19th century -
Athenagoras I -
Arecibo radio telescope -
Harry S. Truman
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| All Saints' Day (Western Christianity); | refimprove section |
| National Day in Algeria (1954); | refimprove section |
| Independence Day in Antigua and Barbuda (1981); | refimprove section |
| ; World Vegan Day | lots of CN tags |
| 996 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor issued a document containing the earliest known use of "Osterrîchi", the Old High German name of Austria. | lots of CN tags |
| 1520 – Portuguese maritime explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European expedition to navigate the Strait of Magellan. | refimprove section |
| 1755 – A 9.0 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated Lisbon, an event which led to the birth of modern seismology and earthquake engineering. | refimprove section |
| 1790 – Reflections on the Revolution in France by Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke, was first published, in which he predicted that the French Revolution would end in a disaster. | date not in article, refimprove section |
| 1800 – John Adams became the first U.S. President to take residence in the Executive Mansion, later renamed the White House. | outdated |
| 1876 – The Colony of New Zealand dissolved its nine provinces and replaced them with 63 counties. | refimprove section |
| 1928 – The current 29-letter Turkish alphabet was introduced, replacing the Ottoman Turkish alphabet as the official writing system of the Turkish language. | refimprove |
| 1948 – Athenagoras I was elected as the 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. | refimprove section |
| 1954 – The Front de Libération Nationale began the Algerian War of Independence against French rule. | FLN: refimprove; War: refimprove sections |
| 1957 – The Mackinac Bridge, the third-longest suspension bridge in total suspension, opened between Upper and Lower peninsulas of the U.S. state of Michigan. | primary sources |
| 1963 – The Arecibo Observatory, with the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, officially opened in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
| 1998 – The European Court of Human Rights was instituted as a permanent court with full-time judges to monitor compliance by the signatory parties of the European Convention on Human Rights. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1214 – Byzantine–Seljuq wars: Seljuq Turks captured the important port city of Sinope.
- 1611 – The first recorded performance of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest was held at the Palace of Whitehall in London, exactly seven years after the first certainly known performance of his tragedy Othello was held in the same building.
- 1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams shot Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, one of his most famous photographs.
- 1944 – World War II: An American F-13 Superfortress made the first flight by an Allied aircraft over Tokyo since the Doolittle Raid in April 1942.
- 1950 – Two Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to assassinate U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
- 1959 – After being struck in the face with a hockey puck, Jacques Plante played the rest of the game wearing a face mask, now mandatory equipment for goaltenders in ice hockey.
- 1963 – Lê Quang Tung, loyalist head of the South Vietnam Special Forces, was executed in a U.S.-backed coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm following a period of religious unrest.
- Born/died: Matthew Hale (b. 1609) · Emma Albani (b. 1847) · Walter Payton (d. 1999)
Notes
- State of Vietnam referendum, 1955 featured on October 26, Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem on November 2, Nguyen Ngoc Tho on November 6, and 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt on November 11; including Le Quang Tung/1963 coup, ideally only one of these should be used per year to avoid topic fatigue.
November 1: Samhain and Beltane begin (Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively); Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956)
- 1141 – The Anarchy: Stephen of Blois (pictured), recently freed from the captivity of his cousin and rival Matilda, released her strongest supporter from his custody, leading to a years-long stalemate in the civil war.
- 1914 – World War I: The first contingent of the First Australian Imperial Force departed Albany.
- 1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka were formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
- 1968 – The voluntary Motion Picture Association of America film rating system came into effect for films released in the United States.
Józef Zajączek (b. 1752) · Jan Matejko (d. 1893) · Joan McCracken (d. 1961)