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.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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Images

Use only ONE image at a time

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  The Columbus
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  Turkish road sign – "Welcome to Europe"
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  Goaltender mask worn by Jacques Plante
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  Ngo Dinh Diem
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  The White House, c. mid-19th century
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  Athenagoras I
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  Arecibo radio telescope
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  Harry S. Truman
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  Stephen of Blois
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  Soldiers of the First Australian Imperial Force
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  Croke Park, headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association
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  Frances Kyle, Ireland's first female barrister

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
All Saints' Day (Western Christianity);	many citations needed
National Day in Algeria (1954);	refimprove section
Independence Day in Antigua and Barbuda (1981);	refimprove section
; World Vegan Day	lots of CN tags (4) relative to length
996 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor issued a document containing the earliest known use of "Osterrîchi", the Old High German name of Austria.	cleanup required, lots of CN tags (5)
1503 – Giuliano della Rovere was elected pope, taking the name Julius II in emulation of Julius Caesar.	Too much tagged text
1520 – Portuguese maritime explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European expedition to navigate the Strait of Magellan.	lots of CN tags (7)
1611 – The first recorded performance of Shakespeare's play The Tempest was held at the Palace of Whitehall in London.	Unreferenced material
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.	unreferenced section, outdated
1876 – The Colony of New Zealand dissolved its nine provinces and replaced them with 63 counties.	refimprove section
1884 – The Gaelic Athletic Association was founded in County Tipperary.	unreferenced text
1897 – Juventus, Italy's most successful football club, was founded as an athletics club.	Article states that date is uncertain
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
1950 – Two Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to assassinate U.S. president Harry S. Truman.	refimprove
1954 – The Front de Libération Nationale began the Algerian War of Independence against French rule.	FLN: multiple issues; 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.	unreferenced section
1963 – The Arecibo Observatory, with the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, officially opened in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.	refimprove section, unreferenced section
1968 – The voluntary Motion Picture Association film rating system came into effect for films released in the United States.	multiple issues
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, neutrality issues
Emma Albani |b|1847|	Birthday is disputed
Tina Arena |b|1967	refimprove section
Paul Dickov |b|1972|	Too much uncited
Brian Lenihan Snr |d|1995	Too much uncited

Eligible

• 1141 – After Empress Matilda released her rival King Stephen, he in turn released Robert of Gloucester, her strongest supporter, thus prolonging the Anglo-Norman civil war known as The Anarchy.
• 1824 – The disposable ship 'Columbus (pictured) arrived in the The Downs off England, becoming, at that time, the largest vessel to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1914 – World War I: The first contingent of the First Australian Imperial Force (soldiers pictured) departed Albany, Western Australia.
• 1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka were formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
• 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.
• 1959 – Dominique Mbonyumutwa, one of the few Hutu sub-chiefs in colonial Rwanda, was attacked by Tutsi activists, precipitating the Rwandan Revolution.
• 1972 – Elvis on Tour, a concert film that documented Elvis Presley's tour throughout the United States, opened.

• Born/died: | William de Ros, 6th Baron Ros |d|1414| Matthew Hale |b|1609| Antonio Canova |b|1757| Lie Kim Hok|b|1853| Stephen Crane |b|1871| Jan Matejko |d|1893| Edward Said |b|1935| Joan McCracken |d|1961| Walter Payton |d|1999|

Notes

• 1955 State of Vietnam referendum 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.
• Jayuya Uprising appears on October 30, so Truman assassination should not appear in the same year

November 1: Samhain and Beltane in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively; Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956)

Ansel Adams

• 1214 – Byzantine–Seljuk wars: Seljuq Turks captured the important port city of Sinope.
• 1921 – Frances Kyle was called to the Bar of Ireland, becoming the first female barrister in Ireland or Great Britain.
• 1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams (pictured) 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.
• 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.

• Józef Zajączek (b. 1752)
• Caroline Still Anderson (b. 1848)
• Umberto Agnelli (b. 1934)
• Livia Gouverneur (d. 1961)

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