Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 1

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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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  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
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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  Arecibo radio telescope
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  Harry S. Truman

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in Antigua and Barbuda (1981);	refimprove
1520 – Portuguese maritime explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European expedition to navigate the Strait of Magellan.	refimprove, empty 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.	Need to verify date, refimprove section
1800 – John Adams became the first U.S. President to take residence in the Executive Mansion, later renamed the White House.	outdated
1954 – The Front de Libération Nationale began the Algerian War of Independence against French rule.	refimprove sections

Eligible

• 996 – Holy Roman Emperor Otto III issued a document containing the earliest known use of "Osterrîchi", the Old High German name of Austria.
• 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.
• 1950 – Two Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman.
• 1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka were formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
• 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.
• 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 – The Arecibo Observatory, with the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, officially opened in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
• 1963 – Lê Quang Tung, loyalist head of the South Vietnam Special Forces, was executed in a US-backed coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm following a period of religious unrest.

Notes

• Turkey appears on October 29, so Turkish alphabet should not appear in the same year.
• Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem featured 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: All Saints' Day (Western Christianity); National Day in Algeria (1954); Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956); World Vegan Day

Athenagoras I

• 1141 – The Anarchy: Matilda's brief reign as the first female ruler of England ended when Stephen of Blois regained the throne.
• 1876 – The Colony of New Zealand dissolved its nine provinces and replaced them with 63 counties.
• 1928 – The current 29-letter Turkish alphabet was introduced, replacing the Ottoman Turkish alphabet as the official writing system of the Turkish language.
• 1948 – Athenagoras I (pictured) was elected as the 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
• 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.

More anniversaries:

• October 31
• November 1
• November 2