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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
Stephen of Blois
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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) |
| 1520 – Portuguese maritime explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European expedition to navigate the Strait of Magellan. | lots of CN tags (7) |
| 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 | unreferenced section, outdated |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 |
| 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 |
| Tina Arena |b|1967 | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1214 – Byzantine–Seljuq wars: Seljuq Turks captured the important port city of Sinope.
- 1503 – Giuliano della Rovere was elected pope, taking the name Julius II in emulation of Julius Caesar.
- 1611 – The first recorded performance of Shakespeare's play The Tempest was held at the Palace of Whitehall in London.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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: | William de Ros, 6th Baron Ros |d|1414| Matthew Hale |b|1609| Antonio Canova |b|1757| Emma Albani |b|1847| Caroline Still Anderson |b|1848| Jan Matejko |d|1893| Edward Said |b|1935| Anthony van Hoboken |d|1983| 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)
Soldiers of the First Australian Imperial Force
- 1141 – After Matilda released her rival Stephen of Blois, he in turn released Robert of Gloucester, her strongest supporter, thus prolonging the Anglo-Norman civil war known as The Anarchy.
- 1897 – Juventus, Italy's most successful football club, was founded as an athletics club.
- 1914 – World War I: The first contingent of the First Australian Imperial Force (soldiers pictured) departed Albany, Western Australia.
- 1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams shot Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, one of his most famous photographs.
- 1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka were formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
- Józef Zajączek (b. 1752)
- Stephen Crane (b. 1871)
- Joan McCracken (d. 1961)
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