Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 1
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November 1: National Day in Algeria, Independence Day in Antigua and Barbuda (1981), All Saints' Day in Catholicism, World Vegan Day
- 1512 - Michelangelo finished repainting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (pictured) in fresco.
- 1520 - 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.
- 1755 - A massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami destroyed Lisbon, and killed over 100,000 people in Portugal and Morocco.
- 1954 - The "Front de Libération Nationale" began the Algerian War of Independence against French rule, with guerrilla attacks in various parts of Algeria.
- 1963 - The Arecibo Observatory, with the world's largest radio telescope, officially opened in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
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