Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 1
November 1: National Day in Algeria, Independence Day in Antigua and Barbuda (1981), All Saints' Day in Catholicism, World Vegan Day
- 1512 – Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo finished repainting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (pictured) in fresco.
- 1520 – Portuguese maritime explorer 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 at least 60,000 people in Portugal and Morocco.
- 1928 – As part of the reforms implemented under the leadership of Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the current 29-letter Turkish alphabet, used for the Turkish language, was established, replacing the Ottoman Turkish alphabet.
- 1963 – The Arecibo Observatory, with the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, officially opened in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
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