WHAT HAPPENED ON 1. NOVEMBER
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The short-lived Banat Republic is founded. (1. November 1918)

American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax. (1. November 1920)

Abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates. (1. November 1922)

The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used with the Latin alphabet, comes into force in Turkey. (1. November 1928)

Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community. (1. November 1937)

Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing. (1. November 1938)

The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world. (1. November 1939)

American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography. (1. November 1941)

World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends three days later with an American victory. (1. November 1942)

World War II: In the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. (1. November 1943)

World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul. (1. November 1943)

World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands. (1. November 1944)

The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro. (1. November 1945)

Australia joins the United Nations. (1. November 1945)

Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is ordained to the priesthood by Krakow's archbishop, Adam Sapieha. (1. November 1946)

Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people die as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks. (1. November 1948)

Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned. (1. November 1948)

Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House. (1. November 1950)

Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary. (1. November 1950)

Operation Buster-Jangle: 6,500 American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary. (1. November 1951)