November 1: All Saints' Day (Western Christianity); National Day in Algeria (1954); Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956); World Vegan Day
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Athenagoras I
- 1141 – The Anarchy: Matilda's brief reign as the first female ruler of England came to an end when her cousin Stephen of Blois regained the throne.
- 1876 – The Colony of New Zealand dissolved its nine provinces and replaced them with 63 counties.
- 1928 – Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk introduced the current 29-letter Turkish alphabet to replace 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.
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