Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 1

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 * 1141 – After Empress Matilda released her rival King Stephen, he in turn released Robert of Gloucester, her strongest supporter, thus prolonging the Anglo-Norman civil war known as The Anarchy.
 * 1824 – The disposable ship 'Columbus (pictured)'' arrived in the The Downs off England, becoming, at that time, the largest vessel to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
 * 1914 – World War I: The first contingent of the First Australian Imperial Force (soldiers pictured) departed Albany, Western Australia.
 * 1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka were formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
 * 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.
 * 1972 – Elvis on Tour, a concert film that documented Elvis Presley's tour throughout the United States, opened.


 * Born/died: | William de Ros, 6th Baron Ros |d|1414| Matthew Hale |b|1609|  Antonio Canova |b|1757|  Lie Kim Hok|b|1853|  Stephen Crane |b|1871| Jan Matejko |d|1893| Edward Said |b|1935|  Joan McCracken |d|1961|  Walter Payton |d|1999|