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This day in history: November 1

1. 1944

   World War II: An American F-13 Superfortress made the first flight by an Allied aircraft over Tokyo since the Doolittle Raid in April 1942.

2. 1956

   The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka were formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.

3. 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.

4. 1959

   Dominique Mbonyumutwa, one of the few Hutu sub-chiefs in colonial Rwanda, was attacked by Tutsi activists, precipitating the Rwandan Revolution.

5. 1963

   Lê Quang Tung, loyalist head of the South Vietnam Special Forces, was executed in a U.S.-backed coup against president Ngô Đình Diệm following a period of religious unrest.

6. 1972

   Elvis on Tour, a concert film that documented Elvis Presley's tour throughout the United States, opened.

7. 1998

   Karl Bushby set off from Punta Arenas, Chile, beginning his attempt to walk around the world towards England, a journey that remains ongoing.

Source: Wikipedia, text available under CC BY-SA 4.0.