What happend on 1st November

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02.11
1954

The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.

1952

Operation Ivy

1951

US soldiers are exposed to an atomic explosion for training purposes in Desert Rock, Nevada; participation was not voluntary.

1950

Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.

1950

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

1948

Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 are killed as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.

1945

The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.

1944

World War II: Operation Infatuate launched

1943

World War II: Operation Goodtime launched

1939

The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is shown to the world.