Page 6: Historical Events In November - 01
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1941 Chetniks attacks Tito's partizans in Uzice Yugoslavia 

1941 Camille Melloy, [the Paepe], Belgian priest/poet (Requiem), dies at 50. 

1942 10th day of battle at El Alamein. 

1942 Hugo Distler, composer, dies at 34 

1943 Dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area. 

1943 Dim-out ban lifted in SF Bay area 

1944 Final mass gassing at Auschwitz, 73 women are murdered. The remainder of the prisoners, approximately 2300, are deported to Ravensbruck and Bergen-Belsen to meet the growing slave labor demand. 

1945 Australia ratifies Charter of United Nations 

1945 inaugural issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson. 

1946 West German state of Niedersachsen formed 

1947 UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ and UK. 

1947 Man O' War, racehorse, dies 

1949 Leslie Gay, cricket wicket-keeper/goalkeeper (England in 1890's), dies 

1950 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at the Blair House 

1950 Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate Pres Truman, shot dead 

1951 Award of Republic of South Korea Presidential Citation to 77 Squadron, RAAF. 

1951 The inaugural atomic explosion witnessed by troops, NM 

1952 The inaugural hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific. 

1954 Algeria begins rebellion against French rule 

1954 India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements 

1955 Time bomb aboard United DC-6 results in the deaths of 44 above Longmont Colorado 

1955 W H van Eemlandt, [Haasse], author (Treasure Hunter of Amstel), dies 

1956 Delhi is recorded as becoming a territory of the Indian union 

1956 Indian state of Madhya Pradesh formed 

1956 Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact. 

1956 Lajos Asztalos, International Chess Master (1950), dies at 67. 

1959 Goalie Jacques Plant wears a hockey mask fo rthe inaugural time in a game 

1959 Gershon Agron, mayor of Jerusalem, dies at 66 

1960 Benelux treaty comes into force 

1961 Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist/author, dies at 97. 

1962 inaugural ever spacecraft to Mars, Mars 1, launched 

1962 Greece enters the European Common Market 

1962 USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars. 

1962 Winter Haynes Watts, composer, dies at 78 

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