Reuters North American News Service, October 25th, 2007
Oct 25 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on November 1 since 1900:
1914 - Five German cruisers sank the British ships Good Hope
and Monmouth at the Battle of Coronel off Chile during World War
One, with the loss of 1,600 lives.
1936 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaimed the
Rome-Berlin Axis after a visit to Berlin by Italian Foreign
Minister Galeazzo Ciano.
1950 - Two members of a Puerto Rican nationalist movement
tried unsuccessfully to assassinate U.S. President Harry Truman.
1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his
brother Ngo Dinh Nhu were killed in a military coup.
1972 - The American poet and critic Ezra Pound died in
Venice.
1984 - Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in as Indian prime minister
amid anti-Sikh riots following the assassination of his mother,
Indira Gandhi.
1985 - Phil Silvers, the American comic actor noted for
playing the comic character Sergeant Bilko, died.
1995 - South Africans voted in their first all-race local
government elections.
1996 - Former Sri Lankan president Junius Jayewardene died
aged 90.
2000 - A much-reduced Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was
admitted to the United Nations, eight years after the old
Yugoslav federation was expelled following its break-up.
2002 - Israel's first air commander, Yisrael Amir, died.
2004 - The industrialist Lord Hanson, who built the
industrial group Hanson Plc into one of the Britain's most
powerful companies, died aged 82.
2005 - The U.N. General Assembly established Jan. 27 as an
annual commemoration day for the 6 million Jews and countless
other victims murdered in the Nazi Holocaust during World War
Two.
2006 - Buddy Killen, who built the biggest country music
publishing business in the world before selling it in 1989, died
aged 73.
2006 - William Styron, whose 1979 novel "Sophie's Choice"
was made into an acclaimed film and who won a Pulitzer Prize for
"The Confessions of Nat Turner", died aged 81.
