November 01

Monday 01, 2004:

The Bank of Japan issues a new series of 1000, 5000, and 10,000 yen notes. Both old and the new series will circulate together.

Thursday 01, 1956:

Formation of Kerala state in India.

Monday 01, 1948:

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

Friday 01, 1861:

American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George McClellan as commander of the Union Army, replacing the aged General Winfield Scott.

Monday 01, 1520:

The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage.