November 1
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Art and culture
- Holiday - Day of the Dead
- 1755 - Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty thousand and ninety thousand people.
- 1962 - Diabolik first published with the title Il re del terrore (in English: “The King of Terror”).
- 1968 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.
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Births
- 1871 - Stephen Crane, American writer (d. 1900)
- 1886 - Hermann Broch, Austrian writer, (d. 1951)
- 1887 - L. S. Lowry, British painter of industrial scenes (d. 1976)
- 1908 - Sylvia Bataille wife of Georges Bataille and later Jacques Lacan (d. 1993)
- 1935 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003)
- 1942 - Larry Flynt, American magazine publisher
- 1943 - Jacques Attali, French intellectual
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Deaths
- 1546 - Giulio Romano, Italian painter
- 1907 - Alfred Jarry, French writer (b.1873).
- 1972 - Ezra Pound, American poet (b. 1885)
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