2017-11-01

Elvis on Tour, a concert film that documented Elvis Presley's tour throughout the United States, opened.

Lê Quang Tung, loyalist head of the South Vietnam Special Forces, was executed in a U.S.-backed coup against president Ngô Đình Diệm following a period of religious unrest.

After being struck in the face with a hockey puck, Jacques Plante played the rest of the game wearing a face mask, now mandatory equipment for goaltenders in ice hockey.

Dominique Mbonyumutwa, one of the few Hutu sub-chiefs in colonial Rwanda, was attacked by Tutsi activists, precipitating the Rwandan Revolution.

The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka were formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.

World War II: An American F-13 Superfortress made the first flight by an Allied aircraft over Tokyo since the Doolittle Raid in April 1942.

American photographer Ansel Adams (pictured) shot Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, one of his most famous photographs.

Frances Kyle was called to the Bar of Ireland, becoming the first female barrister in Ireland or Great Britain.

World War I: The first contingent of the First Australian Imperial Force departed Albany, Western Australia.

The disposable ship Columbus (pictured) arrived in the The Downs off England, becoming, at that time, the largest vessel to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean.