Iranian women protest for right to run for president News
Iranian women protest for right to run for president

[JURIST] Despite reforms giving women the right to vote, drive, and run for many government offices, hundreds of Iranian women staged a protest on Sunday [AKI report] demanding a right still denied them – the right to run for president [JURIST report]. Activists are campaigning for a constitutional amendment which would give them this right. Currently, the president must be chosen from political "rijal", which literally means men but can be interpreted as not being gender-specific [JURIST report]. AP has more.

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Algerian National Liberation Front announces independence campaign

The pro-Algerian independence National Liberation Front released a proclamation on November 1, 1954 announcing the beginning of its campaign for Algerian independence from France, marking the start of the Algerian War. The war would rage for seven years and claim hundreds of thousands of lives until it was ended by the 1962 Évian Accords. Algeria would win its independence on July 3, 1962. Read the full November 1 declaration.

Rent control established in New York City

On November 1, 1943, the federal Office of Price Administration first established rent control in wartime New York City.