Terrorist watch list report [US DOJ] News
Terrorist watch list report [US DOJ]

Review of the Terrorist Screening Center, US Department of Justice, June 13, 2005 [finding that the terrorist watch list co-ordinated by the US government's Terrorism Screening Center is missing some names and is mischaracterizing the danger posed by nearly 32,000 suspects not designated as targets of significant security action]. Read the full text of the report here [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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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.