(English) What day is it today? (November, 1)

- 1974 (44 years ago from now)

The Japan meteorological agency started officially operating the "regional meteorological observation system" (called AMEDAS). Weather observation which was done manually was automated.

- 2004 (14 years ago from now)A design of the Japanese paper money is changed. The portrait a ten-thousand yen bill Yukichi Fukuzawa, a five thousand yen bill Ichiyou Higuchi, a thousand-yen bill to Hideyo Noguchi.

Source: http://www.himekuricalendar.com/