Brussels (1948), providing for mutual self-defence and other collaboration between Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. October 25 – Landslides caused by heavy rains hit Salerno, Italy, killing about 300. October 26 – Muslim Brotherhood member Mahmoud Abdul Latif tries to kill Gamal Abdel Nasser. October 31 – Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule. November November 1 – The FLN attacks representative and public buildings of the French colonial power. November 2 The dock workers' strike in the UK comes to an end. The radio program Hancock's Half Hour, a pioneer in situation comedy, is first broadcast on BBC Radio (a television version will follow in 1956). November 3 – The first Godzilla film premieres in Tokyo. November 5 – Japan and Burma sign a peace treaty in Rangoon, to end their long-extinct state of war. November 10 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial), at the Arlington National Cemetery. November 12 – The main immigration port-of-entry in New York Harbor at Ellis Island closes permanently. November 13 – Great Britain defeats France, to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators November 14 – Egyptian president Muhammad Naguib is deposed, and Gamal Abdel Nasser replaces him. November 22 – Berman v. Parker (348 U.S. 26): The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the federal slum clearance and urban renewal programs. November 23 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises 3.27 points, or 0.86 percent, closing at an all-time high of 382.74. More significantly, this is the first time the Dow has surpassed its peak level, reached just before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. November 30 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, a four-kilogram piece of the Hodges Meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and badly bruises a napping woman, in the first documented case of an object from outer space hitting a person. December December 1 – The first Hyatt Hotel, The Hyatt House Los Angeles, opens on the grounds of Los Angeles International Airport. It is the first hotel in the world built on an airport property. December 2 Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 67–22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy, for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." The Taiwan-United States Mutual Defense Treaty