November 2......

November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 59 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 676 - Donus became Pope.

● 1675 - A combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts during King Philip's War.

● 1772 - American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.

● 1783 - In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".

● 1795 - The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.

● 1861 - American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.

● 1868 - Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally

● 1889 - North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

● 1895 - The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000

● 1899 - The Boers started their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

● 1914 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

● 1917 - Zionism: The Balfour Declaration proclaims support for Jewish settlement in Palestine. British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expresses support.

● 1920 - In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.

● 1930 - Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.

● 1936 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.

● 1936 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.

● 1936 - the British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.

● 1947 - In California, Designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden and only flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.

● 1948 - U.S. presidential election, 1948: Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey for the US presidency surprised the experts, narrowly winning re-election.

● 1951 - 6,000 British troops flown into Egypt; The final phase of the largest troop airlift since the war brings reinforcements in to quell unrest in the Suez Canal Zone.

● 1953 - The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

● 1957 - The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.

● 1959 - Quiz show scandals: "Twenty-One" game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

● 1959 - Ice Hockey: After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play.

● 1959 - The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, was opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway

● 1960 - Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case

● 1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngô Ðìhn Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.

● 1964 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.

● 1965 - At 5:15 P.M., Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, set himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.

● 1966 - The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.

● 1967 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "the Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.

● 1974 - 78 die as the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.

● 1976 - Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter defeated Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford, becoming the first U.S. president from the Deep South since the Civil War.

● 1981 - Antigua and Barbuda become independent from the United Kingdom.

● 1982 - Channel 4 in the United Kingdom was launched.

● 1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Day, the only current national holiday honoring an individual American.

● 1984 - Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.

● 1986 - US hostage freed in Beirut; David Jacobsen, an American held hostage in Beirut by Muslim fundamentalists, is released after 17 months in captivity.

● 1988 - The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT.

● 1988 - Dead heat in Israel elections; The general election in Israel returns a hung parliament, prompting feverish negotiations between the right-wing Likud party and ultra-orthodox religious groups.

● 1991 - Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.

● 1995 - Ex-minister charged with apartheid murders; The former South African defence minister, General Magnus Malan, is arrested and charged with murder.

● 1998 - WWF hardcore title awarded to Mankind

● 2000 - The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.

● 2000 - Schools watchdog Woodhead resigns; The controversial chief inspector of schools in England, Chris Woodhead, steps down, to the delight of teachers' unions.

● 2001 - Eleven firefighters were arrested and five police officers injured in a clash at the site of the World Trade Center during a protest over a reduction in the number of cleanup workers.

● 2004 - President George W. Bush was elected to a second term as Republicans strengthened their grip on Congress.

BIRTHS

● 1082 - Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)

● 1636 - Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (d. 1721)

● 1667 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d. 1737)

● 1692 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (d. 1766)

● 1699 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)

● 1709 - Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759)

● 1734 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (d. 1820)

● 1739 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (d. 1799)

● 1741 - Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (d. 1784)

● 1755 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France consort to Louis VXI (d. 1793)

● 1766 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)

● 1795 - James Knox Polk in Mecklenburg County, NC, 11th President of the United States (1845-49) (d. 1849)

● 1808 - Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889)

● 1815 - George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864)

● 1821 - Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor (d. 1899)

● 1844 - Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)

● 1847 - Georges Sorel, French social theorist and socialist revolutionary (d. 1922)

● 1861 - Maurice Blondel, French philosopher (d. 1949)

● 1865 - Warren Gamaliel Harding near Corsica, Ohio, 29th President of the United States (1921-23) (d. 1923)

● 1877 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (d. 1933)

● 1877 - Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (d. 1915)

● 1877 - Aga Khan III, Shia Imam (d. 1957)

● 1883 - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, cardinal and archbishop of Quebec (d. 1947)

● 1885 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972)

● 1886 - Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1971)

● 1893 - Battista Pininfarina, founder of Pininfarina company (d.1966)

● 1894 - Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976)

● 1903 - Travis Jackson, baseball player (d. 1987)

● 1905 - James Dunn, American actor (d. 1967)

● 1906 - Daniil Andreev, Russian poet (d. 1959)

● 1906 - Luchino Visconti, Italian director (d. 1976)

● 1908 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)

● 1910 - Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (d. 1999)

● 1911 - Odysseus Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)

● 1911 - Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995)

● 1913 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)

● 1914 - Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (d. 1997)

● 1915 - Sidney Luft, American movie director (d. 2005)

● 1920 - Ann Rutherford, American actress

● 1921 - Shepard Menken, American voice actor

● 1921 - Bill Mosienko, National Hockey League player (d. 1994)

● 1924 - Father David Bauer, ice hockey player, builder and pioneer (d. 1988)

● 1926 - Charlie Walker, Country singer

● 1927 - Steve Ditko, American artist

● 1929 - Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, President of Pakistan

● 1929 - Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1934 - Bill Gothard, American speaker

● 1934 - Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player

● 1936 - Jack Starrett, American actor and director (d. 1989)

● 1936 - Abdullah the Butcher, Wrestler

● 1937 - Earl ''Speedo'' Carroll, R&B singer (The Cadillacs, The Coasters)

● 1938 - Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician

● 1938 - Queen Sofia of Spain

● 1938 - Jay Black, American singer (Jay and the Americans)

● 1941 - Bruce Welch, English musician and songwriter (The Shadows)

● 1942 - Shere Hite, American author

● 1942 - Stefanie Powers, American actress (''Hart to Hart'')

● 1944 - Keith Emerson, British keyboardist and composer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)

● 1944 - Patrice Chéreau, French director, actor and producer

● 1946 - Alan Jones, Australian race car driver

● 1946 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (d. 2001)

● 1952 - Maxine Nightingale, English singer

● 1954 - Pat Croce, American entrepreneur *1954 - Shya Finestone,C.A.,Canadian Baseball umpire

● 1955 - Chris Burnett, American musician

● 1957 - Carter Beauford, drummer for Dave Matthews Band

● 1958 - Willie McGee, Baseball player

● 1960 - Tihomir Blaškić, Croatian war criminal

● 1961 - Twan, L.A. Burning Man Regional Director

● 1961 - k.d. lang, Canadian musician

● 1962 - Mireille Delunsch, French soprano

● 1963 - Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker

● 1963 - Bobby Dall, Rock musician (Poison)

● 1965 - Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor

● 1966 - Tim Kirkman, American filmmaker

● 1966 - David Schwimmer, Actor (''Friends'')

● 1967 - Alvin Chea, R&B singer (Take 6)

● 1967 - Kurt Elling, American Jazz Vocalist

● 1969 - Reginald Arvizu, American bassist (KoЯn)

● 1970 - Sharmell Sullivan, American professional wrestling valet

● 1971 - John Hampson, Rock musician (Nine Days)

● 1972 - Samantha Janus, British entertainer

● 1974 - Nelly, American rapper (St. Lunatics)

● 1974 - Prodigy, American rapper (Mobb Deep)

● 1974 - Orlando Cabrera, baseball player

● 1974 - Stéphane Sarrazin, French rally driver

● 1975 - Danny Cooksey, Actor

● 1976 - Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player

● 1977 - Randy Harrison, American actor

● 1979 - Julie Lund, Danish actress

● 1981 - Wilson Betemit, Baseball Player

● 1982 - Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model and singer

● 1984 - Julia Stegner, German supermodel

● 1986 - Erika Jo, American musician

● 1986 - Lara Sacher, Australian actress

● 1988 - Lindze Letherman, American actress (General Hospital)

● 1989 - Katelyn Tarver, American singer

● 1990 - Nick Bratton, American Football Player

DEATHS

● 1083 - Matilda of Flanders, was Queen consort of the Kingdom of England (b. 1031)

● 1285 - King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)

● 1327 - King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)

● 1483 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1454)

● 1610 - Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544)

● 1618 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568)

● 1716 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651)

● 1807 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730)

● 1852 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)

● 1863 - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826)

● 1877 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)

● 1887 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)

● 1898 - George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826)

● 1905 - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)

● 1935 - Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)

● 1944 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)

● 1950 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)

● 1960 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (b. 1896)

● 1961 - James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894)

● 1963 - Ngo Dihn Diem, President of South Vietnam (b. 1901)

● 1966 - Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)

● 1966 - Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1892)

● 1970 - Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston (b. 1895)

● 1975 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)

● 1979 - Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (b. 1936)

● 1984 - Velma Barfield, American murderer (executed) (b. 1932)

● 1986 - Paul Frees, American voice actor (b. 1920)

● 1991 - Mort Shuman, American singer and songwriter (b. 1936)

● 1991 - Irwin Allen, american television and film producer (b. 1916)

● 1992 - Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892)

● 1996 - Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)

● 2002 - Tonio Selwart, German actor (b. 1896)

● 2002 - Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935)

● 2003 - Frank McCloskey, American politician (b. 1939)

● 2004 - Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan, President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)

● 2004 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1957)

● 2004 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (b. 1951)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Catholicism - All Souls Day (unless on a Sunday)

● Ancient Latvia - Dveselu Diena held

● Mexico and the United States - Day of the Dead (Spanish: El Dia de los Muertos), a Mexican and Mexican-American celebration of dead ancestors.

● USA - admission day (1889) of North Dakota and South Dakota as 39th and 40th states.

● Rastafari movement - The coronation of Haile Selassie (1930) celebrated


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Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

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