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November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years)
in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining.
Events
- 676 - Donus becomes Pope.
- 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".
- 1861 - American Civil
War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
- 1889 - North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
- 1917 - Zionism: The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for Jewish settlement in Palestine.
- 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.
- 1947 - In California, Designer
Howard Hughes performs the maiden flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built (flight lasted only eight minutes).
- 1948 - U.S. presidential election, 1948: Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey for the
US presidency.
- 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, goalie, Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first
time in professional play.
- 1960 - Penguin Books is found
not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case
- 1963 - South Vietnamese
President Ngo Dihn Diem is assassinated following a military coup.
- 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 holds a secret meeting with a group of the
nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war
effort. They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
- 1976 - U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy
Carter defeats incumbant Gerald Ford to become first candidate from deep
south to win since the Civil War.
- 1988 - The Morris Worm is released
over the Internet.
- 1983 - Martin
Luther King Day: At the White House Rose Garden, US President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of
every January to honor American civil rights leader
Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1984 - Capital
punishment: Velma
Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since
1962.
- 2000 - The first crew arrives at the International Space Station
- 2001 - Monsters,
Inc. debuts with the best ticket sales ever for an animated film
and the 6th best of all time.
- 2004 - Presidential Election between Senator John Kerry and President George W. Bush.
Births
- 1667 - James Sobieski, Crown
Prince of Poland (d. 1737)
- 1699 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French
painter (d. 1779)
- 1734 - Daniel Boone, frontiersman
(d. 1820)
- 1739 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer (d. 1799)
- 1755 - Marie Antoinette,
Queen of France (d. 1793)
- 1795 - James Knox Polk,
11th President of the United States (d.
1849)
- 1815 - George Boole,
mathematician and philosopher
- 1844 - Mehmed V, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1918)
- 1865 - Warren G.
Harding, 29th President of the United
States (d. 1923)
- 1894 - Alexander
Lippisch, German aerodynamicist (d. 1976)
- 1913 - Burt Lancaster, actor
(d. 1994)
- 1914 - Ray Walston, actor (d.
2001)
- 1927 - Steve Ditko, artist
- 1929 - Muhammad Rafiq
Tarar, former President of Pakistan
- 1938 - Pat Buchanan, journalist,
politician
- 1942 - Shere Hite, author
- 1942 - Stefanie Powers, actress
- 1946 - Giuseppe
Sinopoli (d. 2001)
- 1961 - k. d. lang, singer
- 1965 - Shah Rukh Khan,
actor
- 1966 - David Schwimmer,
actor
- 1991 - Victoria
Climbié, murder victim (d. 2000)
Deaths
- 1944 - Thomas Midgley,
chemist and inventor
- 1950 - George Bernard
Shaw, playwright
- 1952 - Chaim Weizmann,
chemist, first President of Israel
- 1960 - Dimitri
Mitropoulos, conductor
- 1963 - Ngo Dihn Diem, president
of South Vietnam
- 1966 - Peter Debye, chemist
- 1975 - Pier Paolo
Pasolini, film director
- 1986 - Desi Arnaz, musician,
actor
- 1986 - Paul Frees, voice actor
- 1992 - Hal Roach, director, producer,
dies at 100
- 2002 - Tonio Selwart, actor and
Broadway star, dies at 106
Holidays and observances
November 1 - November 3 -
October 2 - December 2 --
listing of all dates
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