November 2

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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.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

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.