November 2
is the 306th day of the year (307th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 59 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 676
?
Donus
becomes
Pope
.
- 1502
-
Christopher Columbus
reaches present-day
Panama
.
- 1721
-
Peter I of Russia
declares himself
Tsar
of the
Russian Empire
.
- 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".
- 1817
? The
Bank of Montreal
,
Canada
's oldest
chartered bank
, opens in
Montreal, Quebec
.
- 1852
-
Franklin Pierce
is elected
President of the United States
.
- 1856
- French
passenger
steamer
Lyonnais
collides with a
barge
off
Nantucket
,
Massachusetts
, sinking the next day, killing 130 of the 146 people on board.
- 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, and is perhaps the first country to do so.
- 1880
-
James A. Garfield
is elected
President of the United States
.
- 1882
-
Oulu
,
Finland
is devastated by the Great
Fire
of 1882.
- 1889
?
North
and
South Dakota
are admitted as the 39th and 40th
U.S. states
.
- 1898
-
Cheerleading
starts in the
United States
;
Johnny Campbell
leads a crowd in cheering the
University of Minnesota
American football
team.
- 1899
? The
Boers
started their 118-day
siege
of
British
-held
Ladysmith
during the
Second Boer War
.
- 1914
-
World War I
: The
Russian Empire
declares war on the
Ottoman Empire
.
- 1917
?
Zionism
: The
Balfour Declaration
proclaims 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
.
- 1920
-
Warren G. Harding
, on his 55th birthday, is elected to become the 29th
President of the United States
. It is also the first
US Presidential
Election in which
women
can vote.
- 1930
?
Haile Selassie
is crowned emperor of
Ethiopia
.
- 1930
? Geologist
Alfred Wegener
departs for an expedition in
Greenland
, from which he does not return. His remains are found in
1931
.
- 1936
-
BBC
television
transmissions begin.
- 1936
? The
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
is established.
- 1936
?
Italian
dictator
Benito Mussolini
proclaims the Rome?Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the
Axis Powers
.
- 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
. Many had predicted Dewey would win, and the false
Chicago Tribune
headline
Dewey defeats Truman
has become famous.
- 1953
-
Pakistan
is officially named the "Islamic Republic of Pakistan".
- 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.
- 1960
?
Penguin Books
is found not guilty of
obscenity
in the
Lady Chatterley's Lover
case
- 1962
? The
Cuban Missile Crisis
ends as
US President
John F. Kennedy
announces that
Soviet
nuclear missiles are to be withdrawn from
Cuba
.
- 1963
?
South Vietnamese
President
Ngo Dinh Diem
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
.
- 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.
- 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 club official barred the doors after the fire started.
- 1976
?
U.S. presidential election, 1976
:
Jimmy Carter
defeats incumbent
Gerald Ford
to become the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the
Civil War
.
- 1982
-
Channel 4
goes on transmission in the
United Kingdom
.
- 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
.
- 1988
? The
Morris worm
, the first
internet
distributed
computer worms
to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from
MIT
.
- 1991
?
Bartholomew I
becomes the
Patriarch of Constantinople
, the "first among equals" in the
Eastern Orthodox Communion
.
- 1991
?
Jermaine Jackson
's single
Word to the Badd!
, which attacks his brother
Michael
, is leaked to radio station
KPWR
in
Los Angeles
.
- 1995
? The
Hubble space telescope
takes a picture of a gas plume 7000
light years
away from
Earth
that appears to contain an image of
Jesus of Nazareth
to many people.
- 1997
-
Typhoon Linda
devastates areas around the
Gulf of Thailand
.
- 2000
? The first crew arrives at the
International Space Station
.
- 1082
?
Emperor Huizong
of
China
(d.
1135
)
- 1154
-
Constance, Queen of Sicily
(d.
1198
)
- 1470
- King
Edward V of England
(d.
1483
)
- 1475
-
Anne of York, Lady Howard
(d.
1511
)
- 1534
-
Archduchess Eleonor of Austria
(d.
1594
)
- 1549
-
Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain
(d.
1580
)
- 1636
?
Edward Colston
, English merchant and philanthropist (died
1721
)
- 1667
?
James Sobieski
, Crown Prince of Poland (died
1737
)
- 1692
?
Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer
, Dutch composer (died
1766
)
- 1699
?
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon-Chardin
, French painter (died
1779
)
- 1709
?
Anne, Princess Royal, Princess of Orange
(d.
1759
)
- 1734
?
Daniel Boone
, American frontiersman (died
1820
)
- 1739
?
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
, Austrian composer (died
1799
)
- 1741
?
Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol
, Dutch politician (died
1784
)
- 1755
?
Marie Antoinette
, Queen of France (d.
1793
)
- 1766
-
Joseph Radetzky von Radetz
, Austrian field marshal (d.
1858
)
- 1767
?
Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
(d.
1820
)
- 1777
-
Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom
(d.
1848
)
- 1795
?
James K. Polk
, 11th
President of the United States
(d.
1849
)
- 1799
-
John Light Atlee
, American
physician
and
surgeon
(d.
1885
)
- 1799
-
Titian Peale
, American
entomologist
and
photographer
(d.
1885
)
- 1808
?
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
, French writer (died
1889
)
- 1815
?
George Boole
, English
mathematician
and
philosopher
(died
1864
)
- 1821
-
George Bowen
, British colonial administrator, 1st
Governor
of
Queensland
(d.
1899
)
- 1827
-
Paul de Lagarde
, German
philosopher
(d.
1891
)
- 1840
-
Victorino de la Plaza
,
President
of
Argentina
(d.
1919
)
- 1844
?
Mehmed V
,
Ottoman Sultan
(died
1918
)
- 1847
-
Georges Sorel
, French
philosopher
(d.
1922
)
- 1858
-
Dimitar Petkov
, 14th
Prime Minister
of
Bulgaria
(d.
1907
)
- 1862
-
Maironis
,
Lithuanian
poet
(d.
1932
)
- 1865
?
Warren G. Harding
, 29th
President of the United States
(died
1923
)
- 1877
?
Joseph De Piro
, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (died
1933
)
- 1877
-
Agha Khan III
(d.
1957
)
- 1877
-
Claire McDowell
, American actress (d.
1966
)
- 1878
-
Okido Moriemon
, Japanese
sumo
wrestler (d.
1930
)
- 1879
-
Marion Jones Farquhar
, American
tennis
player (d.
1965
)
- 1881
-
Pencho Zlatev
, 25th
Prime Minister
of
Bulgaria
(d.
1948
)
- 1882
-
Leo Perutz
, Austrian writer (d.
1957
)
- 1884
-
Sigurd Savonius
, Finnish
architect
and
inventor
(d.
1931
)
- 1885
?
Harlow Shapley
, American astronomer (died
1972
)
- 1888
-
Scott Duncan
, Scottish
footballer
(d.
1975
)
- 1890
-
Nishinoumi Kajiro III
, Japanese
sumo
wrestler (d.
1933
)
- 1892
?
Paul Abraham
, Hungarian composer (d.
1960
)
- 1892
-
Alice Brady
, American actress (d.
1939
)
- 1894
?
Alexander Lippisch
, German scientist (died
1976
)
- 1897
?
Vito Genovese
, American gangster (died
1969
)
- 1899
-
Peter Aufschnaiter
, Austrian
mountaineer
(d.
1973
)
- 1902
-
Santos Iriarte
,
Uruguayan
footballer
(d.
1938
)
- 1904
?
Louis Eugene Felix Neel
, French physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (died
2000
)
- 1906
?
Daniil Andreev
, Russian poet, writer, and mystic (died
1959
)
- 1906
?
Luchino Visconti
, Italian director (d.
1976
)
- 1908
?
Fred Bakewell
, English cricketer (died
1983
)
- 1910
-
Alfredo de Angelis
, Argentine
composer
(d.
1992
)
- 1911
-
Raphael M. Robinson
, American
mathematician
, theorist and
philosopher
(d.
1995
)
- 1911
?
Odysseas Elytis
, Greek writer (died
1996
)
- 1913
?
Burt Lancaster
, American actor (died
1994
)
- 1913
-
Rafael Aburto
, Spanish
architect
(d.
2014
)
- 1913
-
Carmen Amaya
, Spanish
Flamenco
dancer, singer and actress (d.
1963
)
- 1915
-
Sidney Luft
, American
movie director
(d.
2005
)
- 1917
-
Ann Rutherford
, Canadian-born American actress (d.
2012
)
- 1918
-
Alexander Vraciu
, American
Navy
fighter ace (d.
2015
)
- 1921
-
William Donald Schaefer
, American politician, 58th
Governor
of
Maryland
(d.
2011
)
- 1923
-
Cesare Rubini
, Italian
basketball
coach and
water polo
player (d.
2011
)
- 1924
-
Rudy Van Gelder
, American recording engineer (d.
2016
)
- 1924
-
David Bauer
, Canadian
ice hockey
player and
priest
(d.
1988
)
- 1927
?
Steve Ditko
, American artist (d.
2018
)
- 1928
-
Vladimir Beara
,
Yugoslavian
footballer
(d.
2014
)
- 1929
?
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
, former
President of Pakistan
- 1929
?
Richard E. Taylor
, American physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
2018
)
- 1929
-
Amar Bose
, American businessman (d.
2013
)
- 1929
-
Robert Gover
, American
journalist
(d.
2015
)
- 1929
-
Rachel Ames
, American actress
- 1931
-
Phil Woods
, American musician (d.
2015
)
- 1932
-
Melvin Schwartz
, American
physicist
(d.
2006
)
- 1934
-
Ken Rosewall
, Australian
tennis
player
- 1936
?
Jack Starrett
, American actor and director (died
1989
)
- 1938
?
Pat Buchanan
, American journalist and politician
- 1938
?
Queen Sofia of Spain
- 1939
?
Richard Serra
, American sculptor
- 1940
-
Vincenzo Cerami
, Italian writer (d.
2013
)
- 1941
-
Bruce Welch
, English musician and songwriter
- 1942
?
Shere Hite
, American writer
- 1942
?
Stefanie Powers
, American actress
- 1944
-
Patrice Chereau
, French
actor
,
director
and
producer
(d.
2013
)
- 1944
-
Keith Emerson
, English musician (d.
2016
)
- 1946
?
Giuseppe Sinopoli
, Italian conductor and composer (died
2001
)
- 1949
-
Lois McMaster Bujold
, American writer
- 1953
-
Tom Lyle
, American comics artist and illustrator (d.
2019
)
- 1954
?
Pat Croce
, American
entrepreneur
- 1957
-
Carter Beauford
, American musician
- 1957
-
Lucien Favre
, Swiss
footballer
and manager
- 1958
?
Willie McGee
, American
baseball
player
- 1959
-
Peter Mullan
, Scottish actor and filmmaker
- 1960
-
Andy Borg
, Austrian Schlager singer and television presenter
- 1961
?
k.d. lang
, Canadian singer
- 1962
-
Ron McGovney
, American musician
- 1963
-
Borut Pahor
, former
Prime Minister
, and current
President
, of
Slovenia
- 1963
-
Bobby Dall
, American musician
- 1964
-
Lynn Nottage
, American
playwright
- 1965
-
Pawel Adamowicz
, Polish politician,
Mayor
of
Gdansk
(d.
2019
)
- 1965
?
Shahrukh Khan
, Indian actor
- 1966
?
Tim Kirkman
, American movie maker
- 1966
?
David Schwimmer
, American actor
- 1967
?
Zvonimir Soldo
, Croatian
footballer
- 1967
-
Scott Walker
, American politician and former
Governor
of
Wisconsin
- 1968
-
Jaume Balaguero
, Spanish
director
,
screenwriter
and
producer
- 1969
?
Reginald Arvizu
, American bassist (
KoЯn
)
- 1969
-
Lucy Hawking
, English novelist, journalist, educator and philanthropist
- 1969
-
Jenny Palmqvist
, Swedish football referee
- 1972
-
Samantha Womack
, British actress and singer
- 1973
-
Marisol Nichols
, American actress
- 1974
-
Ruslan Salei
,
Belarussian
ice hockey
player (d.
2011
)
- 1974
?
Nelly
, American rapper
- 1974
-
Sofia Polgar
, Hungarian
chess
player
- 1974
-
Orlando Cabrera
, Colombian-American
baseball
player
- 1974
-
Prodigy
, American
rapper
(d.
2017
)
- 1975
-
Chris Walla
, American musician
- 1976
-
Thierry Omeyer
, French
handball
player
- 1977
-
Emma Reynolds
, English politician
- 1977
-
Randy Harrison
, American actor
- 1979
-
Cliff Compton
, American
professional wrestler
- 1980
?
Diego Lugano
,
Uruguayan
footballer
- 1980
-
Kim So-yeon
, South Korean actress
- 1980
-
Mustafa Ceceli
, Turkish singer
- 1981
-
Katharine Isabelle
, Canadian actress
- 1981
-
Ai
, Japanese-American singer
- 1982
?
Charles Itandje
, French-Cameroonian footballer
- 1986
?
Lara Sacher
, Australian actress
- 1986
-
Yurizan Beltran
, American pornographic actress (d.
2017
)
- 1987
?
Danny Cipriani
, English
rugby
player
- 1988
-
Julia Gorges
, German
tennis
player
- 1989
?
Stevan Jovetic
,
Montenegrin
footballer
- 1989
-
Katelyn Tarver
, American
singer-songwriter
and
actress
- 1990
-
Kendall Schmidt
, American actor and singer
- 1992
-
Kyoko Fukada
, Japanese actress and singer
- 1998
-
Nadav Guedj
, Israeli singer
- 943
-
Emma of France
(b.
894
)
- 1083
-
Matilda of Flanders
, Queen of
William the Conqueror
- 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
)
- 1807
-
Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
, French politician (b.
1730
)
- 1810
-
Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom
(b.
1783
)
- 1846
-
Esaias Tegner
, Swedish
poet
and
bishop
(b.
1782
)
- 1852
-
Pyotr Kotlyarevsky
, Russian general (b.
1782
)
- 1877
-
Friedrich Graf von Wrangel
,
Prussian
field marshal (b.
1784
)
- 1887
?
Jenny Lind
, Swedish
soprano
(b.
1820
)
- 1905
-
Horace Austin
,
Governor
of
Minnesota
(b.
1831
)
- 1930
-
Viggo Jensen
, Danish
weightlifter
, shooter,
gymnast
and
athlete
(b.
1874
)
- 1941
-
Bengt Djurberg
, Swedish
actor
and
singer
(b.
1898
)
- 1945
?
Princess Thyra
, daughter of
Frederick VIII of Denmark
(b.
1880
)
- 1950
?
George Bernard Shaw
, Irish writer (b.
1856
)
- 1958
-
Jean Couzy
, French
mountaineer
and
engineer
(b.
1923
)
- 1959
-
Michael Considine
, Australian politician (b.
1885
)
- 1960
-
Dimitris Metropoulos
, Greek
conductor
and
composer
(b.
1896
)
- 1963
?
Ngo Dinh Diem
, Vietnamese politician (b.
1901
)
- 1966
?
Peter Debye
, Dutch chemist (b.
1884
)
- 1966
?
Mississippi John Hurt
, American blues singer (b.
1892
)
- 1970
-
Richard Gosling
, American
cardinal
and
Archbishop
of
Boston, Massachusetts
(b.
1895
)
- 1973
-
Greasy Neale
,
American football
coach and
baseball
player (b.
1891
)
- 1975
?
Pier Paolo Pasolini
, Italian movie director (b.
1922
)
- 1984
-
Velma Barfield
, American
serial killer
(b.
1932
)
- 1991
-
Irwin Allen
, American director and producer (b.
1916
)
- 1992
-
Hal Roach
, American director and producer (b.
1892
)
- 1996
?
Eva Cassidy
, American singer (b.
1963
)
- 2000
-
Robert Cormier
, French writer and journalist (b.
1925
)
- 2002
-
Charles Sheffield
, American writer and
physicist
(b.
1935
)
- 2003
-
Frank McCloskey
, American politician (b.
1939
)
- 2004
?
Theo van Gogh
, Dutch movie maker (b.
1957
)
- 2004
-
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
, President of the
United Arab Emirates
(b.
1918
)
- 2005
?
Ferruccio Valcareggi
, Italian footballer and coach (b.
1919
)
- 2007
-
Igor Moiseyev
, Russian
choreographer
(b.
1906
)
- 2007
-
The Fabulous Moolah
(Lillian Ellison), American
professional wrestler
(b.
1923
)
- 2008
-
Madelyn Lee Payne
, grandmother of
Barack Obama
, died two days before he was elected President (b.
1922
)
- 2009
-
Amir Pnueli
, Israeli
computer
scientist
(b.
1941
)
- 2010
-
Rudolf Barshai
, Russian
conductor
and
violist
(b.
1924
)
- 2010
-
Andy Irons
, American professional
surfer
(b.
1978
)
- 2012
-
Milt Campbell
, American
decathlete
(b.
1933
)
- 2012
-
Han Suyin
, Chinese novelist (b.
1917
)
- 2013
-
Walt Bellamy
, American
basketball
player (b.
1939
)
- 2014
-
Acker Bilk
, English
jazz
musician (b.
1929
)
- 2015
-
Andrzej Ciechanowiecki
, Polish-British art historian (b.
1924
)
- 2015
-
Barbara Snelling
, American
politician
(b.
1928
)
- 2015
-
Colin Welland
, English actor (b.
1934
)
- 2016
-
Oleg Popov
, Russian
clown
and
circus
performer (b.
1930
)
- 2017
-
Orval H. Hansen
, American politician (b.
1926
)
- 2017
-
Yisrael Rosen
, Israeli
rabbi
(b.
1941
)
- 2017
-
Aboubacar Sompare
,
Guinean
politician (b.
1944
)
- 2017
-
Dina Wadia
, Indian political figure (b.
1919
)
- 2018
-
Raymond Chow
, Hong Kong film producer (b.
1927
)
- 2018
-
Roy Hargrove
, American
jazz
trumpeter (b.
1969
)
- 2018
-
Maulana Sami-ul-Haq
, Pakistani senator (b.
1937
)
- 2018
-
Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale
, British peer (b.
1945
)
- 2018
-
Merete Skavlan
, Norwegian actress, director and writer (b.
1920
)
- 2019
-
Dick Dearden
, American politician (b.
1938
)
- 2019
-
Norbert Eder
, German
footballer
(b.
1955
)
- 2019
-
Sigvard Ericsson
, Swedish speed skater (b.
1930
)
- 2019
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Irwin Fridovich
, American biochemist (b.
1929
)
- 2019
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Leo Iorga
, Romanian rock singer and guitarist (b.
1964
)
- 2019
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Marie Laforet
, French-Swiss singer and actress (b.
1939
)
- 2019
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Walter Mercado
, Puerto Rican astrologer and television personality (b.
1932
)
- 2019
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Dean Prentice
, Canadian
ice hockey
player (b.
1932
)
- 2019
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James I. Robertson Jr.
, American historian (b.
1930
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