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.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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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.
1868 - Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally, and is perhaps the first country to do so.
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 Boer War.
1914 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman sultanate.
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.
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 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.
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 in Britain, was opened between the present junctions 5 and 18.
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.
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 - U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent Gerald Ford to become first candidate from deep south to win since the Civil War.
1981 - Antigua and Barbuda become independent from Britain.
1982 - Channel 4 in the United Kingdom was launched.
1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Day.
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 worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT.
1991 - Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
1991 - Jermaine Jackson's single "Word to the Badd!", which attacks his brother Michael, is leaked to radio station KPWR in Los Angeles.
2000 - The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
2001 - Monsters, Inc. debuts with the best ticket sales ever for an animated film.
2004 - President George W. Bush wins U.S. Presidential Election over John Kerry.