Notable Historical Events on November 2nd
November 2nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
676 |
Donus begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Pope Adeodatus II |
1327 |
King Alfonso IV of Aragon crowned |
1355 |
English invasion army under king Edward lands at Calais |
1418 |
Utrecht conquerors Ijsselstein |
1642 |
2nd battle at Breitenfeld Saksen: Sweden beat Ferdinand III |
1648 |
12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia |
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. |
1712 |
Suriname government gives French hijacker Jacques Cassard, ƒ682,800 |
1722 |
Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland |
1749 |
English Ohio Trade Company forms first trading post |
1772 |
Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms |
1783 |
General George Washington, later 1st American President, bids farewell to his army after the American Revolutionary War |
1813 |
Treaty of Fulda |
1824 |
Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Andrew Jackson beats J Q Adams |
1835 |
2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola |
1841 |
Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan |
1852 |
Franklin Pierce elected as president of US |
1854 |
Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts |
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 |
1875 |
Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela Angola, from Africa's east coast |
1879 |
In a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km |
1880 |
James A Garfield (R) elected 20th US President |
1881 |
Dutch New-Malthusiaanse Union forms |
1889 |
North Dakota becomes 39th & South Dakota becomes 40th state in the United States |
1892 |
French poet Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands |
1895 |
29th Belmont: Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 2:11½ |
1898 |
French government of Dupuy forms |
1898 |
Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem |
1898 |
Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team. |
1899 |
Boers begin siege of Ladysmith, Natal |
1903 |
Lyceum Theater (New Lyceum) opens at 149 W 45th St NYC |
1903 |
New Amsterdam Theater opens at 214 W 42nd St NYC |
1904 |
British newspaper "Daily Mirror" begins publishing |
1907 |
Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published |
1913 |
St Louis Browns mgr George Stovall is 1st to jump to Federal League |
1914 |
Great Britain annexes Cyprus |
1914 |
Great Britain declares the entire North Sea a military area: neutral ships will transit it at their own risk |
1914 |
V Herbert & H Blossoms "Only Girl" premieres in NYC |
1914 |
Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire |
1915 |
First US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio |
1916 |
Ft Vaux, Verdun, reconquered by France |
1917 |
Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine |
1917 |
Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan's privileges in China |
1920 |
Warren G Harding elected 29th president |
1921 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" premieres in NYC |
1922 |
Allies deliberate over German mark |
1923 |
Bloody street fights in Aken (pro-French separatists driven) |
1923 |
Stresemann's SPD-ministers in Germany, step down |
1924 |
Sunday Express publishes first British crossword puzzle |
1928 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st Symphony, L Stokovski premieres in Phila |
1930 |
Ras (euqiv. Duke) Tafari Makonnen is crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty in Ethiopia |
1931 |
Warren, Dixon & Young's musical "Laugh Parade" premieres in NYC |
1934 |
Babe Ruth tours Tokyo, Japan |
1936 |
First high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London |
1936 |
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established. |
1937 |
AL batting champ Charlie Gehringer wins MVP |
1938 |
Babe Ruth applies for job of St Louis Browns' manager |
1938 |
Jimmie Foxx wins his 3rd AL MVP |
1941 |
German troops occupy Rostov |
1942 |
11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir |
1943 |
Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed |
1944 |
Auschwitz begins gassing inmates |
1944 |
Canadian troops occupy Knokke |
1944 |
US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Schmidt Hurtgenwald |
1947 |
7th Ryder Cup: US wins 11-1 at Portland Golf Club (Portland, Oregon, US) |
1947 |
Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" flies for 1st (& last) time |
1948 |
Pres Harry Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey |
1948 |
WJZ TV channel 13 in Baltimore, MD (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
Netherland recognizes Indonesia as a sovereign state |
1949 |
NL scheme for national distribution of textiles, meat and cheese disbands |
1950 |
"Barrier" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances |
1950 |
Phillies reliever Jim Konstanty wins NL MVP |
1950 |
The Clover Dairy Company test-market the first concentrated milk (Sealtest) in the U.S. in Wilmington, Delaware |
1953 |
Pakistan becomes islamic republic |
1954 |
Charles C Diggs Jr elected Michigan's 1st black congressman |
1954 |
JS Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC) |
1954 |
Taiwan & US sign military pact |
1955 |
Clarton-Schwerdt & Schaffer discover polio virus |
1955 |
David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government |
1956 |
Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion |
1956 |
Israel captures Gaza & Sheham |
1957 |
1st titanium mill opened, Toronto Ohio |
1957 |
The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history. |
1959 |
"Girls against the Boys" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 perfs |
1959 |
Charles Van Doren confesses that TV quiz show "21" was fixed |
1959 |
The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway |
1960 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th String quartet premieres in Leningrad |
1960 |
George Weiss, at 66, resigns as GM of NY Yankees |
1960 |
Penguin Books publishes "Lady Chatterley's Lover" |
1960 |
Roger Maris nips Mickey Mantle as AL MVP, 225-222 |
1960 |
Mary Leakey and her team discover the first fossils of Homo habilis, an early human ancestor, at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Homo habilis is thought to be one of the earliest species to make stone tools and lived between 1.4 and 2.3 million years ago. |
1961 |
"Kean" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 92 performances |
1961 |
Max Frisch's "Andorra" premieres in Zurich |
1963 |
"Tambourines to Glory" opens at Little Theater NYC for 24 performances |
1963 |
Only 1st-class cricket game played in Uganda, MCC v E African XI |
1964 |
CBS purchases 80% of Yanks for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20% |
1964 |
Faisal succeeds Saud as king of Saudi Arabia |
1966 |
KHSD TV channel 11 in Lead, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1966 |
The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States. |
1968 |
"Her First Roman" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 17 perfs |
1968 |
A banned march in Derry, North Ireland, by members of the Derry Citizen's Action Committee (DCAC) is joined by thousands; due to the number of people taking part, the Royal Ulster Constabulary are unable to prevent it |
1969 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Women's Golf Open |
1969 |
NFL record of 12 passing touchdowns, New Orleans Billy Kilmer & St L Charlie Johnson pass for 6 touchdowns each |
1970 |
Cleveland Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Phila 141-87) |
1971 |
"Great Harp" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 7 performances |
1971 |
Orioles Pat Dobson no-hits Yomiuri Giants, 2-0 |
1972 |
Construction begins on Kingdome, Seattle |
1972 |
Phillies' Steve Carlton wins unanimous NL Cy Young Award |
1972 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1972 |
Goverment of the Republic of Ireland introduce a bill to remove the special position of the Catholic Church from the Irish Constitution |
1973 |
"Barbra Streisand ...and Other Musical Instruments" airs on CBS TV |
1973 |
OLADE (Latin American Energy Organization) forms |
1974 |
Art Modell gets snowed in & misses his 1st Cleve Brown game in 33 yrs |
1974 |
Braves trade Hank Aaron to Milwaukee Brewers for OF Dave May |
1974 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1974 |
78 die when 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. |
1975 |
Ed Giacomin as a Red Wing returns to Mad Sq Garden beats Rangers 6-4 |
1975 |
Summit in Houston opens - Rockets beat Milwaukee Bucks, 104-89 |
1976 |
Jimmy Carter (D) defeats Gerald Ford (R) for US President |
1976 |
NJ voters approve gambling for Atlantic City |
1976 |
SD Padre Randy Jones wins NL Cy Young |
1977 |
Phillies' Steve Carlton wins 2nd Cy Young Award |
1977 |
Microbiologist Carl R. Woese and scientists from the University of Illinois announce the identification of methanogens, a form of microbial life (Archaea) dating back some 3.5 billion years |
1978 |
Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31 |
1978 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1978 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1979 |
Peter Shaffer's musical "Amadeus" premieres in London |
1982 |
Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die |
1982 |
Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament |
1983 |
President Reagan signs bill establishing Dr Martin Luther King Jr. holiday |
1983 |
Abp Hickey conducts papal investigation of Abp Hunthausen, Seattle |
1984 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1984 |
Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962. |
1985 |
Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge |
1986 |
16th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:06 |
1986 |
17th NYC Marathon won by Gianni Poli in 2:11:06 |
1986 |
Ayako Okamoto wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship |
1987 |
Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple schlerosis |
1987 |
George Harrison releases "Cloud 9" & McCartney releases "All the Best" |
1988 |
Computers virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab & 6 universities |
1988 |
Mexican radio station erronously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash |
1988 |
Walt Weiss wins AL rookie of year (3rd straight for Oakland A's) |
1988 |
The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT. |
1989 |
"Meet Me in St Louis" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 253 perfs |
1990 |
1st NBA game at Target Center, Minn Timberwolves beat Mavericks 98-85 |
1991 |
Jermaine Jackson releases "Word to the Badd!!" anti Michael song |
1991 |
Nevada makes biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-pt deficit in the 3rd quarter & rallying to beat Weber State 55-49 |
1991 |
Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arazi, Black Tie Affair, Dance Smartly, Miss Alleged, Opening Verse, Pleasant Stage, Sheikh Albadou |
1991 |
Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople. |
1992 |
First test flight of Airbus A330 |
1993 |
First commemorative bricks are laid at Bob Feller Memorial |
1993 |
Actor Roger Moore (James Bond) has his enlarged prostate removed |
1993 |
Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of NJ |
1993 |
Dow Jones hits record 3697.64 |
1993 |
Ehud Olmert elected mayor of Jerusalem |
1993 |
Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th mayor of NYC |
1994 |
Benzine explosion in Dronka Egypt, 400+ killed |
1995 |
"Busker Alley" premieres at St James Theatre, NY |
1995 |
"Sacrilege" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 21 performances |
1995 |
Spanish Broadcasting System buys NY radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M |
1996 |
"Hughie" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC |
1997 |
"Barrymore" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 240 performances |
1997 |
27th NYC Women Marathon won by Franziska Rochat-Moser of Switz 2:28:43 |
1997 |
28th NYC Marathon won by John Kagwe of Kenya in 2:08:12 |
1997 |
Ralphs Senior Golf Classic |
1997 |
Toray Japan Queens LPGA Cup |
1997 |
Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam |
1997 |
USA beats Japan 23-13 at LPGA Nichirei International |
2000 |
The first crew arrives at the International Space Station. |
2003 |
Grant Fuhr is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame |
2015 |
International Space Station celebrates 15 years of human life in space |
2016 |
Cubs crush Indians to send World Series to Game 7 |
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