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2nd of November 1410 EVENT The Peace of Bicetre between the Armagnac and Burgundian factions is signed.
2nd of November 1570 EVENT A tsunami in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1,000 people.
2nd of November 1675 EVENT King Philip's War: A combined effort by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts.
2nd of November 1769 EVENT Don Gaspar de Portola leads the the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay.
2nd of November 1772 EVENT American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.
2nd of November 1783 EVENT In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
2nd of November 1795 EVENT The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.
2nd of November 1861 EVENT American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
2nd of November 1868 EVENT Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
2nd of November 1882 EVENT Oulu, Finland is decimated by the Great Oulu Fire of 1882
2nd of November 1889 EVENT North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
2nd of November 1895 EVENT The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000
2nd of November 1898 EVENT Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
2nd of November 1899 EVENT The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
2nd of November 1909 EVENT Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
2nd of November 1914 EVENT Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
2nd of November 1917 EVENT The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
2nd of November 1920 EVENT In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
2nd of November 1930 EVENT Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
2nd of November 1936 EVENT The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
2nd of November 1936 EVENT Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
2nd of November 1936 EVENT 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.
2nd of November 1947 EVENT In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
2nd of November 1953 EVENT The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
2nd of November 1957 EVENT The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.
2nd of November 1959 EVENT 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.
2nd of November 1959 EVENT 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
2nd of November 1960 EVENT Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case
2nd of November 1963 EVENT South Vietnamese President Ngo ?inh Diem is assassinated following a military coup.
2nd of November 1964 EVENT King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
2nd of November 1965 EVENT Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
2nd of November 1966 EVENT The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
2nd of November 1967 EVENT 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.
2nd of November 1973 EVENT The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a 'United Front' in the state of Tripura.
2nd of November 1974 EVENT 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.
2nd of November 1983 EVENT U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
2nd of November 1984 EVENT Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
2nd of November 1988 EVENT The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
2nd of November 1995 EVENT Former South African defense minister General Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers are arrested and charged with murdering 13 people in 1987, (all the accused are later acquitted).
2nd of November 2000 EVENT The first resident crew to the ISS docked in November 2nd on the Soyuz TM-31
2nd of November 1082 BIRTHDAY Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)
2nd of November 1470 BIRTHDAY King Edward V of England, one of the two princes in the Tower (d. 1483)
2nd of November 1475 BIRTHDAY Princess Anne of York, Countess of Surrey (d. 1511)
2nd of November 1636 BIRTHDAY Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (d. 1721)
2nd of November 1667 BIRTHDAY James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d. 1737)
2nd of November 1692 BIRTHDAY Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (d. 1766)
2nd of November 1696 BIRTHDAY Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (d. 1760)
2nd of November 1699 BIRTHDAY Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
2nd of November 1709 BIRTHDAY Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
2nd of November 1734 BIRTHDAY Daniel Boone American explorer (d. 1820)
2nd of November 1739 BIRTHDAY Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (d. 1799)
2nd of November 1741 BIRTHDAY Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (d. 1784)
2nd of November 1754 BIRTHDAY Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary (d. 1794)
2nd of November 1755 BIRTHDAY Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793)
2nd of November 1766 BIRTHDAY Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
2nd of November 1777 BIRTHDAY Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
2nd of November 1777 BIRTHDAY Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Zo?kowski, Polish actor (d. 1822)
2nd of November 1795 BIRTHDAY James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
2nd of November 1799 BIRTHDAY John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (d. 1885)
2nd of November 1808 BIRTHDAY Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889)
2nd of November 1815 BIRTHDAY George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864)
2nd of November 1821 BIRTHDAY Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor (d. 1899)
2nd of November 1833 BIRTHDAY Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian doctor (d. 1904)
2nd of November 1837 BIRTHDAY Emile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. 1891)
2nd of November 1844 BIRTHDAY Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
2nd of November 1855 BIRTHDAY Henrik Schuck, Swedish literary historian (d. 1947)
2nd of November 1865 BIRTHDAY Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
2nd of November 1877 BIRTHDAY Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (d. 1933)
2nd of November 1877 BIRTHDAY Aga Khan III, Shia Imam (d. 1957)
2nd of November 1877 BIRTHDAY Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (d. 1915)
2nd of November 1878 BIRTHDAY Okido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (d. 1930)
2nd of November 1883 BIRTHDAY Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, cardinal and archbishop of Quebec (d. 1947)
2nd of November 1885 BIRTHDAY Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972)
2nd of November 1886 BIRTHDAY Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1971)
2nd of November 1890 BIRTHDAY Moa Martinson, Swedish writer (d. 1964)
2nd of November 1890 BIRTHDAY Nishinoumi Kajiro III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 30th Yokozuna (d. 1933)
2nd of November 1892 BIRTHDAY Alice Brady, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1939)
2nd of November 1893 BIRTHDAY Battista Farina, founder of Pininfarina company (d. 1966)
2nd of November 1894 BIRTHDAY Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976)
2nd of November 1899 BIRTHDAY Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer, known from Seven Years in Tibet (d. 1973)
2nd of November 1903 BIRTHDAY Travis Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1987)
2nd of November 1905 BIRTHDAY James Dunn, American actor (d. 1967)
2nd of November 1906 BIRTHDAY Daniil Andreev, Russian poet (d. 1959)
2nd of November 1906 BIRTHDAY Luchino Visconti, Italian director (d. 1976)
2nd of November 1908 BIRTHDAY Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)
2nd of November 1910 BIRTHDAY Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (d. 1999)
2nd of November 1911 BIRTHDAY Odysseus Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
2nd of November 1911 BIRTHDAY Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995)
2nd of November 1913 BIRTHDAY Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
2nd of November 1914 BIRTHDAY Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (d. 1997)
2nd of November 1915 BIRTHDAY Beryl McBurnie, Trinidadian dancer (d. 2000)
2nd of November 1915 BIRTHDAY Sidney Luft, American movie director (d. 2005)
2nd of November 1920 BIRTHDAY Ann Rutherford, American actress
2nd of November 1921 BIRTHDAY Shepard Menken, American voice actor (d. 1999)
2nd of November 1921 BIRTHDAY Bill Mosienko, National Hockey League player (d. 1994)
2nd of November 1924 BIRTHDAY Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer
2nd of November 1924 BIRTHDAY (Father) David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (d. 1988)
2nd of November 1927 BIRTHDAY Steve Ditko, American artist
2nd of November 1928 BIRTHDAY Paul Johnson, British historian
2nd of November 1929 BIRTHDAY Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, former President of Pakistan
2nd of November 1929 BIRTHDAY Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
2nd of November 1932 BIRTHDAY Ron Sproat, American TV writer and playwright (d. 2009)
2nd of November 1934 BIRTHDAY Bill Gothard, American minister and speaker
2nd of November 1934 BIRTHDAY Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player
2nd of November 1936 BIRTHDAY Jack Starrett, American actor and director (d. 1989)
2nd of November 1936 BIRTHDAY Rose Bird, American judge (d. 1999)
2nd of November 1937 BIRTHDAY Earl Carroll, lead vocalist of The Cadillacs
2nd of November 1938 BIRTHDAY Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
2nd of November 1938 BIRTHDAY Jay Black, American singer (Jay and the Americans)
2nd of November 1938 BIRTHDAY David Lane, American white nationalist (d. 2007)
2nd of November 1938 BIRTHDAY Queen Sofia of Spain
2nd of November 1939 BIRTHDAY Richard Serra, American sculptor and video artist
2nd of November 1940 BIRTHDAY Jim Bakken, American football player
2nd of November 1941 BIRTHDAY Bruce Welch, English musician and songwriter (The Shadows)
2nd of November 1942 BIRTHDAY Shere Hite, American-German author
2nd of November 1942 BIRTHDAY Stefanie Powers, American actress
2nd of November 1944 BIRTHDAY Keith Emerson, British keyboardist and composer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
2nd of November 1944 BIRTHDAY Patrice Chereau, French director, actor and producer
2nd of November 1946 BIRTHDAY Alan Jones, Australian race car driver
2nd of November 1946 BIRTHDAY Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (d. 2001)
2nd of November 1950 BIRTHDAY Alex Fagan, American law enforcement official (d. 2010)
2nd of November 1951 BIRTHDAY Thomas Mallon, American novelist and critic
2nd of November 1951 BIRTHDAY Lindy Morrison, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens)
2nd of November 1952 BIRTHDAY Maxine Nightingale, English singer
2nd of November 1954 BIRTHDAY Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
2nd of November 1955 BIRTHDAY Thomas Grunenberg, German footballer
2nd of November 1955 BIRTHDAY Chris Burnett, American musician
2nd of November 1956 BIRTHDAY Peter Mullan, Scottish actor
2nd of November 1957 BIRTHDAY Notis Sfakianakis, Greek singer
2nd of November 1957 BIRTHDAY Carter Beauford, American drummer (Dave Matthews Band)
2nd of November 1958 BIRTHDAY Willie McGee, American baseball player
2nd of November 1961 BIRTHDAY k.d. lang, Canadian musician
2nd of November 1961 BIRTHDAY Jeff Tedford, head coach of the California Golden Bears
2nd of November 1962 BIRTHDAY David Brock, American political commentator, pundit
2nd of November 1962 BIRTHDAY Mireille Delunsch, French soprano
2nd of November 1962 BIRTHDAY Simon Hill, English-Australian football commentator
2nd of November 1963 BIRTHDAY Bobby Dall, American musician Poison (band)
2nd of November 1963 BIRTHDAY Jonas Gardell, Swedish writer
2nd of November 1963 BIRTHDAY Ron McGovney, American musician
2nd of November 1963 BIRTHDAY Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker
2nd of November 1963 BIRTHDAY Park Young Seok, South Korean mountaineer
2nd of November 1964 BIRTHDAY Britta Lejon, Swedish politician
2nd of November 1965 BIRTHDAY Arnold Clavio, Filipino broadcast journalist
2nd of November 1965 BIRTHDAY Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor
2nd of November 1965 BIRTHDAY Samuel Le Bihan, French actor
2nd of November 1966 BIRTHDAY Sean Kanan, American actor
2nd of November 1966 BIRTHDAY Tim Kirkman, American filmmaker
2nd of November 1966 BIRTHDAY David Schwimmer, American actor
2nd of November 1966 BIRTHDAY Yoshinari Ogawa, Japanese professional wrestler
2nd of November 1966 BIRTHDAY Khaled Abol Naga, Egyptian actor
2nd of November 1967 BIRTHDAY Marc van Roon, Dutch improvising musician
2nd of November 1967 BIRTHDAY Kurt Elling, American jazz vocalist
2nd of November 1967 BIRTHDAY Scott Walker, American politician
2nd of November 1968 BIRTHDAY Ultra Nate, American musician
2nd of November 1969 BIRTHDAY Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, American bassist (Ko?n)
2nd of November 1970 BIRTHDAY Sharmell Sullivan, American professional wrestling valet
2nd of November 1970 BIRTHDAY Ely Buendia,Filipino vocalist (Eraserheads)
2nd of November 1972 BIRTHDAY Dario Silva, Uruguayan footballer
2nd of November 1972 BIRTHDAY Derek Mountfield, English football player
2nd of November 1972 BIRTHDAY Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player
2nd of November 1972 BIRTHDAY Samantha Janus, British entertainer
2nd of November 1973 BIRTHDAY Marisol Nichols, American actress
2nd of November 1974 BIRTHDAY Orlando Cabrera, Colombian baseball player
2nd of November 1974 BIRTHDAY Prodigy, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
2nd of November 1974 BIRTHDAY Nelly, American rapper
2nd of November 1975 BIRTHDAY Stephane Sarrazin, French rally driver
2nd of November 1975 BIRTHDAY Chris Walla, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie)
2nd of November 1976 BIRTHDAY Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player
2nd of November 1977 BIRTHDAY Randy Harrison, American actor
2nd of November 1977 BIRTHDAY Konstantinos Economidis, Greek tennis player
2nd of November 1977 BIRTHDAY Rodney Buford, American basketball player
2nd of November 1977 BIRTHDAY Jason Cerbone, American actor (The Sopranos)
2nd of November 1978 BIRTHDAY Carmen Cali, American baseball player
2nd of November 1978 BIRTHDAY Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro, Brazilian mixed-martial artist
2nd of November 1979 BIRTHDAY Erika Flores, American actress
2nd of November 1979 BIRTHDAY Julie Lund, Danish actress
2nd of November 1979 BIRTHDAY Simone Puleo, Italian footballer
2nd of November 1980 BIRTHDAY Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
2nd of November 1980 BIRTHDAY Amos Roberts Australian Rugby League player
2nd of November 1981 BIRTHDAY Wilson Betemit, Dominican baseball player
2nd of November 1981 BIRTHDAY Avy Scott, American pornographic actress
2nd of November 1981 BIRTHDAY Roddy White, American football player
2nd of November 1982 BIRTHDAY Yunel Escobar, Cuban baseball player
2nd of November 1982 BIRTHDAY Charles Itandje, French footballer
2nd of November 1982 BIRTHDAY Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model and singer
2nd of November 1984 BIRTHDAY Tamara Hope, Canadian actress
2nd of November 1984 BIRTHDAY Julia Stegner, German model
2nd of November 1986 BIRTHDAY Lara Sacher, Australian actress
2nd of November 1986 BIRTHDAY Andy Rautins, Canadian basketball player
2nd of November 1987 BIRTHDAY Danny Cipriani, English rugby union player
2nd of November 1989 BIRTHDAY Katelyn Tarver, American singer
2nd of November 1989 BIRTHDAY Luke Schenn, Canadian hockey player
2nd of November 1989 BIRTHDAY Stevan Jovetic, Montenegrin soccer player
2nd of November 1990 BIRTHDAY Kendall Schmidt, American singer and actor (Big Time Rush)
2nd of November 1995 BIRTHDAY Brandon Soo Hoo, American-Chinese actor
2nd of November 0943 DEATH Queen Emma of France, (Born 894)
2nd of November 1083 DEATH Matilda of Flanders, Queen consort (Born 1031)
2nd of November 1285 DEATH King Peter III of Aragon (Born 1239)
2nd of November 1327 DEATH King James II of Aragon (Born 1267)
2nd of November 1483 DEATH Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (Born 1454)
2nd of November 1610 DEATH Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1544)
2nd of November 1618 DEATH Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (Born 1568)
2nd of November 1716 DEATH Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (Born 1651)
2nd of November 1807 DEATH Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (Born 1730)
2nd of November 1846 DEATH Esaias Tegner, Swedish writer, educator, and bishop (Born 1782)
2nd of November 1852 DEATH Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (Born 1782)
2nd of November 1863 DEATH Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (Born 1826)
2nd of November 1877 DEATH Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (Born 1784)
2nd of November 1887 DEATH Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (Born 1820)
2nd of November 1898 DEATH George Goyder, English surveyor (Born 1826)
2nd of November 1905 DEATH Albert von Kolliker, Swiss anatomist (Born 1817)
2nd of November 1935 DEATH Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (Born 1905)
2nd of November 1944 DEATH Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and inventor (Born 1889)
2nd of November 1945 DEATH Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (Born 1880)
2nd of November 1949 DEATH Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (Born 1872)
2nd of November 1950 DEATH George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1856)
2nd of November 1958 DEATH Jean Couzy, French mountaineer (Born 1923)
2nd of November 1959 DEATH Michael Considine, Australian politician (Born 1885)
2nd of November 1960 DEATH Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (Born 1896)
2nd of November 1961 DEATH James Thurber, American humorist (Born 1894)
2nd of November 1963 DEATH Ngo ?inh Diem, South Vietnamese politician (Born 1901)
2nd of November 1966 DEATH Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1884)
2nd of November 1966 DEATH Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer (Born 1892)
2nd of November 1970 DEATH Richard Cushing, cardinal and archbishop of Boston (Born 1895)
2nd of November 1971 DEATH Robert Mensah, Ghanaian Olympian and association football player(Born 1939)
2nd of November 1975 DEATH Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (Born 1922)
2nd of November 1979 DEATH Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (Born 1936)
2nd of November 1982 DEATH Lester Roloff, American religious personality (Born 1914)
2nd of November 1984 DEATH Velma Barfield, American convicted murderer (Born 1932)
2nd of November 1986 DEATH Paul Frees, American voice actor (Born 1920)
2nd of November 1991 DEATH Irwin Allen, American film producer (Born 1916)
2nd of November 1992 DEATH Hal Roach, American director and producer (Born 1892)
2nd of November 1996 DEATH Eva Cassidy, American singer (Born 1963)
2nd of November 1998 DEATH Vincent Winter, British actor (Born 1957)
2nd of November 2000 DEATH Robert Cormier, American author, columnist and reporter (Born 1925)
2nd of November 2002 DEATH Tonio Selwart, German actor (Born 1896)
2nd of November 2002 DEATH Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (Born 1935)
2nd of November 2003 DEATH Frank McCloskey, American politician (Born 1939)
2nd of November 2004 DEATH Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (Born 1951)
2nd of November 2004 DEATH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, United Arab Emiratesian politician (Born 1918)
2nd of November 2004 DEATH Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (Born 1957)
2nd of November 2005 DEATH Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and coach (Born 1919)
2nd of November 2007 DEATH Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (Born 1978)
2nd of November 2007 DEATH Witold Kie?tyka, Polish metal drummer (Born 1984)
2nd of November 2007 DEATH Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (Born 1906)
2nd of November 2007 DEATH Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (Born 1923)
2nd of November 2007 DEATH Henry Cele, South African actor (Born 1949)
2nd of November 2010 DEATH Andy Irons, American professional surfer (Born 1978)
2nd of November 2010 DEATH Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (Born 1924)