Today in History
2 November
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2 November |
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| 1327 King Alfonso IV of Aragon crowned | ||
| 1355 English invasion army under king Edward lands at Calais | ||
| 1418 Utrecht conquerors Ijsselstein | ||
| 1483 Britain's Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, was beheaded at Salisbury for his rebellion against King Richard III. | ||
| 1532 Zealand/South Holland flooded | ||
| 1642 2nd battle at Breitenfeld Saksen: Sweden beat Ferdinand III | ||
| 1648 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia | ||
| 1709 Anna van Hannover, English princess/duchess of Brunswick-Luneburg was born | ||
| 1712 Suriname govt gives French hijacker Jacques Cassard, Ÿ682,800 | ||
| 1721 Peter I was proclaimed Emperor of all the Russias. | ||
| 1722 Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland | ||
| 1734 Daniel Boone, frontiersman/explorer (US Hall of Fame-1915) was born | ||
| 1749 English Ohio Trade Company forms 1st trade post | ||
| 1772 Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms | ||
| 1783 Gen Washington bids farewell to his army | ||
| 1785 London coachbuilder Lionel Lukin patented the first lifeboat | ||
| 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen Jackson vs indians | ||
| 1813 Treaty of Fulda | ||
| 1824 Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J Q Adams | ||
| 1835 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola | ||
| 1841 Following the British occupation of Kabul, Afghans revolted and murdered Sir Alexander Burnes and 23 others heralding the start of the second Afghan War. | ||
| 1841 Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan | ||
| 1851 Louis Napoleon takes power in France | ||
| 1852 Franklin Pierce elected as president of US | ||
| 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 president | ||
| 1881 Dutch New-Malthusiaanse Union forms | ||
| 1889 North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted to the Union as the 39th and 40th states. | ||
| 1892 Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands | ||
| 1898 Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem | ||
| 1899 Boers begin siege of Ladysmith Natal | ||
| 1904 British newspaper, "Daily Mirror," begins publishing | ||
| 1906 Luchino Visconti, Milan Italy, director (Damned, Death in Venice) was born | ||
| 1907 Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published | ||
| 1914 Great Britain annexes Cyprus | ||
| 1914 Russia declares war on Turkey | ||
| 1917 1st US soldiers killed in combat in WW I | ||
| 1917 Arthur James Balfour, British foreign secretary, submitted a declaration of intent, known as the Balfour Declaration, to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine | ||
| 1917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan's privileges in China | ||
| 1922 Allies deliberate over German mark | ||
| 1922 Australian Qantas airways begins service | ||
| 1923 Bloody street battles in Aken: pro-French separatists | ||
| 1924 Sunday Express publishes 1st British crossword puzzle | ||
| 1930 Haile Selassie was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia | ||
| 1934 Babe Ruth tours Tokyo Japan | ||
| 1936 The first public high definition television service was inaugurated by the BBC at Alexander Palace on this day using 240 and 405 lines. | ||
| 1938 Hungary annexed southern Slovakia following the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia at the Munich agreement in September. | ||
| 1941 German troops occupy Rostov | ||
| 1942 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir | ||
| 1942 Montgomery (Br) defeats Rommel (G) in battle of Alamein Egypt (WW II) | ||
| 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 Hortgenwald | ||
| 1947 The Hughes H-4 Hercules, an eight-engine flying boat, built by Howard Hughes, made its one and only flight of just over a mile in Los Angeles harbor. | ||
| 1948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters & newspapers | ||
| 1949 Netherland recognizes Indonesia as a sovereign state | ||
| 1949 Textile/meat/cheese/rijstdistributie disbands | ||
| 1953 Pakistan's parliament declared the country "the Islamic Republic of Pakistan." | ||
| 1954 Taiwan & US sign military pact | ||
| 1955 Clarton-Schwerdt & Schaffer discover polio virus | ||
| 1955 David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli govt | ||
| 1956 Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion | ||
| 1956 Israel captures Gaza & Sheham | ||
| 1957 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto Ohio | ||
| 1964 King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed and replaced by Prince Faisal. | ||
| 1976 Jimmy Carter was elected 39th U.S. President, defeating Gerald Ford. He was the first president from Georgia. | ||
| 1978 Two Soviet cosmonauts returned to Earth from the Salyut 6 space station after setting a new endurance record of 139 days, 14 hours. | ||
| 1982 Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die | ||
| 1987 Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple schlerosis | ||
| 1988 Computers virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab & 6 universities | ||
| 1993 Ehud Olmert elected mayor of Jerusalem | ||
| 1994 Benzine explosion in Dronka Egypt, 400+ killed | ||
| 1995 The Argentine Supreme Court ordered the extradition to Italy of former SS captain Erich Priebke to face trial for a World War II massacre of prisoners in the Ardeatine Caves. | ||
| 1997 Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam | ||