November 2

November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining.

Events

• 676 - Donus[?] becomes Pope
• 1772 - Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren[?] form the first Committee of Correspondence
• 1889 - North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
• 1917 - Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for Jewish settlement in Palestine
• 1947 - The Spruce Goose flies for the only time
• 1960 - Penguin Books[?] is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case
• 1988 - The Morris Worm is released over the Internet

Births

• 1667 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (+ 1737)
• 1699 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (+ 1779)
• 1734 - Daniel Boone, frontiersman (+ 1830)
• 1755 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (+ 1793)
• 1795 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (+ 1849)
• 1815 - George Boole, mathematician and philosopher
• 1844 - Mehmed V, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (+ 1918)
• 1865 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (+ 1923)
• 1913 - Burt Lancaster, actor (+ 1994)
• 1914 - Ray Walston, actor (+ 2001)
• 1927 - Steve Ditko, artist
• 1938 - Pat Buchanan, journalist, politician
• 1942 - Shere Hite[?], author
• 1942 - Stefanie Powers[?], actress
• 1961 - k. d. lang[?], singer
• 1971 - Daniel C. Boyer, artist

Deaths

• 1944 - Thomas Midgley, chemist and inventor
• 1950 - George Bernard Shaw, playwright
• 1963 - Ngo Dihn Diem[?], president of South Vietnam
• 1966 - Peter Debye, chemist
• 1975 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director
• 1986 - Desi Arnaz, musician, actor
• 1986 - Paul Frees[?], voice actor
• 1992 - Hal Roach[?], director, producer, dies at 100
• 2002 - Tonio Selwart, actor and Broadway star, dies at 106

Holidays and observances

• Catholicism - All Souls Day
• Ancient Latvia - Dveselu Diena held
• Rastafarianism - The coronation of Haile Selassie celebrated

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