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This day in history: 2 November

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325 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 2 November.
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2022: A peace agreement is signed between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front, ending the Tigray War.

Holidays and observances

All Souls' Day (Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Communion)

Arrival of Indentured Labourers (Mauritius)

Christian feast day: Agapius and companions

Christian feast day: Domninus of Vienne

Christian feast day: Erc of Slane (Ireland)

Christian feast day: Justus of Trieste

Christian feast day: November 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Victorinus of Pettau

Coronation of Haile Selassie (Rastafari)

Day of the Dead, the second day of Day of the Dead or El Dia de los Muertos celebration (Mexico)

Dziady (Belarus)

International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists (United Nations)

Events

2022A peace agreement is signed between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front, ending the Tigray War.

2020In Vienna's Innere Stadt district, an ISIL sympathizer shoots and kills four people and injures 23 more, before being shot and killed by the police.

2016The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.

2008Lewis Hamilton secured his maiden Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by one point ahead of Felipe Massa at the Brazilian Grand Prix, after a pass for fifth place against the Toyota of Timo Glock on the final lap of the race.

2000Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for the first long-duration stay onboard. From this day to present, a continuous human presence in space on the station remains uninterrupted.

1999Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.

1997Tropical Storm Linda makes landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.

1990British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.

1988LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703 crashes in Białobrzegi, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland, killing one person and injuring several more.

1988The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.

1986Lebanon hostage crisis: U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.

1984Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.

1983U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

1982Channel 4, the British free-to-air public broadcast television channel funded by its commercial activities, starts broadcasting.

1973Aeroflot Flight 19 is hijacked and diverted to Vnukovo International Airport, where the aircraft is stormed by authorities.

1967Vietnam 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.

1966The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.

1965Norman 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.

1964King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.

1963South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.

1960Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.

1959Quiz 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.

1959The 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.

1956Hungarian Revolution: Nikita Khrushchev meets with leaders of other Communist countries to seek their advice on the situation in Hungary, selecting János Kádár as the country's next leader on the advice of Josip Broz Tito.

1956Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.

1951Canada in the Korean War: A platoon of The Royal Canadian Regiment defends a vital area against a full battalion of Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours the next day.

1949The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.

1947In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built until Scaled Composites rolled out their Stratolaunch in M

1940World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.

1936The BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service begins. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.

1920In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.

1920The Ocoee massacre commences in Orange County, Florida on the day of the 1920 United States presidential election.

1917The 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 e

1917The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.

1914World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles is subsequently closed.

1912Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.

1899The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

1889North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

1882The great fire destroys a large part of Oulu's city center in Oulu Province, Finland.

1868Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.

Born on this day

2001Moisés Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer

1999Park Woo-jin, South Korean singer

1998Jordan Love, American football player

1997Davis Keillor-Dunn, English footballer

1997Filip Hronek, Czech ice hockey player

1995Hanna Öberg, Swedish biathlete

1994Shaq Coulthirst, English footballer

1991Jimmy Garoppolo, American football player

1990Christopher Dibon, Austrian footballer

1990Kendall Schmidt, American singer, songwriter, and actor

1989Luke Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player

1989Natalie Pluskota, American tennis player

1989Tibor Pleiß, German basketball player

1988Julia Görges, German tennis player

1988Lisa Bowman, Irish netball player

1987Danny Cipriani, English rugby player

1986Andy Rautins, American-Canadian basketball player

1985Danny Amendola, American football player

1983Darren Young, American wrestler

1983Ebonette Deigaeruk, Nauruan weightlifter

1982Charles Itandje, French footballer

1982Yunel Escobar, Cuban-American baseball player

1981Esha Deol is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi films.

1981Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress

1981Miryo, South Korean rapper

1981Mitchell Johnson, Australian cricketer

1981Monica Iozzi, Brazilian actress

1981Rafael Márquez Lugo, Mexican footballer

1981Roddy White, American football player

1980Amos Roberts, Australian rugby player

1980Diego Lugano, Uruguayan footballer

1979Anna Sobolak, Polish politician and businessperson

1979Simone Puleo, Italian footballer

1978Carmen Cali, American baseball player

1977Konstantinos Economidis, Greek tennis player

1977Leon Taylor, English diver and sportscaster

1977Reshma Shetty, British-American actress

1977Rodney Buford, American basketball player

1976Matt Cullen, American ice hockey player

1976Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player

Died on this day

2024Alan Rachins, American actor (born 1942)

2024Janey Godley, Scottish actor, writer and comedian (born 1961)

2024Paul Stephenson, British civil rights activist (born 1937)

2023Humaira Himu, Bangladeshi actress (born 1985)

2022Atilio Stampone, Argentine pianist and composer (born 1926)

2021Neal Smith, American politician (born 1920)

2019Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican television personality, astrologer, actor, and dancer (born 1932)

2018Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer (born 1927)

2017Aboubacar Somparé, Guinean politician (born 1944)

2015Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, Polish painter, historian, and academic (born 1924)

2015Mike Davies, Welsh-American tennis player and businessman (born 1936)

2015Roy Dommett, English scientist and engineer (born 1933)

2015Tommy Overstreet, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)

2014Acker Bilk, English singer and clarinet player (born 1929)

2014Herman Sarkowsky, German-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Seattle Seahawks (born 1925)

2014Michael Coleman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1956)

2014Shabtai Teveth, Israeli historian and author (born 1925)

2014Veljko Kadijević, Croatian general and politician, 5th Federal Secretary of People's Defence (born 1925)

2013Clifford Nass, American author and academic (born 1958)

2013Ghislaine Dupont, French journalist (born 1956)

2013Kjell Qvale, Norwegian-American businessman (born 1919)

2013Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (born 1939)

2012Han Suyin, Chinese-Swiss physician and author (born 1916)

2012Joe Ginsberg, American baseball player (born 1926)

2012Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, Indian politician (born 1957)

2012Pino Rauti, Italian journalist and politician (born 1926)

2012Robert Morton Duncan, American soldier and judge (born 1927)

2012Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, Indian-American mathematician and academic (born 1930)

2011Boots Plata, Filipino director and screenwriter (born 1943)

2010Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (born 1924)

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