Historical Events and Current Affairs on November 2

1327 : King Alfonso IV of Arag?n crowned
1355 : English invasion army under king Edward lands at Calais
1418 : Utrecht conquerors Ijsselstein
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
1712 : Suriname govt gives French hijacker Jacques Cassard, Y682,800
1722 : Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland
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
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 : Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
1851 : Louis Napoleon takes power in France
1852 : Franklin Pierce elected as president of US
1854 : Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts
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 becomes 39th & South Dakota becomes 40th state
1892 : Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands
1898 : French government-Dupuy forms
1898 : Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem
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 : Russia declares war on Turkey
1914 : V Herbert & H Blossoms "Only Girl," premieres in NYC
1915 : 1st US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio
1916 : Ft Vaux, Verdun, reconquered by France
1917 : 1st US soldiers killed in combat in WW I
1917 : Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
1917 : Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan's privileges in China
1920 : KDKA (Pittsburgh) goes on air as 1st commercial radio station
1920 : Warren G Harding elected president
1921 : Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie," premieres in NYC
1922 : Allies deliberate over German mark
1922 : Australian Qantas airways begins service
1923 : Bloody street battles in Aken: pro-French separatists
1923 : Bloody street fights in Aken (pro-French separatists driven)
1923 : Stresemann's SPD-ministers in Germany, step down
1924 : Sunday Express publishes 1st British crossword puzzle
1928 : Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 1st Symphony, L Stokovski premieres in Phila
1930 : Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty
1931 : Warren, Dixon & Young's musical "Laugh Parade," premieres in NYC
1934 : Babe Ruth tours Tokyo Japan
1936 : 1st high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London
1938 : Babe Ruth applies for job of St Louis Browns' manager
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 H?rtgenwald
1947 : Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" flies for 1st (& last) time
1948 : Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters & newspapers
1948 : WJZ TV channel 13 in Baltimore, MD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 : Netherland recognizes Indonesia as a sovereign state
1949 : Textile/meat/cheese/rijstdistributie disbands
1950 : "Barrier" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
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 govt
1956 : Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion
1956 : Israel captures Gaza & Sheham
1957 : 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto Ohio
1959 : "Girls against the Boys" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 perfs
1959 : Charles Van Doren confesses, TV quiz show-"21," was fixed
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"
1961 : "Kean" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 92 performances
1961 : Max Frisch' "Andorra," premieres in Z?rich
1962 : JFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled
1963 : "Tambourines to Glory" opens at Little Theater NYC for 24 performances
1964 : CBS purchases 80% of Yanks for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20%
1964 : Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi Arabia
1966 : KHSD TV channel 11 in Lead, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 : "Her First Roman" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 17 perfs
1969 : St L Charlie Johnson pass for 6 touchdowns each
1970 : Cleve Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Phila 141-87)
1971 : "Great Harp" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 7 performances
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
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
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 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
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 Shaffers musical "Amadeus," premieres in London
1981 : B A Skiff discovers asteroid #2525 O'Steen, 2588 Flavia, #3434 & #7863
1981 : E Bowell discovers asteroid #5049 Sherlock
1982 : Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die
1983 : Abp Hickey conducts papal investigation of Abp Hunthausen, Seattle
1983 : Pres Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L King day
1984 : France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 : T Seki discovers asteroid #4439 Muroto
1985 : Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge
1986 : 16th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:06
1987 : Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple schlerosis
1987 : Harrison releases "Cloud 9" & McCartney releases "All the Best"
1988 : 1st Mrs America beauty pageant
1988 : Computers virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab & 6 universities
1988 : Mexican radio station erronously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash
1988 : S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #4454 Kumiko, #6003 & #6297
1989 : "Meet Me in St Louis" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 253 perfs
1991 : Jermaine Jackson releases "Word to the Badd!!" anti Michael song
1991 : Nevada makes biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a
1991 : Smartly, Miss Alleged, Opening Verse, Pleasant Stage, Sheikh Albadou
1992 : 1st test flight of Airbus A330
1993 : 1st commemorative bricks are laid at Bob Feller Memorial
1993 : Actor Roger Moore (James Bond) has his enlarge 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 : Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam

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