About November 2

November 2, 2024 is the 307th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 59 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 88 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On November 2

  • 1410 –
    The Peace of Bicêtre between the Armagnac and Burgundian factions is signed.
  • 1769 –
    Don Gaspar de Portolà leads the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay.
  • 1861 –
    American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
  • 1868 –
    Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
  • 1882 –
    Oulu, Finland is devastated by the Great Oulu Fire of 1882
  • 1895 –
    The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000
  • 1899 –
    The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
  • 1909 –
    Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
  • 1936 –
    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.
  • 1947 –
    In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
  • 1949 –
    The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
  • 1957 –
    The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.
  • 1959 –
    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.
  • 1959 –
    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
  • 1960 –
    Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case
  • 1963 –
    South Vietnamese President Ngô Ðình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
  • 1973 –
    The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a ‘United Front’in the state of Tripura.
  • 1983 –
    U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
  • 1988 –
    The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
  • 2000 –
    The first resident crew to the ISS docked in November 2nd on the Soyuz TM-31.

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