About November 2
November 2, 2023 is the 306th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 59 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 100 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.
- 1570 –A tsunami in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1,000 people.
- 1772 –American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.
- 1783 –In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his “Farewell Address to the Army”.
- 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
- 1917 –The 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 existing non-Jewish communities”.
- 1920 –In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
- 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.
- 1936 –The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
- 1940 –World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1960 –Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case
- 1964 –King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
- 1965 –Norman 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.
- 1967 –Vietnam 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.
- 2000 –The first resident crew to the ISS docked in November 2nd on the Soyuz TM-31.
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