About November 2
November 2, 2021 is the 306th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 59 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 91 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 2
- 1570 –A tsunami in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1,000 people.
- 1675 –King Philip’s War: A combined effort by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts.
- 1769 –Don Gaspar de Portolà leads the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay.
- 1795 –The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.
- 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.
- 1914 –Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 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 –Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
- 1936 –The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
- 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
- 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.
- 1974 –78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
- 1988 –The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
- 2007 –50,000–100,000 people demonstrate against the Georgian government in Tbilisi.
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