About November 2

November 2, 2020 is the 307th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 59 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

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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 102 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.
  • 1769 –
    Don Gaspar de Portolà leads the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay.
  • 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.
  • 1909 –
    Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
  • 1914 –
    Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
  • 1936 –
    Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1953 –
    The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
  • 1963 –
    South Vietnamese President Ngô Ðình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
  • 1964 –
    King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
  • 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.
  • 1973 –
    The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a ‘United Front’in the state of Tripura.
  • 1984 –
    Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
  • 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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