About November 2
November 2, 2025 is the 306th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 59 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 107 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 2
- 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.
- 1795 –The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.
- 1868 –Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
- 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.
- 1930 –Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
- 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.
- 1953 –The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
- 1957 –The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2007 –50,000–100,000 people demonstrate against the Georgian government in Tbilisi.
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