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.
- 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
- 1889 –North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 1940 –World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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