2 November

The 2t o November is the 306t day o the year (307t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 59 days bidin.

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Events

1889: Banner o North Dakota

1889: Current Banner o Sooth Dakota

2000: Internaitional Space Station

• 1502 – Christopher Columbus reaches present-day Panama.
• 1852 – Franklin Pierce is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
• 1880 – James A. Garfield is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
• 1889 – North Dakota an Sooth Dakota becomes the 39nt an 40t states o the Unitit States.
• 1914 – Warld War I: Roushie declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1917 – Arthur Balfour issues the Balfour Declaration, proclaimin Breetish support for Jewish settlement in Palestine.
• 1920 – Warren G. Harding is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
• 1930 – Alfred Wegener is seen alive for the last time, on a expedeetion in Greenland.
• 1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned as Emperor o Ethiopie.
• 1936 – The BBC stairts telly braidcastin.
• 1948 – Harry S. Truman is electit Preses o the Unitit States in his aen richt.
• 1963 – Sooth Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinatit.
• 1964 – Keeng Saud o Saudi Arabie is deposed.
• 1967 – Winnie Ewing o the Scots Naitional Pairty wins the Wastmeenster by-election in Hamilton, Scotland.
• 1976 – Jimmy Carter is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
• 1982 – Channel 4 stairts on Breetish telly.
• 2000 – The Internaitional Space Station enters intae orbit around the yird.
• 2004 – George W. Bush is re-electit Preses o the Unitit States.
• 2008 – Lewis Hamilton wins the Formula Ane championship for the first time.
• 2017 – The discovery o a previously unkent species o orangutan is propaled, the "Tapanuli".
• 2019 – Sooth Africae wins the Rugby union Warld Cup for a thrid time, defeatin Ingland 32-12 in Tokyo, Japan.
• 2019 – Dresden declares a "Nazi State o Emergency" in relation tae far-richt activities in the ceety.

Births

Marie Antoinette

Peter Mullan

• 1470 – Edward V o Ingland (d. 1483)
• 1549 – Anna o Austrick, Queen o Spain an Portugal (d. 1580)
• 1734 – Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (d. 1820)
• 1755 – Marie Antoinette, Austrick-born Queen Consort o Fraunce (d. 1793)
• 1766 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Czech-Austrick nobleman an general (d. 1858)
• 1767 – Prince Edward, Duke o Kent an Strathearn (d. 1820)
• 1795 – James K. Polk, 11t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1849)
• 1815 – George Boole, Inglis mathemateecian, philosopher an logician (d. 1864)
• 1844 – Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
• 1865 – Warren G. Harding, 29nt Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1923)
• 1881 – Tom Johnston, Scots politeecian (d. 1965)
• 1888 – Scott Duncan, Scots fitbawer (d. 1976)
• 1906 – Luchino Visconti, Italian film director an screenwriter (d. 1976)
• 1911 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1929 – Richard E. Taylor, Canadian pheesicist (d. 2018)
• 1932 – Melvin Schwartz, American pheesicist (d. 2006)
• 1938 – Queen Sofia o Spain
• 1959 – Peter Mullan, Scots actor an filmmakker
• 1961 – k.d. lang, Canadian sangster
• 1961 – Mark Strange, Scots bishop
• 1963 – Borut Pahor, Slovenie politeecian, 4t Preses o Slovenie
• 1965 – Shah Rukh Khan, Indian actor
• 1966 – David Schwimmer, American actor, director, an producer
• 1967 – Scott Walker, American politeecian
• 1974 – Nelly, American rapper
• 1985 – Paul Masterton, Scots politeecian

Daiths

• 1773 – John Glas, Scots clergyman (b. 1695)
• 1874 – Thomas Anderson, Scots chemist (b. 1819)
• 1887 – Jenny Lind, Swadish soprano (b. 1820)
• 1919 – Bobby Templeton, Scots fitbawer (b. 1880)
• 1950 – George Bernard Shaw, Erse writer (b. 1856)
• 1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnamese politeecian, 1st Preses o the Republic o Vietnam (b. 1901)
• 1966 – Peter Debye, Dutch-American pheesicist an chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1975 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)
• 1997 – Harold Plenderleith, Scots airt conservator an airchaeologist (b. 1898)
• 2004 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (b. 1957)
• 2007 – Alan Lyell, Scots dermatologist (b. 1917)

Halidays

Day o the Dead altar in Mexico

• Aa Sowels' Day
• Day o the Dead (Mexico)
• Statehood Day (North Dakota an Sooth Dakota)

Ootside airtins

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