02 November History


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  • 1570    -    A tidal wave in the North Sea destroys the sea walls from Holland to Jutland. More than 1,000 people are killed.
  • 1772    -    The first Committees of Correspondence are formed in Massachusetts under Samuel Adams.
  • 1789    -    The property of the church in France is taken away by the state.
  • 1841    -    The second Afghan War begins.
  • 1869    -    Sheriff Wild Bill Hickok loses his re-election bid in Ellis County, Kan.
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  • 1880    -    James A. Garfield is elected the 20th president of the United States.
  • 1882    -    Newly elected John Poe replaces Pat Garrett as sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory.
  • 1889    -    North Dakota is made the 39th state.
  • 1889    -    South Dakota is made the 40th state.
  • 1892    -    Lawmen surround outlaws Ned Christie and Arch Wolf near Tahlequah, Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). It will take dynamite and a cannon to dislodge the two from their cabin.
  • 1903    -    London's Daily Mirror newspaper is first published.
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  • 1914    -    Russia declares war with Turkey.
  • 1920    -    The first radio broadcast in the United States is made from Pittsburgh.
  • 1920    -    Charlotte Woodward, who signed the 1848 Seneca Falls Declaration calling for female voting rights, casts her ballot in a presidential election.
  • 1921    -    Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett form the American Birth Control League.
  • 1923    -    U.S. Navy aviator H.J. Brown sets new world speed record of 259 mph in a Curtiss racer.
  • 1926    -    Air Commerce Act is passed, providing federal aid for airlines and airports.
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  • 1936    -    The first high-definition public television transmissions begin from Alexandra Palace in north London by the BBC.
  • 1942    -    Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to set up an American command post for the invasion of North Africa.
  • 1943    -    The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay in Bougainville ends in U.S. Navy victory over Japan.
  • 1947    -    Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for the first and last time.
  • 1948    -    Harry S Truman is elected the 33rd president of the United States.
  • 1959    -    Charles Van Doren confesses that the TV quiz show "21" is fixed and that he had been given the answers to the questions asked him.
  • 1960    -    A British jury determines that Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence is not obscene.
  • 1963    -    South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated.
  • 1976    -    Jimmy (James Earl) Carter elected the 39th president of the United States.
  • 1983    -    President Ronald Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.

  • 02 November Birthdays

  • 1734    -    Daniel Boone, American frontiersman and explorer.
  • 1755    -    Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, executed during the French Revolution.
  • 1795    -    James Polk, 11th president of the United States (1845-49).
  • 1865    -    Warren G. Harding, 29th president of the United States (1921-23).
  • 1885    -    Harlow Shapley, astronomer who discovered the Sun is not at the center of the galaxy.
  • 1906    -    Luchino Visconti, film director (Obsession, Death in Venice).
  • 1913    -    Burt Lancaster, American film actor.
  • 1929    -    Richard Taylor, Nobel Prize-winning physicist who proved the existence of quarks.
  • 1932    -    Melvin Schwartz, physicist who won the Nobel Prize for work on neutrinos.