November 2 in History
What happened on November 2 in history?
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on november 2 in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened on november 2 in history.
?>2000
First resident crew arrives at the International Space Station.
1984
Serial killer Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the US since 1962.
1983
President Ronald Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.
1976
Jimmy (James Earl) Carter elected the 39th president of the United States.
1963
South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated.
1960
A British jury determines that Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence is not obscene.
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.
1948
Harry S Truman is elected the 33rd president of the United States.
1947
Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose flies for the first and last time.
1943
The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay in Bougainville ends in U.S. Navy victory over Japan.
1942
Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to set up an American command post for the invasion of North Africa.
1936
The first high-definition public television transmissions begin from Alexandra Palace in north London by the BBC.
1926
Air Commerce Act is passed, providing federal aid for airlines and airports.
1923
U.S. Navy aviator H.J. Brown sets new world speed record of 259 mph in a Curtiss racer.
1921
Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett form the American Birth Control League.
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.
1914
Russia declares war with Turkey.
1903
London’s Daily Mirror newspaper is first published.
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.
1889
North Dakota is made the 39th state.
1889
South Dakota is made the 40th state.
1882
Newly elected John Poe replaces Pat Garrett as sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory.
1880
James A. Garfield is elected the 20th president of the United States.
1869
Sheriff Wild Bill Hickok loses his re-election bid in Ellis County, Kan.
1841
The second Afghan War begins.
1789
The property of the church in France is taken away by the state.
1772
The first Committees of Correspondence are formed in Massachusetts under Samuel Adams.
1570
A tidal wave in the North Sea destroys the sea walls from Holland to Jutland. More than 1,000 people are killed.