november 2
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This Day in History for 2nd November
1355 - English invasion army under king Edward lands at Calais
1648 - 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia
1783 - General George Washington, later 1st American President, bids farewell to his army after the American Revolutionary War
1824 - Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Andrew Jackson beats J Q Adams
1841 - Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
1852 - Franklin Pierce (barbara pierce/bush) elected as president of US
1861 - American Civil War: Western Department unlon General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
1880 - James A Garfield (R) elected 20th American President
1889 - North Dakota becomes 39th & South Dakota becomes 40th state
1898 - Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem
1898 - Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
1904 - British newspaper, "Daily Mirror," begins publishing
1907 - Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published
1913 - St Louis Browns mgr George Stovall is 1st to jump to Federal League
1914 - Great Britain annexes Cyprus
1914 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1915 - 1st US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio
1917 - 1st US soldiers killed in combat in WW I
1917 - Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
1917 - Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan's privileges in China
1920 - KDKA (Pittsburgh) goes on air as 1st commercial radio station
Warren G Harding elected 29th president
1922 - Allies deliberate over German mark
1923 - Stresemann's SPD-ministers in Germany, step down
1931 - The DuPont Company of Wilmington, DE announced the first synthetic rubber. It was known as DuPrene.
1934 - Babe Ruth tours Tokyo, Japan
1936 - 1st high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London
1936 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
1941 - German troops occupy Rostov
1942 - 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir
1942 - Britian under Montgomery defeats German forces under Rommel in battle of Alamein Egypt (WW II)
1943 - Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed
1944 - Auschwitz begins gassing inmates
1944 - Canadian troops occupy Knokke
1944 - US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1947 - Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" flies for 1st (& last) time
1948 - Pres Harry Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey
1948 - WJZ TV channel 13 in Baltimore, MD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Pakistan becomes islamic republic
1954 - Charles C Diggs Jr elected Michigan's 1st black congressman
1954 - JS Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC)
1954 - Taiwan & US sign military pact
1955 - Clarton-Schwerdt & Schaffer discover polio virus
1955 - David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
1955 - The first pop song by Julie London appeared on the charts. London’s smoky and sultry rendition of "Cry Me a River" stayed on the pop chart for five months, reaching as high as #9. Julie was Mrs. Jack Webb (Dragnet) and Mrs. Bobby Troup (songwriter, trumpeter).
1956 - Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion
1956 - Israel captures Gaza & Sheham
1957 - 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto Ohio
1957 - The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
1959 - Charles Van Doren confesses, TV quiz show-"21," was fixed
1964 - Faisal succeeds Saud as king of Saudi Arabia
1966 - KHSD TV channel 11 in Lead, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 - The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
1968 - Another biggie for Stevie Wonder went on sale. "For Once in My Life" reached #2 on the pop charts on December 28, 1968.
1969 - NFL record of 12 passing touchdowns, New Orleans Billy Kilmer & St L Charlie Johnson pass for 6 touchdowns each
1972 - Construction begins on Kingdome, Seattle
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1974 - The first of the former Beatles to try a nationwide concert tour was in Los Angeles, appearing at the Forum. Unfortunately, only half the house was filled to see George Harrison. He stopped touring soon thereafter.
1974 - "So Far", the album by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, rose to #1 in the U.S. The tracks: "Deja Vu", "Helplessly Hoping", "Wooden Ships", "Teach Your Children", "Ohio", "Find the Cost of Freedom", "Woodstock", "Our House", "Helpless", "Guinnevere" and "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes".
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.
1976 - Jimmy Carter (D) defeats Gerald Ford (R) for president
1976 - NJ voters approve gambling for Atlantic City
1978 - Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
1978 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die
1983 - President Reagan signs bill establishing Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday
1984 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 - Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1987 - George Harrison releases "Cloud 9" & McCartney releases "All the Best"
1988 - Computers virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab & 6 universities
1988 - The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
1990 - 1st NBA game at Target Center, Minn Timberwolves beat Mavericks 98-85
1992 - 1st test flight of Airbus A330
1993 - 1st commemorative bricks are laid at Bob Feller Memorial
1993 - Actor Roger Moore (James Bond) has his enlarge prostate removed
1993 - Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of NJ
1993 - Dow Jones hits record 3697.64
1993 - Ehud Olmert elected mayor of Jerusalem
1993 - Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th mayor of NYC
1994 - Benzine explosion in Dronka Egypt, 400+ killed
1997 - 28th NYC Marathon won by John Kagwe of Kenya in 2:08:12
2000 - The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.