This Day in History - November 2

November 2
971 – Mahmud of Ghazni is born
1570 – Over 1,000 are killed when a tidal wave in the North Sea destroys the sea walls from Holland to Jutland
1734 – American explorer, Daniel Boone, is born
1755 – Queen of France that was executed during the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette is born
1772 – The first Committees of Correspondence are formed under Samuel Adams
1777 – John Paul Jones sets sail towards the Irish Sea to begin raids on British warships during the Revolutionary War
1789 – The state takes the property of the church away in France
1795 – 11th President of the US, James Polk, is born
1841 – The second Afghan War begins
1861 – Controversial Union General John C. Fremont is replaced by David Hunter during the Civil War
1865 – 29th President of the US, Warren Harding, is born
1869 – Sheriff Wild Bill Hickok loses his re-election in Ellis County, Kansas
1880 – James Garfield becomes the 20th president of the US
1882 – John Poe replaces Pat Garrett as sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico
1885 – Astronomer who discovered the sun is not at the center of the galaxy, Harlow Shapley, is born
1889 – North Dakota is made the 39th state and South Dakota becomes the 40th
1892 – Lawmen use dynamite and cannon fire to force outlaws Ned Christie and Arch Wolf out of their hideaway cabin near Tahlequah, Indian Territory (Oklahoma)
1903 – London’s Daily Mirror newspaper is published for the first time
1906 – Film director, Luchino Visconti, is born
1912 – The XIT Ranch of Texas, once among the largest ranches in the world, sells its last head of cattle
1913 – Actor, Burt Lancaster, is born
1914 – Russia declares war on Turkey
1917 – British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour submits a document known as the Balfour Declaration, to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine
1920 – The first radio broadcast in the US is made
1920 – Charlotte Woodward casts her ballot in a presidential election, after having fought for women’s right to vote
1921 – The American Birth Control League is formed by Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett
1923 – A new world speed record (259 mph) is set in a Curtiss racer by US Navy aviator H.J. Brown
1926 – Air Commerce Act is passed, providing federal aid for airlines and airports
1929 – Nobel Prize-winning physicist who proved the existence of quark, Richard Taylor is born
1932 – Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his work on neutrinos, Melvin Schwartz, is born
1934 – Australian tennis player Ken Rosewall is born
1936 – First female Chief Justice of California and first Chief Justice in California history to be removed from office by voters, Rose Bird is born
1936 – The first high-definition public television transmission begins in North London by the BBC
1938 – American conservative political commentator, Pat Buchanan, is born
1938 – Lead singer of Jay and the Americans, Jay Black, is born
1938 – Queen Sofia of Spain is born
1942 – General Montgomery breaks through Rommel’s defensive line at El Alamein, Egypt, forcing a retreat. It was the beginning of the end of the Axis occupation of North Africa during World War II
1942 – Lieutenant General Dwight Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to set up an American command post for the invasion of North Africa
1943 – The US wins the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay in Bougainville
1947 – Howard Hughe’s Spruce Goose, the largest aircraft ever built, flies for the first and last time
1948 – Harry Truman becomes the 33rd president of the US after defeating Governor Thomas Dewey in the greatest upset in presidential election history
1949 – Author, Lois McMaster Bujold, is born
1950 – Nobel Prize winning writer, George Bernard Shaw, dies
1952 – Singer, Maxine Nightingale, is born
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 D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is not obscene
1961 – Grammy-winning Canadian pop and country singer, songwriter and activist k.d. lang is born
1963 – South Vietnamese, President Ngo Dinh Diem, is assassinated
1965 – Indian actor, Shahrukh Khan, is born
1966 – Actor, David Schwimmer, is born
1966 – Nobel Prize winning physicist and chemist, Peter Debye, dies
1967 – President Johnson holds a secret meeting with some of the nation’s most prestigious leaders, who were collectively called “the Wise Men,” to ask for advice concerning the Vietnam War. The group included former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, General of the Army Omar Bradley, Ambassador-at-Large Averell Harriman, and former Ambassador to South Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge
1972 – English actress, singer, and director, Samantha Womack, is born
1976 – Jimmy Carter is elected the 39th president of the US
1982 – A truck explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing around 3,000 people, but mostly Soviet soldiers traveling to Kabul
1983 – President Ronald Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
1984 – Velma Barfield, a rare female serial killer, becomes the first woman executed in the US since 1962
1989 – Gwendolyn Graham is sentenced to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole for killing five elderly female residents of the Alpine Manor Nursing Home near Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she worked as a nursing aid
2000 – The first resident crew arrives at the International Space Station
2004 – Dutch director, Theo van Gogh, dies
2007 – American wrestler, The Fabulous Moolah, dies

Written by Crystal McCann
Crystal is the Chief Operating Officer of Lanterns Media Network and the owner of Madisons Media. She lives in Texas with her husband and dogs and is the proud mother of two adult children.
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