About November 2

November 2, 2024 is the 307th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 59 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 88 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On November 2

  • 1410 –
    The Peace of Bicêtre between the Armagnac and Burgundian factions is signed.
  • 1772 –
    American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.
  • 1783 –
    In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his “Farewell Address to the Army”.
  • 1795 –
    The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.
  • 1889 –
    North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
  • 1895 –
    The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000
  • 1899 –
    The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
  • 1909 –
    Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
  • 1920 –
    In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
  • 1930 –
    Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
  • 1936 –
    Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
  • 1936 –
    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
  • 1940 –
    World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
  • 1947 –
    In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
  • 1949 –
    The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
  • 1960 –
    Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case
  • 1965 –
    Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
  • 1967 –
    Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and “The Wise Men” conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
  • 1984 –
    Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
  • 2007 –
    50,000–100,000 people demonstrate against the Georgian government in Tbilisi.

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