About November 2

November 2, 2025 is the 306th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 59 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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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 107 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On November 2

  • 1675 –
    King Philip’s War: A combined effort by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts.
  • 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.
  • 1868 –
    Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
  • 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.
  • 1914 –
    Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
  • 1917 –
    The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the “establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” with the clear understanding “that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities”.
  • 1936 –
    The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world’s first regular, “high-definition” (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
  • 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.
  • 1953 –
    The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
  • 1957 –
    The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.
  • 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.
  • 1973 –
    The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a ‘United Front’in the state of Tripura.
  • 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.
  • 1984 –
    Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
  • 2000 –
    The first resident crew to the ISS docked in November 2nd on the Soyuz TM-31.
  • 2007 –
    50,000–100,000 people demonstrate against the Georgian government in Tbilisi.

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