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
- 1769 –Don Gaspar de Portolà leads the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay.
- 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
- 1882 –Oulu, Finland is devastated by the Great Oulu Fire of 1882
- 1909 –Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
- 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 –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.
- 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.
- 1960 –Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case
- 1964 –King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
- 1966 –The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
- 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.
- 1988 –The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
- 2000 –The first resident crew to the ISS docked in November 2nd on the Soyuz TM-31.
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