On this day: 2 November
Events, births and deaths on 2 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
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Within 100 years of that
- 971 · Births · Mahmud of Ghazni
- 1083 · Deaths · Matilda of Flanders
- 1082 · Births · Emperor Huizong of Song
Events · 24
- 18801880 United States presidential election — 24th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 1882great Oulu fire of 1882 — fire in Oulu, Finland on 2–3 November 1882
- 1889South Dakota — state of the United States of America
- 1889North Dakota — state of the United States of America
- 1899Siege of Ladysmith — 1899-1900 siege of the Second Boer War
- 1917Balfour Declaration — public statement written by Arthur Balfour issued by the British government in 1917 in support of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine then an Ottoman region
- 1917Lansing–Ishii Agreement — 1917 agreement between Japan and the United States
- 19201920 United States presidential election — 34th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 1920KDKA — news/talk radio station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- 1936BBC One — flagship television channel of the BBC
- 1936Canadian Broadcasting Corporation — Canadian public broadcaster
- 1940Battle of Elaia–Kalamas — 1940 battle of the Greco-Italian War
- 1949Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference — 1949 Dutch recognition of Indonesian independence
- 1963arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem — event that culminated the 1963 South Vietnam coup d'état
- 1973Aeroflot Flight 19 — airliner hijacking
- 1982Channel 4 — British public-service television broadcaster; TV channel
- 1983Martin Luther King Jr. Day — U.S. holiday, 3rd Monday of January
- 1988Morris worm — one of the first computer worms distributed over the Internet
- 1988LOT Flight 703 — aviation accident
- 19941994 Dronka lightning strike — weather phenomenon in Egypt
- 2000Expedition 1 — First long-duration human stay aboard the International Space Station
- 20082008 Brazilian Grand Prix — Formula One motor race
- 20202020 Vienna attacks — series of terrorist incidents in Austria
- 2022Ethiopia–Tigray peace agreement — peace treaty signed in 2022
Births · 60
- 971(Julian date)Mahmud of Ghazni — Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire from 998 to 1030
- 1082(Julian date)Emperor Huizong of Song — emperor of the Song Dynasty (1082-1135)
- 1154(Julian date)Costanza I of Sicily — Queen of Sicily
- 1470(Julian date)Edward V of England — king of England in 1483 (1470-1483)
- 1549(Julian date)Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain — queen consort of Spain (1549-1580)
- 1699Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin — painter from France (1699-1779)
- 1709Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange — British princess (1709-1759); eldest daughter of George II (1709–1759)
- 1734Daniel Boone — American pioneer and frontiersman (1734–1820)
- 1755Marie Antoinette — last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution (1755–1793)
- 1766Joseph Radetzky von Radetz — Czech nobleman and Austrian general (1766-1858)
- 1795James K. Polk — President of the United States from 1845 to 1849 (1795–1849)
- 1808Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly — French writer (1808-1889)
- 1815
- 1844Mehmed V — 35th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1909–1918)
- 1847Georges Sorel — French philosopher and sociologist
- 1865Warren G. Harding — president of the United States from 1921 to 1923
- 1877Aga Khan III — 48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community (1877-1957)
- 1885Harlow Shapley — American astronomer (1885-1972)
- 1890Moa Martinson — Swedish writer (1890–1964)
- 1892Alice Brady — American actress (1892–1939)
- 1901James Dunn — actor, Vaudeville performer (1901–1967)
- 1906Luchino Visconti — Italian director (1906–1976)
- 1911Odysseas Elytis — Greek poet and art critic (1911–1996)
- 1913Burt Lancaster — American actor (1913–1994)
- 1914Ray Walston — American actor (1914–2001)
Deaths · 60
- 1083(Julian date)Matilda of Flanders — wife of William the Conqueror and Queen consort of the Kingdom of England
- 1148(Julian date)Saint Malachy — Irish archbishop (1094-1148)
- 1261(Julian date)Bettisia Gozzadini — Italian legal academic
- 1483(Julian date)Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham — English nobleman (1455-1483)
- 1521Margaret of Lorraine — French duchess
- 1585Tachibana Dōsetsu — daimyo (1513-1585)
- 1610Richard Bancroft — British Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1618Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria — Austrian archduke (1558-1618)
- 1807Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil — French diplomat (1730-1807)
- 1887Jenny Lind — Swedish opera singer (1820–1887)
- 1887Alfred Domett — Prime Minister of New Zealand (1811-1887)
- 1905Albert von Kölliker — Swiss anatomist, physiologist (1817–1905)
- 1930Viggo Jensen — Danish sportsman (1874–1930)
- 1930Oliver Perry Hay — American paleontologist (1846–1930)
- 1936Duan Qirui — Chinese warlord and politician (1865-1936)
- 1942Hakushū Kitahara — Japanese tanka poet (1885–1942)
- 1944Thomas Midgley — American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
- 1945Hélène de Pourtalès — Swiss sailor (1868–1945)
- 1950George Bernard Shaw — Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
- 1952Mehmet Esat Bülkat — Turkish military officer and statesperson (1862–1952)
- 1960Otoya Yamaguchi — Japanese ultranationalist who assassinated Inejiro Asanuma (1943–1960)
- 1960Dimitri Mitropoulos — Greek and American conductor (1896–1960)
- 1961James Thurber — American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright (1894–1961)
- 1961Harriet Bosse — Swedish–Norwegian actress (1878-1961)
- 1961Salman II of Bahrain — Ruler of Bahrain (1894–1961)
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