November 2


November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining.

Events

   * 676 - Donus becomes Pope
   * 1772 - Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of
     Correspondence
   * 1889 - North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S.
     states.
   * 1917 - Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for Jewish
     settlement in Palestine
   * 1947 - The Spruce Goose flies for the only time
   * 1960 - Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady
     Chatterley's Lover case
   * 1988 - The Morris Worm is released over the Internet

Births

   * 1667 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (+ 1737)
   * 1699 - Jean-Baptiste-SimŽon Chardin, French painter (+ 1779)
   * 1734 - Daniel Boone, frontiersman (+ 1830)
   * 1755 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (+ 1793)
   * 1795 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (+ 1849)
   * 1815 - George Boole, mathematician and philosopher
   * 1844 - Mehmed V, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (+ 1918)
   * 1865 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (+ 1923)
   * 1913 - Burt Lancaster, actor (+ 1994)
   * 1914 - Ray Walston, actor (+ 2001)
   * 1927 - Steve Ditko, artist
   * 1938 - Pat Buchanan, journalist, politician
   * 1942 - Shere Hite, author
   * 1942 - Stefanie Powers, actress
   * 1961 - k. d. lang, singer

Deaths

   * 1944 - Thomas Midgley, chemist and inventor
   * 1950 - George Bernard Shaw, playwright
   * 1963 - Ngo Dihn Diem, president of South Vietnam
   * 1966 - Peter Debye, chemist
   * 1975 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director
   * 1986 - Desi Arnaz, musician, actor
   * 1986 - Paul Frees, voice actor
   * 1992 - Hal Roach, director, producer, dies at 100
   * 2002 - Tonio Selwart, actor and Broadway star, dies at 106

Holidays and observances

   * Catholicism - All Souls Day
   * Ancient Latvia - Dveselu Diena held
   * Rastafarianism - The coronation of Haile Selassie celebrated