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02 November, 2000

The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.

02 November, 1995

Former South African defence minister General Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers are arrested and charged with murdering 13 black people in 1987, (all the accused are later acquitted).

02 November, 1991

Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.

02 November, 1988

The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.

02 November, 1984

Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.

02 November, 1983

U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Day.

02 November, 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.

02 November, 1973

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India forms a United Front in the state of Tripura.

02 November, 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.

02 November, 1966

The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.

02 November, 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.

02 November, 1964

King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.

02 November, 1963

South Vietnamese President Ngô Ðình Di?m is assassinated following a military coup.

02 November, 1960

Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterleys Lover case

02 November, 1959

Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance. Ice Hockey: After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play. The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway

02 November, 1957

The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.

02 November, 1953

The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

02 November, 1947

In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.

02 November, 1936

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers. The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the worlds first regular, high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.

02 November, 1930

Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.

02 November, 1920

In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.

02 November, 1917

The Balfour Declaration proclaims support for Jewish settlement in Palestine.

02 November, 1914

Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

02 November, 1909

Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.

02 November, 1899

The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

02 November, 1898

Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.

02 November, 1895

The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000

02 November, 1889

North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

02 November, 1868

Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally

02 November, 1861

American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.

02 November, 1795

The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.

02 November, 1783

In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".

02 November, 1772

American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.

02 November, 1675

A combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts during King Philips War.

02 November, 1570

A tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1,000 people.

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