SomeFacts | November 2

On this day - November 2

2022 – A peace agreement is signed between the Ethiopian government ...

2020 – In Vienna's Innere Stadt district, an ISIL sympathizer shoots ...

2016 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World ...

2008 – Lewis Hamilton secured his maiden Formula One Drivers' ...

2000 – Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for ...

1999 – Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of ...

1997 – Tropical Storm Linda makes landfall in the Mekong Delta in ...

1990 – British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to ...

1988 – LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703 crashes in Białobrzegi, ...

1988 – The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm ...

1986 – Lebanon hostage crisis: U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is ...

1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman ...

1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin ...

1982 – Channel 4, the British free-to-air public broadcast television ...

1973 – Aeroflot Flight 19 is hijacked and diverted to Vnukovo ...

1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" ...

1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 ...

1965 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in ...

1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and ...

1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated ...

1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R ...

1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban ...

1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty-One game show contestant Charles ...

1956 – Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.

1956 – Hungarian Revolution: Nikita Khrushchev meets with leaders of ...

1951 – Canada in the Korean War: A platoon of The Royal Canadian ...

1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the ...

1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and ...

1940 – World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the ...

1936 – The BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, ...

1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting ...

1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, ...

1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the ...

1914 – World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman ...

1912 – Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule ...

1899 – The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith ...

1889 – North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and ...

1882 – The great fire destroys a large part of Oulu's city center in ...

1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be ...

1795 – The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is ...

1707 – Four British naval vessels run aground on the Isles of Scilly ...

1675 – Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial ...

1410 – The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the ...

619 – A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a ...