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The following events took place on November 2. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 45 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 619

  A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.
• 1410

  The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.
• 1675

  Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip’s War.
• 1795

  The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
• 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.
• 1889

  North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
• 1890

  Formal and official founding of the Uddevalla Suffrage Association.
• 1895

  The first gasoline-powered race in the United States; first prize is $2,000.
• 1898

  Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
• 1899

  The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
• 1909

  Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
• 1914

  World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.
• 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”.
• 1917

  The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
• 1920

  In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920.
• 1920

  Adam Martin Wyant became the first former professional American football player to be elected to the United States Congress.
• 1930

  Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1936

  The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
• 1936

  The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world’s first regular, “high-definition” (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
• 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.
• 1951

  Korean War: A small platoon of 28 Canadian soldiers defend a vital area against an entire battalion of 800 Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours of November 3.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1959

  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.
• 1960

  Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd., the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case.
• 1963

  South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.

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