November 2 Historical Events

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

Found 45 events. Showing 31 - 45.

• 1964
  King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.
• 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.
• 1966
  The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
• 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.
• 1973
  The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a ‘United Front’in the state of Tripura.
• 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.
• 1977
  South Ockendon Windmill, a smock mill at South Ockendon, Essex, England collapsed.

• 1982
  Channel 4 is launched in the United Kingdom.
• 1983
  U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
• 1984
  Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
• 1988
  The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
• 1990
  British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
• 2000
  The first resident crew to the ISS docked with their Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft.
• 2007
  50,000–100,000 people demonstrate against the Georgian government in Tbilisi.
• 2014
  A suicide attack killed 60 at Wagah.