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Events on the 2nd of November in history

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02 Nov 0619 A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.
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02 Nov 0676 Donus begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Pope Adeodatus II
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02 Nov 1355 English invasion army under King Edward lands at Calais
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02 Nov 1410 The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.
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02 Nov 1418 Utrecht conquerors Ijsselstein
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02 Nov 1532 Zealand / South Holland flooded
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02 Nov 1642 2nd battle at Breitenfeld Saksen: Sweden beat Ferdinand III
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02 Nov 1648 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia
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02 Nov 1675 Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
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02 Nov 1722 Willem KH Friso (11) appointed Viceroy of Gelderland
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02 Nov 1749 English Ohio Trade Company forms 1st trade post
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02 Nov 1772 Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms
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02 Nov 1783 Gen Washington bids farewell to his army
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02 Nov 1795 The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
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02 Nov 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe: General Jackson vs. indians
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02 Nov 1813 Treaty of Fulda
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02 Nov 1824 Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J Q Adams
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02 Nov 1835 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola
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02 Nov 1841 Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
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02 Nov 1851 Louis Napoleon takes power in France
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02 Nov 1852 Franklin Pierce elected as President of US
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02 Nov 1854 Cobblestone paving of Washington St. between Dupont and Kearny starts
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02 Nov 1868 Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
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02 Nov 1879 In a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km
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02 Nov 1880 James A Garfield (R) elected President
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02 Nov 1881 Dutch New-Malthusiaanse Union forms
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02 Nov 1882 Oulu, Finland is devastated by the Great Oulu Fire of 1882.
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02 Nov 1889 North Dakota becomes 39th and South Dakota becomes 40th state
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02 Nov 1889 North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
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02 Nov 1890 Formal and official founding of the Uddevalla Suffrage Association.
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02 Nov 1892 Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands
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02 Nov 1895 The first gasoline-powered race in the United States; first prize is $2,000.
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02 Nov 1898 French government-Dupuy forms
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02 Nov 1898 Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem
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02 Nov 1898 Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
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02 Nov 1899 Boers begin siege of Ladysmith Natal
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02 Nov 1899 The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
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02 Nov 1903 Lyceum Theater (New Lyceum) opens at 149 W 45th St, New York City
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02 Nov 1903 New Amsterdam Theater opens at 214 W 42nd St, New York City
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02 Nov 1904 British newspaper, "Daily Mirror, " begins publishing
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02 Nov 1907 Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published
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02 Nov 1909 Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
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02 Nov 1913 St. Louis Browns mgr George Stovall is 1st to jump to Federal League
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02 Nov 1914 Great Britain annexes Cyprus
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02 Nov 1914 V Herbert and H Blossoms "Only Girl, " premieres in New York City
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02 Nov 1914 World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.
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02 Nov 1915 1st US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio
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02 Nov 1916 Ft Vaux, Verdun, reconquered by France
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02 Nov 1917 1st US soldiers killed in combat in WWI
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02 Nov 1917 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
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02 Nov 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".
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02 Nov 1917 The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
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02 Nov 1920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) goes on air as 1st commercial radio station
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02 Nov 1920 Warren G Harding elected President
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02 Nov 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.
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02 Nov 1920 Adam Martin Wyant became the first former professional American football player to be elected to the United States Congress.
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02 Nov 1922 Allies deliberate over German mark
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02 Nov 1922 Australian Qantas airways begins service
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02 Nov 1923 Bloody street fights in Aken (pro-French separatists driven)
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02 Nov 1924 Sunday Express publishes 1st British crossword puzzle
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02 Nov 1930 Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th Emperor of Solmonic Dynasty
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02 Nov 1930 Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
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02 Nov 1934 Babe Ruth tours Tokyo Japan
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02 Nov 1936 1st high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London
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02 Nov 1936 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
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02 Nov 1936 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis powers.
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02 Nov 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.
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02 Nov 1937 AL batting champ Charlie Gehringer wins MVP
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02 Nov 1938 Jimmie Foxx wins his 3rd AL MVP
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02 Nov 1940 World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
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02 Nov 1942 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir
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02 Nov 1942 Montgomery (Br) defeats Rommel (G) in battle of Alamein Egypt (WWII)
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02 Nov 1943 Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed
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02 Nov 1944 Auschwitz begins gassing inmates
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02 Nov 1944 Canadian troops occupy Knokke
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02 Nov 1947 7th Ryder Cup: US wins 11-1 at Portland Country Club - Oregon
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02 Nov 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.
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02 Nov 1948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers
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02 Nov 1948 WJZ TV channel 13 in Baltimore, Maryland (ABC) begins broadcasting
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02 Nov 1949 Netherland recognizes Indonesia as a sovereign state
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02 Nov 1949 Textile / meat / cheese / rijstdistributie disbands
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02 Nov 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.
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02 Nov 1950 "Barrier" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
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02 Nov 1950 Phillies reliever Jim Konstanty wins NL MVP
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02 Nov 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.
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02 Nov 1953 Pakistan becomes Islamic Republic
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02 Nov 1953 The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
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02 Nov 1954 JS Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC)
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02 Nov 1954 Taiwan and US sign military pact
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02 Nov 1955 Clarton-Schwerdt and Schaffer discover polio virus
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02 Nov 1955 David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
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02 Nov 1956 Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion
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02 Nov 1956 Israel captures Gaza and Sheham
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02 Nov 1957 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto Ohio
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02 Nov 1957 The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.
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02 Nov 1959 "Girls against the Boys" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 performances
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02 Nov 1959 Charles Van Doren confesses, TV quiz show-"21, " was fixed
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02 Nov 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.
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02 Nov 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.
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02 Nov 1960 George Weiss, at 66, resigns as GM of New York Yankees
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02 Nov 1960 Roger Maris nips Mickey Mantle as AL MVP, 225-222
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02 Nov 1960 Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd., the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
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02 Nov 1962 JFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled
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02 Nov 1963 "Tambourines to Glory" opens at Little Theater NYC for 24 performances
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02 Nov 1963 South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
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02 Nov 1964 CBS purchases 80% of Yanks for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20%
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02 Nov 1964 Faisal succeeds Saudi as King of Saudi Arabia
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02 Nov 1964 King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.
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02 Nov 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.
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02 Nov 1966 KHSD TV channel 11 in Lead, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting
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02 Nov 1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
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02 Nov 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.
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02 Nov 1968 "Her First Roman" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 17 performances
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02 Nov 1969 NFL record of 12 passing touchdowns, New Orleans Billy Kramer and St. L Charlie Johnson pass for 6 touchdowns each
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02 Nov 1970 Cleveland Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Philadelphia 141-87)
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02 Nov 1971 "Great Harp" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 7 performances
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02 Nov 1971 Orioles Pat Dobson no-hits Yomiuri Giants, 2-0
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02 Nov 1972 Construction begins on Kingdome, Seattle
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02 Nov 1973 "Barbra Streisand ...and Other Musical Instruments" airs on CBS TV
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02 Nov 1973 OLADE (Latin American Energy Organization) forms
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02 Nov 1973 The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a 'United Front' in the state of Tripura.
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02 Nov 1974 Art Modell gets snowed in and misses his 1st Cleveland Brown game in 33 yrs
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02 Nov 1974 Braves trade Hank Aaron to Milwaukee Brewers for OF Dave May
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02 Nov 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.
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02 Nov 1975 Ed Giacomin as a Red Wing returns to Madison Square Garden beats Rangers 6-4
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02 Nov 1975 Summit in Houston opens - Rockets beat Milwaukee Bucks, 104-89
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02 Nov 1976 Jimmy Carter (D) defeats Gerald Ford (R) for President
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02 Nov 1976 New Jersey voters approve gambling for Atlantic City
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02 Nov 1976 SD Padre Randy Jones wins NL Cy Young
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02 Nov 1977 South Ockendon Windmill, a smock mill at South Ockendon, Essex, England collapsed.
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02 Nov 1978 Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
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02 Nov 1979 Peter Shaffers musical "Amadeus, " premieres in London
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02 Nov 1982 Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die
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02 Nov 1982 Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament
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02 Nov 1982 Channel 4 is launched in the United Kingdom.
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02 Nov 1983 Abp Hickey conducts papal investigation of Abp Hunthausen, Seattle
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02 Nov 1983 President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L King day
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02 Nov 1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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02 Nov 1984 Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
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02 Nov 1986 17th NYC Marathon won by Gianni Poli in 2:11:06
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02 Nov 1986 Ayako Okamoto wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
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02 Nov 1987 Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple schlerosis
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02 Nov 1987 Harrison releases "Cloud 9" andMcCartney releases "All the Best"
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02 Nov 1988 1st Mrs America beauty pageant
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02 Nov 1988 Computers virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab and 6 universities
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02 Nov 1988 Mexican radio station erronously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash
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02 Nov 1988 Walt Weiss wins AL rookie of year (3rd straight for Oakland Athletics)
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02 Nov 1988 The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
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02 Nov 1989 "Meet Me in St. Louis" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 253 performances
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02 Nov 1990 1st NBA game at Target Center, Minn Timberwolves beat Mavericks 98-85
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02 Nov 1990 British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
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02 Nov 1991 Jermaine Jackson releases "Word to the Badd!!" anti Michael song
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02 Nov 1991 Nevada makes biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-pt deficit in the 3rd quarter and rallying to beat Weber State 55-49
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02 Nov 1992 1st test flight of Airbus A330
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02 Nov 1993 1st commemorative bricks are laid at Bob Feller Memorial
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02 Nov 1993 Actor Roger Moore (James Bond) has his enlarge prostate removed
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02 Nov 1993 Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman Governor of New Jersey
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02 Nov 1993 Dow Jones hits record 3697.64
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02 Nov 1993 Ehud Olmert elected Mayor of Jerusalem
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02 Nov 1993 Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th Mayor of New York City
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02 Nov 1994 Benzine explosion in Dronka Egypt, 400+ killed
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02 Nov 1995 "Busker Alley, " premieres at St. James Theatre, New York
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02 Nov 1995 "Sacrilege" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 21 performances
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02 Nov 1995 Spanish Broadcasting System buys New York radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M
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02 Nov 1996 "Hughie, " closes at Circle in the Square Theater, New York City
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02 Nov 1997 Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam
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02 Nov 1997 USA beats Japan 23-13 at LPGA Nichirei International
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02 Nov 1997 "Barrymore, " closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 240 performances
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02 Nov 1997 27th NYC Women Marathon won by Franziska Rochat-Moser of Switzerland 2:28:43
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02 Nov 1997 28th NYC Marathon won by John Kagwe of Kenya in 2:08:12
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02 Nov 1997 Ralphs Senior Golf Classic
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02 Nov 1997 Toray Japan Queens LPGA Cup
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02 Nov 2000 The first resident crew to the ISS docked with their Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft.
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02 Nov 2007 50,000–100,000 people demonstrate against the Georgian government in Tbilisi.
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02 Nov 2014 A suicide attack killed 60 at Wagah.
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