Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 2
This is a list of selected November 2 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Insignia of the International Space Station
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Arthur Balfour
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The Spruce Goose wooden flying boat was bigger than a Boeing 747.
Ineligible
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1795 – French Revolution: Under the terms of a new constitution that was ratified during the aftermath of the Reign of Terror and the subsequent Thermidorian Reaction, the Directory succeeded the National Convention as the executive government of France. | multiple issues |
1988 – The Morris worm, the first computer worm distributed via the Internet to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched by university student Robert Tappan Morris. | refimprove |
2000 – Aboard Expedition 1, American astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko became the first resident crew to arrive at the International Space Station. | tagged for cleanup |
Eligible
- 1909 – Lambda Chi Alpha, today one of the largest men's general fraternities in North America, having initiated more than 270,000 members, was founded at Boston University.
- 1932 – The Australian military began a "war against emus", a flightless native bird blamed for widespread damage to crops in Western Australia.
- 1917 – British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the Balfour Declaration, proclaiming British support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
- 1947 – Industrialist and aviator Howard Hughes flew the "Spruce Goose", the largest flying boat ever built, on its maiden flight from the coast of Long Beach, California.
- 1959 – In testimony before the United States Congress, American intellectual Charles Van Doren admitted that he had foreknowledge of the questions and answers when he appeared on the television game show Twenty One.
- 1995 – Former South African Minister of Defence Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers were arrested and charged with murdering 13 people in the KwaMakhutha massacre in 1987.
Notes
- Le Quang Tung/1963 South Vietnamese coup featured on November 1, so Ngo Dinh Diem blurb should not be used in the same year.
November 2: All Souls' Day in Western Christianity; Day of the Dead in Mexico
- 1889 – The Dakota Territory, an organized incorporated territory of the United States, was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.
- 1936 – The BBC Television Service launched as the world's first regular, public all-electronic high-definition television service.
- 1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ended with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
- 1960 – The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales acquitted publisher Penguin Books of obscenity in the publishing of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence (pictured).
- 1963 – President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam was assassinated, marking the culmination of a coup d'état led by Duong Van Minh.