Major Events
- 1875 Verney Cameron reaches Benguela in Angola from Africa’s east coast, the first European to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea
- 1917 British government proclaims support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine in the Balfour Declaration
- 1930 Coronation of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Haile Selassie I, the 225th Emperor of the Ethiopian Solomonic Dynasty
- 1949 The Netherlands recognizes its former colony Indonesia as a sovereign state at conclusion of the Round Table Conference at the Hague, Netherlands
- 1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the US
Nov 2 in Film & TV
- 1936 At 3 pm, the BBC begins the world’s first regular high-definition TV broadcast service from specially constructed studios at Alexandra Palace, North London
- 2020 Baby Shark by Pinkfong becomes the most-watched video on YouTube with over 7.04 billion views
Nov 2 in Music
Nov 2 in Sport
- 1898 Cheerleading begins in the United States as Johnny Campbell leads the crowd cheering on the football team at the University of Minnesota
- 2016 Baseball World Series: Chicago Cubs beat Cleveland Indians, 8-7 in Game 7 at Progressive Field, Cleveland; first Cubs’ title in 108 years; MVP: Chicago utility Ben Zobrist
Did You Know?
The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain mainstream media attention, is accidentally launched from an MIT computer and infects MIT, the Pentagon, and six universities
Fun Fact About November 2
The “Great Emu War” begins: Australian soldiers armed with Lewis Guns seek to cull the emu population over crop destruction in Campion district, Western Australia
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