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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The Spruce Goose wooden flying boat was bigger than a Boeing 747. -
D. H. Lawrence -
Ngo Dinh Diem -
Arthur Balfour
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1898 – Organized cheerleading was born at the University of Minnesota when student Johnny Campbell directed a crowd attending an American college football game to cheer on their team. | refimprove section |
| 1959 – The M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway to be completed in the United Kingdom, opened between Watford and Crick/Rugby. | unreferenced section |
| 1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed by his half-brother Faisal over concerns of the former's profligacy and his inability to deal with the socialism of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. | refimprove |
| 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. | multiple issues |
| 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. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1889 – The Dakota Territory, an organized incorporated territory of the United States, was split and became the states of North and South Dakota.
- 1917 – British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the Balfour Declaration, proclaiming British support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
- 1932 – The Australian military began a "war against emus", a flightless native bird blamed for widespread damage to crops in Western Australia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1957 – A large number of people witnessed a fiery object in the sky near Levelland, Texas, US, which the United States Air Force said was ball lightning.
- 1959 – American intellectual Charles Van Doren caused a national scandal when he admitted that he had foreknowledge of the questions and answers when he appeared on the television game show Twenty One.
- 1963 – President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was assassinated, marking the culmination of a coup d'état led by Dương Văn Minh.
- 1965 – American Quaker Norman Morrison set himself on fire in front of the Pentagon to protest the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War.
- 1990 – Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting merged to form BSkyB, the largest pay-TV broadcaster in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
- 1995 – Former South African Minister of Defence Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers were arrested and charged with 13 murders in the KwaMakhutha massacre of 1987.
- 2007 – In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 100,000 people demonstrated against the allegedly corrupt government of president Mikheil Saakashvili.
Notes
- Lê Quang Tung/1963 South Vietnamese coup featured on November 1, Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ on November 6, and 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt on November 11; including Ngo Dinh Diem assassination, ideally only one of these should be used per year to avoid topic fatigue.
November 2: All Souls' Day (Western Christianity); Day of the Dead in Mexico
- 619 – Emperor Gaozu allowed the assassination of a khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate by Eastern Turkic rivals, one of the earliest events in the Tang campaigns against the Western Turks.
- 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.
- 1936 – The BBC Television Service launched as the world's first regular, public all-electronic "high-definition" television service.
- 1960 – In the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, publisher Penguin Books was acquitted of obscenity for the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence.
- 2004 – Dutch film director Theo van Gogh (pictured), whose film Submission was critical of the treatment of women in Islam, was assassinated by Mohammed Bouyeri.