| 1570 |
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A tidal wave in the North Sea destroys the sea walls from Holland to Jutland. More than 1,000 people are killed. |
| 1772 |
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The first Committees of Correspondence are formed in Massachusetts under Samuel Adams. |
| 1789 |
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The property of the church in France is taken away by the state. |
| 1841 |
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The second Afghan War begins. |
| 1869 |
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Sheriff Wild Bill Hickok loses his re-election bid in Ellis County, Kan. |
| 1880 |
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James A. Garfield is elected the 20th president of the United States. |
| 1882 |
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Newly elected John Poe replaces Pat Garrett as sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory. |
| 1889 |
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North Dakota is made the 39th state. |
| 1889 |
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South Dakota is made the 40th state. |
| 1892 |
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Lawmen surround outlaws Ned Christie and Arch Wolf near Tahlequah, Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). It will take dynamite and a cannon to dislodge the two from their cabin. |
| 1903 |
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London’s Daily Mirror newspaper is first published. |
| 1914 |
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Russia declares war with Turkey. |
| 1920 |
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The first radio broadcast in the United States is made from Pittsburgh. |
| 1920 |
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Charlotte Woodward, who signed the 1848 Seneca Falls Declaration calling for female voting rights, casts her ballot in a presidential election. |
| 1921 |
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Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett form the American Birth Control League. |
| 1923 |
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U.S. Navy aviator H.J. Brown sets new world speed record of 259 mph in a Curtiss racer. |
| 1926 |
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Air Commerce Act is passed, providing federal aid for airlines and airports. |
| 1936 |
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The first high-definition public television transmissions begin from Alexandra Palace in north London by the BBC. |
| 1942 |
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Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to set up an American command post for the invasion of North Africa. |
| 1943 |
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The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay in Bougainville ends in U.S. Navy victory over Japan. |
| 1947 |
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Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose flies for the first and last time. |
| 1948 |
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Harry S Truman is elected the 33rd president of the United States. |
| 1959 |
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Charles Van Doren confesses that the TV quiz show "21" is fixed and that he had been given the answers to the questions asked him. |
| 1960 |
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A British jury determines that Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence is not obscene. |
| 1963 |
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South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated. |
| 1976 |
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Jimmy (James Earl) Carter elected the 39th president of the United States. |
| 1983 |
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President Ronald Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. |
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Born on November 2 |
| 1734 |
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Daniel Boone, American frontiersman and explorer. |
| 1755 |
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Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, executed during the French Revolution. |
| 1795 |
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James Polk, 11th president of the United States (1845-49). |
| 1865 |
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Warren G. Harding, 29th president of the United States (1921-23). |
| 1885 |
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Harlow Shapley, astronomer who discovered the Sun is not at the center of the galaxy. |
| 1906 |
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Luchino Visconti, film director (Obsession, Death in Venice). |
| 1913 |
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Burt Lancaster, American film actor. |
| 1929 |
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Richard Taylor, Nobel Prize-winning physicist who proved the existence of quarks. |
| 1932 |
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Melvin Schwartz, physicist who won the Nobel Prize for work on neutrinos. |
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