2 November

The **2t o November** is the 306t day o the year (307t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 59 days bidin.

## Events

* 1502 &ndash; Christopher Columbus reaches present-day Panama.
* 1852 &ndash; Franklin Pierce is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
* 1880 &ndash; James A. Garfield is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
* 1889 &ndash; North Dakota an Sooth Dakota becomes the 39nt an 40t states o the Unitit States.
* 1914 &ndash; Warld War I: Roushie declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
* 1917 &ndash; Arthur Balfour issues the Balfour Declaration, proclaimin Breetish support for Jewish settlement in Palestine.
* 1920 &ndash; Warren G. Harding is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
* 1930 &ndash; Alfred Wegener is seen alive for the last time, on a expedeetion in Greenland.
* 1930 &ndash; Haile Selassie is crowned as Emperor o Ethiopie.
* 1936 &ndash; The BBC stairts telly braidcastin.
* 1948 &ndash; Harry S. Truman is electit Preses o the Unitit States in his aen richt.
* 1963 &ndash; Sooth Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinatit.
* 1964 &ndash; Keeng Saud o Saudi Arabie is deposed.
* 1967 &ndash; Winnie Ewing o the Scots Naitional Pairty wins the Wastmeenster by-election in Hamilton, Scotland.
* 1976 &ndash; Jimmy Carter is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
* 1982 &ndash; Channel 4 stairts on Breetish telly.
* 2000 &ndash; The Internaitional Space Station enters intae orbit around the yird.
* 2004 &ndash; George W. Bush is re-electit Preses o the Unitit States.
* 2008 &ndash; Lewis Hamilton wins the Formula Ane championship for the first time.
* 2017 &ndash; The discovery o a previously unkent species o orangutan is propaled, the "Tapanuli".
* 2019 &ndash; Sooth Africae wins the Rugby union Warld Cup for a thrid time, defeatin Ingland 32-12 in Tokyo, Japan.
* 2019 &ndash; Dresden declares a "Nazi State o Emergency" in relation tae far-richt activities in the ceety.

## Births

*1470 &ndash; Edward V o Ingland (d. 1483)
*1549 &ndash; Anna o Austrick, Queen o Spain an Portugal (d. 1580)
*1734 &ndash; Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (d. 1820)
*1755 &ndash; Marie Antoinette, Austrick-born Queen Consort o Fraunce (d. 1793)
*1766 &ndash; Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Czech-Austrick nobleman an general (d. 1858)
*1767 &ndash; Prince Edward, Duke o Kent an Strathearn (d. 1820)
*1795 &ndash; James K. Polk, 11t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1849)
*1815 &ndash; George Boole, Inglis mathemateecian, philosopher an logician (d. 1864)
*1844 &ndash; Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
*1865 &ndash; Warren G. Harding, 29nt Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1923)
*1881 &ndash; Tom Johnston, Scots politeecian (d. 1965)
*1888 &ndash; Scott Duncan, Scots fitbawer (d. 1976)
*1906 &ndash; Luchino Visconti, Italian film director an screenwriter (d. 1976)
*1911 &ndash; Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet (d. 1996)
*1913 &ndash; Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
*1929 &ndash; Richard E. Taylor, Canadian pheesicist (d. 2018)
*1932 &ndash; Melvin Schwartz, American pheesicist (d. 2006)
*1938 &ndash; Queen Sofia o Spain
*1959 &ndash; Peter Mullan, Scots actor an filmmakker
*1961 &ndash; k.d. lang, Canadian sangster
*1961 &ndash; Mark Strange, Scots bishop
*1963 &ndash; Borut Pahor, Slovenie politeecian, 4t Preses o Slovenie
*1965 &ndash; Shah Rukh Khan, Indian actor
*1966 &ndash; David Schwimmer, American actor, director, an producer
*1967 &ndash; Scott Walker, American politeecian
*1974 &ndash; Nelly, American rapper
*1985 &ndash; Paul Masterton, Scots politeecian

## Daiths
*1773 &ndash; John Glas, Scots clergyman (b. 1695)
*1874 &ndash; Thomas Anderson, Scots chemist (b. 1819)
*1887 &ndash; Jenny Lind, Swadish soprano (b. 1820)
*1919 &ndash; Bobby Templeton, Scots fitbawer (b. 1880)
*1950 &ndash; George Bernard Shaw, Erse writer (b. 1856)
*1963 &ndash; Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnamese politeecian, 1st Preses o the Republic o Vietnam (b. 1901)
*1966 &ndash; Peter Debye, Dutch-American pheesicist an chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
*1975 &ndash; Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)
*1997 &ndash; Harold Plenderleith, Scots airt conservator an airchaeologist (b. 1898)
*2004 &ndash; Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (b. 1957)
*2007 &ndash; Alan Lyell, Scots dermatologist (b. 1917)

## Halidays

* Aa Sowels' Day
* Day o the Dead (Mexico)
* Statehood Day (North Dakota an Sooth Dakota)

## Ootside airtins