TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: NOV 2
1570 A tidal wave in the North Sea destroys the sea walls from Holland to Jutland. More than 1,000 people are killed.
1648 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol, Podlia
1772 The first Committees of Correspondence are formed in Massachusetts under Samuel Adams.
1776 During the American Revolutionary War, William Demont, became the first traitor of the American Revolution when he deserted.
1789 The property of the church in France is taken away by the state.
1824 Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J.Q. Adams
1841 The second Afghan War begins.
1867 “Harpers Bazaar” magazine was founded.
1889 North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states, respectively.
1892 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 London’s Daily Mirror newspaper is first published.
1917 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
1920 The first commercial radio station in the U.S., KDKA of Pittsburgh, PA, began regular broadcasting.
1921 Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett form the American Birth Control League.
1926 Air Commerce Act is passed, providing federal aid for airlines and airports.
1930 Coronation of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Haile Selassie I, 225th Emperor of Ethiopian Solmonic Dynasty
1938 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation established
1947 Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose flies for the first and last time.
1948 Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency. The Chicago Tribune published an early edition that had the headline “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.” The Truman victory surprised many polls and newspapers
1960 A British jury determines that Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence is not obscene.
1964 Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud takes over the government of Saudi Arabia while his half-brother, King Saud is overseas for medical reasons.
1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the US
1983 President Ronald Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.
1984 Velma Margie Barfield, a convicted murderer became the first woman to be executed since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.
1988 Computer virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab & 6 universities
1993 The U.S. Senate called for full disclosure of Senator Bob Packwood’s diaries in a sexual harassment probe.
1998 U.S. President Clinton gave his first in-depth interview since the White House sex scandal to Black Entertainment Television talk show host and political commentator Tavis Smiley on the network’s “BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley.”
2003 V. Gene Robinson was consecrated as bishop by the U.S. Episcopal Church, becoming the first openly gay bishop in the church.
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
