2 November
Notable Births
Moisés Caicedo
b. 2001
Ecuadorian footballer (born 2001)
Park Woo-jin
b. 1999
South Korean rapper (born 1999)
Jordan Love
b. 1998
American football player (born 1998)
Filip Hronek
b. 1997
Czech ice hockey player (born 1997)
Hanna Öberg
b. 1995
Swedish biathlete (born 1995)
Shaq Coulthirst
b. 1994
English footballer (born 1994)
Jimmy Garoppolo
b. 1991
American football player (born 1991)
Christopher Dibon
b. 1990
Austrian footballer
Kendall Schmidt
b. 1990
Musical artist
Tibor Pleiß
b. 1989
German basketball player (born 1989)
Natalie Pluskota
b. 1989
American tennis player
Luke Schenn
b. 1989
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1989)
Julia Görges
b. 1988
German tennis player (born 1988)
Danny Cipriani
b. 1987
England rugby union player (born 1987)
Andy Rautins
b. 1986
American-born Canadian basketball player
Danny Amendola
b. 1985
American football player (born 1985)
Fred Rosser
b. 1983
American professional wrestler
Yunel Escobar
b. 1982
Cuban baseball player (born 1982)
Charles Itandje
b. 1982
Cameroonian-French footballer (born 1982)
Monica Iozzi
b. 1981
Brazilian actress and reporter (born 1981)
Notable Deaths
Janey Godley
d. 2024
Scottish actor, writer and comedian (1961–2024)
Alan Rachins
d. 2024
American actor and comedian (1942–2024)
Humaira Himu
d. 2023
Bangladeshi actress (1985–2023)
Atilio Stampone
d. 2022
Argentine pianist and composer (1926–2022)
Neal Smith (politician)
d. 2021
American politician (1920–2021)
Walter Mercado
d. 2019
Puerto Rican astrologer (1932–2019)
Raymond Chow
d. 2018
Hong Kong film producer
Aboubacar Somparé
d. 2017
Guinean politician (1944–2017)
Andrzej Ciechanowiecki
d. 2015
Polish-British nobleman
Roy Dommett
d. 2015
British aerospace engineer
Acker Bilk
d. 2014
English clarinetist and vocalist (1929–2014)
Walt Bellamy
d. 2013
American basketball player (1939–2013)
Ghislaine Dupont
d. 2013
French journalist (1956–2013)
Clifford Nass
d. 2013
American academic (1958–2013)
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
d. 2012
American mathematician (1930–2012)
Robert Morton Duncan
d. 2012
American judge (1927–2012)
Joe Ginsberg
d. 2012
American baseball player (1926–2012)
Pino Rauti
d. 2012
Italian politician (1926–2012)
Han Suyin
d. 2012
Chinese-Belgian-British physician and author (1916–2012)
Gao Qifeng
d. 1933
Chinese painter (1889–1933)
On This Day in History
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2022
A peace agreement is signed between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front, ending the Tigray War.
Ethiopia–Tigray peace agreement
2020
In Vienna's Innere Stadt district, an ISIL sympathizer shoots and kills four people and injures 23 more, before being shot and killed by the police.
Vienna
2016
The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.
Chicago Cubs
2008
Lewis Hamilton secured his maiden Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by one point ahead of Felipe Massa at the Brazilian Grand Prix, after a pass for fifth place against the Toyota of Timo Glock on the final lap of the race.
Lewis Hamilton
2000
Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for the first long-duration stay onboard. From this day to present, a continuous human presence in space on the station remains uninterrupted.
Expedition 1
1999
Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.
1999 Honolulu shootings
1997
Tropical Storm Linda makes landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.
Tropical Storm Linda (1997)
1990
British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
British Satellite Broadcasting
1988
The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
Morris worm
1988
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703 crashes in Białobrzegi, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland, killing one person and injuring several more.
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703
1986
Lebanon hostage crisis: U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.
Lebanon hostage crisis
1984
Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
Capital punishment
1983
U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Ronald Reagan
1982
Channel 4, the British free-to-air public broadcast television channel funded by its commercial activities, starts broadcasting.
Channel 4
1973
Aeroflot Flight 19 is hijacked and diverted to Vnukovo International Airport, where the aircraft is stormed by authorities.
Aeroflot Flight 19
1967
Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
Vietnam War
1966
The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
Cuban Adjustment Act
1965
Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
Norman Morrison
1964
King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.
Saud of Saudi Arabia
1963
South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
South Vietnam