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History of 02 November<\/h2>\n

1917<\/strong> – British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a “national home” for the Jews of Palestine.<\/p>\n

1920<\/strong> – The first commercial radio station in the\u00a0U.S., KDKA of Pittsburgh,\u00a0PA, began regular broadcasting.<\/p>\n

1921<\/strong> – Margaret Sanger’s National Birth Control League combined with Mary Ware Dennett’s Voluntary Parenthood League to form the American Birth Control League.<\/p>\n

1930<\/strong> – Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

1930<\/strong> – The DuPont Company announced the first synthetic rubber. It was named DuPree.<\/p>\n

1937<\/strong> – The play “I’d Rather be Right” opened in New York City.<\/p>\n

1947<\/strong> – Howard Hughes flew his “Spruce Goose,” a huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in\u00a0California. It was the plane’s first and only flight. The “Spruce Goose,” nicknamed because of the white-gray color of the spruce used to build it, never went into production.<\/p>\n

1948 – Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0presidency. The\u00a0Chicago Tribune<\/i>\u00a0published an early edition that had the headline “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.” The Truman victory surprised many polls and newspapers. (Illinois><\/p>\n

1959<\/strong> – Charles Van Doren, a game show contestant on the NBC-TV program “Twenty-One” admitted that he had been given questions and answers in advance.<\/p>\n

1960<\/strong> – In London, the novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” was found not guilty of obscenity.<\/p>\n

1962<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Kennedy\u00a0announced that the U.S.S.R. was dismantling the missile sites in Cuba.<\/p>\n

1963<\/strong> – South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.<\/p>\n

1966<\/strong> – The Cuban Adjustment Act allows 123,000 Cubans to apply for permanent residence in the\u00a0U.S.<\/p>\n

1979<\/strong> – Joanna Chesimard, a black militant escaped from a\u00a0New Jersey\u00a0prison, where she’d been serving a life sentence for the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper.<\/p>\n

1983<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Ronald Reagan\u00a0signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n

1984<\/strong> – Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the\u00a0U.S.<\/a>\u00a0since 1962. She had been convicted of the poisoning death of her boyfriend.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> – The South African government imposed severe restrictions on television, radio and newspaper coverage of unrest by both local and foreign journalists.<\/p>\n

1986<\/strong> – The 12-by-16-inch celluloid of a poison apple from Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was purchased for $30,800.
\nDisney movies, music, and books<\/p>\n

1986<\/strong> – American hostage David Jacobson was released after being held in Lebanon for 17 months by Shiite Muslims kidnappers.<\/p>\n

1989<\/strong> – Carmen Fasanella retired after 68 years and 243 days of taxicab service in Princeton,\u00a0NJ.<\/p>\n

1992<\/strong> – Magic Johnson retired from the\u00a0NBA\u00a0again, this time for good because of fear due to his HIV infection.<\/p>\n

1993<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senate called for full disclosure of Senator Bob Packwood’s diaries in a sexual harassment probe.<\/p>\n

1993<\/strong> – Christie Todd Whitman was elected the first woman governor of\u00a0New Jersey.<\/p>\n

1995<\/strong> – The play “Sacrilege” opened.<\/p>\n

1995<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S. expelled Daiwa Bank Ltd. for allegedly covering up to $1.1 billion in trading losses.<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Clinton\u00a0gave 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.”<\/p>\n

2001<\/strong> – The computer-animated movie “Monsters, Inc.” opened. The film recorded the best debut ever for an animated film and the 6th best of all time.<\/p>\n

2003<\/strong> – In the U.S., the Episcopal Church diocese consecrated the church’s first openly gay bishop.<\/p>\n

2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Chicago Cubs\u00a0defeat the\u00a0Cleveland Indians\u00a0in the\u00a0World Series, ending the longest\u00a0Major League Baseball\u00a0championship drought at 108 years.<\/p>\n

2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Milwaukee Streetcar\u00a0begins service in\u00a0Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
    \n
  • 1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Esha Deol, Indian film actress, and model<\/sup><\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Monica Iozzi, Brazilian actress<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mitchell Johnson, Australian cricketer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rafael M\u00e1rquez Lugo, Mexican footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Miryo, South Korean rapper<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Roddy White, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Yunel Escobar, Cuban-American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Charles Itandje, French footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Darren Young, American wrestler<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Andy Rautins, Canadian basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Danny Cipriani, English rugby player<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Julia G\u00f6rges, a German tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Stevan Joveti\u0107, Montenegrin footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Natalie Pluskota, an American tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Luke Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Christopher Dibon, Austrian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Naomi Ackie, British actress<\/li>\n
  • 1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Shaq Coulthirst, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1995<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hanna \u00d6berg, Swedish biathlete, Olympic champion<\/li>\n
  • 1997<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Davis Keillor-Dunn, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1998<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Elkie Chong, Hong Kong singer and actress<\/li>\n
  • 1999<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Park Woojin, South Korean singer and rapper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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