02 November - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, on November 02, the day number in a year is 306 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 307. November 02 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
November 02 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 619 | Emperor Gaozu allowed the assassination of a khagan of theWestern Turkic Khanate by Eastern Turkic rivals, one the earliest eventsin the Tang campaigns against the Western Turks. |
| 1534 | The fourth Sikh Guru Ramdas was born. |
| 1712 | The Suriname government gave 682,800 to Jacques Cussard, the French kidnapper. |
| 1721 | The great Peter architect declared the first emperor of Russia, it was replacing 176-year-old Taradam of Russia with the Russian Empire. |
| 1749 | The English Ohio Trade Company was made the first trading post. |
| 1772 | Boston: Anti-English Committee of Correspondence was formed. |
| 1795 | The Curacao government denied slavery on Sunday. |
| 1834 | On this day a ship named Atlas reached Mauritius with Indian laborers. Which is celebrated as the immigrant day there. |
| 1835 | The Second Seminole War began in Osceola, Florida between various factions of Native Americans. This battle is also known as the Florida War. |
| 1835 | The Second Seminole War began in Osceola. |
| 1852 | Franklin Pierce was elected the 14th President of the United States. |
| 1884 | Timisoara became the first city in Europe with streets illuminated by electric lights. |
| 1889 | The Dakota Territory, an organized incorporated territory ofthe United States, was split and became the states of North and SouthDakota. |
| 1892 | The French poet Paul Varlein traveled to the Netherlands. |
| 1898 | Organized cheerleading was born at the University of Minnesotawhen student Johnny Campbell directed a crowd attending an Americancollege football game to cheer on their team. |
| 1898 | Theodore Herzl traveled to Jerusalem. |
| 1914 | Britain incorporated Cyprus into its empire. |
| 1917 | British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the BalfourDeclaration, proclaiming British support for the establishment of aJewish homeland in Palestine. |
| 1931 | The Soviet Union publicized that they would not export wheat this entire year as well as the following year due to shortage of wheat. This verdict was announced following a recent trade agreement between the Soviet Union and France. |
| 1931 | Dupont Company announced the manufacture of synthetic rubber. |
| 1932 | The Australian military began a 'war against emus', aflightless native bird blamed for widespread damage to crops in WesternAustralia. |
| 1936 | The BBC broadcast the world's first hypertension television program. |
| 1942 | The BBC launched French-language broadcasting in Canada. |
| 1949 | The Netherlands recognized Indonesia as an autonomous state. |
| 1950 | George Bernard Shaw died at the age of 97. |
| 1951 | Nearly 6 thousand British soldiers arrived in Egypt to overcome the demonstrations against Britain. Britain sent such a large number of British troops to another country for the first time after the Second World War. |
| 1953 | Pakistan officially became the Islamic Republic. |
| 1957 | People of Levelland, Texas conveyed sightings of unidentified flying objects with bright lights. The head of the Interplanetary Space Patrol, Jim Lee then anticipated that the UFOs will soon be coming in huge quantities and the people who doubted this claim, will have no option but to agree. |
| 1959 | The first section of the M1 motorway, the first of it's kind in the UK, is opened between Watford and Crick/Rugby along with the motorway's two spurs the ( M10 motorway to St Albans ) and ( M45 motorway Coventry ) |
| 1963 | President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam was assassinated,marking the culmination of a coup d'état led by Duong Van Minh. |
| 1964 | King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed by his half-brotherFaisal over concerns of the former's profligacy and his inability todeal with the socialism of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. |
| 1965 | American Quaker Norman Morrison set himself on fire in front of the Pentagon to protest the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. |
| 1965 | Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan was born. |
| 1965 | Republican John Lindsey was elected mayor of New York City. |
| 1979 | In Paris, French police shot gangster Jacques Mesren. |
| 1984 | For the first time since 1962 in the US, a woman, Velma Barfield, was hanged. |
| 1989 | North Dakota and South Dakota celebrated their 100th birthday. |
| 1990 | Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting merged to form BSkyB, the largest pay-TV broadcaster in the United Kingdom andIreland. |
| 1995 | Former South African Minister of Defence Magnus Malan and 10other former senior military officers were arrested and charged with 13murders in the KwaMakhutha massacre of 1987. |
| 2000 | One American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts have prepared themselves for a four month stay at the international space station, making them the first people ever to do so. |
| 2004 | Dutch film director Theo van Gogh, whose film Submission wascritical of the treatment of women in Islam, was assassinated byMohammed Bouyeri. |
| 2005 | Around 80 of the world's best radio astronomers come together in Pune, India to make decisions about how and where to establish the world's largest radio telescope, called the Square Kilometer Array. |
| 2006 | A study by B. Worm et al has been issued in the journal, Science. It forecasts the downfall of commercial fisheries by the year 2048 because of pollution, overfishing and other environmental influences. |
| 2007 | In Tbilisi, Georgia, 50,000–100,000 people demonstratedagainst the allegedly corrupt government of president MikheilSaakashvili. |
| 2008 | Lewis Hamilton wins the 2008 Formula One Drivers' Championship, defeating Felipe Massa by one point. This makes him the youngest and first black driver of African inheritance in the history to win the title of Formula One World Champion. |
| 2009 | North Korea appeals for direct talks with the United States concerning their nuclear program. They have also issued a warning that they will "go their own way" if the US fails to live up to their demands. |
| 2011 | The collision of a freight train with a bus at a level crossing in Argentina leads to the death of 8 people and injures many. |
| 2012 | Indian-American mathematician Shriram Shankar Abhyankar died. |
| 2013 | Two planes with nine skydivers crash into each other mid air in Wisconsin. However, the skydivers survived with the help of their parachutes and the pilots got away only with minor injuries. |
| 2014 | A suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan, killed 60 people and injured 110 people. |
Famous Birthdays of November 02:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1855 | Henrik Schück / Author / Sweden |
| 1958 | Willie McGee / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1938 | Jay Black / Singer / United States of America |
| 1986 | Andy Rautins / Basketball Player / Canada |
| 1929 | Amar Gopal Bose / Engineer / United States of America |
| 1975 | Stéphane Sarrazin / Racing Car Driver / France |
| 1865 | Warren G. Harding / Politician / United States of America |
| 1766 | Joseph Radetzky von Radetz / Field Marshal / Austria |
| 1979 | Simone Puleo / Footballer / Italy |
| 1939 | Pauline Neville-Jones / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1893 | Battista Farina / Business Man / Italy |
| 1815 | George Boole / Philosopher / United Kingdom |
| 1941 | Dave Stockton / Golfer / United States of America |
| 1799 | John Light Atlee / Surgeon / United States of America |
| 1974 | Sofia Polgar / Chess Player / Hungary |
| 1914 | Johnny Vander Meer / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1981 | Roddy White / Footballer / United States of America |
| 1877 | Aga Khan III / Imam / India |
| 1961 | Jeff Tedford / Footballer / United States of America |
| 1974 | Nelly / Rapper / United States of America |
| 1940 | Jim Bakken / Footballer / United States of America |
| 1937 | Earl Carroll / Singer / United States of America |
| 1976 | Margus Hernits / Figure Skater / Estonia |
| 1962 | Derek Mountfield / Footballer / United Kingdom |
| 1944 | Keith Emerson / Singer / United Kingdom |
| 1965 | Nick Boles / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1949 | Lois McMaster Bujold / Author / United States of America |
| 1978 | Carmen Cali / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1947 | Dave Pegg / Producer / United Kingdom |
| 1879 | Marion Jones Farquhar / Tennis Player / United States of America |
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Read in Hindi : 02 नवम्बर की प्रमुख ऐतिहासिक घटनाएं