On This Day: 2 November

2 November in Indian history

• 2016The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.India

2 November in world history

• 2008Lewis 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.
• 2000As members of Expedition 1, American astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko became the first resident crew to arrive at the International Space Station.
• 1997Tropical Storm Linda made landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.
• 1994A lightning strike ruptured three oil tanks near Dronka, Egypt, causing a flood that killed 469 people.
• 1988The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
• 1965Norman 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.
• 1963President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was assassinated, marking the culmination of a coup d'état led by Dương Văn Minh.
• 1960Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
• 1959Quiz show scandals: Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
• 1957A large number of people witnessed a fiery object in the sky near Levelland, Texas, which the United States Air Force said was ball lightning.
• 1956Hungarian Revolution: Nikita Khrushchev meets with leaders of other Communist countries to seek their advice on the situation in Hungary, selecting János Kádár as the country's next leader on the advice of Josip Broz Tito.
• 1943World War II: A U.S. Navy task force turned away an Imperial Japanese Navy formation at the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, thus protecting the landings at Cape Torokina.
• 1917The British government issued the Balfour Declaration in support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small Jewish minority.
• 1914World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles is subsequently closed.
• 1912Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
• 1889North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
• 619Emperor Gaozu of Tang allowed the assassination of a khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate by Eastern Turkic rivals, one of the earliest events in the Tang campaigns against the Western Turks.

Born on 2 November

• 1974Nelly, American rapper
• 1965Shah Rukh Khan, Indian film actor, producer and television hostIndia
• 1958Willie McGee, American baseball player and manager
• 1941Arun Shourie, Indian journalist, economist, and politician, Indian Minister of CommunicationsIndia
• 1877Aga Khan III, Indian 48th Shia Imam (died 1957)India
• 1795James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (died 1849)

Died on 2 November

• 2012Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, Indian-American mathematician and academic (born 1930)India
• 2012Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, Indian politician (born 1957)India
• 1933Gao Qifeng, Chinese painter (born 1889)
• 1893Daniel Payne, American educator and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (born 1811)

Frequently asked questions

What happened on 2 November in history?

2016: The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years. 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. 2000: As members of Expedition 1, American astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko became the first resident crew to arrive at the International Space Station. 1997: Tropical Storm Linda made landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.

What happened on 2 November in Indian history?

2016: The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.

Which famous people were born on 2 November?

Nelly, American rapper (1974); Shah Rukh Khan, Indian film actor, producer and television host (1965); Willie McGee, American baseball player and manager (1958); Arun Shourie, Indian journalist, economist, and politician, Indian Minister of Communications (1941).

Which day is observed on 2 November?

All Souls' Day (Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Communion); Coronation of Haile Selassie (Rastafari); Day of the Dead, the second day of Day of the Dead or El Dia de los Muertos celebration (Mexico); Dziady (Belarus); Arrival of Indentured Labourers (Mauritius).