2nd November anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1709
  • "Birth of Anne, German-born British Princess Royal and Princess of Orange"
  • 1808
  • "Birth of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer ."
• event
  • 1917
  • The Balfour Declaration
  • 1936
  • "British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, world's first public TV transmission"
  • 1957
  • Elvis Presley set an all-time record by having 8 hits in the UK Top 30 pop charts simultaneously
  • 1959
  • "Charles Van Doren, a contestant on the American TV game show Twenty-One admitted to an investigative subcommittee that he had been given the questions and answers in advance. This caused a major scandal"
  • 1982
  • Great Britain
  • Channel 4 TV station launched – first programme 'Countdown'
  • 1983
  • US President Ronald Reagan designated the third Monday in January a federal holiday in honour of Martin Luther King.
  • 1984
  • United States
  • "American murderer Velma Barfield was the first woman to be executed in the USA since 1962, and the first ever to be executed by lethal injection"
  • 1988
  • "6,000 US Defence Department computers connected to the ARPANET were temporarily disabled by a virus planted by a college undergraduate."
  • 2000
  • United States
  • First crew arrive at the International Space Station.
• Death
  • 1909
  • "Death of William Powell Frith, British artist, famous for his preciselyrendered crowded scenes of contemporary English life"
  • 1950
  • Ireland
  • "Death of George Bernard Shaw, Playwrite" more