Today History 2- November

India History 2-November

1534-2-November-            Guru Ramdas, Sikh Guru, was born.

17742-November-  Lord Robert Clive, one of the founders of British Rule in India, British Army Chief and Diplomat, died.

1841-2-November-            Akbar Khan revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan.

1871-2-November-            Kashinath Raghunath Mitra, the editor of monthly magzine 'Manoranjan', was start.

1885-2-November-            Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar (Annasaheb), first great Marathi musical drama playwright, died.

1889-2-November-            Tyagmurti Goswami Ganeshdutt, social worker, was born at Chiniot in Jhang district, Punjab..

1950-2-November-            India rebukes Mao for invasion of Tibet.

1956-2-November-            Express Train plunged down the Marudaiyar river embarkment killng 143 persons.

1965-2-November-    Shah Rukh Khan, Indian actor and producer

1967-2-November-            Ministry of Education evolves a National Service Scheme for University students.

1971-2-November-            Hurricane and ensuing tidal wave takes 6,000 lives.

1971-2-November-            Roberto Fernandes, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born.

1972-2-November-            ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India.

1972-2-November-            B. D. Pande was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1977

1976-2-November-            Lok Sabha passes the 42nd Constitution Amendment Bill making India a Socialist Secular Republic and laying down the fundamental duties of citizens.

1984-2-November-            Violence following Indira Gandhi's assassination takes heavy toll.

1990-2-November-            Many die in firing in Ayodhya as Karsevaks storm the Ram Janma Bhumi/Babri Masjid structure.

1992-2-November-            9 Maharashtra ministers resign.

1994-2-November-            Three British hostages freed in Saharanpur, UP, after a fierce encounter.

1999-2-November-            BJp fails to win a single seat it contested in the October 28 poll to four Lok Sabha seats in Bihar.

1999-2-November-            The Delhi HC dismisses a plea against Sonia Gandhi seeking deletion of her name from the register of Indian citizenship.

2000-2-November-            John Wright is appointed India coach by the BCCI.

World History 2-November

619-2-November-   A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.

1410 -2-November- The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.

1675-2-November- Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.

1795 -2-November- The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.

1868 -2-November- Arun Shourie, Indian journalist, writer and politician, was bornTime zone.

1889-2-November- – North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

1898-2-November- – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.

1899-2-November- – The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

1912-2-November- – Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.

1914-2-November- – World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

1917 -2-November-– The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people"

1917 -2-November-– The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.

1920 -2-November-– In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920.

1930-2-November- – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.

1936 -2-November-– The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.

1936 -2-November-– The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition"  service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.

1940-2-November- – World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.

1947-2-November- In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.

1949-2-November- – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.

1951-2-November- – Canada in the Korean War.

1953-2-November- – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

1959 -2-November-– Quiz 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.

1959 -2-November-– The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.

196-2-November- Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.

1963-2-November- – South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.

1964 -2-November-– King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.

1965 -2-November-– 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.

1966 -2-November-– The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.

1966-2-November- – David Schwimmer, American actor

1972 -2-November-– Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player and coach

1973-2-November- – The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a 'United Front' in the state of Tripura.

1983-2-November- – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

1988 -2-November- The general election in Israel has returned a hung parliament, with just one seat separating the main right and left wing parties in the Knesset. 

1986-2-November- The American David Jacobsen is held hostage in Beirut by Muslim fundamentalists who are members of Islamic Jihad of has been released after 17 months of captivity

1988 -2-November- The general election in Israel has returned a hung parliament, with just one seat separating the main right and left wing parties in the Knesset. 

1988 2-November-– The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.

19902-November- – British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses. 

2-November-1990  President George Bush rallied in Ohio for the removal of Saddam Hussein from Kuwait without a single shot being fired. He also promised the return of troops very soon. 

 1996-2-November  Tutsi Rebels and Rwandan forces attacked Goma in Zaire hoping to gain control of the airport. This is in response to Hutu extremists who earlier had slaughtered 50,000 Tutsus and then fled to Zaire when the Tutsis took control of the country .

2000-2-November- - Space :One American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts became the first to move into the international space station, preparing for a four-month stay.

2003 -2-November- A U.S. helicopter was shot down while heading home with a few dozen troop members. A total of 16 persons were killed and 20 more were wounded as a result of this incident.

2006- 2-November-- President Bush has said he wants Donald Rumsfeld to stay in his job as Defense Secretary until the end of his presidency. 

2009-2-November- -The United Nations-Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon arrives in Afghan capital of Kabul.

2009 -2-November- - United States -- Mexican-American talks on extradition

2011-2-November- - United Kingdom -- Wikileaks Founder, Julian Assange, who is accused of rape and molestation of two women in Sweden

 2011-2-November-Two Chinese spacecraft have joined together while in orbit, marking a first for the country.

2012-2-November- - United States - Secret Service Agent Rafael PrietoCommits Suicide under investigation for failing to report a relationship with woman from Mexico

2013-2-November- - Pakistan -- Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was killed