What happened on November 2 in other years, from the events Wikipedia's editors chose for its "On this day":
- 619: Emperor 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. → Tang campaigns against the Western Turks
- 1917: The British government issued the Balfour Declaration in support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small Jewish minority. → Balfour Declaration
- 1949: The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ended with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia. → Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference
- 1963: President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was assassinated, marking the culmination of a coup d'état led by Dương Văn Minh. → 1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état
- 1997: Tropical Storm Linda made landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths. → Tropical Storm Linda (1997)
- 2008: Lewis Hamilton overtook Timo Glock in the final corners of the Brazilian Grand Prix to win the Formula One championship by one point. → 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix
Born on November 2
- 1755: Marie Antoinette, Austrian-French queen consort of Louis XVI of France (died 1793)
- 1795: James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (died 1849)
- 1865: Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (died 1923)
- 1965: Shah Rukh Khan, Indian film actor, producer and television host
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