What are the important events that happened on November 2? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

November 2: Facts & Myths About This Day

November 2 is the 306^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 59 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 20, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,762,041,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectahexagon’ day.

Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 107 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,699 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 2 Historical Events

• 1917 –
  The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the “establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” with the clear understanding “that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities”.
• 1930 –
  Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1936 –
  Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
• 1947 –
  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 –
  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.
• 1959 –
  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.
• 1960 –
  Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case
• 1973 –
  The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a ‘United Front’in the state of Tripura.
• 1984 –
  Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
• 1988 –
  The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.

Who were born on November 2?

• 1910 –
  Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (d. 1999)
• 1955 –
  Chris Burnett, American musician
• 1972 –
  Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer
• 1975 –
  Chris Walla, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie)
• 1977 –
  Konstantinos Economidis, Greek tennis player
• 1978 –
  Vitor “Shaolin” Ribeiro, Brazilian mixed-martial artist
• 1981 –
  Roddy White, American football player
• 1981 –
  Wilson Betemit, Dominican baseball player
• 1989 –
  Luke Schenn, Canadian hockey player
• 1990 –
  Kendall Schmidt, American singer and actor (Big Time Rush)

Who died on November 2?

• 943 –
  Queen Emma of France, (b. 894)
• 1083 –
  Matilda of Flanders, Queen consort of William I the Conqueror (b. 1031)
• 1327 –
  King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
• 1846 –
  Esaias Tegnér, Swedish writer, educator, and bishop (b. 1782)
• 1863 –
  Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826)
• 1887 –
  Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
• 1966 –
  Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer (b. 1892)
• 1975 –
  Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)
• 1979 –
  Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (b. 1936)
• 2007 –
  Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)