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On this day...
Feast day of All Souls, St Victorinus of Pettau, and Saint Marcian of Cyrrhus.
1785 The first insubmersible lifeboat was patented by Lionel Lakin, a
London coach builder.
1871 The 'Rogues Gallery' was started, when photographs of all prisoners
in Britain were first taken.
1899 Ladysmith, in Natal, South Africa, was besieged by the Boers.
1917 The Balfour Declaration, stating British support for the Jewish
Zionist goal of a homeland in Palestine, was sent to Lord Rothschild.
1930 Ras Tafari, King of Ethiopia, was crowned Emperor Haile Selassie
('Might of the Trinity').
1957 With eight simultaneous hits in the UK Top 30 chart, Elvis Presley
set an all-time record.
1960 A British jury acquitted Penguin Books of obscenity in the matter
of publishing D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.
1976 James Earl Carter was elected the 39th President of the USA.
1990 Ivana Trump filed for divorce from US millionaire Donald Trump.
Birthdays which occurred on November 2nd:
1470 King Edward V of England (1483)
1734 Daniel Boone, frontiersman/explorer
1755 Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France
1795 James Knox Polk, 11th US President (D) (1845-1849)
1815 George Boole, mathematician (Boolean algebra)
1847 George Sorel, French Socialist thinker, writer (violent revolutions)
1865 Warren Gamaliel Harding (R), 29th US President (1921-23)
1885 Harlow Shapley, US, astronomer (studied the galaxies)
1901 James Dunn, New york, actor (Uncle Earl-It's a Great Life)
1901 Paul Ford, Baltimore, actor (Phil Silvers Show)
1906 Luchino Visconti, Milan Italy, director (Damned, Death in Venice)
1911 Odysseus Elytis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1979)
1913 Burt Lancaster New York, actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry)
1914 Ray Walston, New Orleans, actor (My Favorite Martian, Damn Yankees)
1917 Ann Ruthrerfod, Toronto, TV panelist (Leave It To the Girls)
1917 Durward Knowles, England, yachtsman (Olympic Gold-1968-Bahamas)
1919 Warren Stevens, Clark's Summit PA, actor (Richard Boone Show)
1920 Ann Rutherford, actress (Return to Vienna, Leave it to the Girls)
1920 Lewis Charles, New York, actor (Feather & Father Gang)
1921 Willaim D. Schaefer, Maryland, (Gov-D-Maryland)
1929 Harold Farberman, New York, conductor/composer (Medea)
1929 Rachel Ames, Portland Oregon, actress (Line Up, Audrey-Gen Hospital)
1934 Ken Rosewall, Sydney Australia, tennis star
1936 Rose Bird, California Supreme Court Judge
1938 Patrick Buchanan, conservative political columnist
1942 Shere Hite, St. Joseph Missouri, sex therapist (Hite Report)
1942 Stefanie Powers, Hollywood, actress (Girl From UNCLE, Hart to Hart)
1946 Giuseppe Sinopoli, Venice Italy, conductor (Sunnyata)
1951 Kathy Hammond, US, 400m runner (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1952 Kate Linder, actress (Esther-Young & Restless)
1953 Alfre Woodard, Tulsa, actress (St Elsewhere)
1958 Bobby Dall, rocker (Poison-Every Rose Has a Thorn)
1958 Willie McGee, St. Louis Cardinals (1985 NL MVP)
1961 k.d. lang, country singer (& the Reclines-Absolute Torch & Twang)
1966 Rosalyn Fairbank, South Africa, tennis player
1975 Danny Cooksey, Moore Oklahoma, actor (Sam-Diff'rent Strokes)
Deaths which occurred on November 2nd:
1961 James Thurber, humorist (The Male Animal), dies at 66
1963 South Vietnamese President assassinated in a military coup
1980 Edith Bunker dies on "All in the Family"
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