On this Day November 2nd

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November 2nd is the three hundredth sixth day of the year, and there are 59 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Events

1675 – Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War

1882 – The great fire destroys a large part of Oulu's city center in Oulu Province, Finland.

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

1914 – World War I: The Russian Empire declared war on the Ottoman Empire, and the Dardanelles were subsequently closed.

1920 - In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh started broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.

1936—The BBC Television Service began as the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs today.

1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built until Scaled Composites rolled out their Stratolaunch in May 2017.

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.

1966—The Cuban Adjustment Act came into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans to apply for permanent residence in the United States.

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

2016 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.

 

Birthdays

1418 – Gaspare Nadi, Italian builder and writer

1470 – Edward V of England (d. 1483)

1696 – Conrad Weiser, American soldier, monk, and judge (d. 1760)

1734 – Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer (d. 1820)

1755 – Marie Antoinette, Austrian-French queen consort of Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)

1799 – John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (d. 1885)[

1844 – John J. Loud, American inventor (d. 1916)

1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic (d. 1972)

1908 – Bunny Berigan, American trumpet player (d. 1942)

1929 – Amar Bose, American engineer and businessman, founded the Bose Corporation (d. 2013)

1944 – Keith Emerson, English pianist, keyboard player, and composer (d. 2016)

1977 – Reshma Shetty, British-American actress

1998 – Jordan Love, American football player

 

Holiday Highlight

 World Numbat Day

World Numbat Day is a holiday that celebrates the unique mammal emblem of Western Australia and encourages conservation efforts. The founder and origins of the day are still unknown.

The numbat, also known as banded anteater or walpurti, is an insectivorous marsupial. Its diet consists almost exclusively of termites. This species was once widespread in Southern Australia but is now limited to a few small colonies in Western Australia. Therefore, it is an endangered species and is protected by different conservation programs. Recently, numbats have been re-introduced to fenced-in nature reserves in South Australia and New South Wales. The numbat is considered the faunal emblem of Western Australia.

Unlike most other marsupials, the numbat leads a daily life, mainly due to the restrictions of a special diet. Numbats are not big and have five toes on their front paws and four on their hind legs. However, like other mammals that eat termites or ants, the numbat has a degenerate jaw with up to 50 small, non-functional teeth, and although it can chew, it rarely does.

 

Holidays And Observance

All Soul's Day

Bison Day

Dynamic Harmlessness Day

Learn to Homebrew Day  

Look for Circles Day

National Book Lovers Day n

National Deviled Egg Day

National Play Outside Day  

National Wine Tasting Day

Plan Your Epitaph Day

Practice Being Psychic Day

Pumpkin Destruction Day

Sausage and Kraut Day

World Numbat Day  

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