November 2
People born on this day are Scorpio.
- 1983
U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
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Lebanon hostage crisis: U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.
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LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703 crashes in Białobrzegi, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland, killing one person and injuring several more.
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British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
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Tropical Storm Linda makes landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.
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Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.
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Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for the first long-duration stay onboard. From this day to present, a continuous human presence in space on the station remains uninterrupted.
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Lewis Hamilton secured his maiden Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by one point ahead of Felipe Massa at the Brazilian Grand Prix, after a pass for fifth place against the Toyota of Timo Glock on the final lap of the race.
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The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.
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In Vienna's Innere Stadt district, an ISIL sympathizer shoots and kills four people and injures 23 more, before being shot and killed by the police.
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A peace agreement is signed between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front, ending the Tigray War.
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2001Moisés Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer
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2000Alphonso Davies, Canadian soccer player
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1999Park Woo-jin, South Korean singer
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1998Jordan Love, American football player
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1997Filip Hronek, Czech ice hockey player
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1995Hanna Öberg, Swedish biathlete
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1994Shaq Coulthirst, English footballer
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1991Jimmy Garoppolo, American football player
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1990Christopher Dibon, Austrian footballer
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1990Kendall Schmidt, American singer, songwriter, and actor
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1989Tibor Pleiß, German basketball player
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1989Natalie Pluskota, American tennis player
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