Today in History - November 2
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All Soul's Day for Roman Catholics. El Dia
de los Muertes, Day of the Dead for Mexicans.
(WSJ, 11/2/98, p.B1)
1164
Nov 2, Thomas Becket, the archbishop of
Canterbury, fled England and landed in Flan-ders.
(ON, 8/20/11, p.2)
1483 Nov 2, Henry
Stafford (b.1454), earl of Buckingham and constable of England, was
be-headed at Salisbury for his rebellion against King Richard III
(1452-1485).
(DoW, 1999, p.71)
1570 Nov 2, A tidal wave in the
North Sea destroyed the sea walls from Holland to Jutland. Over a
thousand people are killed.
(HN,
11/2/98)(www.metoffice.com/education/secondary/students/flood.html)
1648 Nov 2, 12,000 Jews were
massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia (Ukraine). Cossack
Bogdan Chmielnicki led the pogrom in quest of Ukrainian independence
from the Pol-ish nobility, who employed Jews to collect taxes.
(PCh, 1992, p.241)(MC, 11/2/01)
1697 Nov 2, Constantine Huygens
Jr, poet, painter and cartoonist, was buried.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1734 Nov 2, Daniel Boone,
American frontiersman, was born.
(HFA, '96, p.18)(HN, 11/2/98)
1739 Nov 2, Karl Ditters von
Dittersdorf, composer, was born.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1749 Nov 2, The English Ohio
Trade Company formed its 1st trade post.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1755 Nov 2, Marie Antoinette
(d.1793), Queen of France, was born. She was the daughter of Maria
Theresa and Francis I; and wife of Louis XVI in 1770 and thus Queen
of France. She was arrested by the Revolutionary Tribunal and
beheaded on Oct. 15.
(CFA, '96, p.58)(HN, 11/2/98)
1772 Nov 2, The first
Committees of Correspondence were formed in Massachusetts under
Samuel Adams.
(HN, 11/2/98)
1783 Nov 2, Gen. George
Washington issued his "Farewell Address to the Army" near
Prince-ton, N.J.
(AP, 11/2/97)
1789 Nov 2, The property of the
Church in France was taken away by the state.
(HN, 11/2/98)
1795 Nov 2, James Knox Polk,
the 11th president of the United States, was born in Mecklen-burg
County, N.C.
(AP, 11/2/97)(HN, 11/2/98)
1810 Nov 2, Andrew Atkinson
Humphreys (d.1883), Mjr. Gen. (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1813 Nov 2, Treaty of
Fulda. After the Battle of Leipzig (Oct 16-19) King Frederick I of
Würt-temberg (1754-1816) deserted Napoleon’s waning fortunes.
By a treaty made with Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich
(1773-1858) at Fulda, Hessen, Germany he secured the confirmation of
his royal title and of his recent acquisitions of territory, while
his troops marched with those of the allies into France.
(DoW, 1999, p.325)
1815 Nov 2, George Boole
(d.1864), English-Irish mathematician and logician (Boolean
alge-bra), was born.
(WUD, 1994, p.170)(SFC, 12/2/97, p.C3)(MC,
11/2/01)
1822 Nov 2, The USRC Louisiana
along with USS Peacock and the Royal Navy schooner HMS Speedwell
captured five pirate vessels off Havana, Cuba.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_31_August_1819)
1824 Nov 2, Popular
presidential vote was 1st recorded; Jackson beat J.Q. Adams. Gen.
Jackson won the popular vote followed by John Quincy Adams, William
Crawford and Henry Clay. Jackson won 99 electoral votes, Adams won
84, Crawford won 41 and Clay won 37. Crawford, Treasury secretary,
was accused of malfeasance. Henry Clay was denounced for passing
days gambling and nights in a brothel. Clay convinced his supporters
in congress to vote for Adams. The House of Representatives chose
John Quincy Adams, who chose Clay for vice president. A furious
Jackson proceeded to help found the Democratic Party.
(WSJ, 10/8/96, p.A22)(WSJ, 11/9/00, p.A26)(WSJ,
12/11/00, p.A18)(MC, 11/2/01)
1841 Nov 2, Following
the British occupation of Kabul during the 1st Afghan War
(1839-1842), Afghans revolted and murdered British envoy, Lt. Col.
Sir Alexander Burnes (1805-1841) and some 23 others. By Jan 1842 the
British army decided to withdraw with its 4,500 Anglo-Indian troops
and 10,000 camp followers. The column was wiped out by Ghilzai
tribesmen with their long-barreled rifles called jezails.
(WSJ, 8/25/98, p.A14)(HN,
11/2/98)(www.indhistory.com/afghan-war-1.html)
1851 Nov 2, Louis
Napoleon staged a coup and took power in France as Napoleon III of
the Second Empire.
(WSJ, 2/10/98, p.A16)(DoW, 1999, p182)
1852 Nov 2, Franklin Pierce was
elected US president over Gen’l. Winfield Scott, who ran as a Whig.
In 1852, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution giving Scott the pay
and rank of a lieu-tenant general. Scott, not Ulysses S. Grant, was
the first to hold this rank since George Wash-ington. William R.
King was elected vice-president.
(SFC, 10/22/96, p.E8)(http://tinyurl.com/8ku7j)
1857 Nov 2, Joseph F.F.
Babinski, Polish-French neurologist (Babinski reflex), was born.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1858 Nov 2, In Illinois Abraham
Lincoln won 4,085 more popular votes for the Senate than did Sen.
Stephen Douglas; however Illinois senators were elected by the state
legislatures and Douglas won reelection there by 8 votes.
(ON, 4/08, p.3)
1865 Nov 2, Warren Gamaliel
Harding, the 29th president of the United States (1921-1923), was
born near Corsica, Ohio.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, zone 3 p.4)(AP, 11/2/97)
1869 Nov 2, Sheriff Wild Bill
Hickok lost his reelection bid in Ellis County, Kan.
(HN, 11/2/98)
1878 Nov 2, Edward Scripps
(1854-1926) and John Scripps Sweeney founded the Penny Press. Ellen
Scripps helped her younger half brother, Edward W. Scripps, begin
his Penny Press in Cleveland, Ohio. She gave financial support and
contributed articles and columns to the Penny Press while continuing
her work for the Detroit Evening News.
(http://tinyurl.com/3dc4tx)(http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=SEW)
1880 Nov 2, James A. Garfield
was elected 20th president. During the Civil War, Garfield was a
commander at the bloody fight at Chickamauga. The election was
close, with Republican James Garfield getting 48.27% to Democrat
Winfield Hancock‘s 48.25% and a difference of less than 2,000 votes!
Garfield was shot by a disgruntled office seeker four months into
his presidency.
(HN, 11/2/98)(HNQ, 11//00)
1882 Nov 2, Newly elected John
Poe replaced Pat Garrett as sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico
Territory.
(HN, 11/2/98)
1885 Nov 2, Harlow Shapley,
astronomer, was born. He discovered the Sun is not at the cen-ter of
the galaxy.
(HN, 11/2/00)
1887 Nov 2, Jenny Lind
(b.1820), known as the Swedish Nightingale, soprano, died in
Lon-don, England.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Lind)
1889 Nov 2, North Dakota was
made the 39th state.
(AP, 11/2/97)(HN, 11/2/98)
1889 Nov 2, South Dakota is
made the 40th state.
(AP, 11/2/97)(HN, 11/2/98)
1895 Nov 2, In San Francisco
the Chutes amusement park first opened on Haight Street, fea-turing
the shoot-the-chutes water slide. It relocated to Fulton Street and
10th Avenue in 1902 and was extremely popular right after the 1906
earthquake and fire, because it was the only amusement park and
theater that survived. In the post-quake years, Fillmore Street
became the entertainment area, with numerous nickelodeons and other
attractions. The Chutes on Fulton Street closed after New Years Eve,
1908, and reopened on Fillmore and Turk Streets on July 14, 1909,
but without the shoot-the-chutes. The New Chutes offered a host of
other amusement attractions and soon built a first class vaudeville
Theater, where in 1910, Sophie Tucker revived her career after being
black-balled by Flo Ziegfeld back in New York. The New Chutes would
burn on the Memorial Day weekend of the opening of the Summer
season, on May 29, 1911, the same weekend that Dreamland at Coney
Island would be destroyed on the other side of the continent. The
theater was saved, but the entire wooden Chutes amusement park was
de-stroyed and never reopened.
(AJSF, Vol. 14. No. 2, Winter, 2003)
1892 Nov 2, Lawmen surrounded
outlaws Ned Christie and Arch Wolf near Tahlequah, Indian Country
(present-day Oklahoma). It would take dynamite and a cannon to
dislodge the two from their cabin.
(HN, 11/2/98)
1898 Nov 2, Theodor
Herzl, founder (1897) of modern political National Zionism, arrived
in Jerusalem to promote his World Zionist Organization. Zionism
maintains that the Jewish people constitute a nation and are
entitled to a national homeland.
(www.wzo.org.il/home/movement/herzl.htm)
1901 Nov 2, Paul Ford, actor
(Phil Silvers Show), was born in Baltimore, Md.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1903 Nov 2, The Daily Mirror of
London began operating as the first tabloid newspaper.
(WSJ, 12/29/07,
p.A8)(http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/lofiversion/index.php/t6351.html)
1906 Nov 2, Luchino Visconti,
film director, was born in Milan, Italy. His work included
“Ob-session” and “Death in Venice.”
(HN, 11/2/00)(AP, 11/2/06)
1913 Nov 2, American actor Burt
Lancaster, was born.
(HN, 11/2/98)
1914 Nov 2, Ray Walston, actor
(My Favorite Martian, Damn Yankees, Picket Fences), was born in New
Orleans, La.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1914 Nov 2, Victor
Herbert's "Only Girl," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1914 Nov 2, Great Britain
annexed Cyprus.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1914 Nov 2, Russia declared war
with Turkey.
(HN, 11/2/98)
1916 Nov 2, France reconquered
Ft Vaux, Verdun.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1917 Nov 2, In the
Lansing-Ishii Agreement the US recognized Japan's privileges in
China. US Sec. of State Robert Lansing and Viscount Ishii Kikujiro
of Japan, a special envoy to Wash-ington, worked to resolve tensions
and conflicts between Japan and the US during WW I. The
Lansing-Ishii Agreement was formally annulled in April 1923. Japan
and the U.S. continued to disagree on their respective roles in the
Pacific.
(www.fact-index.com/l/la/lansing_ishii_agreement.html)
1917 Nov 2, British Foreign
Secretary Arthur Balfour, in what became known as the Balfour
Declaration, expressed support for a "national home" for the Jews of
Palestine. It encouraged Jewish immigration to Israel in the decade
after WW I.
(SFC, 10/18/96, C8)(AP, 11/2/97)
1920 Nov 2, Warren G. Harding
was elected 29th president. He defeated James Cox, gover-nor of
Ohio, and his VP running mate Franklin Delano Roosevelt (38).
(SFC, 10/13/99, p.E7)(AH, 10/04, p.50)
1920 Nov 2, The first radio
broadcast of presidential elections in the United States were made
by radio. Westinghouse had built radio station KDKA on its factory
roof in Pittsburgh and was among the first to broadcast returns from
the Harding-Cox presidential election. 8MK, the first US station
owned by a newspaper (the Detroit News), also broadcast the election
returns.
(www.oldradio.com/current/the1st.htm)(WSJ,
1/12/98, p.A19)(HN, 11/2/98)(AP, 11/2/99)
1920 Nov 2, Of the
sixty-eight women who signed the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca
Falls in 1848, only one, Charlotte Woodward Pierce (1830-1921),
lived to see that day.
(www.nps.gov/wori/biographies/woodward.htm)
1920 Nov 2, In Ocoee, Fla., on
election day gunfire erupted after 2 black men tried to vote. By the
next day a number of residents, black and white, lay dead.
(WSJ, 10/30/98, p.A1)
1921 Nov 2, Fernando Correia de
Oliveira, composer, was born.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1921 Nov 2, Eugene O'Neill's
"Anna Christie," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1921 Nov 2, Margaret Sanger and
Mary Ware Dennett formed the American Birth Control League.
(HN, 11/2/98)
1922 Nov 2, Australian Qantas
airways began service.
(www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/history-birthplace/global/en)
1922 Nov 2, English
archeologist Charles Leonard Woolley began excavating the ancient
Mesopotamian city of Ur, located between Baghdad and the Persian
Gulf.
(ON, 8/20/11, p.7)
1923 Nov 2, US Navy aviator,
H.J. Brown, set new world speed record of 259 mph in a Cur-tiss
racer.
(HN, 11/2/98)
1923 Nov 2, Bloody street
fights took place in Aachen. The pro-French separatists were driven
out.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1924 Nov 2, Sunday Express
published the 1st British crossword puzzle.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1926 Nov 2, Air Commerce Act
was passed providing federal aid for airlines and airports.
(HN, 11/2/98)
1927 Nov 2, In San Francisco
prohibition agents raided a brewery at 1407 San Bruno Ave. with
nearly 2,000 gallons of beer brewing in 4 500-gallon vats.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.E7)
1928 Nov 2, L. Stokovski
conducted the premiere of Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st Symphony, in
Phila.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1929 Nov 2, Richard Taylor,
Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was born. He proved the existence of
quarks.
(HN, 11/2/00)
1930 Nov 2, Haile Selassie was
crowned emperor of Ethiopia. His coronation was taken as a sign by
Jamaicans, who became known as Rastafarians, from the term Ras
Tafari, a title held by Selassie. Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie
I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty.
(AP, 11/2/97)(SFC, 12/4/00,
p.A12)(http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Haile_Selassie)
1932 Nov 2, Melvin Schwartz,
physicist, was born. He won the Nobel Prize for work on neutri-nos.
(HN, 11/2/00)
1934 Nov 2, Babe Ruth began his
tour of Tokyo, Japan.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1936 Nov 2, Rose
Elizabeth Bird (d.1999), future California Supreme Court Justice,
was born on a chicken farm in Arizona.
(www.law.stanford.edu/library/wlhbp/articles/RoseBird120699.htm)
1936 Nov 2, The first
high-definition public television transmissions began from Alexandra
Palace in north London by the BBC.
(HN, 11/2/98)(MC, 11/2/01)
1938 Nov 2, Germany gave
southern Slovakia to Hungary.
(WUD, 1994, p.1682)
1941 Nov 2, German troops
occupied Rostov.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1942 Nov 2, Lt. General Dwight
D. Eisenhower arrived in Gibraltar to set up an American command
post for the invasion of North Africa, Operation Torch.
(HN, 11/2/98)
1942 Nov 2, An amphibious
aircraft foundered in rough weather, in the waters surrounding what
is now the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve in the eastern
Gulf of Saint Law-rence. The plane was based at Presqu'Ile, Maine,
in the US, and serviced an airfield in the vil-lage of
Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, Quebec. Four of the crew escaped the
flooding plane and were rescued by local fishermen rowing out from
shore in open boats in rough seas. Five others perished, trapped
inside. In 1941 and 1942, the US had constructed a series of
airfields in East-ern Canada to ferry aircraft to Allied air forces
in Northern Europe, as part of the so-called "Crimson Route."
Wreckage of the downed plane was found in 2009.
(AFP, 8/7/09)
1942 Nov 2, 11th day of battle
at El Alamein, Egypt: British made an assault on Tel el Aqqaqir.
Montgomery defeated Rommel in battle of Alamein Egypt.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1943 Nov 2, The Battle of
Empress Augusta Bay in Bougainville ended in U.S. Navy victory over
Japan.
(HN, 11/2/98)
1943 Nov 2, Jewish ghetto of
Riga, Latvia, was destroyed.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1944 Nov 2, Patrice Chereau,
actor (Danton) and director ("The Ring" at Bayreuth), was born.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1946 Nov 2, Giuseppe Sinopoli,
conductor, was born in Venice, Italy.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1947 Nov 2, Howard Hughes
piloted his huge wooden airplane, known as the Spruce Goose, on its
only flight, which lasted 70 sec. over Long Beach Harbor in
California. The plane had an 8-story tail and a 320-foot wingspan.
It was designed to take seven hundred soldiers into battle. The
plane had a wing span longer than a football field, and was powered
by 8 engines and was crafted out of 200 tons of plywood. The war
ended before the plane was deployed, but Hughes proved the Spruce
Goose's was air-worthy.
(AP, 11/2/97)(SFC, 7/29/98, p.A20)(HN,
11/2/98)(MC, 11/2/01)
1947 Nov 2, Jawaharlal Nehru
said: "We have declared that the fate of Kashmir is ultimately to be
decided by the people. That pledge we have given, and the Maharaja
has supported it not only to the people of Kashmir but the world. We
will not, and cannot back out of it. We are pre-pared when peace and
law and order have been established to have a referendum held under
international auspices like the United Nations. We want it to be a
fair and just reference to the people, and we shall accept their
verdict. I can imagine no fairer and juster offer."
(http://tinyurl.com/8sovl)
1948 Nov 2, President Truman
was elected 33rd president in an upset. He won re-election by a
narrow margin over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey. The
Chicago Daily Tribune had been so sure of Dewey's victory that they
had printed front-page "Dewey Defeats Truman" arti-cles before the
final results were in. Truman defeated Dewey by 2.2 million popular
votes and 114 electoral votes. During the presidential election
campaign, almost everyone expected New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey
to win and few had faith in a victory for incumbent Harry S. Truman.
While Truman went on a "whistle stop" tour across the United States,
giving more than 350 speeches, Dewey's confident campaign was more
reserved. Prof. Frank Kofsky later wrote "Harry Truman and the War
Scare of 1948." Henry Wallace was the candidate for the Progres-sive
Party. In 2000 Zachary Karabell authored "The Last Campaign: How
Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election."
(AP, 11/2/97)(SFC,11/26/97, p.C6)(SFC, 10/12/98,
p.A17)(HN, 11/2/98)(HNPD, 11/2/98)(SFEC, 5/14/00, BR p.5)
1950 Nov 2, George Bernard Shaw
(b.1856), Irish-born, English dramatist (Pygmalion), critic and
social reformer, died. Michael Holroyd later authored a 3-volume
biography of Shaw.
(V.D.-H.K.p.237)(HN, 7/26/98)(SFEC, 3/5/00, DB
p.4)
1952 Nov 2, Dixie Lee Crosby
(40), wife of Bing Crosby, died in Hollywood from cancer.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.E7)
1952 Nov 2,
In Britain Derek Bentley (19) and Christopher Craig (16) tried to
break into a warehouse in South London. Craig shot and killed Police
Constable Sidney Miles. Bentley, who had the mental age of 11, was
hanged in Jan., 1953, for his role in the murder of the police
offi-cer and Craig went to prison for 10 years. The 1991 film “Let
Him Have It” was based on the story of Bentley as was the Elvis
Costello song “Let Him Dangle.” Bentley’s conviction was overturned
in 1998.
(SFC, 7/31/98, p.A16,18)
1953 Nov 2, Pakistan became an
Islamic republic.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1954 Nov 2, Strom Thurmond
(1902-2003) of South Carolina became the 1st US senator elected by
write-in vote.
(http://constitutioncenter.org/timeline/html/cw10_12231.html)
1954 Nov 2, Andrei Y. Vishinsky
(b. 1883) died. Jacob A. Malik succeeded him as the chief Soviet
delegate to the UN and as First Deputy Foreign Minister of the USSR.
(WUD, 1994, p.1685)
1955 Nov 2, Dr. Willis E. Lamb
(1913-2008) of Stanford Univ. and Dr. Polykarp Kusch of Co-lumbia
Univ. were named co-winners of the Nobel Prize in physics. They came
up with com-plementary discoveries in nuclear physics in 1947.
(SFC, 10/28/05, p.F3)(SFC, 5/23/08, p.B10)
1955 Nov 2, Clarton-Schwerdt
and Schaffer discovered the polio virus.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1955 Nov 2, David Ben-Gurion
formed an Israeli govt.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1956 Nov 2, Hungary appealed
for UN assistance against Soviet invasion. The Soviets chose Janos
Kadar to form a counter-government.
(http://tinyurl.com/yydkfe)
1956 Nov 2, Gaza was occupied
by the Israeli army and evacuated in March 1957.
(www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0007_0_07101.html)
1956 Nov 2, The UN passed an
American resolution, 64 to 5, for a ceasefire at the Suez Ca-nal in
Egypt. The General Assembly took up a Canadian suggestion for an
emergency force to monitor the ceasefire. The UN Emergency Force
(UNEF) became the first “blue hat” UN peace-keepers.
(Econ, 7/29/06,
p.24)(www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/past/unefi.htm)
1956 Nov 2, Jacob Weinberg
(77), composer, died.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1957 Nov 2, The 1st titanium
mill opened in Toronto, Ohio.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1959 Nov 2, Charles Van Doren
admitted to a House subcommittee that he had the questions and
answers in advance of his appearances on the NBC-TV game show
"Twenty-One."
(AP, 11/2/97)(HN, 11/2/98)
1960 Nov 2, Democratic
presidential candidate John F. Kennedy told an audience of 20,000 at
the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca., that the US should establish a
Peace Corps. The idea was first presented 3 weeks earlier at the
Univ. of Michigan.
(www.peacecorpswriters.org/pages/2000/0009/009indexp1.html)
1960 Nov 2, A British jury
determined that Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence is not
ob-scene. It had been published by Penguin Books.
(HN, 11/2/00)(MC, 11/2/01)
1960 Nov 2, Dimitri Mitropoulos
(64), Greek-US conductor and composer, died.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1961 Nov 2, James Thurber
(b.1894), humorist (The Male Animal), died at age 66. In 1975 Burton
Bernstein authored "Thurber: A Biography." In 2003 Harrison Kinney
and Rosemary A. Thurber edited "The Thurber Letters."
(MC, 11/2/01)(WSJ, 8/1/03, p.W10)
1962 Nov 2, Pres. Kennedy
reported that Soviet missile bases in Cuba were being disman-tled.
(HN, 10/22/98)
1963 Nov 1-2, South Vietnamese
President Ngo Dihn Diem and his brother were assassi-nated in a
military coup. Coup leader Duong Van Minh explained that "They had
to be killed… Pres. Diem was too much respected among simple,
gullible people in the countryside." A 3rd brother was later tricked
into surrendering to US forces and was turned over to coup leaders
and killed by firing squad.
(AP, 11/2/97)(HN, 11/2/98)(SFEM, 4/11/99,
p.42)(SFEC, 4/23/00, p.A19)
1964 Nov 2, Faisal ibn Abdul
Aziz Al Saud succeeded his older brother Saud bin Abdul Aziz as king
of Saudi Arabia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia)
1972 Nov 2, In Seattle, Wa.,
ground was officially broken for the new Kingdome. It was com-pleted
in 1976. It was destroyed Mar 26, 2000.
(http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Field/3477/kingdome/history.htm)
1976 Nov 2, Former Georgia Gov.
(James Earl) Jimmy Carter defeated Republican incum-bent Gerald R.
Ford, becoming the 39th president and the first from the Deep South
since the Civil War.
(AP, 11/2/97)(HN, 11/2/98)
1976 Nov 2, Voters in
California rejected Prop. 14, an initiative that proposed to add to
the state constitution the funding provisions and rights of
organizers (UFW) to enter farm fields to talk to workers. Opposition
to the initiative was run by the Dolphin Group, an influential
lobbying firm.
(SFEM, 4/13/97, p.28)
1976 Nov 2, Tom Tancredo was
elected to Colorado’s state house as a member of a group called “The
Crazies” due to their fervent opposition to taxes.
(www.tancredo.org/info/tom_tancredo_bio.html)(Econ, 4/8/06, p.36)
1976 Nov 2, New Jersey voters
approved gambling for Atlantic City.
(NG, 8/04, p.96)
1976 Nov 2, In Utah Orrin Hatch
defeated 18-year incumbent Senator Frank Moss.
(SFC, 2/3/03, p.B4)
1976 Nov 2, In West Virginia’s
race for governor Democrat Jay Rockefeller (b.1937) defeated former
Gov. Cecil Underwood (1956-1960). Rockefeller was re-elected in
1980.
(SFC, 11/25/08,
p.B4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller)
1979 Nov 2, Peter Shaffer's
play "Amadeus," premiered in London.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0086879/trivia)
1979 Nov 2, Black militant
Joanne Chesimard escaped from a New Jersey prison, where she was
serving a life sentence for the 1973 slaying of a New Jersey state
trooper. Chesimard moved to Cuba to live as Assata Shakur.
(AP, 11/2/99)
1983 Nov 2, President Reagan
signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of
January in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
(AP, 11/2/98)(HN, 11/2/98)
1984 Nov 2, Paul Cosner
disappeared from the SF Bay Area following a planned sale of a 1980
Honda Prelude at his Marin Motors. The car was identified Jun 2,
1985 in the hands of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. As many as 25
people were believed killed by Lake and Ng at a compound in
Calaveras County, Ca.
(SFC, 10/25/98, p.A5)
1984 Nov 2, Velma Barfield
(b.1932), convicted of the fatal poisoning of her boyfriend, was put
to death by injection in Raleigh, N.C. She was the first woman
executed in the United States since 1962.
(AP,
11/2/99)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_Barfield)
1986 Nov 2, Mike Tyson (20)
knocked out Trevor Berbick and won the WBC title to become the
youngest heavyweight champion in history.
(SFC, 2/6/99, p.A13)
1986 Nov 2, Kidnappers in
Lebanon released American hospital administrator David Jacobsen
after holding him for 17 months.
(AP, 11/2/06)
1987 Nov 2, Zhao Ziyang was
appointed head of China's Communist Party, succeeding his mentor,
Deng Xiaoping.
(AP, 11/2/97)
1987 Nov 2, In Peru during the
All Souls holiday a 20 person raiding party of the Maoist Shin-ing
path attacked the mountain community of Lucanas. They burned down
the municipal hall and several stores and then dragged a local
political leader and 7 merchants from their homes and stoned them to
death.
(WSJ, 6/12/97, p.A12)
1988 Nov 2, A computer worm,
named Morris, unleashed by a Cornell University graduate student
began replicating, clogging thousands of computers around the
country, but causing no real damage. The virus infected an estimated
6,000 university and military computers over the Internet.
(AP, 11/2/98)(SFC, 9/3/07, p.C3)
1989 Nov 2, President Bush and
congressional Republicans dropped their Capitol Hill quest for a cut
in the capital gains tax.
(AP, 11/2/99)
1989 Nov 2, Sister Diana Ortiz
was raped and tortured in Guatemala. She claimed that a man called
Allejandro appeared in charge and that he spoke colloquial English
and spoke of con-tacts with the US Embassy. The US government has
denied any connection.
(SFC, 5/4/96, p.A-6)(SFC, 5/7/96, p.A-10)
1990 Nov 2, The White House
announced that President Bush planned to spend Thanksgiv-ing with
American GI’s in Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 11/2/00)
1991 Nov 2, Rev. Jesse Jackson,
who had run for the presidency in 1984 and 1988, an-nounced he would
not be a candidate in 1992.
(HN, 11/2/01)
1991 Nov 2, Chechnya proclaimed
independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
(SSFC, 11/10/02, p.A11)
1992 Nov 2, On Election Day eve
1992, President Bush and Democratic challenger Bill Clin-ton stumped
at a furious pace in several states.
(AP, 11/2/97)
1992 Nov 2, Movie producer Hal
Roach died in Los Angeles at age 100.
(AP, 11/2/97)
1992 Nov 2, The 1st test flight
of Airbus A330 was flown by engineering test pilots Etienne
Tarnowski and Udo Günzel.
(http://events.airbus.com/a380/seeing/learnandplay/history.asp#a330)
1993 Nov 2, The US Senate
called for full disclosure of Sen. Bob Packwood's diaries as part of
a probe into allegations of sexual harassment and possible criminal
wrongdoing by the Ore-gon Republican.
(AP, 11/2/98)
1993 Nov 2, Rudolph Giuliani
(R) was elected the 107th mayor of NYC. Giuliani defeated New York’s
first black mayor, David Dinkins. He became the first Republican
mayor in 2 decades and the city’s 107th.
(SFC, 8/15/97, p.A3)(SFC, 1/2/98, p.A3)(MC,
11/2/01)
1993 Nov 2, Christie Todd
Whitman (R) was elected 1st woman governor of NJ.
(www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/whitman_c.htm)
1993 Nov 2, Fires in Southern
California pushed through areas of Los Angeles, Riverside and San
Bernardino counties, burning 35,000 acres and 200 homes.
(AP, 11/2/98)
1993 Nov 2, Leon Theremin (97),
physicist and inventor of the eerie-sounding theremin in-strument,
died.
(ON, 11/01, p.8)
1994 Nov 2, A jury in
Pensacola, Fla., convicted Paul Hill of murder for the July 29
shotgun slayings of an abortion provider and his bodyguard; Hill was
sentenced to death. He became the first person to be executed for
killing an abortion provider when he was killed by electrocu-tion on
September 3, 2003 at the age of 49 at the Florida State Prison in
Raiford, Florida.
(AP,
11/2/99)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jennings_Hill)
1994 Nov 2, In Durunka, Egypt,
more than 475 people were killed when fuel carried by flood-waters
ignited.
(AP, 11/2/99)
1995 Nov 2, Daiwa Bank was
expelled from the US after it was learned that it tried to cover-up
illicit trades by bond trader Toshihide Iguchi who lost some $1.1
billion between 1984-1995. Mr. Iguchi was later sentenced to 4 years
in prison and fined nearly $2.6 million.
(WSJ, 1/8/97, p.A14)(AP, 11/2/00)
1995 Nov 2, A man claiming to
have a bomb hijacked a school bus with 13 learning-disabled children
aboard. He led authorities around Miami-area highways for an hour
and a-half before being fatally shot by police.
(AP, 11/2/00)
1995 Nov 2, In Colombia Alvaro
Gomez Hurtado, head of the main opposition Conservative Party, was
assassinated. In 1998 former Colonel Bernardo Ruiz was charged with
the murder.
(SFC, 10/31/98, p.A13)
1996 Nov 2, A tentative labor
contract was reached between General Motors and the United Auto
Workers, averting a national strike.
(AP, 11/2/97)
1996 Nov 2, Some 160,000 Beja
people faced famine in northern Sudan because of a 2-year draught in
the region.
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.A18)
1997 Nov 2, A labor agreement
between Amtrak and maintenance workers averted a possible national
passenger rail strike.
(AP, 11/2/98)
1997 Nov 2, Iraq barred two
American weapons experts from entering the country, the second such
refusal in a week. The UN decided to send a 3-man delegation to Iraq
remind Sadam of his obligation to comply with council resolutions.
(SFC,11/3/97, p.A1) (AP, 11/2/98)
1997 Nov 2, In France 250,000
union truckers began a strike over pay and work hours. Huge traffic
pile-ups resulted.
(SFC,11/4/97, p.A12)
1997 Nov 2, In Sri Lanka the
military bombed a ship unloading weapons for the Tamil Tigers and 60
people were reported killed.
(SFC,11/4/97, p.A12)
1998 Nov 2, Microsoft chairman
Bill Gates took center stage at his company's antitrust trial,
appearing on videotape inside a federal courtroom in Washington.
(AP, 11/2/99)
1998 Nov 2, The death toll from
Hurricane Mitch continued to rise with 174 killed in El Salva-dor,
100 in Guatemala, 0ver 1,500 in Nicaragua and over 5,500 in
Honduras. Central American officials estimated more than 7,000
people had died in floods and mudslides triggered by Hurri-cane
Mitch.
(SFC, 11/3/98, p.A1,11)(AP, 11/2/99)
1998 Nov 2, In Guinea-Bissau
the government and rebels signed an agreement to end the 5-month
civil war.
(SFC, 11/3/98, p.C12)
1998 Nov 2, Israel and
Palestine agreed to delay their interim peace agreement to allow
ap-proval by the Israeli cabinet and parliament.
(SFC, 11/3/98, p.A8)
1998 Nov 2, In Malaysia the
sex-and-politics trial of Anwar Ibrahim began.
(SFC, 11/2/98, p.A14)
1998 Nov 2, Mohammed Hashim
Bakhtiari, the brother-in-law of Afghanistan’s former slain
president Najibullah, was shot and killed in northwest Pakistan.
(SFC, 11/3/98, p.C12)
1998 Nov 2, In Thailand 6
Buddhist worshippers were killed and dozens injured when 3 giant
ceremonial incense sticks collapsed at the Phra Pathom Pagoda.
(SFC, 11/2/98, p.A16)
1999 Nov 2, Pres. Clinton met
with Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat in Oslo to revitalize the
Middle East peace process.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov 2, Republicans pushed
the year’s last and biggest spending bill through Congress toward a
sure veto by President Clinton.
(AP, 11/2/00)
1999 Nov 2, Republicans took
control of the Virginia General Assembly for the first time with 52
of 100 seats.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.A17)
1999 Nov 2, In San Francisco
elections Willie Brown led with 38.7% of the vote and Supervi-sor
Tom Ammiano came in 2nd with 25.4%. Terence Hallinan led over Bill
Fazio. A Dec 14 run-off was scheduled for both mayor and district
attorney. SF voters backed Proposition F, a ban on ATM surcharges,
and the banks quickly sued to keep the fees. The $299 million bond
measure to rebuild Laguna Honda passed and seismic retrofit for the
Central Freeway (Prop J) was undetermined as was the plan to tear
down the Central Freeway (Prop I). Voters approved an ordnance
making it harder for property owners to evict tenants (Prop G). In
2003 a judge weakened the Prop G ordnance. Voters passed a
proposition to keep the Transbay Terminal where it is and make sure
that Caltrain is extended into the terminal’s basement.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.A1)(SFC, 11/4/99, p.A1,21)(SFC,
11/5/99, p.A1,18)(SFC, 5/3/03, p.A17)(SFC, 8/7/07, p.A6)
1999 Nov 2, In Honolulu,
Hawaii, Xerox repairman Byran Uyesugi (40) killed 7 people at Xerox
company offices. There was no apparent motive. He was convicted of
1st degree murder in 2000 and sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.A1,14)(SFC, 6/13/00, p.A11)(AP,
11/2/00)
1999 Nov 2, Spanish Judge
Baltasar Garzon named former Argentine Pres. Leopoldo Galtieri in an
indictment along with 95 other military officers, who presided over
the "Dirty War" from 1976-1983.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.C3)
1999 Nov 2, In France the
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the finance minister, resigned in a
cor-ruption scandal.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.C3)
1999 Nov 2, In India the death
toll mounted from the cyclone in Orissa state with disease,
law-lessness and vandalism on the rise. There was no power in the
capital of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack was in ruins.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.C2)
1999 Nov 2, In Indonesia some
10,000 people in Aceh province took to the streets in Meu-laboh
calling for independence.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.C5)
1999 Nov 2, In southeastern
Iraq a missile hit the Habib camp of the dissident Mujahedeen-e
Khalq (MEK) near the border. At least 5 people were killed and Iran
was blamed for the attack.
(SFC, 11/4/99, p.A18)
1999 Nov 2, Israel resumed
attacks against Lebanon with 5 missiles at mountain targets at Jabal
al-Daher.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.C5)
1999 Nov 2, In Panama suspected
Colombian rebels hijacked 2 helicopters.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.C2)
1999 Nov 2, In Romania dozens
of orphaned and homeless teenagers protested and urged the
government to provide jobs and housing.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.C5)
2000 Nov 2, The Alameda County
DA charged 4 Oakland, Ca., police officers, known as "The Riders,"
with 48 felonies that included charges of beating suspects and
planting evidence. In 2003 a court acquitted the officers of
misconduct charges. A retrial began in 2004. In 2005 a 2nd trial
ended in a mistrial.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A1)(SFC, 10/1/03, p.A1)(SFC,
11/2/04, p.B5)(SFC, 5/20/05, p.B1)
2000 Nov 2, A US and British
air strike in southern Iraq wounded 3 people.
(SFC, 11/3/00, p.A18)
2000 Nov 2, It was reported
that 82 species of marine and estuarine fish in the waters off of
Canada, Mexico and the US were in danger of extinction due to over
fishing and habitat de-struction.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A8)
2000 Nov 2, An American
astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts became the first residents of
the international space station, christening it “Alpha” at the start
of their four-month mission.
(AP, 11/2/02)
2000 Nov 2, In Fiji some 40
soldiers of the Counter Revolutionary Warfare unit attempted to take
over the main military base at Suva. 8 people were killed. Most of
the renegade soldiers were soon captured.
(SFC, 11/4/00, p.A14)
2000 Nov 2, In India Irom Chanu
Sharmila, a poet known as the “Iron Lady,” began a fast unto death
as a protest to the killing of 10 Manipuris by paramilitary troops.
To end her fast she demanded the repeal of the Armed Forces Special
Power Act (AFSPA), which has allowed the army to detain, and
sometimes kill, north-easterners with impunity.
(Econ, 11/7/09, p.43)
2000 Nov 2, In Jerusalem a car
bomb killed 2 Israelis on a day when a cease-fire, worked out
between Arafat and Shimon Peres, was to be announced.
(SFC, 11/3/00, p.A16)
2000 Nov 2, In the Philippines
Pres. Estrada offered to let voters decide his future in a
refer-endum as more members of his cabinet resigned.
(SFC, 11/3/00, p.A18)
2001 Nov 2, President George W.
Bush, saying the war in Afghanistan was unraveling Osama bin Laden's
terrorist network, chided critics for clamoring for more action, and
said the U.S. military campaign would not pause for the Muslim
holiday of Ramadan.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/2/02)
2001 Nov 2, The US government
reported that the nation's unemployment rate had shot up to 5.4
percent in October and that the US lost 415,000 jobs during the
month of October.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A1)(AP, 11/2/02)
2001 Nov 2, A classified memo
to Congress notified lawmakers that the Bush administration planned
a $400 million arms deal with Egypt that included 53 Harpoon Block
II surface-to-surface satellite guided missiles.
(SFC, 11/27/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 2, The Bush
administration imposed stringent financial sanctions on Hamas,
Hez-bollah and 20 other suspected terrorist groups.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 2, The US Justice
Dept. announced a tentative settlement with Microsoft Corp in an
anti-trust suit.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D8)
2001 Nov 2, A US helicopter
crashed due to weather in northern Afghanistan. 4 crew mem-bers were
injured and retrieved by another helicopter.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A6)
2001 Nov 2, A 17th case of
anthrax was reported in a NY Post employee.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 2, NYC firefighters
and police engaged in a scuffle as firefighters protested a limit to
the number of firefighters working to retrieve their dead at the WTC
disaster site.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 2, Estimated of the
WTC dead dropped to 4,396. [see Dec 19]
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A3)
2001 Nov 2, It was reported
that Ibrahim Bah, a Libyan-trained former Senegalese rebel, lived in
Burkina Faso and selected diamond dealers to handle deals in Liberia
between rebels from Sierra Leone and the al Qaeda network.
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.A8)
2001 Nov 2, In El Salvador
gunmen killed 10 people in San Salvador in a suspected drug trade
execution.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.C2)
2001 Nov 2, In Kashmir
Indian forces killed at least 25 suspected Islamic militants who
tried to cross over to Pakistan.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.C2)
2001 Nov 2, In Pakistan some
500,000 Muslims gathered In Raiwind, Punjab, for the annual Tablighi
Ijtimah (Congregation of Preaching). Their movement was founded in
1950 in India.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.A7)
2002 Nov 2, Pres. Bush called
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein a "dangerous man" with links to
terrorist networks, and said that UN inspections for weapons of mass
destruction were critical.
(AP, 11/2/03)
2002 Nov 2, Gay Games VI opened
in Sydney, Australia, before some 40,000 spectators.
(SSFC, 11/3/02, p.A13)
2002 Nov 2, In Burundi at least
15,000 people have fled their homes as fighting between the army and
rebels escalated despite peace talks.
(AP, 11/2/02)
2002 Nov 2, In the Czech
Republic the opposition center-right Civic Democratic Party won 9
Senate seats in elections for 26 of 81 seats, costing the governing
coalition its majority in Par-liament's upper house in a result that
could influence the choice of a successor to President Vaclav Havel.
(AP, 11/3/02)
2002 Nov 2, In Indonesia a
powerful earthquake struck near Sumatra island and killed at least
two people, injured scores and left more than 5,000 people on a
nearby island homeless.
(Reuters, 11/3/02)
2002 Nov 2, In Kashmir Mufti
Muhammad Sayeed, head of the People's Democratic Party, was sworn in
as chief minister after 2 rifle grenades were thrown at his home. 16
people were killed in violence that followed.
(SSFC, 11/3/02, p.A10)(WSJ, 11/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 2, Kuwait closed the
office of Al-Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular satellite TV
network, claiming it was "not objective."
(AP, 11/3/02)
2002 Nov 2, Rex Mwanawasa (43),
the brother of Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, was found dead in a
hotel room in Pretoria.
(AP, 11/3/02)
2003 Nov 2, The US Episcopal
Church consecrated V. Gene Robinson as bishop in New Hampshire,
making him the first openly gay man to rise to that rank in any of
the world's major Christian bodies.
(AP, 11/3/03)
2003 Nov 2, The NYC Marathon
was won by Martin Lel of Kenya in 2:10:30; Margaret Okayo of Kenya
won the women's title in 2:22:31, a course record.
(WSJ, 11/4/02, p.A1)
2003 Nov 2, Frank McCloskey
(64), who represented Indiana's 8th District in Congress
(1983-1995), died in Bloomington.
(SFC, 11/4/03, p.A21)
2003 Nov 2, Burundi's president
and main rebel leader signed a peace agreement, but efforts to end
the decade-long civil war were threatened by renewed fighting
between Tutsi-dominated government troops and other Hutu rebels.
(AP, 11/2/03)
2003 Nov 2, Colombian troops
killed Luis Alexis Castellanos Garzon a FARC regional rebel
commander, the fifth guerrilla leader slain in less than a month.
(AP, 11/4/03)
2003 Nov 2, In Havana, Cuba, 71
American firms from 18 states and Puerto Rico opened trade fair
displays under an exception in a 42-year US trade embargo.
(AP, 11/2/03)
2003 Nov 2, Georgia held
parliamentary elections and opinion polls said the opposition would
take control unless there was massive fraud. Parliamentary
candidates allied with Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze held a
slim lead in elections that European monitors said were marred by
irregularities.
(SFC, 11/3/03, p.A3)(AP, 11/4/03)
2003 Nov 2, In Hong Kong Robert
Kissel, a Merrill Lynch investment banker, was killed. Nancy Kissel
was soon accused of drugging her husband with a milkshake laced with
sedatives before fatally beating him on the head with a metal
ornament. In 2005 Kissel testified that the day her 40-year-old
husband died, he told her he was divorcing her and taking their 3
children. She said that during an argument, he hit her with a
baseball bat and she struck him with a metal statue with human
figurines. In 2007 Joe McGinniss authored “Never Enough,” a
non-fiction account of the crime. In 2010 Hong Kong's highest court
overturned her murder convic-tion and ordered that she be retried.
On March 25, 2011, Nancy Kissel was convicted of murder for a 2nd
time. The unanimous verdict carried an automatic life sentence.
(AP, 6/8/05)(AP, 8/4/05)(WSJ, 12/27/07, p.D7)(AP,
2/11/10)(AP, 3/25/11)
2003 Nov 2, On Indonesia's
Sumatra island flash floods swept through a popular tourist re-sort,
killing 66 people, five of them foreigners, and leaving dozens
missing.
(AP, 11/3/03)
2003 Nov 2, In central Iraq
insurgents shot down a US Chinook helicopter as it carried troops
headed for R&R, killing 16 soldiers and wounding 21. Attacks on
US troops reached 33 a day.
(SSFC, 11/2/03, p.A1)(AP, 11/2/08)
2003 Nov 2, More than 6,000
Palestinian laborers crossed into Israel from the Gaza Strip on as
Israel slightly eased restrictions that had prevented them from
reaching their workplaces for more than a month.
(AP, 11/2/03)
2004 Nov 2, In US presidential
elections a federal appeals court cleared the way for political
parties to send in people to challenge voters' eligibility at Ohio
polling places. US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens allowed
Republicans to challenge voter qualifications at the polls in Ohio.
Pres. Bush won the elections spending an estimated $5.20 for each of
his votes.
(AP, 11/2/04)(Econ, 9/27/08, p.50)
2004 Nov 2, Arizona voters
passed Prop. 200 aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration. It
required proof of citizenship before receipt of public
benefits or voting.
(SFC, 11/5/04, p.A4)(Econ, 10/21/06, p.32)
2004 Nov 2, Mike Easley (D) was
elected governor of North Carolina. Pres. Bush carried the state
with 56.3% of the vote. Voting problems plagued the state and
impacted local races. A machine in Carteret County lost 4,438 votes.
(SFC, 11/4/04, p.A18)(SFC, 11/13/04, p.A6)
2004 Nov 2, Gay marriage curbs
won in all 11 US states where they were on ballots.
(WSJ, 11/3/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 2, Mitchell Daniels
(R) was elected governor of Indiana with 53% of the vote.
(SFC, 11/4/04, p.A18)(Econ, 8/21/10, p.21)
2004 Nov 2, John Kerry carried
Wisconsin by 11,400 votes.
(Econ, 9/13/08, p.39)
2004 Nov 2, Afghan fighting
killed at least 11 as troops tried to disarm southern militias.
(WSJ, 11/3/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 2, It was reported
that some 3,000 Arab intellectuals had signed a petition calling for
an int’l. court to try Muslim clerics who encourage terrorism.
(SFC, 11/2/04, p.A3)
2004 Nov 2, More than 3,000
workers walked out of 22 UPM-Kymmene forest industry plants
throughout Finland, in a 24-hour strike to protest the timber and
paper products company's planned layoffs and closures.
(AP, 11/2/04)
2004 Nov 2, State-run Indian
Oil Corp (IOC), the country's largest refiner, said it had signed an
agreement with Iran's Petropars to bid for a $3 billion project to
develop a gas field and set up a liquefaction plant in Iran.
(AP, 11/2/04)
2004 Nov 2, A car bomb exploded
near the Ministry of Education in a busy Baghdad commer-cial area,
killing at least eight people and wounding 29 others. A car bomb in
Mosul killed 4 civil-ians. Insurgents blew up a northern oil export
pipeline.
(AP, 11/2/04)(SFC, 11/3/04, p.A3)
2004 Nov 2, Dutch filmmaker
Theo van Gogh (47), the great-grandnephew of the painter Vin-cent,
was shot and stabbed to death on an Amsterdam street after receiving
death threats over “Submission,” a movie he made criticizing the
treatment of women under Islam. A death threat to a Dutch politician
was found pinned with a knife to Gogh’s body by his Islamic
attacker. So-mali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali collaborated with Van Gogh on
the film. In January prosecutors said Mohammed Bouyeri (26), the
alleged killer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, ignored his
vic-tim's pleas for mercy and calmly shot him at close range before
slitting his throat. In his trial in July, 2005, Bouyeri said he
killed van Gogh for insulting God. In 2006 Ian Buruma authored
“Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of
Tolerance,” an account of the van Gogh murder.
(AP, 1/26/05)(SFC, 7/13/05, p.A10)(WSJ, 9/9/06,
p.P8)(Econ, 9/2/06, p.74)
2004 Nov 2, Puerto Rico's
delegate to the US Congress clung to an extremely narrow lead in the
race for governor against former Gov. Pedro Rossello, who promised
to fight for statehood.
(AP, 11/3/04)
2004 Nov 2, Shares in Russia's
No. 1 oil producer, Yukos, plummeted on news that tax au-thorities
had served the company with fresh back tax bills for nearly $10
billion US, bringing the company's total tax debt to some $17.6
billion.
(AP, 11/2/04)
2004 Nov 2, In Thailand Jaran
Torae, a local Buddhist official, was beheaded by suspected Muslim
insurgents as revenge for the deaths of 85 rioters last week.
(AP, 11/2/04)
2004 Nov 2, Sheik Zayed bin
Sultan Al Nahyan (86), United Arab Emirates President, died. Sheik
Zayed became the ruler of Abu Dhabi, the largest and wealthiest
emirate, in 1966, four years after the emirate first began exporting
the oil it just discovered off its shores. He left be-hind 19 sons
including 4 brothers known as the Bani Fatima, whose mother was a
favorite wife of Zayed. Eldest son Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed (b.1947)
succeeded his father.
(AP, 11/3/04)(Econ, 11/20/04, p.90)(Econ,
9/27/08, p.64)
2005 Nov 2, The Bush
administration released details of its potential flu pandemic
strategy, saying a pandemic that hit the United States would force
cities to ration scarce drugs and vac-cine and house the sick in
hotels or schools if hospitals were to overflow.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2005 Nov 2, The Washington Post
reported that the CIA has been hiding and interrogating al Qaeda
captives at a secret facility in Eastern Europe as part of a covert
global prison system that has included sites in 8 countries and was
set up after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 2, In California
authorities arrested Jeanson James Ancheta (20) for conspiracy to
cause damage to a computer, accessing a computer to conduct fraud
and money laundering among other charges. He had used robot viruses
to commandeer machines to “disseminate spam, hawk fake goods, and
send “phishing” emails to steal bank and other personal
informa-tion.” Ancheta faced a maximum of 50 years in prison.
(WSJ, 11/7/05, p.B3)
2005 Nov 2, In Florida 2 men
pleaded guilty to organizing a Cuban smuggling trip that ended when
their speedboat capsized and a 6-year-old boy drowned on Oct 12.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 2, An e-mail statement
purportedly by Taliban commander Mullah Omar, urged the insurgents
in Afghanistan not to end their armed struggle.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 2, In Argentina
thousands opposed to Pres. Bush held a massive rally at a
basket-ball arena just days before he arrives at Mar del Plata for
the Summit of the Americas.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 2, The Asia Pacific
Trade Agreement held its 1st Ministerial Council session in
Thai-land. This replaced the Bangkok Agreement signed in 1975.
Members included Bangladesh, China, India, Republic of Korea,
Lao People's Democratic Republic and Sri Lanka. ESCAP, the UN
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, functioned
as the secretariat for the Agreement.
(www.unescap.org/tid/apta.asp)
2005 Nov 2, In Britain Cabinet
minister David Blunkett resigned. He acknowledged that his business
dealings had breached ministerial guidelines and that his position
as work and pen-sions secretary had become untenable.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 2, China’s government
made public the results of a 2-month investigation into con-flicts
of interest in the coal industry and found that 4,578 government
officials illegally held stakes in coal mines, where corruption and
other abuses contributed to thousands of deaths each year.
(WSJ, 11/3/05, p.A10)
2005 Nov 2, Chinese scientists
said they had gathered evidence that shows a giant object in the
center of our galaxy is a super-massive black hole.
(Reuters, 11/3/05)
2005 Nov 2, Police in the
troubled Russian region of Dagestan killed Makhach Mamashev, a
militant leader, and detained eight fighters in an operation near
the Chechen border.
(AP, 11/3/05)
2005 Nov 2, In Ethiopia clashes
between police and protesters erupted in gunfire and gre-nade
explosions, with police killing at least 33 people during a second
day of renewed protests of disputed elections.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 2, Deutsche Telekom
AG, Europe's biggest phone company, said that it plans to cut 32,000
jobs from its payroll in Germany in the next three years, 25,000 at
its main opera-tions and 7,000 from a staffing agency subsidiary.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 2, Haiti's interim
government filed a federal lawsuit against former Haitian President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, accusing him of stealing millions from the
Haitian treasury and state-owned telephone company.
(AP, 11/3/05)
2005 Nov 2, Iran's government
said it was removing 40 ambassadors and senior diplomats, including
supporters of warmer ties with the West, from their posts in a
shake-up that comes as the Islamic republic takes a more
confrontational international stance. Thousands of Iranians burned
flags and chanted slogans against Israel and the US in the largest
demonstration in years outside the former US Embassy in Tehran. Nov
4 marked the 26th anniversary of the 1979 embassy seizure.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 2, Iraq's defense
minister invited officers of Saddam Hussein's army up to the rank of
major to join the new Iraqi army, an overture to disaffected Sunni
Arab ex-soldiers, many of whom joined the insurgency after the
Americans abolished the armed forces in 2003. A US sol-dier was
killed by a roadside bomb during combat operations in Ramadi.
(AP, 11/2/05)(AP, 11/3/05)
2005 Nov 2, Four US troops were
killed, two in a helicopter crash, and two from a roadside bomb, as
American ground forces fought insurgents around the city of Ramadi.
At least 23 people were killed and 46 were wounded when a car bomb
exploded outside a Shiite Muslim mosque in the Iraqi town of
Musayyib.
(AP, 11/2/05)(Reuters, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 2, In Kashmir 5 people
including a suicide bomber were killed and more than a dozen wounded
in a car bomb blast in the Nowgam area on the outskirts of Srinagar.
"The car bomb is our first gift to Ghulam Nabi Azad," who was to be
sworn is as the Kashmir's new chief minister, said Abu Qudama,
spokesman for Jaish-e-Mohammed.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 2, Police in Northern
Ireland arrested a 30-year-old man in Belfast a day after two others
were taken into custody in the city of Kilcoo in relation to last
year's $47 million bank robbery.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 2, Pakistan army's
disaster relief chief said the official death toll in Pakistan from
the Oct. 8 earthquake jumped to more than 73,000, with about the
same number listed as se-verely injured.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 2, Syrian President
Bashar Assad gave amnesty to 190 political prisoners to mark the
Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2005 Nov 2, In southern
Thailand several bombs exploded in Narathiwat, killing one attacker
and knocking out electricity.
(AP, 11/2/05)
2006 Nov 2, In Denver, Colo.,
Rev. Ted Haggard, a leading evangelist and outspoken oppo-nent of
gay marriage, gave up his post as president of the National
Association of Evangelicals while a church panel investigates
allegations he paid a man for sex. Haggard later confessed he was
guilty of sexual immorality.
(AP, 11/3/06)(AP, 11/2/07)
2006 Nov 2, The Jackson Pollock
painting “No. 5 1948” was reportedly sold for a record $140 million.
David Geffen, entertainment mogul sold the work to David Martinez, a
Mexican finan-cier.
(SFC, 11/3/06, p.A10)
2006 Nov 2, NASA lost contact
with the Mars Global Surveyor following a successful 10-year mapping
mission. Investigators in 2007 said a command sent to a wrong
computer address caused a cascade of events that led to loss of
power.
(http://tinyurl.com/y8wtv3)(SFC, 4/14/07, p.A5)
2006 Nov 2, In Afghanistan a
NATO airstrike in Helmand province killed nine militants and wounded
30. Militants attacked an Afghan army patrol in the eastern province
of Laghman, kill-ing one solider and injuring three. British
Corporal Daniel James, an interpreter to Lieutenant General David
Richards, allegedly passed secrets to "the enemy," believed to be
Iran. James faced initial court proceedings in London in December.
Richards was the commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan.
(AP, 11/4/06)(AFP, 12/27/06)
2006 Nov 2, Algerian rebels
shot dead 8 soldiers in an ambush in the heaviest reported
gov-ernment losses for seven months in the north African country's
lingering political violence.
(Reuters, 11/4/06)
2006 Nov 2, In Colombia a jeep
carrying explosives blew up south of Bogota, killing two pas-sengers
and probably preempting a leftist rebel attack.
(AP, 11/3/06)
2006 Nov 2, Thousands returned
to the polls in a northeast Congo town and recast ballots destroyed
in rioting that followed the weekend presidential runoff.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 2, Commonwealth
Secretary General Don McKinnon warned Fiji's military com-mander
against a coup after the commander said that the Pacific island
nation could be sliding towards "bloodshed."
(AFP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 2, Hundreds of euro
bills in Germany have mysteriously disintegrated in the last several
months, apparently due to exposure to sulfuric acid.
(AFP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 2, India's army chief
has ordered an investigation into a string of recent incidents of
soldiers fatally shooting their colleagues in India's
insurgency-wracked portion of Kashmir. There have been at least four
cases over the past 10 days of distraught soldiers in Kashmir
shooting colleagues to death, then committing suicide.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 2, Iran successfully
test-fired three new models of sea missiles in a show of force to
assert its military capacities in the Gulf.
(AP, 11/3/06)
2006 Nov 2, Iraqi President
Jalal Talabani said on a trip to France that it would take his
coun-try two or three years to set up its own security forces and
send U.S.-led troops home. Gunmen killed Jassim al-Asadi, the Shiite
dean of Baghdad University's school of administration and economics,
along with his wife and son. Abdul-Majid Ismail Khalil, an Iraqi
journalist who was kidnapped Oct 18, was found dead. A motorcycle
rigged with explosives blew up in a crowded market in Baghdad's
Shiite Sadr City district, killing at least seven people and
wounding 45. At-tacks across the country left 45 Iraqis dead. 3 US
soldiers died when the vehicle they were rid-ing in was struck by a
roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad. One Marine died from injuries "due
to enemy action" in Anbar province.
(AP, 11/2/06)(AP, 11/3/06)(WSJ, 11/3/06, p.A1)
2006 Nov 2, Israeli helicopter
gunships, tanks and ground troops tightened their grip on Beit
Hanoun, a northern Gaza town they overran a day before. 9
Palestinians were killed in Israel's biggest push in months to stop
militant rocket fire.
(AP, 11/2/06)(SFC, 11/3/06, p.A22)(WSJ, 11/3/06,
p.A1)
2006 Nov 2, In Mexico,
protesters besieging Oaxaca City forced federal police to retreat
from the gates of the state university after six hours of pitched
fighting and the rector's call for an end to the government
"attack."
(AP, 11/3/06)
2006 Nov 2, Authorities in
Nigeria named Muhammadu Sada Abubakar III (50), an army colo-nel, as
the country's top Muslim leader, replacing his brother Muhammadu
Maccido, the Sultan of Sokoto, who died in a plane crash last
weekend. Armed gunmen seized two expatriate oil workers, an American
and a Briton, during a raid on a Norwegian oil services ship off
Nigeria's southern coast.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 2, In the southwestern
Pakistani city of Quetta a car bomb exploded near the police chief's
headquarters, killing two policemen and wounding four other people.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 2, Russia's
state-controlled natural gas monopoly said that it would more than
dou-ble the price it charges Georgia, further heightening tensions
between the ex-Soviet neighbors.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 2, Russia and China
indicated that they will not support a draft UN resolution impos-ing
tough sanctions on Iran for its refusal to halt its nuclear
enrichment program.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 2, Senegal moved
closer to bringing Hissene Habre, a former Chadian dictator ac-cused
of war crimes, to justice after the government announced that local
laws would be re-vised and a special commission formed to organize
and oversee his trial.
(AP, 11/3/06)
2006 Nov 2, Sri Lankan war
planes pounded suspected Tamil Tiger targets for a third straight
day after the defense ministry said the guerrillas were preparing
for a major offensive. A military bomb attack inside the rebel
political capital of Kilinochchi hit a house, killing five people.
(AFP, 11/3/06)
2006 Nov 2, In St. Maarten 4
French nationals were convicted of beating two gay American tourists
on Guadeloupe and were sentenced to between six months and six years
in prison.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 2, The UN management
chief said an investigation into corruption was "at full throt-tle"
and he urged anyone with relevant information to cooperate.
(AP, 11/3/06)
2007 Nov 2, Speaking at a
graduation ceremony at Fort Jackson, S.C., President Bush said US
military deaths had fallen to their lowest levels in 19 months and
the Iraqi people were slowly "taking back their country" in the wake
of the American troop buildup there.
(AP, 11/2/08)
2007 Nov 2, Michael
Mukasey drew closer to becoming attorney general after two key
Sen-ate Democrats, Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, said they
would vote for him despite his refusal to say whether waterboarding
was torture.
(AP, 11/2/08)
2007 Nov 2, Gold futures at the
NY Mercantile Exchange set a contract high of $805.70, its highest
level since the $873 contract high reached in January 1980.
(WSJ, 11/3/07, p.B3)
2007 Nov 2, A new study, issued
by the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research, said drug-resistant
tuberculosis and HIV have merged into a double-barreled epidemic
that is sweeping across sub-Saharan Africa and threatening global
efforts to eradicate both diseases.
(AFP, 11/2/07)
2007 Nov 2, In southern
Afghanistan a US-led coalition soldier and an Afghan soldier were
killed in clashes with insurgents.
(AP, 11/2/07)
2007 Nov 2, In England a
massive fire at a vegetable packing warehouse in Atherstone On
Stour, near Stratford-upon-Avon, left one fire fighter dead and 3
missing.
(AFP, 11/3/07)
2007 Nov 2, Iraqi police found
only six bodies dumped in three Iraqi cities, and no reports of
shootings or bombings. The prime minister of Iraq's northern Kurdish
region condemned at-tacks by Kurdish rebel fighters inside Turkey
and said he hopes a weekend summit in Istanbul will reduce the
threat of Turkish military strikes inside Iraq.
(AP, 11/2/07)(AP, 11/3/07)
2007 Nov 2, Italy began
deporting Romanians with criminal records in response to a streak of
violent crime blamed on immigrants. In Rome up to 10 people wearing
motorcycle helmets at-tacked a group of Romanians with knives, metal
bars and sticks in the parking lot of a super-market. Three
Romanians were injured. As part of the crackdown, bulldozers in Rome
for a second day knocked down shantytowns where thousands of
foreigners lived without permits.
(AP, 11/3/07)
2007 Nov 2, In Italy Meredith
Kercher (21), a British university student, was found dead with her
throat slashed in the bedroom of a house in the central city of
Perugia. A week later 3 sus-pects in the murder were remanded in
custody by an Italian investigating magistrate. On Nov 19 police in
Perugia identified a 4th suspect as Rudy Hermann Guede, an Ivory
Coast native. Guede was arrested in Germany the next day and DNA
evidence confirmed that he had sex with Kercher the night she was
stabbed. In 2009 roommate Amanda Knox, of Seattle, Wa., was
convicted and sentenced to 26 years in prison. The court also
convicted Knox's co-defendant and former boyfriend, Italian Raffaele
Sollecito, and gave him a 25-year jail term for the murder. Rudy
Hermann Guede, an Ivory Coast citizen, had already been convicted in
the murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
(AP, 11/2/07)(AFP, 11/10/07)(AP, 11/19/07)(AP,
11/22/07)(AP, 12/5/09)
2007 Nov 2, A UN helicopter
crashed on a routine flight in northern Liberia, killing two crew
members and leaving a third missing.
(AP, 11/2/07)
2007 Nov 2, Rescuers in boats
and helicopters worked to evacuate people stranded by a flood the
president called "one of the worst natural disasters" to hit Mexico.
A week of heavy rains caused rivers to overflow, leaving 70 percent
of the Gulf state of Tabasco underwater. Gov. Andres Granier
estimated the damage at $5 billion. The death toll reached to about
25.
(AP, 11/2/07)(Econ, 11/10/07, p.45)
2007 Nov 2, A Nigerian court
sentenced Omoniyi Sanlola (25), a university student, to 34 years in
jail for forging US Postal Service money orders. The judge handed
him one-year terms for each count, to run concurrently.
(AFP, 11/3/07)
2007 Nov 2, Pakistan
International Airlines had to cancel 40 percent of its international
and domestic flights after aircraft engineers went on mass sick
leave in a protest over pay. A missile strike on a pro-Taliban
militant camp in Pakistan's tribal belt killed 10 people, as rebels
in an-other area paraded 48 men said to be troops captured during
fierce clashes.
(AFP, 11/2/07)
2007 Nov 2, Igor Moiseyev
(101), called the king of folk dance, died in Moscow. In 1937 he
founded the Moiseyev Dance Company which went on to inspire folk
dance companies in many other countries.
(SFC, 11/3/07, p.B5)
2007 Nov 2, A Sri Lankan
airstrike pounded a meeting of top rebel leaders, killing S.P.
Thamilselvan, the head of the Tamil Tigers' political wing and five
others in an attack seen as a major victory for the government in
its long fight with the guerrillas.
(AP, 11/2/07)(Econ, 1/31/09, p.49)
2007 Nov 2, Sudan’s President
Omar al-Beshir reached agreement with southern leader Salva Kiir,
who is also first vice president, that all provisions of the
Comprehensive Peace Agreement would now be implemented by the end of
the year.
(AFP, 11/3/07)
2007 Nov 2, Venezuela's
pro-government National Assembly overwhelmingly approved
con-stitutional reforms that would greatly expand the power of
President Hugo Chavez and permit him to run for re-election
indefinitely.
(AP, 11/2/07)
2008 Nov 2, Opus, a politically
beleaguered penguin created by cartoonist Berkeley Breathed,
appeared in the Sunday comics for the last time.
(SFC, 10/27/08, p.E1)
2008 Nov 2, Paula Radcliffe
defended her title at the NYC marathon to become the second woman to
win the race three times. Marilson Gomes dos Santos of Brazil won
the men's race for the second time in three years.
(www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445965,00.html)
2008 Nov 2, In southern
California police in Long Beach found 5 people shot to death in a
homeless encampment in the shadow of the San Diego Freeway.
(SFC, 11/4/08, p.A2)
2008 Nov 2, The leaders of
Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to intensify talks to end a 20-year
conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
(AP, 11/2/08)
2008 Nov 2, Belarus President
Alexander Lukashenko greeted visiting Libyan leader Moam-mar Gadhafi
and said he hopes to boost ties between their countries.
(AP, 11/2/08)
2008 Nov 2, British PM Gordon
Brown said he is confident that Saudi Arabia will contribute to the
International Monetary Fund's bailout reserves after he promised
business leaders in the Gulf that they would have a say in any
future new world economic order.
(AP, 11/2/08)
2008 Nov 2, China opened the
final session of the Canton Fair, the country's biggest trade show,
amid complaints that attendance has been dismal because of the
financial crisis clobber-ing the nation's biggest export markets in
the US and Europe. In southwest China at least 40 were killed after
mudslides engulfed several villages.
(AP, 11/2/08)(AFP, 11/2/08)(AP, 11/4/08)
2008 Nov 2, Dubai Port World
(DP World) said it has agreed on a deal to run the cargo termi-nal
in the Algerian port Djendjen. The port, which opened in 1993, is
the most commercially im-portant in Algeria.
(AFP, 11/2/08)
2008 Nov 2, Ahmed Al-Mirghani
(67) former head of Sudan’s last democratically elected gov-ernment
(1986-1989), died in Egypt. In 1989 a military coup led by current
President Omar al-Bashir unseated him.
(AP, 11/3/08)
2008 Nov 2, In Guyana American
pilots James Barker and Chris Paris and Canadian techni-cian Patrick
Murphy were doing uranium survey work for Prometheus Resources
Guyana Inc., a subsidiary of U308 Corporation of Toronto, Canada,
when the plane went missing.
(AP, 11/18/08)
2008 Nov 2, Iranian authorities
arrested Hossein Derakhshan (b.1975), a well-known Cana-dian-Iranian
blogger. In 2010 he was sentenced to almost 20 years in prison.
(Econ, 10/23/10,
p.60)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Derakhshan)
2008 Nov 2, Israel’s Cabinet
decided to ratchet up law enforcement measures directed at
ex-tremist settlers. It also decided to halt government funding for
the some 100 outposts built by settlers.
(AP, 11/3/08)
2008 Nov 2, Mexican prosecutors
said 11 policemen have been shot to death near Mexico City in a
three-day string of drug-gang attacks. In Tijuana, across the border
from San Diego, California, police found two decapitated bodies
wrapped in blankets in a vacant lot.
(AP, 11/2/08)
2008 Nov 2, The Moroccan
government banned an issue of the French magazine L'Express
International, claiming it insults Islam in articles exploring the
relationship between that religion and Christianity.
(AP, 11/3/08)
2008 Nov 2, In Pakistan a
suicide bomber detonated his vehicle at a checkpoint at Zalai Fort
in South Waziristan killing 8 troops.
(SFC, 11/3/08, p.A11)
2008 Nov 2, A week of flooding
triggered by torrential rains in northern and central Vietnam killed
some 92 people, 22 of them in the capital Hanoi hit by the worst
flooding in 35 years.
(Reuters, 11/2/08)(AP, 11/3/08)(AP, 11/5/08)
2008 Nov 2, The bodies of 60
Somali and Ethiopian migrants washed up on the shores of southern
Yemen over the last three days.
(AP, 11/3/08)
2008 Nov 2, Veteran diplomat
Rupiah Banda (72) was sworn in as the new president of Zam-bia
following a narrow and disputed victory over a populist rival in an
election forced by the death of the country's former leader.
(AP, 11/2/08)
2009 Nov 2, President Barack
Obama thanked German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her country's
"sacrifice" in keeping forces in Afghanistan, noting she was being
honored as the first German leader to address a joint session of
Congress.
(AP, 11/3/09)
2009 Nov 2, The new US Navy
assault ship New York arrived at Pier 88. The 684 foot, $1 bil-lion
ship was included 7½ tons of steel in its hull from the World
Trade Center.
(SFC, 11/3/09, p.A11)
2009 Nov 2, Traffic opened on
the SF Bay Bridge after 6 days of emergency structural repair.
Engineers expected that it would be closed again in few months for a
permanent fix.
(SFC, 11/3/09, p.A1)
2009 Nov 2, Afghanistan's
election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of
the country's tumultuous ballot. The cancellation of the runoff vote
came one day after former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah
announced he was pulling out of the Nov. 7 vote. The com-mission had
the authority to make the decision because the Afghan constitution
only allows for a runoff between two candidates.
(AP, 11/2/09)
2009 Nov 2, In Brazil some 1.5
million evangelical Christians joined the annual "March for Je-sus,"
an event sponsored by a church whose leaders recently returned after
being imprisoned in the US for money smuggling.
(AP, 11/3/09)
2009 Nov 2, A top UN official
announced that the UN has withdrawn its support for Congolese army
units operating in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, accusing
its soldiers of killing 62 civilians.
(AFP, 11/2/09)
2009 Nov 2, French-born writer
Marie Ndiaye (b.1967) won France's top literary prize for "Three
Strong Women," her moving tale of the struggles of women in Europe
and Africa. She was born in Pithiviers, to a French mother and a
Senegalese father and currently lived in Berlin.
(AP, 11/2/09)
2009 Nov 2, The International
Monetary Fund said it has sold 200 metric tons of gold worth $6.7
billion to India's central bank as part of an effort to shore up IMF
finances and increase low-cost lending to developing countries. The
purchase put gold at 6% of India’s reserves and helped push the
price of gold to over $1,100 a troy ounce.
(AP, 11/3/09)(Econ, 11/14/09, p.86)
2009 Nov 2, In Iraq an American
soldier died of noncombat related injuries.
(AP, 11/3/09)
2009 Nov 2, In Japan it was
revealed that PM Yukio Hatoyama had failed to declare some $800,000
in income from stock sales. He already faced flak for falsified
fundraising reports.
(SSFC, 11/8/09, p.A10)
2009 Nov 2, In Kashmir the
bodies of 2 senior rebels, mauled to death by a wild bear, were
recovered. Police said they were members of the region's most
powerful group, Hizbul Mujahe-din and had been active in Indian
Kashmir for more than six years.
(AFP, 11/3/09)
2009 Nov 2, In Mali the burned
debris of a Boeing cargo plane was discovered on Nov. 2 in the Gao
region. It was assumed to have landed on a clandestine landing strip
and either failed to take off again or was destroyed on purpose.
Ample traces of cocaine were found on board. Drug smugglers had
flown the plane from Venezuela, unloaded it and torched it. In 2010
it was reported that drug smugglers were buying old jets and flying
them across the Atlantic to feed Europe’s growing coke habit.
(AP, 12/3/09)(SFC, 11/16/10, p.A6)
2009 Nov 2, In Mexico El Tiempo
de Durango journalist Jose Bladimir Antuna was kidnapped in the
morning. Authorities found his body the same night in a vacant lot
in the Durango state capital, about 400 miles southwest of Laredo,
Texas. The bodies of three men with bullet and knife wounds were
found by relatives in the southern state of Guerrero.
(AP, 11/4/09)
2009 Nov 2, In Pakistan a
suicide bomber killed 35 people outside a bank in Rawalpindi, as the
UN said spreading violence has forced it to start pulling out some
expatriate staff and sus-pend long-term development work in areas
along the Afghan border. Hours after the first blast, another
suicide bomber struck in Lahore, exploding a car at a police
checkpoint as officers went to search it. At least 7 policemen were
injured and two were in critical condition. Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas
said the army had captured the town of Kaniguram, one of the
Taliban's bases, and killed 12 more militants in the past 24 hours
of the offensive.
(AP, 11/2/09)
2009 Nov 2, Panama's government
said it is building four air and sea monitoring stations on its
Pacific coast to fight trafficking of drugs, weapons and migrants.
Assistant Interior Minister Alejandro Garuz said the sites will be
manned by the national police, border agents and other government
agencies.
(AP, 11/2/09)
2009 Nov 2, In the central
Philippines a fire swept through a residential building as people
slept in a slum community, killing 16 residents including women and
children.
(AP, 11/2/09)
2009 Nov 2, In Russia Shabattai
Kalmanovitch (60), a prominent businessman, was shot dead in Moscow.
He had been convicted in Israel in 1987 of being a KGB spy.
(SFC, 11/3/09, p.A2)
2009 Nov 2, The Swiss
government said it has handed banking documents over to Argentina in
a $25 million dollar corruption probe linked to former President
Carlos Menem and French defense company Thales.
(AP, 11/2/09)
2009 Nov 2, A Thai official
said about half of Thailand's national lawmakers are taking
advan-tage of a new government plan allowing them to purchase guns
at a discount and receive a li-cense to carry them anywhere.
(AP, 11/2/09)
2009 Nov 2, In Venezuela a lone
gunman approached Gustavo Gonzalez, a member of the Copei opposition
party, at a restaurant, fatally shot the politician in the head and
fled on a mo-torcycle driven by an accomplice. 2 National Guard
soldiers were shot multiple times at a road-side checkpoint near the
border with Colombia. Prosecutors believed the troops were attacked
by four men on two motorcycles. Johan Manuel Mora Rodriguez (20) was
detained at a Na-tional Guard checkpoint near where the killings
occurred in western Tachira state.
(AP, 11/3/09)
2009 Nov 2, Tropical Storm
Mirinae slammed into Vietnam's central coast, unleashing heavy rains
and winds and forcing more than 80,000 people to evacuate before
losing steam as it moved inland. The storm killed at least 98
people. Mirinae also killed two people in Cambodia and left 19
people dead and three missing in the Philippines.
(AP, 11/2/09)(AP, 11/3/09)(AFP, 11/5/09)
2010 Nov 2, The US held
mid-term elections. Early returns showed the GOP picked up at least
60 House seats and led for four more, far in excess of what was
needed for a majority. About two dozen races remained too close to
call. Republicans also gained at least six Senate seats, and tea
party favorites Paul in Kentucky, Mike Lee in Utah and Marco Rubio
in Florida were among their winners. Nevada Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid kept his seat.
(AP, 11/3/10)
2010 Nov 2, Iowa (Terry
Branstad), Kansas (Sam Brownback), Maine (Paul LePage), Michi-gan
(Rick Snyder), New Mexico (Susana Martinez), Ohio (John Kasich),
Oklahoma (Mary Fal-lin), Pennsylvania (Tom Corbett), Tennessee (Bill
Haslam), Wisconsin (Scott Walker), Wyoming (Matt Mead) all replaced
the Democratic governors with Republicans. Snyder (R) defeated
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) by bragging about his managerial
skills.
(Econ, 11/6/10, p.45)
2010 Nov 2, Arizona voters by a
narrow margin approved a measure to legalize medical mari-juana.
(SSFC, 11/14/10, p.A14)
2010 Nov 2, In California
federal agents arrested Adam Gitschlag, a retired US Marine, for
allegedly selling illegal assault weapons to members of Florencia
13, a Los Angeles street gang. On Nov 8 ATF agents arrested 2 more
retired Marines associated with Gitschlag, and 2 others for
smuggling machine guns from Iraq.
(SFC, 11/10/10, p.A8)
2010 Nov 2, In California Jerry
Brown defeated Meg Whitman (54%-41%) in his bid for a comeback to
the governor's office he occupied for two terms more than a
quarter-century ago. California Sen. Barbara Boxer was elected to a
fourth term, overcoming a challenge from Carly Fiorina.
(AP, 11/3/10)(SFC, 11/4/10, p.A1)
2010 Nov 2, Nikki Haley (38)
won election as governor of South Carolina, the first
Indian-American female governor in US history. The Tea Party-backed
Republican candidate won 51% of the vote against Democratic state
Sen. Vincent Sheheen, who received 47%.
(AP, 11/7/10)
2010 Nov 2, The US attorney’s
office indicted 3 San Diego residents on charges of conspiring to
provide money to Al Shabab, a terrorist group in Somalia.
(SFC, 11/3/10, p.A5)
2010 Nov 2, California voters
rejected Proposition 19 declining to make their state the nation's
first to legalize marijuana use and sales, heeding warnings of legal
chaos and that pot smokers would get behind the wheel and show up to
work while high. Voters approved Prop. 25 to allow lawmakers to pass
a budget with a simple majority vote.
(AP, 11/3/10)(SFC, 11/3/10, p.A17)
2010 Nov 2, Missouri passed the
Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act. The state was home to 1,462
licensed commercial dog breeders. A newly elected legislature soon
gutted the meat of the proposition.
(Econ, 11/13/10, p.36)(Econ, 5/14/11, p.20)
2010 Nov 2, Oklahoma voters
approved a measure that would forbid judges from considering
international law or Islamic law when deciding cases. The "Save Our
State Amendment" was approved by 70 percent of state voters. A
federal judge in Oklahoma City issued a court order in November 2010
barring the measure from taking effect. On Jan 10, 2012, a federal
appeals court upheld an injunction against the voter-approved ban on
Islamic law in Oklahoma, saying it likely violated the US
Constitution by discriminating against religion.
(SFC, 11/4/10, p.A9)(AP, 1/11/12)(AP, 1/10/12)
2010 Nov 2, Oregon Democrat
Gov. John Kitzhaber won a historic third term.
(SFC, 11/4/10, p.A9)
2010 Nov 2, San Francisco’s
Mayor Gavin Newsom was elected as state lieutenant governor.
(AP, 11/4/10)
2010 Nov 2, San Francisco’s
Board of Supervisors passed a law that cracks down on the popular
practice of giving away free toys with unhealthy restaurant meals
for children. The law, which would take effect on December 1, would
allow toys to be given away with kids' meals that have less than 600
calories, contain fruits and vegetables, and include beverages
without ex-cessive fat or sugar. Mayor Newsom vetoed the measure on
Nov 13. On Nov 23 the board overrode the veto.
(Reuters,
11/3/10)(http://tinyurl.com/25458to)(SFC, 11/24/10, p.C1)
2010 Nov 2, US motorcycle maker
Harley-Davidson said it will open an assembly plant in In-dia next
year to meet demand for its luxury two-wheelers in the country's
booming economy.
(AFP, 11/2/10)
2010 Nov 2, Oracle Corp.
announced an agreement to buy Art Technology Group, a provider of
e-commerce services, for $1 billion in cash.
(SFC, 11/3/10, p.D1)
2010 Nov 2, In southern
Afghanistan a NATO service member died after an insurgent attack.
(AP, 11/2/10)
2010 Nov 2, Algeria’s interior
minister Dahou Ould Kablia said that Algeria will resume a policy of
arming people to reinforce the fight against terrorism in the north
African country.
(AP, 11/3/10)
2010 Nov 2, BP lifted its
estimate of the likely cost of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill to $40
billion, denting profits, but its underlying performance beat all
expectations on higher refining margins and a lower tax rate.
(Reuters, 11/2/10)
2010 Nov 2, Britain and France
vowed to work hand-in-glove as their leaders ushered in an
unprecedented era of defense cooperation by agreeing to create a
joint force and share nuclear test facilities.
(AP, 11/2/10)
2010 Nov 2, Reprieve, a
London-based legal advocacy group opposed to the death penalty,
filed suit to try to prevent a British company from exporting a drug
that could be used in the execution of an American inmate.
(AP, 11/2/10)
2010 Nov 2, In Greece bombs
exploded at the Swiss and Russian embassies in Athens. Po-lice then
found explosive devices at the Bulgarian Embassy and one addressed
to the Dutch embassy at a central Athens courier company, where
German embassy had returned a suspi-cious package.
(AP, 11/2/10)
2010 Nov 2, India's central
bank raised key interest rates for the sixth time this year to
contain persistently high inflation, another sign of the gulf
between fast growing emerging Asian economies and tepid growth in
the developed world.
(AP, 11/2/10)
2010 Nov 2, In Iraq Shiite
Baghdad neighborhoods were targeted in a series of bombings and
mortar strikes that took place over the span of about an hour. In
Sadr City 21 people were killed by car bomb near a market. In 12
other neighborhoods at least 55 more were killed. In total some 91
people were killed and some 232 people were wounded. The Islamic
State of Iraq, an umbrella group that includes al-Qaida in Iraq and
other Sunni insurgent factions, soon claimed responsibility.
(AP, 11/3/10)(SFC, 11/3/10, p.A3)(AP,
11/4/10)(AP, 11/5/10)
2010 Nov 2, Israel's military
intelligence chief said Iran possesses enough enriched uranium to
build one nuclear bomb and soon will have enough to produce a
second.
(AP, 11/3/10)
2010 Nov 2, In Mexico 4 men
were shot dead in the Pacific port city of Acapulco and at least 18
others were killed elsewhere in the latest gang-style violence. Eder
Diaz (23) a student across the border at the Univ. of Texas at El
Paso, was attacked along with classmate Manuel Acosta (25). Acosta
was killed at the scene, while Diaz died the next day at a Juarez
hospital.
(AFP, 11/3/10)(AP, 11/3/10)
2010 Nov 2, Myanmar election
authorities canceled voting in Nov 7 elections in 12 more vil-lage
tracts in six constituencies in Kayah state, where restive ethnic
minorities are dominant. The commission in September announced the
cancellation of voting in about 300 village tracts in 33 townships
where restive ethnic minorities are dominant. Six armed ethnic
groups in Myanmar forged an agreement to join forces, fearing they
will be attacked by the regime after the elections. The "landmark
deal" was struck in the Thai-Myanmar town of Mae Hong Son and
included organizations from the Karen, Karenni, Chin, Kachin, Mon
and Shan minorities.
(AP, 11/2/10)(AP, 11/4/10)
2010 Nov 2, Russia said Pres.
Medvedev planned more trips to a group of islands seized by the
Soviet Union from Japan at the end of World War Two, deepening a
serious rift with Tokyo.
(Reuters, 11/2/10)
2010 Nov 2, Thailand battled to
rescue thousands of people stranded in their homes after flash
floods, several meters deep in places, swept through a southern
city, cutting power and communications. The floodwaters swamped vast
areas of southern Thailand and inundated its largest city killing 12
people. The death toll from across the country soon passed 120.
(AFP, 11/2/10)(AP, 11/4/10)
2010 Nov 2, In Venezuela
President Hugo Chavez and his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel
Santos signed a string of accords seeking to sought to improve
relations despite ideo-logical differences and recent bitter
disputes.
(AP, 11/2/10)(AFP, 11/3/10)
2010 Nov 2, State Vietnam News
said blogger Le Nguyen Huong Tra (35), who blogged as Co Gai Do
Long, has been detained for "infringing on the interests of the
state" after she criti-cized a security official and his family.
(AFP, 11/2/10)
2010 Nov 2, Yemen put Anwar
al-Awlaki, a US-born radical cleric, on trial in absentia, accus-ing
him and two other men of plotting to kill foreigners and being
members of al-Qaida.
(AP, 11/2/10)
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