Historical Events on November 2

1288 treaty between England and Aragon

1642 battle during the English Civil War

Battle of the Third Coalition

1852 United States presidential election — 17th quadrennial U.S. presidential election

1880 United States presidential election — 24th quadrennial U.S. presidential election

Balfour Declaration — public statement written by Arthur Balfour issued by the British government in 1917 in support of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine then an Ottoman region

1920 United States presidential election — 34th quadrennial U.S. presidential election

First scheduled, high-definition, television schedule on a dedicated channel

Treaty signed in 1938

Part of World War II in Yugoslavia

1948 United States presidential election — 41st quadrennial U.S. presidential election

Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference — 1949 Dutch recognition of Indonesian independence

1976 United States presidential election — 48th quadrennial U.S. presidential election

Incident of mass murder

2004 United States presidential election — 55th quadrennial U.S. presidential election

2008 Brazilian Grand Prix — Formula One motor race

2 November 2010 Baghdad bombings

2014 prison break in Nigerian prison

2020 Vienna attacks — series of terrorist incidents in Austria

2021 Kabul hospital attack