November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 59 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).
NATIONAL DEVILED EGG DAY
NATIONAL DEVILED EGG DAY
1355 – An English army invades France at Calais in continuation of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) between England an France. Edward III's son, Edward the Black Prince, resumed the war after the Plague passed and held Gascony and by August of that year he had begun a brutal campaign of raids known as chevauchée. This campaign was designed to terrorize and demoralize the people, discredit their leaders and drain the French king's financial resources. Anything that was portable was looted and anything that could not be taken away was broken or burnt. An observer at the time said, of the Black Prince, that as he rode to Toulouse there was no town that he did not lay waste.
1772 – In Boston the anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms. The committees of correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. They coordinated responses to Britain and shared their plans; by 1773 they had emerged as shadow governments, superseding the colonial legislature and royal officials.
1772 – In Boston the anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms. The committees of correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. They coordinated responses to Britain and shared their plans; by 1773 they had emerged as shadow governments, superseding the colonial legislature and royal officials.
1777 – The USS Ranger, with a crew of 140 men under the command of John Paul Jones, leaves Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for the naval port at Brest, France, where it will stop before heading toward the Irish Sea to begin raids on British warships. This was the first mission of its kind during the Revolutionary War.
One of the greatest naval commanders in history, Jones is remembered as a "Father of the American Navy," along with fellow Revolutionary War hero Commodore John Barry.
John Paul Jones is buried in a crypt at the U.S. Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, MD, where a Marine honor guard stands at attention whenever the crypt is open to the public.
One of the greatest naval commanders in history, Jones is remembered as a "Father of the American Navy," along with fellow Revolutionary War hero Commodore John Barry.
John Paul Jones is buried in a crypt at the U.S. Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, MD, where a Marine honor guard stands at attention whenever the crypt is open to the public.
1783 – Future President George Washington, then commanding general of the Continental Army, summons his military officers to Fraunces Tavern in New York City to inform them that he will be resigning his commission and returning to civilian life.
1824 – The United States presidential election of 1824 was the 10th quadrennial presidential election, held from Tuesday, October 26, to Thursday, December 2, 1824. John Quincy Adams was elected President on February 9, 1825, after the election was decided by the House of Representatives in what was termed the Corrupt Bargain.
1867 – Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds The Grange (The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry) which became a powerful political force among western farmers.
1889 – The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota (39th and 40th).
1914 – Great Britain declares the entire North Sea a military area: neutral ships will transit it at their own risk.
1944 – The Auschwitz extermination camp begins gassing inmates. Auschwitz was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combination concentration / extermination camp), Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labor camp to staff an IG Farben factory), and 45 satellite camps.
1983 – President Reagan signs the bill establishing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1993 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average hits a (then) record of 3697.64.
1993 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average hits a (then) record of 3697.64.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1734 – Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer (d. 1820)
1795 – James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
1865 – Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
1929 – Amar Bose, American engineer and businessman, founded the Bose Corporation (d. 2013)
1734 – Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer (d. 1820)
1795 – James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
1865 – Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
1929 – Amar Bose, American engineer and businessman, founded the Bose Corporation (d. 2013)
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