Historical Events -  November 2

1834 : On this day a ship named Atlas reached Mauritius with Indian laborers. They celebrated as Indian arrival day.

1914 : Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire.

1936 : The British Broadcasting Corporation launched the BBC television service.

1936 : The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was formed.

1940 : In World War II, War started between Greece and Italy.

1951 : About 6 thousand British soldiers arrived in Egypt to overcome the demonstrations against Britain. Apart from this, a large number of soldiers were on their way to Egypt.

1953 : The Assembly of Pakistan renamed the country the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

1986 : David Jacobson, an American citizen held hostage through Islamic extremists in Beirut, was released.

1988 : In the general elections held in Israel, no party could get a clear majority and there was only one seat difference between the two major parties.

1999 : Southern playback singer S. P. Balasubramaniam selected for Lata Mangeshkar Award to be given by Madhya Pradesh Government.

 

Famous Birthdays   – November 2  

971 AD: Mahmud of Ghazni was the first independent ruler of the Turkic dynasty of Ghaznavids.

1470: King Edward of England.

1755: Marie Antoinette, French Empress.

1795: James Knox Polk, the 11th president of the United States.

1833: Mahendra Lal Sarkar, co-founder of the Indian Association of Cultivation of Science, a homeopath, social reformer, and disseminator of science.

1865: Warren Gamaliel Harding, the 29th president of the United States.

1877: Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, the 48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili religion.

1886: Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician.

1897: Sohrab Meherbanji Modi, Indian filmmaker, director, and actor,.

1929: Amar Bose, Indian businessman, founder of Bose Corporation.

1941: Arun Shourie, Indian Union Minister, and journalist.

1949: M. G. George Muthoot, an Indian entrepreneur, and businessman.

1960: Anu Malik, Indian musician.

1965: Shah Rukh Khan, Indian actor, and producer.

1982: Yogeshwar Dutt, an Indian freestyle wrestler.

1993: Trishneet Arora, the founder, and CEO of TAC Security, an IT security company. 

 

Death Anniversaries  – November 2

1950: George Bernard Shaw, Nobel Prize-winning Irish author, and co-founder of the London School of Economics (LSE).

1961: James Grover Thurber, an American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright.

1963: Ngô Đình Diệm, a Vietnamese politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Vietnam

1984: Sharad Chandra Muktibodh, Indian-Marathi writer.

1990: Abasaheb Garware, Indian Industrialist, founder of Garware Industries Group.

2012: Yeren Naidu, Indian Politician, Telugu Desam Party Lok Sabha leader.

2012: Shriram Shankar Abhyankar, Indian-American mathematician and academic.