Today in History
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1982 Ronald Reagan signs a bill to create Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
The day, observed every year on the third Monday of January, commemorates the life of Martin Luther
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1964 Coup in Saudi Arabia
Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud takes over the government of Saudi Arabia while his half-brother, King
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1938 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation established
Officially known as CBC/Radio-Canada, the network is Canada's public radio and television broadcaste
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1930 Haile Selassie I becomes the emperor of Ethiopia
Considered as a leading figure in the Rastafari movement, Selassie reigned over Ethiopia for 44 year
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1917 Balfour Declaration
Originally sent as a letter on this day to Baron Rothschild from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Ja
Births On This Day,
November, 2
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1965 Shahrukh Khan
Indian actor
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1934 Ken Rosewall
Australian tennis player
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1865 Warren G. Harding
American politician, 29th President of the United States
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1755 Marie Antoinette
Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France
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971 Mahmud of Ghazni
Deaths On This Day,
November, 2
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2007 The Fabulous Moolah
American wrestler
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2004 Theo van Gogh
Dutch director
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1966 Peter Debye
Dutch/American physicist, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
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1963 Ngo Dinh Diem
South Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam
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1950 George Bernard Shaw
Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
