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Events on November 2

• 1570 After the All Saints' Flood in the Netherlands the previous day, dikes from Holland to Jutland break during a hurricane on the North Sea coast. More than 20,000 coastal residents are presumed to have lost their lives.
• 1642 The Swedes under Lennart Torstensson defeat the imperial troops in the Second Battle of Breitenfeld during the Thirty Years' War.
• 1810 As part of the Stein-Hardenberg reforms, freedom of trade is introduced in the Kingdom of Prussia.
• 1886 The Imperial Patent Office in Germany grants Carl Benz the patent for the automobile he built.
• 1917 In the Balfour Declaration, the British Foreign Secretary Lord Balfour tells Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, the representative of the Zionist movement, that land in Palestine will be made available for the establishment of a Zionist national home.
• 1961 The Visit by Max Frisch has its world premiere at Schauspielhaus Zürich.
• 1964 A permit system enables pensioners from East Germany to visit relatives in West Germany.
• 1981 At Frankfurt Main Airport, construction work on Runway West begins amid fierce protests.
• 1981 The rock band Queen releases their Greatest Hits. This compilation becomes their most successful album and remains in the charts for more than ten years.
• 1992 Galileo Galilei is formally rehabilitated by the Roman Catholic Church.
• 2000 The three members of the ISS Expedition 1, William McMichael Shepherd, Sergei Konstantinovich Krikaljow and Juri Pawlowitsch Gidsenko, arrive at the International Space Station as the first long-term crew.
• 2010 Oberstaufen is the first German place to be viewed street by street on the Internet using the Google Street View additional service, which is controversial in terms of data protection.

Born on November 2

• 1865 Warren Gamaliel Harding, American politician
• 1882 Leo Perutz, Austrian writer
• 1893 Battista Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer
• 1932 Inigo Gallo, Swiss folk actor, cabaret artist and director
• 1940 Carolin Reiber, German journalist, television announcer and presenter
• 1952 Jean-Remy von Matt, German advertising executive
• 1960 Andy Borg, Austrian pop singer and television presenter
• 1961 k.d. lang, Canadian singer
• 1990 Kendall Schmidt, American actor, singer, songwriter and dancer
• 2000 Alphonso Davies, Canadian-Liberian footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „2. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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