today.nukz.net: Almanac November 2

Beryl McBurnie (November 2, 1915 – March 3, 2000) was a Trinidadian dance legend. She established the Little Carib Theatre, and promoted the culture and arts of Trinidad and Tobago as her life's work. McBurnie helped to promote the cultural legitimacy of Trinidad and Tobago that would ultimately arm its people to handle independence psychologically and healthily. McBurnie dedicated her life to dance, becoming one of the greatest influences on modern Trinidadian popular culture.

Events

1410 – The Peace of Bicêtre between the Armagnac and Burgundian factions is signed.
1675 – King Philip's War: A combined effort by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts.
1769 – Don Gaspar de Portolà leads the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay.
1772 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.
1783 – In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
1795 – The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.
1861 – American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
1882 – Oulu, Finland is devastated by the Great Oulu Fire of 1882
1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1895 – The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000
1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
1899 – The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
1909 – Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
1914 – Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
1936 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
1940 – World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
1953 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
1957 – The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.
1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway
1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd., the Lady Chatterley's Lover case
1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Ðình Di?m is assassinated following a military coup.
1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
1965 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
1973 – The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a 'United Front' in the state of Tripura.
1974 – 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
2000 – The first resident crew to the ISS docked in November 2nd on the Soyuz TM-31.
2007 – 50,000–100,000 people demonstrate against the Georgian government in Tbilisi.

Births

971 – Emperor Mahmud of Ghaznavid Empire (d. 1030)
1082 – Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)
1470 – King Edward V of England, one of the two princes in the Tower (d. 1483)
1475 – Princess Anne of York, Countess of Surrey (d. 1511)
1636 – Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (d. 1721)
1667 – James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d. 1737)
1692 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (d. 1766)
1696 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (d. 1760)
1699 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
1709 – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
1734 – Daniel Boone American explorer (d. 1820)
1739 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (d. 1799)
1741 – Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (d. 1784)
1754 – Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary (d. 1794)
1755 – Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793)
1766 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
1777 – Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Zólkowski, Polish actor (d. 1822)
1777 – Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
1795 – James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
1799 – John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (d. 1885)
1808 – Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889)
1815 – George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864)
1821 – Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor (d. 1899)
1833 – Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian doctor (d. 1904)
1837 – Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. 1891)
1844 – Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1918)
1855 – Henrik Schück, Swedish literary historian (d. 1947)
1865 – Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
1877 – Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (d. 1933)
1877 – Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (d. 1915)
1877 – Aga Khan III, Shia Imam (d. 1957)
1878 – Okido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (d. 1930)
1879 – Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (d. 1965)
1883 – Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, cardinal and archbishop of Quebec (d. 1947)
1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972)
1886 – Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1971)
1890 – Moa Martinson, Swedish writer (d. 1964)
1890 – Nishinoumi Kajiro III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 30th Yokozuna (d. 1933)
1891 – David Townsend, Art Director (d. 1935)
1892 – Alice Brady, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1939)
1893 – Battista Farina, founder of Pininfarina company (d. 1966)
1894 – Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976)
1899 – Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer, known from Seven Years in Tibet (d. 1973)
1903 – Travis Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1987)
1904 – Hugh Patrick Lygon, English aristocrat (d. 1936)
1905 – James Dunn, American actor (d. 1967)
1905 – Georges Schehadé, Lebanese poet and playwright (d. 1989)
1906 – Daniil Andreev, Russian poet (d. 1959)
1906 – Luchino Visconti, Italian director (d. 1976)
1908 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)
1910 – Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (d. 1999)
1911 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
1911 – Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995)
1913 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
1914 – Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (d. 1997)
1915 – Beryl McBurnie, Trinidadian dancer (d. 2000)
1915 – Sidney Luft, American movie director (d. 2005)
1917 – Ann Rutherford, American actress (d. 2012)
1919 – Warren Stevens, American actor (d. 2012)
1921 – Shepard Menken, American voice actor (d. 1999)
1921 – Bill Mosienko, National Hockey League player (d. 1994)
1924 – (Father) David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (d. 1988)
1924 – Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer
1924 – Stavros Xenidis, Greek actor (d. 2008)
1927 – Steve Ditko, American artist
1928 – Paul Johnson, British historian
1929 – Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, former President of Pakistan
1929 – Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 – Ron Sproat, American TV writer and playwright (d. 2009)
1934 – Bill Gothard, American minister and speaker
1934 – Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player
1936 – Rose Bird, American judge (d. 1999)
1936 – Jack Starrett, American actor and director (d. 1989)
1937 – Earl Carroll, lead vocalist of The Cadillacs
1938 – Jay Black, American singer, (Jay and the Americans)
1938 – Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
1938 – David Lane, American white nationalist (d. 2007)
1938 – Queen Sofia of Spain
1939 – Richard Serra, American sculptor and video artist
1940 – Jim Bakken, American football player
1940 – Phil Minton, jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter
1941 – Bruce Welch, English musician and songwriter (The Shadows)
1941 – Arun Shourie, Indian journalist, author, and politician
1942 – Shere Hite, American-German author
1942 – Stefanie Powers, American actress
1944 – Patrice Chéreau, French director, actor and producer
1944 – Keith Emerson, British keyboardist and composer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
1945 – Giorgos Kolokithas, Greek basketball player
1945 – J. D. Souther, American country-rock singer
1946 – Alan Jones, Australian race car driver
1946 – Marieta Severo, Brazilian actress
1946 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (d. 2001)
1947 – Dave Pegg, English multi-instrumentalist, bass guitarist, longest serving member of Fairport Convention
1950 – Alex Fagan, American law enforcement official (d. 2010)
1950 – Erika Mann, German politician
1951 – Vassilis Leventis, Greek politician
1951 – Thomas Mallon, American novelist and critic
1951 – Lindy Morrison, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens)
1952 – Maxine Nightingale, English singer
1954 – Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
1955 – Chris Burnett, American musician
1955 – Thomas Grunenberg, German footballer
1956 – Dale Brown, American author
1956 – Peter Mullan, Scottish actor
1957 – Carter Beauford, American drummer (Dave Matthews Band)
1957 – Notis Sfakianakis, Greek singer
1957 – Michael Bailey Smith, American actor
1958 – Willie McGee, American baseball player
1961 – k.d. lang, Canadian musician
1961 – Jeff Tedford, American college football coach
1962 – David Brock, American political commentator, pundit
1962 – Mireille Delunsch, French soprano
1962 – Simon Hill, English-Australian football commentator
1962 – Derek Mountfield, English football player
1963 – Bobby Dall, American bass guitarist (Poison)
1963 – Jonas Gardell, Swedish writer
1963 – Ron McGovney, American musician
1963 – Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker
1963 – Park Young Seok, South Korean mountaineer
1964 – Britta Lejon, Swedish politician
1965 – Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor
1965 – Samuel Le Bihan, French actor
1965 – Arnold Clavio, Filipino broadcast journalist
1966 – Sean Kanan, American actor
1966 – Tim Kirkman, American filmmaker
1966 – Khaled Abol Naga, Egyptian actor
1966 – David Schwimmer, American actor
1966 – Yoshinari Ogawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1967 – Kurt Elling, American jazz vocalist
1967 – Marc van Roon, Dutch improvising musician
1967 – Scott Walker, American politician
1968 – Ultra Naté, American musician
1969 – Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, American bassist (Ko?n)
1970 – Sharmell Sullivan, American professional wrestling valet
1970 – Ely Buendia, Filipino vocalist (Eraserheads)
1972 – Samantha Janus, British entertainer
1972 – Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer
1972 – Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player
1973 – Marisol Nichols, American actress
1974 – Orlando Cabrera, Colombian baseball player
1974 – Nelly, American rapper
1974 – Prodigy, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
1975 – Stéphane Sarrazin, French rally driver
1975 – Chris Walla, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie)
1976 – Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player
1977 – Rodney Buford, American basketball player
1977 – Jason Cerbone, American actor
1977 – Konstantinos Economidis, Greek tennis player
1977 – Randy Harrison, American actor
1978 – Carmen Cali, American baseball player
1978 – Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro, Brazilian mixed-martial artist
1979 – Erika Flores, American actress
1979 – Julie Lund, Danish actress
1979 – Simone Puleo, Italian footballer
1979 – Darren Young, American wrestler
1980 – Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
1980 – Diego Lugano, Uruguayan footballer
1980 – Amos Roberts Australian Rugby League player
1981 – Wilson Betemit, Dominican baseball player
1981 – Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress
1981 – Rafael Márquez Lugo, Mexican footballer
1981 – Avy Scott, American pornographic actress
1981 – Roddy White, American football player
1982 – Yunel Escobar, Cuban baseball player
1982 – Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model, and singer
1982 – Charles Itandje, French footballer
1984 – Tamara Hope, Canadian actress
1984 – Julia Stegner, German model
1986 – Andy Rautins, Canadian basketball player
1986 – Diana Penty, Indian model and actress
1986 – Lara Sacher, Australian actress
1987 – Danny Cipriani, English rugby union player
1987 – Justin Bird, Hard working American
1989 – Stevan Jovetic, Montenegrin footballer
1989 – Luke Schenn, Canadian hockey player
1989 – Katelyn Tarver, American singer
1990 – Kendall Schmidt, American singer and actor (Big Time Rush)

Deaths

943 – Queen Emma of France, (b. 894)
1083 – Matilda of Flanders, Queen consort of William I the Conqueror (b. 1031)
1285 – King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
1327 – King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
1483 – Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1454)
1610 – Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544)
1618 – Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568)
1716 – Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651)
1807 – Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730)
1846 – Esaias Tegnér, Swedish writer, educator, and bishop (b. 1782)
1852 – Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
1863 – Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826)
1877 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
1887 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
1898 – George Goyder, English surveyor (b. 1826)
1905 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)
1930 – Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, shooter, gymnast and athlete (b. 1874)
1935 – Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
1944 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
1945 – Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880)
1945 – Hélène de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1868)
1949 – Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (b. 1872)
1950 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1856)
1952 – Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Ottoman general (b. 1862)
1958 – Jean Couzy, French mountaineer (b. 1923)
1959 – Michael Considine, Australian politician (b. 1885)
1960 – Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
1961 – James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894)
1963 – Ngô Ðình Di?m, South Vietnamese politician (b. 1901)
1966 – Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1884)
1966 – Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer (b. 1892)
1970 – Richard Cushing, cardinal and archbishop of Boston (b. 1895)
1971 – Robert Mensah, Ghanaian Olympian and association football player(b. 1939)
1975 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)
1979 – Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (b. 1936)
1982 – Lester Roloff, American religious personality (b. 1914)
1984 – Velma Barfield, American convicted murderer (b. 1932)
1986 – Paul Frees, American voice actor (b. 1920)
1991 – Irwin Allen, American film producer (b. 1916)
1992 – Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892)
1996 – Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
1996 – John G. Crommelin, United States Navy officer and white supremacist political candidate (b. 1902)
1998 – Vincent Winter, British actor (b. 1957)
2000 – Robert Cormier, American author, columnist and reporter (b. 1925)
2002 – Tonio Selwart, German actor (b. 1896)
2002 – Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935)
2003 – Frank McCloskey, American politician (b. 1939)
2004 – Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, United Arab Emiratesian politician (b. 1918)
2004 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1957)
2004 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (b. 1951)
2005 – Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and coach (b. 1919)
2007 – Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (b. 1978)
2007 – Witold Kieltyka, Polish metal drummer (b. 1984)
2007 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)
2007 – Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
2007 – Henry Cele, South African actor (b. 1949)
2010 – Andy Irons, American professional surfer (b. 1978)
2010 – Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
2011 – Sickan Carlsson, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1915)