Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 2

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 * 1917 – The British government issued the Balfour Declaration in support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small Jewish minority.
 * 1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ended with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
 * 1957 – A large number of people witnessed a fiery object in the sky near Levelland, Texas, which the United States Air Force said was ball lightning.
 * 1963 – President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was assassinated, marking the culmination of a coup d'état led by Dương Văn Minh.
 * 1984 – The serial killer Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1962.
 * 1990 – Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting merged to form BSkyB, currently the largest pay-TV broadcaster in Europe.
 * 1994 – A lighting strike ruptured three oil tanks near Dronka, Egypt, causing a flood that killed 469 people.
 * 1997 – Tropical Storm Linda made landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.
 * 2000 – Aboard Expedition 1, American astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko became the first resident crew to arrive at the International Space Station.
 * 2008 – At the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton (pictured) overtook Timo Glock in the final corners of the race to become World Drivers' Champion by one point.
 * 2016 – The Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 World Series, ending the longest championship drought in Major League Baseball history.
 * Born/died this day: | Matilda of Flanders |d|1083| Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin |b|1699|Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange |b|1709| Daniel Boone |b|1734| John J. Loud |b|1844| James Dunn |b|1901| Travis Jackson |b|1903| Bill Mosienko |b|1921|  William Pūnohu White |d|1925 | Patrice Chéreau |b|1944 | Mahonri Young |d|1957 |Harriet Bosse |d|1961 Shah Rukh Khan |b|1965 |The Fabulous Moolah |d|2007