November 2: All Souls' Day (Western Christianity); Day of the Dead in Mexico
Arthur Balfour
- 619 – Emperor Gaozu allowed the assassination of a khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate by Eastern Turkic rivals, one of the earliest events in the Tang campaigns against the Western Turks.
- 1917 – British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour (pictured) issued the Balfour Declaration, proclaiming British support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
- 1965 – American Quaker Norman Morrison set himself on fire in front of the Pentagon to protest the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War.
- 1990 – Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting merged to form BSkyB, the largest pay-TV broadcaster in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
- 1995 – Former South African Minister of Defence Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers were arrested and charged with 13 murders in the KwaMakhutha massacre of 1987.
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