November 2: All Souls' Day (Western Christianity); Day of the Dead in Mexico
Theo van Gogh
- 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.
- 1795 – French Revolution: Under the terms of a new constitution that was ratified during the aftermath of the Reign of Terror and the subsequent Thermidorian Reaction, the Directory succeeded the National Convention as the executive government of France.
- 1936 – The BBC Television Service launched as the world's first regular, public all-electronic "high-definition" television service.
- 1960 – In the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd publisher Penguin Books was acquitted of obscenity for the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence.
- 2004 – Dutch film director Theo van Gogh (pictured), whose film Submission was critical of the treatment of women in Islam, was assassinated by Mohammed Bouyeri.
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