📜 This Day in History

November 2

• 619Emperor Gaozu of Tang 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.
• 1917The British government issued the Balfour Declaration in support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small Jewish minority.
• 1949The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ended with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
• 1963President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was assassinated, marking the culmination of a coup d'état led by Dương Văn Minh.
• 1997Tropical Storm Linda made landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.
• 2008Lewis Hamilton overtook Timo Glock in the final corners of the Brazilian Grand Prix to win the Formula One championship by one point.

Born on this day

• 1755Marie Antoinette, Austrian-French queen consort of Louis XVI of France (died 1793)
• 1795James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (died 1849)
• 1865Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (died 1923)
• 1965Shah Rukh Khan, Indian film actor, producer and television host