November
2
World
Pneumonia Day
November
2, 2009, marks the first-ever World Pneumonia Day. Pneumonia
is a preventable and treatable disease, but it still remains
the number-one killer of children in the developing world. Pneumonia
kills more than 2 million children under 5 each year – more
than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. The United States
and countries around the world are observing this day as an
opportunity to raise global awareness of pneumonia and reaffirm
the commitment to save the lives of children.
On World
Pneumonia Day, the United States unites with countries and communities
across the globe in the fight against pneumonia. We commemorate
World Pneumonia Day with the hope of a better future for all
children. Celebrations of the Day will kick off with a Global
Pneumonia Summit in New York City gathering scientists, political
leaders, donors, and public health organizations to discuss
pneumonia prevention, treatment, and other ways to protect children.
Events
1410 – The
Peace of Bicêtre between the Armagnac and Burgundian factions
is signed.
1570 – A tsunami in the North Sea devastates the coast from
Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1,000 people.
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".
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
Lady Chatterley's Lover case
1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Ðình Diệm 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.
Holidays
and observances
All Souls
Day (Roman Catholic and Anglican Church), and its related observances:
Dia de Finados or Dia dos Fiéis Defuntos (Brazil and Portugal)
Christian Feast Day:
Victorinus of Pettau
Coronation of Haile Selassie (Rastafari movement)
All Souls Day or Day of the Dead is the Día de los Difuntos
in Spain.
Day of the Dead, The second day of Day of the Dead or El Dia
de los Muertos celebration. (Mexico)
Earliest day on which Election Day can fall, while November
8 is the latest; celebrated on Tuesday following the first Monday
in November of every even numbered year (United States)
Indian Arrival Day (Mauritius)
Karatsu Kunchi (Karatsu, Saga)
Statehood Day (North Dakota and South Dakota)
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