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The Tigray People's Liberation Front was founded in 1975 as a revolutionary group to promote the interests of the Tigray people in Ethiopia.
November 2 in History
2022 — A peace agreement is signed between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front, ending the Tigray War
November 2 spans 45 recorded events across recorded history, from 619 to 2022. Below is a curated digest of the most significant moments tied to this date.
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Historical Events
45 events
619 – 2022
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More major events on November 2
The featured story and these ranked highlights form a quick summary. Every recorded event remains available in the chronology below.
- 2000 Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for the first long-duration stay onboard. From this day to present, a continuous human presence in space on the station remains uninterrupted. Source
- 1988 The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT. Source
- 1920 In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election. Source
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The Tigray People's Liberation Front was a key member of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front coalition that ruled Ethiopia from 1991 to 2019.
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The group's leader, Meles Zenawi, served as President of Ethiopia from 1991 to 1995 and then as Prime Minister until his death in 2012.
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The Tigray War, which involved the Tigray People's Liberation Front, resulted in significant humanitarian and economic consequences for the Tigray Region and Ethiopia as a whole.
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The removal of the Tigray People's Liberation Front from Ethiopia's terrorist organization list in 2023 was seen as a significant step towards reconciliation and rebuilding in the region.
619
A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.
Imperial title of Mongolic and Turkic societies
1410
The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.
Hospital in Paris, France
1675
Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
English colonial venture in America (1620–1691)
1707
Four British naval vessels run aground on the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation.
In response, the first Longitude Act is enacted in 1714.
1795
The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
Executive power of the French Constitution of 1795–1799
1868
Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
Area that observes a uniform standard time
1882
The great fire destroys a large part of Oulu's city center in Oulu Province, Finland.
Fire in Oulu, Finland
1899
The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
Descendants of Afrikaners beyond the Cape Colony frontier
1912
Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
State in southeastern Europe from 1908 to 1946
1914
World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles is subsequently closed.
Global conflict from 1914 to 1918
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".
British government statement of 1917
1917
The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
Militant group of the Petrograd Soviet from November to December 1917
1920
The Ocoee massacre commences in Orange County, Florida on the day of the 1920 United States presidential election.
1920 mass violence in Florida, U.S.
1920
In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station.
The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.
1936
The BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service begins.
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.
Global conflict (1939–1945)
1947
In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built until Scaled Composites rolled out their Stratolaunch in May 2017.
American aviator, aerospace engineer and business magnate (1905–1976)
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.
1949 Dutch recognition of Indonesian independence
1951
Canada in the Korean War: A platoon of The Royal Canadian Regiment defends a vital area against a full battalion of Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur.
The engagement lasts into the early hours the next day.
1956
Hungarian Revolution: Nikita Khrushchev meets with leaders of other Communist countries to seek their advice on the situation in Hungary, selecting János Kádár as the country's next leader on the advice of Josip Broz Tito.
Citizen rebellion in Hungary
1956
Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.
1956 British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt
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.
Secret collusion between contestants and producers
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.
First inter-urban motorway in the UK
1960
Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
British publishing house
1963
South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
Country in Southeast Asia (1955–1975)
1964
King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.
King of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964
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.
American anti–Vietnam War protester (1933–1965)
1966
The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
1966 U.S. law to help Cuban immigrants become permanent residents
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
Aeroflot Flight 19 is hijacked and diverted to Vnukovo International Airport, where the aircraft is stormed by authorities.
1973 airliner hijacking in the Soviet Union
1982
Channel 4, the British free-to-air public broadcast television channel funded by its commercial activities, starts broadcasting.
British free-to-air television channel
1983
1984
Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
Legal killing of a person as punishment
1986
Lebanon hostage crisis: U.S.
hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.
1988
The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
1988 Internet worm
1988
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703 crashes in Białobrzegi, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland, killing one person and injuring several more.
1988 aviation accident in Poland
1990
British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
Former British satellite television company (1986–1990)
1997
Tropical Storm Linda makes landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.
Pacific severe tropical storm and North Indian cyclone in 1997
1999
Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.
Mass shooting in Hawaii, US
2000
Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for the first long-duration stay onboard.
From this day to present, a continuous human presence in space on the station remains uninterrupted.
2008
Lewis Hamilton secured his maiden Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by one point ahead of Felipe Massa at the Brazilian Grand Prix, after a pass for fifth place against the Toyota of Timo Glock on the final lap of the race.
British racing driver (born 1985)
2016
The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.
Major League Baseball franchise
2020
In Vienna's Innere Stadt district, an ISIL sympathizer shoots and kills four people and injures 23 more, before being shot and killed by the police.
Capital and largest city of Austria