Today in History: Ankara Technical Teachers' School for Boys was Established

November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 59.

Railways

• 2 November 1918 Lightning Armies Group Commander Mustafa Kemal Pasha, in his order regarding the railways in his region; All the railways in the south up to Konya were accepted within the Yıldırım Ordu Group responsibility area. Staff Commander and Inspector Staff Colonel Fuat Ziya Bey was appointed to his management.

Events 

• 1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota become the 39th and 40th States of the United States.
• 1914 - Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1917 - The Balfour Declaration, which provides for a homeland for the Jews in Palestine, is published.
• 1918 – Enver, Talat and Cemal Pashas left the country with their companions on a German ship.
• 1920 – The first radio broadcast took place in Pittsburgh, USA.
• 1922 – In the secret session of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, it was decided to determine the delegation to participate in the Lausanne Conference by the Government.
• 1930 - Haile Selassie is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1934 – Interior Minister Şükrü Kaya removed Turkish music from radio programs.
• 1936 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin pact, thus laying the foundations for the Axis bloc.
• 1940 – Ankara Male Technical Teachers School was established.
• 1944 – The ban on cake making and blackout measures against air attacks were lifted. As of November 8, it was announced that the lights could be turned on.
• 1947 – In California, aviator and businessman Howard Hughes built the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built. Spruce Goose He flew it. This flight was the first and last flight of the giant plane.
• 1948 - Democrat Harry Truman wins the US Presidential election.
• 1953 - The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan changed the name of the country to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan with a decision.
• 1958 – There was a firedamp explosion at Merzifon Yeni Çeltek Lignite Plant, 10 workers died.
• 1960 – Export Promotion Center (IGEME) was established.
• 1960 – Penguin Books publishing house, published Lady Chatterley's Lover He was acquitted from the trial, in which he was tried on the grounds that the book, titled, was obscene.
• 1964 – King Saud bin Abdulaziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed, succeeded by his brother Prince Faisal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud.
• 1965 – A US citizen named Norman Morrison set himself on fire in front of the US Department of Defense building to protest the Vietnam War.
• 1973 – Beyhan Kıral was chosen as the Beauty Queen of Turkey.
• 1976 – Istanbul Technical University was fired upon. 1 person died, 3 people were injured.
• 1978 – 13 nationalists, including Ferhat Tüysüz and Veli Can Oduncu, escaped from Sağmalcılar Prison.
• 1981 – The Second Turkish Economics Congress was opened.
• 1982 – The Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Turkey decided that the boarding students should say “Praise be to our God, may our nation exist” after the dinner.
• 1988 – Covered female students who were not allowed to attend classes at Erzurum Atatürk University began a death fast.
• 1989 – Women launched the “Our Body is Ours, No to Sexual Harassment” campaign to draw attention to sexual harassment. The campaign became known as “Purple Needle” because purple needles were distributed to women after the press release on the ferry.
• 1991 – SHP Chairman Erdal İnönü said in Tunceli, “You spoke Kurdish among yourselves, you listened to songs in your mother tongue, nothing can come of this and no one can prevent it. But your official language is also Turkish.”
• 1991 – Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I took office.
• 2000 – In the World Chess Championship, Garry Kasparov lost to his compatriot Vladimir Kramnik. Garry Kasparov was the world chess champion for 15 years.

Births 

• 682 – Omar bin Abdulaziz, eighth of the Umayyad caliphs and grandson of Marwan (d. 720)
• 971 – Mahmud of Gazne, Ruler of the Ghazni State (d. 1030)
• 1154 – Constance of Hautville, Holy Roman-German Emperor VI. wife of Heinrich (d. 1198)
• 1470 – Edward V, king of England (d. 1483)
• 1667 – James Sobieski, Prince of Poland (d. 1737)
• 1699 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
• 1709 – Anne, Crown Princess and Princess of Orange, King of the Kings II. Second child and eldest daughter of George and his wife Caroline (Ansbach) (d. 1759)
• 1738 – Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer and violinist (d. 1799)
• 1755 – Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793)
• 1766 – Josef Wenzel Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian general (d. 1858)
• 1795 – James Knox Polk, American politician and 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
• 1799 – Titian Peale, American natural historian, entomologist, and photographer (d. 1885)
• 1815 – George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864)
• 1837 – Émile Bayard, French artist (d.1891)
• 1844 – Mehmet V, 35th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1918)
• 1847 – Georges Sorel, French philosopher, sociologist, and syndicalist revolutionary theorist (d. 1922)
• 1861 – Maurice Blondel, French philosopher (d. 1949)
• 1865 – Warren G. Harding, American politician and 29th President of the United States (assassinated) (d. 1923)
• 1877 – III. Aga Khan, imam of the Nizari Ismaili sect of Shiism (d. 1957)
• 1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972)
• 1890 – Moa Martinson, Swedish writer (d. 1964)
• 1892 – Alice Brady, American actress (d. 1939)
• 1894 – Alexander Lippisch, German aerodynamicist (d. 1976)
• 1906 – Luchino Visconti, Italian film director (d. 1976)
• 1911 – Odysseus Elitis, Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Burt Lancaster, American actor and Oscar winner (d. 1994)
• 1914 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1917 – Ann Rutherford, Canadian-American actress (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Myer Skoog, Former American NBA basketball player (d. 2019)
• 1927 – Steve Ditko, American comics artist (d. 2018)
• 1929 – Mohammed Rafiq Tarar, Pakistani politician and 9th President
• 1929 – Richard E. Taylor, Canadian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 2018)
• 1938 – Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
• 1939 – Richard Serra, American minimalist sculptor
• 1939 – Sophia, Wife of King Juan Carlos I of Spain
• 1941 – Metin Akpınar, Turkish actor
• 1942 – Shere Hite, American sex educator and feminist (d. 2020)
• 1942 - Stefanie Powers, American artist
• 1944 – Patrice Chéreau, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1944 – Keith Emerson, English keyboardist and composer (d. 2016)
• 1946 - Alan Jones, Australian former Formula 1 driver
• 1946 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian composer (d. 2001)
• 1949 – Lois McMaster Bujold, American science fiction and fantasy novelist
• 1952 – Aziz Yıldırım, Turkish businessman, civil engineer and President of Fenerbahçe
• 1959 – Peter Mullan, Scottish actor and filmmaker
• 1961 – Kathryn Dawn Lang, Canadian country and pop singer, guitarist, and film actress
• 1962 – Ali Güler, Turkish historian, writer and lecturer
• 1962 – Billur Kalkavan, Turkish actress and presenter
• 1963 – Ron McGoveny, American musician and member of Metallica band
• 1963 – Borut Pahor, Slovenian politician
• 1965 – Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor
• 1966 – David Schwimmer, American actor
• 1971 – Erdil Yaşaroğlu, Turkish cartoonist
• 1972 – Dario Silva, Uruguayan international football player
• 1972 – Samantha Womack, English pop singer, actress and director
• 1973 - Marisol Nichols, an American actress
• 1974 – Barbara Chiappini, Italian model, television entertainer, and actress
• 1974 – Nelly, American R&B and hip hop singer
• 1974 – Prodigy, American rapper (d. 2017)
• 1975 – Sinan Sümer, Turkish TV series and film actor
• 1980 – Diego Lugano, Uruguayan football player
• 1980 – Kennedy Bakırcıoğlu, Swedish football player of Syriac origin
• 1980 – Mustafa Ceceli, Turkish singer
• 1980 – Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
• 1981 – Rafael Márquez Lugo, Mexican national football player
• 1981 Katherine Isabelle, Canadian actress
• 1981 - Avy Scott, American porn star
• 1982 – Charles Itandje, French-born Cameroonian goalkeeper
• 1983 - Darren Young, American professional wrestler
• 1985 – Serkan Şenalp, Turkish TV series and movie actor
• 1986 – Andy Rautins is a Canadian professional basketball player.
• 1989 – Stevan Jovetic, Montenegrin national football player
• 1998 – Elkie Chong, singer and actress from Hong Kong but active in South Korea

Deaths 

• 1618 – III. Maximilian, Archduke of Austria (b. 1558)
• 1887 – Jenny Lind, Swedish opera singer (b. 1820)
• 1895 – Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, French military officer and politician, senator (b. 1812)
• 1905 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and psychologist (b. 1817)
• 1930 – Alfred Lothar Wegener, German geoscientist (who introduced the theory of continental drift) (b. 1880)
• 1938 – Celal Nuri İleri, Turkish politician (b. 1881)
• 1944 – Thomas Midgley Jr, American mechanical engineer and chemist (b. 1889)
• 1950 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish critic, author, and Nobel Prize winner for Literature (b. 1856)
• 1952 – Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Turkish soldier and writer (b. 1862)
• 1960 – Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (b. 1896)
• 1961 – James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894)
• 1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (b. 1901)
• 1963 – Ngô Ðình Nhu was the younger brother and chief political adviser to Ngo Dinh Diem, the first president of South Vietnam (b.
• 1966 – Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1892)
• 1966 – Peter Debye, Dutch physicist (b. 1884)
• 1970 – Pierre Veyron, legendary Grand Prix driver who raced from 1933 to 1953 (b. 1903)
• 1972 – Alexander Bek, Soviet journalist and writer (b. 1903)
• 1975 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)
• 1991 – Irwin Allen, American film producer (b. 1916)
• 1991 – Mort Shuman, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
• 1992 – Hal Roach, American film director and producer (b. 1892)
• 1994 – Peter Taylor, American novelist, short story, and playwright (b. 1917)
• 1996 – Duygu Ankara, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actress (b. 1950)
• 1996 – Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
• 1997 – Bahri Savcı, Turkish political scientist (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch director (b. 1957)
• 2004 – Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, first president of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Altan Aşar, Turkish journalist and co-founder of TRT News Department
• 2005 – Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian former football player and manager (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer and founder of the USSR State Folk Dance Ensemble (b. 1906)
• 2007 – The Fableus Moolah, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Mehmet Can, Turkish politician (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Ghislaine Dupont, French journalist, radio TV host (b. 1956)
• 2016 – Korkut Özal, Turkish politician (b. 1929)
• 2016 – Gönül Ülkü Özcan, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actress (b. 1931)
• 2016 – Oleg Popov, Soviet-Russian clown and circus performer (b. 1930)
• 2016 – Giorgos Vasilou, Greek well-known actor (b. 1950)
• 2017 – María Martha Serra Lima, Argentine singer (b. 1944)
• 2017 – Dina Wadia, Indian political personality (b. 1919)
• 2018 – Robert F. Taft, American Jesuit, author, and historian (b. 1932)
• 2019 – Gustav Deutsch, Austrian artist, art and film director (b. 1952)
• 2019 – Atilla Engin, Turkish drummer, percussion master, composer arranger, grand conductor, jazz/fusion performer and jazz conservatory teacher (b. 1946)
• 2019 – Leo Iorga, Romanian musician and singer (b. 1964)
• 2019 – Marie Laforêt, French-Swiss singer and actress (b. 1939)
• 2020 – Dietrich Adam, German actor (b. 1953)
• 2020 – Nancy Darsch, American basketball coach (b. 1951)
• 2020 – Ahmed Laraki, Moroccan politician (b. 1931)
• 2020 – Gigi Proietti, Italian actor, dubbing artist, comedian, film director, musician, singer and television host (b. 1940)
• 2020 – John Sessions, Scottish-born British actor and comedian (b. 1953)
• 2020 – Max Ward, Canadian aviator, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1921)
• 2020 – Baron Wolman, American photographer (b. 1937)

Holidays and special occasions 

• Week of Children with Leukemia (2-8 November)
• Storm: Bird Livelihood Storm