Today in History for 2nd November 2025

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Historical Events

1898 - Austro-Hungarian Jewish activist Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem
1949 - The Netherlands recognizes its former colony Indonesia as a sovereign state at conclusion of the Round Table Conference at the Hague, Netherlands
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1995 - Spanish Broadcasting System buys NY radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M
2017 - Jerome Powell nominated by US President Donald Trump to be next Chair of the Federal Reserve

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Famous Birthdays

1734 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman and explorer (US Hall of Fame 1915), born in Reading, Pennsylvania (d. 1820)
1919 - Warren Stevens, American actor (Richard Boone Show), born in Clark's Summit, Pennsylvania (d. 2012)
1932 - Romano Mazzoli, American politician (Rep-D-KY, 1971-95), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2022)
1932 - Melvin Schwartz, American Physicist and Nobel Laureate (neutrinos - subatomic particles with no electric charge and virtually no mass), born in New York City (d. 2006)
1942 - (Roberta) "Bobbi" Gibb, American runner (unsanctioned era female winner of Boston Marathon, 1966-68), lawyer, writer, and sculptor, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Famous Deaths

1981 - Kenneth Oakley, English Anthropologist, paleontologist and geologist whose method for the relative dating of fossils using fluorine content was instrumental in exposing the Piltdown Man hoax, dies at 70
2000 - Robert Cormier, American author known for "The Chocolate War" and "I Am the Cheese", dies at 75
2000 - Sue Ryder, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw and Cavendish, British volunteer with Special Operations Executive in the Second World War, dies at 76
2002 - Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935)
2004 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch road cyclist (World Road Race Champion 1978; Amstel Gold Race 1974, 85), dies from a heart attack at 53

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