11-02-2005, 06:31 AM
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November 2nd
1739 ~ Birthday of Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Composer.
1755 ~ Birthday of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France.
1815 ~ Birthday of George Boole, Mathematician & Philosopher.
1930 ~ Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
1936 ~ The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was established.
1950 ~ Death of George Bernard Shaw, Playwright.
1960 ~ Penguin Books was found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
1964 ~ In a family coup, King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.
1983 ~ Martin Luther King Day established in the U.S.
1988 ~ The Morris worm, the first internet distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT.
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