Sunday 2nd of November 1755

Excessive Queen consort of France and Navarre Marie Antoinette is born as Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna in Hofburg, Wien, Wien, Austria.

Monday 2nd of November 1795

11th President of the United States James Knox Polk is born in Pineville, North Carolina, United States.

Thursday 2nd of November 1815

Mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole is born in 3 Pottergate, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.

Thursday 2nd of November 1865

29th President of the United States Warren Gamaliel Harding is born in Ohio Route 97, Blooming Grove, Ohio, United States.

Monday 2nd of November 1903

Electrician George P. Metesky aka The Mad Bomber is born in New York City, New York, United States.

Friday 2nd of November 1906

Count of Lonate Pozzolo and film director Luchino Visconti is born as Luchino Visconti di Modrone in Milano, Lombardia, Italy.

Sunday 2nd of November 1913

Actor Burt Burton Stephen Lancaster is born in 209 East 106th Street, New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.

Friday 2nd of November 1917

Chemist, murderer and playwright Roland Burnham Molineux dies of syphilitic infection at the age of 51 in Kings Park, New York, United States.

Friday 2nd of November 1923

26-year-old Serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer leaves the State Hospital to start a killing spree in State Hospital for Mental Defectives, Napa, California, United States.

Wednesday 2nd of November 1938

Sculptor Richard Serra is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

Monday 2nd of November 1942

Sex researcher Shere Hite is born as Shirley Diana Gregory in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States.

Shere later took the surname of her stepfather Raymond Hite.

Thursday 2nd of November 1944

47-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is arrested, posing as Captain Henri Valéry, a hero for the resistance in St.-Mandé-Tourelle Metro Station, Paris, XIIe, Île-de-France, France.

Thursday 2nd of November 1944

Engineer and chemist Thomas Midgley aka the One-Man Environmental Disaster dies of strangulation at the age of 55 in Worthington, Ohio, United States.

Midgley accidently strangled himself with an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys he designed himself to lift him from his bed since he was struck by poliomyelitis in 1940.

Thursday 2nd of November 1944

Musician Keith Noel Emerson known from Emerson, Lake and Palmer is born in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Sunday 2nd of November 1947

42-year-old Business magnate, aviator, aerospace engineer, film director and eccentric Howard Robard Hughes makes the first and only flight of his own designed H-4 Hercules 'Spruce Goose' largest ever flying boat in Cabrillo Beach, Los Angeles, San Pedro, California, United States.

Sunday 2nd of November 1947

Irish Republican Army volunteer Joe McCann is born in Belfast, Lower Falls, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Thursday 2nd of November 1950

Playwright George Bernard Shaw dies of renal failure at the age of 94 in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

Shaw's renal failure was precipitated by injuries incurred from falling while pruning a tree.

Sunday 2nd of November 1952

Gangster and gang leader Patrick Haemers aka Le Grand Blond is born in Brussel, Schaerbeek, Brabant, Belgium.

Friday 2nd of November 1956

143 die in express train plunge into a river in Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu, India.

A bomb exploded on a bridge across the Marudaiyar river.

Tuesday 2nd of November 1965

Quaker and anti-war protester Norman Morrison commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 32 in The Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia, United States.

Morrison doused himself in kerosene and set himself on fire below Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's office. In the Vietnamese city of Đà Nẵng a road is named after Morrison in memory of his act against the Vietnam-U.S conflict.

Thursday 2nd of November 1967

Murderer Garry Dean Miller is born in Scurry County, Texas, United States.

Thursday 2nd of November 1972

67-year-old Henri Tomei is stabbed to death by serial killer Herbert Mullin aka The Hippie Killer in St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, 219 Bean Avenue, Los Gatos, California, United States.

Mullin thought the church was empty but when he heard Father Henri Tomei in one of the booths he decided "Well, if you (the priest) are in here, I guess I should kill you."

Saturday 2nd of November 1974

23-year-old Edward A. Hilliard and his girlfriend Deborah Griffin is abducted and strangled by serial killer Paul John Knowles aka The Casanova Killer in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States.

Hilliard's body was found in nearby woods but Griffin's remains were never discovered. Knowles was not proven to have murdered them but he was under strong suspicion.

Sunday 2nd of November 1975

Writer and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered by being run over several times with his own car at the age of 53 in Lido di Ostia, Via dell’Idroscalo, Ostia, Lazio, Italy.

17-year-old male prostitute Giuseppe Pelosi was arrested and confessed to murdering Pasolini. On 7 May 2005 he retracted his confession which he said was made under the threat of violence to his family. He claimed that three people "with a southern accent" had committed the murder, insulting Pasolini as a "dirty communist".

Friday 2nd of November 1979

Gangster Jacques René Mesrine aka Public Enemy No. 1 is shot dead by the gendarmerie at the age of 43 in Porte de Clignancourt, Paris, XVIIIe, Île-de-France, France.

Mesrine's golden BMW 520 was boxed in at the entrance to the intersection and police marksmen in the rear of a lorry immediately in front of their car threw open a tarpaulin. Twenty rounds were fired at point blank range. Mesrine was hit 15 times. A coup de grâce was then administered with a pistol. His mistress Sylvia Jeanjacquot lost one eye and suffered lasting damage to her arm. Her pet dog was killed.

Friday 2nd of November 1984

71-year-old Iona Seicaresco is brutally beaten and strangled to death with an electric cord by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 60 Boulevard de Clichy, Paris, XVIIIe, Île-de-France, France.

Friday 2nd of November 1984

Serial killer Velma Margie Barfield is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

Barfield was the first woman to die by lethal injection in North Carolina. Barfield chose as her last meal a bag of Cheez Doodles and a 12-ounce can of Coca-Cola, and wore pink pajamas and an adult diaper as she was put to death.

Sunday 2nd of November 1986

103 die in Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash in Zahedan Airport, Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran.

The plane was transporting soldiers of the 88th Armored Division from the western Bakhtaran war front to Zahedan.

Tuesday 2nd of November 2004

Film director Theo Theodoor van Gogh is assassinated by Dutch-Moroccan Muslim Mohammed Bouyeri at the age of 47 in .

Bouyeri objected to the controversial film Submission van Gogh made from a script written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali that deals with violence against women in some Islamic societies; it tells the stories of four abused Muslim women using visual shock tactics. Following the broadcast of the film both van Gogh and Hirsi Ali received death threats. Van Gogh did not take the threats seriously and refused any protection. According to Hirsi Ali he said "Nobody kills the village idiot", a term he frequently used about himself.

Tuesday 2nd of November 2004

Murderer Lorenzo Morris is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Morris' last meal request was for fried chicken and fried fish, French bread, hot peppers, apple pie, butter pecan ice cream and two soft drinks, either Sprites or Big Reds.

Wednesday 2nd of November 2005

The amazing archive of China's Noise Guru n°1 Yan Jun in Beijing, Hebei, China.

Sunday 2nd of November 2008

Noise music band Club Moral play their 133rd concert in Wiels, Avenue Van Volxem 354, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.