11-02-2004, 06:15 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.
1817 ~ The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opened in Montreal, Quebec.
1920 ~ KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania started broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
1930 ~ Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
1950 ~ Death of George Bernard Shaw, Playwright.
1960 ~ Penguin Books was found not guilty of obscenity in the “Lady Chatterley's Lover” case.
1988 ~ The Morris worm, the first internet distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT.
2004 ~ U.S. Presidential Election between Senator John Kerry and President George W. Bush.
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