It happened on this day, November 2
Events:
1917 – British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour sends a letter to Lord Lionel Walter de Rothschild indicating the British government's support for the establishment of a national homeland for Jews in Palestine, a letter known as the Balfour Declaration.
1921 – Sultan Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud captures Hail and the late emirate of Al Rashid Al Shammari.
1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
1937 – Italian leader Benito Mussolini announces the creation of the Berlin/Rome Axis, known as the Axis Powers, which includes the countries that fought the Allies during World War II.
1947 – War breaks out between India and Pakistan due to conflict over the Kashmir region.
1961 – Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa takes over as ruler of Bahrain, succeeding his father, Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa.
1964 – The King of Saudi Arabia, Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, is deposed and Crown Prince Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is installed as king.
1976 – Jimmy Carter defeats Gerald Ford in the US presidential election.
1978 – The Arab League summit is held in Baghdad and a decision is made to suspend Egypt's membership and transfer the Arab League headquarters from Cairo to Tunisia, following Egypt's signing of the Camp David peace accords with Israel.
1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs an executive order making Martin Luther King's birthday an annual national holiday in the United States under the name Martin Luther King Day.
1994 – Lightning and heavy rain near the Egyptian village of Drunka kill more than 500 people.
2004 – Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan takes over as ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi following the death of his father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
2008 – Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev sign an agreement in Moscow to reach a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis.
2009 – The Independent Electoral Commission of Afghanistan announces the victory of incumbent President Hamid Karzai for a second presidential term, after canceling the presidential runoff due to the withdrawal of his only competitor, Abdullah Abdullah.
2012 – Assassination of Palestinian actor Muhammad Rafi after his kidnapping by one of the armed factions of the Syrian opposition because of his support for the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
2017 – Archaeologists announce their discovery of a new large room of unknown purpose inside the Great Pyramid.
2018 – 9 Copts were killed in an armed attack in Egypt's Minya Governorate, and ISIS in Sinai Province claimed responsibility for the attack.
2020 – Algerian voters approved the constitutional amendments by 66.8%, with the participation of 23.7% of those entitled to vote.
✴️ A shooting on the Kabul University campus in Afghanistan killed at least 35 people and injured 50 others.
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Births:
1154 – Empress Constance, Queen of the Kingdom of Sicily and Germany and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire.
1231 – Saif al-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan.
1755 – Queen Marie-Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI of France.
1795 – James Polk, President of the United States.
1815 – George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher.
1844 – Mehmed V, Ottoman sultan.
1865 – Warren Hardin, President of the United States.
1877 – Aga Khan III, leader of the Ismaili community.
1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer.
1899 – Clara Muhammad, one of the founders of the Nation of Islam movement in the United States and wife of leader Elijah Muhammad.
1910 – Muhammad Fouad Siraj El-Din, Egyptian politician.
1911 – Odisso Illitis, Greek poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979.
1923 – Salah Sarhan, Egyptian actor.
1935 – Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Shiite religious authority.
1936 – Hassan Kami, Egyptian opera singer and actor.
1938 – Queen Sofia, Queen of Spain.
1946 – Sami El Adl, Egyptian actor and director.
1957 – Ibrahim Melhem, Palestinian writer and editor and spokesperson for the government of Muhammad Shtayyeh.
1960 – Medhat Saleh, Egyptian singer and actor.
1963 – Nada Bassiouni, Egyptian actress.
** Jonas Jardel, Swedish artist.
1965 – Shah Rukh Khan, Indian actor.
1966 – Khaled Abu Al-Naga, Egyptian actor and presenter.
** David Schwimmer, American actor.
1967 – Akira Ishida, Japanese voice actor.
1977 – Nourhan, Lebanese singer.
** Konstantinos Economides, Greek tennis player.
1981 – Haider Abdel Amir, Iraqi footballer.
1982 – Nasser Al-Balushi, Kuwaiti actor.
1995 – Hadi Khafaga, Egyptian actor.
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Death:
1285 – King Peter III, king of the Kingdom of Aragon.
1908 – Abd al-Hakim al-Afghani, Afghan Muslim scholar and mystic.
1908 – Abdul Qadir Shanun, Iraqi Ottoman poet.
1917 – Muhammad Reda Fadlallah, Lebanese Ottoman jurist and poet.
1950 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
1959 – Ibrahim Abdul Ghani Al-Droubi, Iraqi writer, historian and calligrapher.
1961 – Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, ruler of Bahrain.
1966 – Peter Debye, Dutch physicist and physical chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1936.
1972 – Muhammad Hassan Fadlallah, Lebanese Muslim scholar.
1975 – Hassan Alaa El-Din, Lebanese actor known as “Shoushu”.
1982 – Shawkat Choucair, Lebanese-Syrian soldier.
1992 – Hal Roach, American actor, producer and director.
2004 – Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates.
** Theo van Gogh, Dutch director, producer and actor.
2005 – Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian footballer and coach.
2008 – Ahmed Al-Mirghani, president of Sudan.
2010 – Abdul Ghani Qasti, Saudi journalist and poet.
2012 – Muhammad Rafi', Palestinian actor.
2017 – Afif Al-Bahnasi, Syrian historian.
2021 – Sabah Fakhri, Syrian singer.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Day of the Dead in Ecuador and Mexico.
⬅️ All Saints’ Day in Catholicism.
