This day in #History 0211

This day in #history 0211

NOVEMBER 2ND

1783 – General George Washington, later 1st American President, bids farewell to his army after the American Revolutionary War
1813 – Treaty of Fulda
1824 – Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Andrew Jackson beats J Q Adams

1852 – Franklin Pierce elected as president of US

1880 – James A Garfield (R) elected 20th American President
1881 – Dutch New-Malthusiaanse Union forms
1889 – North Dakota becomes 39th & South Dakota becomes 40th state

1899 – Boers begin siege of Ladysmith, Natal

1914 – Great Britain annexes Cyprus
1914 – Russia declares war on Turkey
1914 – Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1915 – 1st US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio
1916 – Ft Vaux, Verdun, reconquered by France
1917 – 1st US soldiers killed in combat in WW I
1917 – Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
1930 – Ras (euqiv. Duke) Tafari Makonnen is crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty
1920 – Warren G Harding elected 29th president

1953 – Pakistan becomes islamic republic
1954 – Charles C Diggs Jr elected Michigan’s 1st black congressman
1954 – JS Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC)
1954 – Taiwan & US sign military pact
1955 – Clarton-Schwerdt & Schaffer discover polio virus
1955 – David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
1956 – Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion
1956 – Israel captures Gaza & Sheham
1983 – President Reagan signs bill establishing Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday