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What happened on November 2 in American history
November 2 is the 306th day of the year (the 307th in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 6 stories from November 2 spanning 1889 to 2000. Among them: in 1889, Harrison signs two statehood proclamations; the Dakotas enter the Union together; and in 1943, a U.S. Navy task force turns back a Japanese naval force off Bougainville in the night.
1889Member story · 1776 Club
Harrison signs two statehood proclamations; the Dakotas enter the Union together
The papers are shuffled first, so neither state can claim to have come in ahead of the other.
1943Member story · 1776 Club
A U.S. Navy task force turns back a Japanese naval force off Bougainville in the night
Marines landed at Cape Torokina only yesterday, and Marines landed at Cape Torokina only yesterday, and Navy ships fought the night's action offshore.
1966Member story · 1776 Club
Johnson signs the Cuban Adjustment Act; 123,000 Cubans may now apply for green cards
Cubans admitted since January 1, 1959 can apply for permanent residence from inside the United States.
1983
Reagan signs the King holiday bill, fifteen years after the first one was introduced
Congress passed it by wide margins, but the President had once dismissed the push behind it as "an image, not reality."
1988
A Cornell graduate student's program slips onto the Internet from a computer at MIT
Robert Tappan Morris, 23, launches it at about 8:30 p.m. from another campus so it won't trace back to Cornell; the network holds roughly 60,000 machines.
2000
Shepherd, Krikalev and Gidzenko dock at the space station and float inside
Their Soyuz reaches the aft port of the Zvezda module at 09:21 UTC; ninety minutes later the hatch opens on a station that has never had a resident crew.
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