What happened on 2 November?

8 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1917 Balfour Declaration British Foreign Secretary Balfour writes Lord Rothschild supporting a Jewish national home in Palestine; rests on assumed continued British control.
2. 1755 Born: Marie Antoinette Austrian-born Queen of France; executed nine months after Louis XVI.
3. 1930 Reign of Haile Selassie Last emperor of Ethiopia: exile under Italian occupation, restoration, the Organisation of African Unity, and deposition by the Derg.
4. 1965 Born: Shah Rukh Khan Bollywood megastar — 'King Khan'.
5. 1899 Sibelius's Finlandia Patriotic tone poem that became a symbol of Finnish national identity.
6. 1963 Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem South Vietnam's generals overthrow the president Washington installed and shoot him in the back of an armoured car — a coup the Kennedy White House knew of and blessed. Kennedy, vi
7. 1920 First commercial radio broadcast Pittsburgh's KDKA airs US election results, the first scheduled commercial radio broadcast and the dawn of mass broadcasting.
8. 1930 Haile Selassie crowned The last emperor of Ethiopia, a symbol of African independence and the messiah of the Rastafari movement.