What happened on 2 November?

11 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 future British control.
2. 1755 Born: Marie Antoinette Austrian-born Queen of France; executed nine months after Louis XVI.
3. 1914 British naval blockade of Germany Royal Navy blockade contributes to German civilian starvation.
4. 1930 Reign of Haile Selassie Last emperor of Ethiopia: exile under Italian occupation, restoration, the Organisation of African Unity, and deposition by the Derg.
5. 1965 Born: Shah Rukh Khan Bollywood megastar — 'King Khan'.
6. 1963 Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem South Vietnam's generals overthrow the president Washington had backed and shoot him in the back of an armoured car — a coup the Kennedy White House knew of and blessed. Kennedy, v
7. 2000 First long-duration crew aboard the ISS Expedition 1 (Shepherd, Krikalev, Gidzenko) begins continuous human presence in space.
8. 1920 First commercial radio broadcast Pittsburgh's KDKA airs US election results, often cited as the first scheduled commercial radio broadcast and the dawn of mass broadcasting.
9. 1930 Haile Selassie crowned The last emperor of Ethiopia, a symbol of African independence and the messiah of the Rastafari movement.
10. 1948 'Dewey Defeats Truman' The Chicago Tribune goes to press declaring Dewey the winner; Truman, who had whistle-stopped across the country, wins and holds the paper aloft.
11. 1983 Martin Luther King Jr. Day signed into law After a campaign led by Stevie Wonder — his 1980 single 'Happy Birthday' and a petition of six million signatures — Reagan signs a federal holiday for King.