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Notable anniversaries in history for today: November 2
- 200th: 1824 - Popular presidential vote first recorded; Andrew Jackson beats John Quincy Adams.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Ken Rosewall in Sydney, Australia; tennis star (US 1956).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Jeffrey A Hoffman in Brooklyn, New York, USA; PhD/astronaut (STS 51-D, 35, sk:46).
- 70th: 1954 - JS Thurmond becomes first US senator elected by write-in vote (South Carolina).
- 60th: 1964 - CBS purchases 80 percent of the New York Yankees for US$11,200,000; first corporate owner of a major league team.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Prodigy; rapper (Mobb Deep).
- 25th: 1999 - The National Basketball Association launches NBA.com TV, a 24-hour TV network.
- 25th: 1999 - Hong Kong International Theme Parks announces an agreement has been reached with the Walt Disney Company on building a Disneyland park in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Disneyland will be 126 hectares (299 acres) in size, built on Lantau Island. The park is scheduled to open in 2005.
- 25th: 1999 - NBC airs the 100th episode of TV show 3rd Rock from the Sun.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan-al Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the United Arab Emirates (born 1918).
- 20th: 2004 - U.S. presidential election: U.S. President George W. Bush defeats Senator John Kerry. Republicans make gains in the House and Senate.
- 20th: 2004 - Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh is assassinated in Amsterdam, Netherlands by Mohammed Bouyeri.
- 10th: 2014 - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the final part of its Fifth Assessment Report, warning that the world faces "severe, pervasive and irreversible" damage from global emissions of CO2.
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