November 2nd

November 2  is the 307th day of the year.  There are 61 days remaining until the end of the year.

1783 General Washington bids farewell to his army and all the fun times they had together

1898 Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the Golden Gophers. 

1948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers. Bonus points if you know where this photo was taken.

1959 Charles Van Doren confesses to Congress that the Twenty One game show was fixed; he had been given questions and answers in advance.

1960 Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case Penguin Books publishes "Lady Chatterley's Lover"

1983 President Reagan, throwing his conservative base off base, signs a bill establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day

1993 Rudolph Giuliani (R) elected 107th mayor of New York City and America’s first transvestite mayor

1901 Luchino Visconti [Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo], gay Italian director/nobleman 

1913 Burt Lancaster, US actor 

1943 Casey Donovan [John Calvin Culver], gay US actor 

1959 Peter Mullan, Scottish actor 

1961 [Kathryn Dawn] k. d. lang, gay Canadian singer/songwriter 

1965 Samuel Le Bihan, French actor 

1971 Joel Joan, Spanish actor/director 

1972 Mark Evrett, gay US pornographic actor  

1974 Nelly [Cornell Hayes, Jr.], STLMO rapper/St. Lunatics 

1975 Chris Walla, gay US musician/Death Cab for Cutie 

1977 Randy Harrison, gay US actor/Justin-Queer as Folk (US) 

1980 Ben Curtis, gay US actor/former Dell Dude 

1980 Karamo Brown, gay US Real World Philly housemate/DL Chronicles 

1984 Arnold Kruiswijk, Dutch soccer player 

1986 Marc Williams, gay US pornographic actor 

1987 Danny Cipriani, English rugger 

1988 Eddy Vilard [Manuel Eduardo Villasana Ruiz], Mexican actor 

1965 Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old US Quaker pacifist who miscalculates while trying to burn his draft card, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.

1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini, gay Italian film director, postulates a competing theorem (teorema)

1994 David Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, succumbs to AIDS at 37

2007 Henry Cele, South African actor (Shaka Zulu)/football coach, draws a red card