Friday November 02, 2012

US date format: 11/2/2012, UK date format: 2/11/2012

It was Friday, under the sign of Scorpio (see zodiac on November 2, 2012). The US president was Barack Obama (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was David Cameron (Conservative), Pope Benedict XVI was leading the Catholic Church. Famous people born on this day include Thiago Messi . In that special week of November people in US were listening to One More Night by Maroon 5. Gambit, directed by Michael Hoffman, was one of the most viewed movies released in 2012 while Winter of the World by Ken Follett was one of the best selling books. On TV people were watching The Greatest Event in Television History. If you liked videogames you were probably playing Angry Birds Friends or DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou.
But much more happened that day: find out below..

You can also have a look at the year 2012, at November 02 across the years or at November 2012 calendar.

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Historical Events

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Holidays

Catholicism - All Souls Day (unless on a Sunday)
Rastafari movement - The coronation of Haile Selassie (1930) celebrated
USA - admission day (1889) of North Dakota and South Dakota as 39th and 40th states.
Ancient Latvia - Dveselu Diena held
Mexico and the United States - Day of the Dead (Spanish: El Dia de los Muertos), a Mexican and Mexican-American celebration of dead ancestors.
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Events

Dozens of young men are shot dead by the military in Maiduguri, Nigeria, according to residents of the city. (BBC)
The film Facing Mirrors hits cinemas in Tehran. Though transsexualism has been legal in Iran since a fatwā was issued in 1987 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Iran permits more sex-change operations than any country except Thailand, this is the first time the subject has been treated on the big screen. (The Guardian)
Sir Nicholas Hytner, Sir Nicholas Serota, Julian Lloyd Webber, Richard Rogers, Sir David Hare and Grayson Perry are among the cultural figures to criticise the "incredibly shortsighted" policy of excluding creative subjects from the core qualification at 16. (The Guardian)
Canada and Australia launch women's literary prizes. (The Guardian)
The estate of William Faulkner sues over the use of the writer's quote "we must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it" in an advertisement by American global aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman Corporation. (The Guardian)
The United States Department of Labor says hiring picked up in October, with 171,000 jobs being added, though the unemployment rate rose 0.1% higher to 7.9%. (CNN)
Lirak Bejko, the Albanian former political prisoner who set himself on fire in protest at delays in government compensation for communist-era dissidents, is dead. (BBC)
The New York City Marathon is canceled due to the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Sandy. (RTE)
Former British Labour Party minister Denis MacShane resigns his House of Commons seat after he wrongfully claimed at least £7,500 in expenses. (BBC)
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