On this day 2nd November
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Facts
1875 Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela in Angola, from Africa's east coast, 1st European to cross equatorial Africa
1917 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
1930 Coronation of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Haile Selassie I, 225th Emperor of Ethopian Solmonic Dynasty
1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the US
Deaths
943 Queen Emma of France, (b. 894)
1610 Richard Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury (1604-10), dies at 66
1884 Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil, composer, dies at 62
1950 George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), dies at 94
1992 Hal Roach, silent film producer (Keystone Kops), dies of pneumonia at 100
1996 Toni Stone, first woman to play professional baseball in a men's league, dies at 75
2004 Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, dies at 85
Born on this day
1987 Danny Cipriani English rugby union player.
Hal Roach
Toni Stone
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