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