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File:George Boole.jpg|link=George Boole (nonfiction)|1815: Mathematician and philosopher [[George Boole (nonfiction)|George Boole]] born.  He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
File:George Boole.jpg|link=George Boole (nonfiction)|1815: Mathematician and philosopher [[George Boole (nonfiction)|George Boole]] born.  He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.


||Henry John Stephen Smith (b. 2 November 1826) was a mathematician remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula in number theory. Pic.
||1826: Henry John Stephen Smith born ... mathematician remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula in number theory. Pic.


||1863 – Theodore Judah, American engineer (b. 1826) rail Sierra Nevada
||1863: Theodore Judah dies ... engineer ... rail Sierra Nevada


||1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic (d. 1972)
||1885: Harlow Shapley born ... astronomer and academic.


File:George Chrystal.jpg|link=George Chrystal (nonfiction)|1893: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[George Chrystal (nonfiction)|George Chrystal]] publishes evidence that [[Seiche (nonfiction)|seiches]] (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) are vulnerable to both [[crimes against physics]] and [[crimes against chemistry]].
File:George Chrystal.jpg|link=George Chrystal (nonfiction)|1893: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[George Chrystal (nonfiction)|George Chrystal]] publishes evidence that [[Seiche (nonfiction)|seiches]] (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) are vulnerable to both [[crimes against physics]] and [[crimes against chemistry]].


||1894 – Alexander Lippisch, German-American aerodynamicist and engineer (d. 1976)
||1894: Alexander Lippisch born ... aerodynamicist and engineer.


File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1903: [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]] born.  He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.  
File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1903: [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]] born.  He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.  


||Raphael Mitchel Robinson (b. November 2, 1911) was an American mathematician. He will work on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Pic.
||1911: Raphael Mitchel Robinson born ... mathematician. He will work on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Pic.


||Bertrand Goldschmidt was a French chemist, born in Paris on 2 November 1912. He is considered one of the fathers of the French atomic bomb, which was tested for the first time in 1960 in the nuclear test Gerboise Bleue.
||1912: Bertrand Goldschmidt born ... chemist. He is considered one of the fathers of the French atomic bomb, which was tested for the first time in 1960 in the nuclear test Gerboise Bleue.


||Heinrich Friedrich Karl Ludwig Burkhardt (d. 2 November 1914) was a German mathematician. He famously was one of the two examiners of Albert Einstein's PhD thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen. Pic.
||1914: Heinrich Friedrich Karl Ludwig Burkhardt dies ... mathematician. He famously was one of the two examiners of Albert Einstein's PhD thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen. Pic.


||1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920.
||1920: In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920.


||Richard Edward Taylor (b. 2 November 1929), was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics." Pic.
||1929: Richard Edward Taylor born ... physicist and Stanford University professor. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics." Pic.


||1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
||1932: Melvin Schwartz born ... physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino. Pic.


||1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
||1936: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.


||1944 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer (b. 1889)  - Freon, CFC ... An instinct for the regrettable that is almost uncanny ... Doctor Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical engineer and chemist. He was a key figure in a team of chemists, led by Charles F. Kettering, that developed the tetraethyllead (TEL) additive to gasoline as well as some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
||1936: The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
 
||1944: Thomas Midgley, Jr. dies ... Freon, CFC ... An instinct for the regrettable that is almost uncanny ... Doctor Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical engineer and chemist. He was a key figure in a team of chemists, led by Charles F. Kettering, that developed the tetraethyllead (TEL) additive to gasoline as well as some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).


||The Levelland UFO Case occurred on November 2–3, 1957 in and around the small town of Levelland, Texas.  
||The Levelland UFO Case occurred on November 2–3, 1957 in and around the small town of Levelland, Texas.  

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  • 1815: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.

    1815: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.

  • 1893: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Chrystal publishes evidence that seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) are vulnerable to both crimes against physics and crimes against chemistry.

    1893: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Chrystal publishes evidence that seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) are vulnerable to both crimes against physics and crimes against chemistry.

  • 1903: George P. Metesky born. He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.

    1903: George P. Metesky born. He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.

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