November 2 in history: • 1880 – James A. Garfield was elected as president of the United States; the election is the closest to date by popular vote margin. → go there • 1932 – The Australian military began a "war against emus", flightless native birds blamed for widespread damage to crops in Western Australia. → go there • 1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ended with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia. → go there • 1994 – A lightning strike ruptured three oil tanks near Dronka, Egypt, causing a flood that killed 469 people. → go there • 2000 – As members of Expedition 1, American astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko (all pictured) became the first resident crew to arrive at the International Space Station. → go there Born 1844: John J. Loud Wiki link Died 1925: William Pūnohu White Wiki link Died 1933: Gao Qifeng Wiki link Born 1965: Shah Rukh Khan Wiki link Pictured: Crew of Expedition 1.