On November 2
On November 2, 4 pivotal events are recorded in the Human Saga, including Indian indenture system begins in Mauritius (1834).
On this day
On 2 November 1834 the ship Atlas reached Mauritius from Calcutta carrying thirty-six Indian labourers, the pioneer cohort of what became the modern indentured labour system.
On 2 November 1917 British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour sent a letter to Lord Walter Rothschild, for transmission to the Zionist Federation, stating that the British government viewed 'with favour the establishment in Palestine of a…
On 2 November 1920, Westinghouse station KDKA in Pittsburgh transmitted returns from the Harding-Cox presidential election, an event widely cited as the first scheduled broadcast by a licensed commercial radio station.
On 2 November 1936 the British Broadcasting Corporation began the world's first regular, public, high-definition television service from studios at Alexandra Palace in north London.