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Saturday, November 2, 2024
Saturday, November 2, 2024 falls on a Saturday. It is day 307 of the year, ISO week 44, in Q4.
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Saturday, November 2
November 2, 2024 is day 307 of 366, ISO week 44, in Q4. The moon is New Moon and the zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Day of year307
ISO week44
QuarterQ4
Days left59
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- New Moon
- Lunar age
- 0.8 days
- Illumination
- 1%
- Season
- Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, spring in the Southern Hemisphere
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- Zodiac
- Scorpio
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- No major fixed observance in the built-in calendar
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- /date/2024-11-02
Today's Celebrations
November 2
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Agapius and companions
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Domninus of Vienne
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Erc of Slane (Ireland)
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Justus of Trieste
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Victorinus of Pettau
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November 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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All Souls' Day (Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Communion)
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Coronation of Haile Selassie (Rastafari)
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Local briefSaturday, November 2, 2024 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2008: Lewis Hamilton (pictured) overtook Timo Glock in the final corners of the Brazilian Grand Prix to win the Formula One championship by one point.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to November 2.
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Lewis Hamilton (pictured) overtook Timo Glock in the final corners of the Brazilian Grand Prix to win the Formula One championship by one point.
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.
Tropical Storm Linda made landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.
A lightning strike ruptured three oil tanks near Dronka, Egypt, causing a flood that killed 469 people.
The serial killer Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1962.
President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was assassinated, marking the culmination of a coup d'état led by Dương Văn Minh.
A large number of people witnessed a fiery object in the sky near Levelland, Texas, which the United States Air Force said was ball lightning.
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.
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Janey Godley, Scottish actor, writer and comedian (born 1961)
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Alan Rachins, American actor (born 1942)
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Paul Stephenson, British civil rights activist (born 1937)
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Humaira Himu, Bangladeshi actress (born 1985)
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Atilio Stampone, Argentine pianist and composer (born 1926)
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Neal Smith, American politician (born 1920)
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