HISTORY AT GLANCE

TODAY is Thursday, November 2, the 306th day of 2017. There are 59 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia. 1953 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the

country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan. 1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first interurban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway. 1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd., the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case. 1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Ðình Diem is

assassinated following a military coup. 1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family

coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal. 1965 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war. 1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States. 1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and “The Wise Men” conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war. 1973 – The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a ‘United Front’ in the state of Tripura. 1974 – 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started. 1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first

woman executed in the United States since 1962. 1988 – The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT. 1990 – British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc

merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses. 2000 – The first resident crew to the ISS docked with their

Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft. 2007 – 50,000–100,000 people demonstrate against the

Georgian government in Tbilisi. 2014 – A suicide attack killed 60 at Wagah.