On This Day - November 2, A Shot of History

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1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration#/media/File:Balfour_portrait_and_declaration.JPG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0Uy5OFKAyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV3I-0bN06s

1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Selassie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2oKRTk99mM
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haile_Selassie_in_full_dress.jpg

1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_and_assassination_of_Ngo_Dinh_Diem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGJaJBocqdQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqC_mUCYfF0

1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWTk0Uflyk8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G03zsCEWsiw

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet