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A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History

Assassination in Chinese Palace: Shifting Power in Turkic Empires (+ 10 more historical events on this day!)

9 min • 2 november 2023

A Daily Dose of History (02 Nov 2023)

Today's historical events:

  • A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.
  • Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
  • The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
  • Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
  • North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
  • The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
  • Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
  • World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.
  • 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".
  • The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
  • In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.

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