Historical timeline for November 2

A peace agreement is signed between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front, ending the Tigray War.

In Vienna's Innere Stadt district, an ISIL sympathizer shoots and kills four people and injures 23 more, before being shot and killed by the police.

The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.

Lewis Hamilton secured his maiden Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by one point ahead of Felipe Massa at the Brazilian Grand Prix, after a pass for fifth place against the Toyota of Timo Glock on the final lap of the race.

Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for the first long-duration stay onboard. From this day to present, a continuous human presence in space on the station remains uninterrupted.

Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.

Tropical Storm Linda makes landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.

British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.

LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703 crashes in Białobrzegi, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland, killing one person and injuring several more.

The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.

Lebanon hostage crisis: U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.

Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Channel 4, the British free-to-air public broadcast television channel funded by its commercial activities, starts broadcasting.

Aeroflot Flight 19 is hijacked and diverted to Vnukovo International Airport, where the aircraft is stormed by authorities.

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.

The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.

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.

King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.

South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.