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Monday, 02 November 2026

1995

Former South African defence minister General Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers are arrested and charged with murdering 13 black people in 1987, (all the accused are later acquitted).

1988

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

1984

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

1983

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

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.

1973

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India forms a 'United Front' in the state of Tripura.

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.

1966

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

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.

1964

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

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