Reuters historical calendar

London, Nov 1 (Reuters) Following are some of the majorn events to have occurred on November 2 in history: 1917 - Arthur Balfour, British foreign secretary, submitted a declaration of intent known as the Balfour Declaration to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

1930 - Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia.

1936 - The first public high-definition television service to be broadcast on a regular basis was inaugurated by the BBC in London.

1953 - Pakistan's parliament declared the country ''the Islamic Republic of Pakistan''.

1962 - US President John F Kennedy announced that Soviet missile bases in Cuba were being dismantled.

1964 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed and replaced by Prince Faisal.

1976 - Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, was elected 39th US president, defeating Republican Gerald Ford.

1984 - The Kremlin announced that Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana, who defected to the United States in 1967, had returned to Moscow.

1995 - Former South African defence minister Magnus Malan and 10 retired senior officers were arrested and accused of apartheid-era murders.

1995 - Argentina's Supreme Court ordered the extradition to Italy of former SS captain Erich Priebke to face trial for a World War Two massacre of prisoners.

1998 - Hurricane Mitch faded after a week-long rampage through Central America. The death toll reached an estimated 9,000.

2000 - A mutiny by Fiji's elite Counter Revolutionary Warfare unit in the Queen Elizabeth Barracks was quelled after a gun battle in which eight soldiers died.

2001 - Five Bosnian Serbs were found guilty of crimes against humanity against Muslims and Croats at the notorious Omarska detention camp during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

2002 - A 10-day UN environment conference concluded in India with rich countries saying they had agreed not to press poor nations to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases.

2003 - The Rev. Canon V. Gene Robinson was consecrated as the first openly gay bishop of the US Episcopal Church, a move that threatened to tear apart the worldwide Anglican community.

2003 - Christabel Bielenberg, the British-born author of ''The Past is Myself'', a memoir of survival in Nazi Germany, died aged 94.

2004 - Controversial Dutch filmmaker and newspaper columnist Theo van Gogh, who made a film about violence against women in Islamic societies, was murdered in Amsterdam by a Dutch-Moroccan man.

**2005 - Chinese scientists said they had gathered evidence that showed a giant object in the centre of our galaxy was a super-massive black hole as wide as the radius of the earth's orbit.

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