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- 1546
- The Frasers of Philorth create a burgh of barony at Faithlie in Scotland.
- 1700
- France and Spain agree to keep their crowns separate under the Peace of Utrecht.
- 1863
- During the American Civil War, Jefferson County secedes from Virginia to join West Virginia.
- 1889
- Dakota Territory is abolished and divided into North and South Dakota.
- 1904
- A statue of John Milton by Horace Montford is unveiled in London.
- 1938
- The First Vienna Award reassigns the southern parts of Czechoslovakia to the Kingdom of Hungary.
- 1963
- A statue of the Trưng Sisters by Nguyễn Văn Thế is torn down in Saigon.
- 1964
- Ross-on-Wye railway station closes to passenger traffic after 109 years in operation on the Hereford, Ross & Gloucester Railway in England.
- 1992
- Mission To Mars closes after eight years in operation in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
- 2009
- The northeast leg of Stoney Trail opens in Calgary.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on November 2, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on November 2 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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