| 125101 | November 2 | Event | 1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team. |
| 125102 | November 2 | Event | 1899 – The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War. |
| 125103 | November 2 | Event | 1909 – Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University. |
| 125104 | November 2 | Event | 1912 – 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. |
| 125105 | November 2 | Event | 1914 – World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed. |
| 125106 | November 2 | Event | 1917 – 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 |
| 125107 | November 2 | Event | 1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting. |
| 125108 | November 2 | Event | 1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920. |
| 125109 | November 2 | Event | 1920 – Adam Martin Wyant became the first former professional American football player to be elected to the United States Congress. |
| 125110 | November 2 | Event | 1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia. |
| 125111 | November 2 | Event | 1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established. |
| 125112 | November 2 | Event | 1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day. |
| 125113 | November 2 | Event | 1940 – World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians. |
| 125114 | November 2 | Event | 1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built. |
| 125115 | November 2 | Event | 1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia. |
| 125116 | November 2 | Event | 1951 – Canada in the Korean War: A platoon of The Royal Canadian Regiment defends a vital area against a full battalion of Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours of November 3. |
| 125117 | November 2 | Event | 1953 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan. |
| 125118 | November 2 | Event | 1957 – The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity. |
| 125119 | November 2 | Event | 1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance. |
| 125120 | November 2 | Event | 1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway. |
| 125121 | November 2 | Event | 1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case. |
| 125122 | November 2 | Event | 1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup. |
| 125123 | November 2 | Event | 1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal. |
| 125124 | November 2 | Event | 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. |
| 125125 | November 2 | Event | 1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States. |
| 125126 | November 2 | Event | 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. |
| 125127 | November 2 | Event | 1973 – The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a 'United Front' in the state of Tripura. |
| 125128 | November 2 | Event | 1974 – Seventy-eight 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. |
| 125129 | November 2 | Event | 1977 – South Ockendon Windmill, a smock mill at South Ockendon, Essex, England collapsed. |
| 125130 | November 2 | Event | 1982 – Channel 4 is launched in the United Kingdom. |