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This day in history: November 2

1. 1957

   A large number of people witnessed a fiery object in the sky near Levelland, Texas, which the United States Air Force said was ball lightning.

2. 1963

   President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was assassinated, marking the culmination of a coup d'état led by Dương Văn Minh.

3. 1984

   The serial killer Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1962.

4. 1994

   A lightning strike ruptured three oil tanks near Dronka, Egypt, causing a flood that killed 469 people.

5. 1997

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

6. 2000

   As members of Expedition 1, American astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko became the first resident crew to arrive at the International Space Station.

7. 2008

   Lewis Hamilton overtook Timo Glock in the final corners of the Brazilian Grand Prix to win the Formula One championship by one point.

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