A Daily Dose of History (02 Nov 2024) Today's historical events:

• A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.
• Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
• The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
• Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
• North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
• The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
• 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.
• World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.
• 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 non-Jewish communities".
• The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
• In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.
• 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.
• World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia-Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
• In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.

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