The Axis Proclaimed, Ngô Đình Diệm Assassinated, Madelyn Dunham Dead

November 2: On This Progressive Day

Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire (1914)

Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia (1930)

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis (1936)

President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the Vietnam War (1967)

President B. Hussein Obama meets with Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt of Sweden to discuss BigGov-Cronyism opportunities from climate change (2009)

President B. Hussein Obama appears on the Ryan Seacrest (and other) radio shows to appeal to young voters ahead of the epic 'shellacking' Democrats will receive on Election Day (2010)

At U.S. Army Garrison Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 149th round of golf as POTUS (2013)

b: Thomas Kennedy (1887); d: George Bernard Shaw (1950), Ngô Đình Diệm (1963), Theo van Gogh (2004), Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham (2008)

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