CNN Interactive - Almanac - November 2, 1999

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and U.S. President Bill Clinton are scheduled to attend a ceremony in Oslo, Norway to commemorate the Oslo peace accords.
Off-year elections are scheduled in the United States.
Sentencing is scheduled in Eugene, Oregon, in the trial of Kip Kinkel, who pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder following the fatal May 1998 shootings at Thurston High School.
The U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments in a case involving police pursuit.

On Wednesday, November 3, The 1999 World Scrabble Championship begins in Melbourne, Australia.
On Thursday, November 4, thousands of Indian nationalists are expected to reach New Delhi at the end of a 1,000-mile march to protest alleged forced conversions to Christianity.
On Friday, November 5, Pope John Paul II is scheduled to begin a visit to India.
On Saturday, November 6, Australia holds a national referendum on whether to replace the British monarch with an Australian president as head of state.
On Sunday, November 7, the New York City Marathon is to be held.

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In 1889, North Dakota and South Dakota joined the United States as the 39th and 40th states.
In 1930, Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
In 1960, in London, the D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterly's Lover was found not to be obscene.
In 1963, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated.
In 1983, U.S. president Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In 1993, Christine Todd Whitman was elected the first woman governor of New Jersey.
In 1993, the U.S. Senate called for full disclosure of Senator Bob Packwood's diaries in a sexual harassment probe.