TODAY IN HISTORY - 2nd Nov, 2025 - African World News

TODAY IN HISTORY – 2nd Nov, 2025 – African World News

By Valentine Uchechukwu Ndukwu.

History is a pathway that leads all the way to the future when looked upon carefully. (V. John Simeon)

According to this verifiable and resourceful research by today in history, here are moments that went down in history today

On this day in 1930, Tafari Makonnen crowned as Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia: The coronation of Tafari Makonnen as Haile Selassie symbolized Ethiopia’s efforts at modernization and international diplomacy.

Still on this far in 1936, the BBC Television Service, the world’s first regular, “high-definition” (then defined as at least 200 lines) service began. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.

Again on this day in 1965, Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, set himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.

Today in history shows that it was on this day in 1984 with reference to Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.

It was on this day in 2022 that a peace agreement was signed between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, ending the Tigray War.

Today is the birthday of Shah Rukh Khan. He was born on this day in 1965. He is popularly known by the initials SRK, is an Indian actor and film producer renowned for his work in Hindi cinema.