Template:On this day - November 2

Peter III of Aragon

• 655 – In Toledo (Visigothic Hispania, present-day Spain), the Ninth Council of Toledo is held.
• 1327 – Alfonso IV the Benign is proclaimed King of Aragon on the death of his father James II.
• 1541 – In Cádiz (Spain), Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca sets sail on a relief mission to the people whom Pedro de Mendoza had taken to the Río de la Plata.
• 1675 – In the New Kingdom of Granada (present-day Colombia), the town of Medellín is founded.
• 1879 – In Peru, Chilean forces bombard and invade the town of Pisagua.
• 1929 – During the American occupation of the Philippines, the Province of Misamis is divided into two provinces, Misamis Oriental and Misamis Occidental.
• 1937 – During the Spanish Civil War, the Italian Aviazione Legionaria of the Francoist side makes a surprise bombing of Lleida, killing some 200 people, among them more than 60 pupils of the Liceo Escolar.
• 1938 – Birth of Sofía of Greece, Spanish Queen Consort.
• 1947 – In Brazil, the Rio de Janeiro Treaty is signed, establishing mutual military assistance among the American states of Argentina, Brazil, Bahamas, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, U.S., El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela.
• 1956 – From Caracas (Venezuela), the exiled president Juan Domingo Perón names the Argentine deputy John William Cooke leader of the Resistance against the dictatorship.
• 1968 – The UN elects Spain as a member of the Security Council.
• 1995 – In Colombia, Álvaro Gómez Hurtado is assassinated in Bogotá, the victim of an attack as he was leaving Sergio Arboleda University, where he taught the course "Historia Política y Constitucional de Colombia".
• 2009 – Death of José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor (b. 1922).
• 2011 – Death of Lucy Tejada, Colombian painter, draftswoman, muralist and printmaker (b. 1920).
• 2017 – Spain's Audiencia Nacional sends the secessionist inner circle of the Government of Catalonia to prison for the crimes of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds, and issues an arrest warrant for its president Carles Puigdemont and other members who had fled abroad.