TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS FRIDAY, NOV. 2, the 306th day of 2018. There are 59 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
On this date in 1976, former President Jimmy Carter became the first candidate from the Deep South since the Civil War to be elected president as he defeated the incumbent, former President Gerald R. Ford.
In 1783, General George Washington issued his Farewell Address to the Army near Princeton, N.J.
In 1889, North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states with the signing of proclamations by President Benjamin Harrison.
In 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued a declaration expressing support for a “national home” for the Jews in Palestine.
In 1948, President Harry S. Truman surprised the experts by winning a narrow upset over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.
In 1950, playwright George Bernard Shaw, 94, died in Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England.
In 1986, kidnappers in Lebanon released American hospital administrator David Jacobsen after holding him for 17 months.
In 1994, a jury in Pensacola, Fla., convicted Paul Hill of murder for the shotgun slayings of an abortion provider and his bodyguard; Hill was executed in September 2003.
In 2000, American astronaut Bill Shepherd and two Russian cosmonauts, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, became the first residents of the international space station.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Singer Jay Black (Jay and the Americans) and political commentator Patrick Buchanan are 80. Actress Kate Linder is 71. Actor Peter Mullan is 59. Singer-songwriter k.d. lang is 57. Rock musician Bobby Dall (Poison) is 55. Pulitzer Actors Sean Kanan and David Schwimmer are 52. Christian/jazz singer Alvin Chea (Take 6), jazz singer Kurt Elling and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker are 51. Rock musician Fieldy is 49. Actresses Meta Golding and Marisol Nichols, and rock singermusician John Hampson (Nine Days) are 47. Rhythm-and-blues singer Timothy Christian Riley (Tony Toni Tone) and rapper Nelly are 44. Actress Reshma Shetty is 41. Country singer Erika Jo is 32. Actor-singer Kendall Schmidt is 28.