DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Monday, Nov. 2, the 307th day of 2020. There are 59 days left in the year.
On this date:
1783: General George Washington issued his Farewell Address to the Army near Princeton, New Jersey.
1889: North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states with the signing of proclamations by President Benjamin Harrison.
1917: British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued a declaration expressing support for a “national home” for the Jews in Palestine.
1948: President Harry S. Truman surprised the experts by winning a narrow upset over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.
1959: Former game show contestant Charles Van Doren admitted to a House subcommittee that he’d been given questions and answers in advance when he appeared on the NBC’S “Twenty-one.”
1963: South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.
1986: Kidnappers in Lebanon released American hospital administrator David Jacobsen after holding him for 17 months.
1994: A jury in Pensacola, Florida, convicted Paul Hill of murder for the shotgun slayings of an abortion provider and his escort; Hill was executed in September 2003.
2000: American astronaut Bill Shepherd and two Russian cosmonauts, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, became the first residents of the international space station.
2003: In Iraq, insurgents shot down a Chinook helicopter carrying dozens of
U.S. soldiers, killing 16. In Durham, New Hampshire, V. Gene Robinson was consecrated as the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church.
2004: President George W. Bush was elected to a second term as Republicans strengthened their grip on Congress. Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was slain in Amsterdam after receiving death threats over his movie “Submission,” which criticized the treatment of women under Islam.
2016: Ending a championship drought that had lasted since 1908, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, defeating the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in extra innings at Progressive Field.
Singer Jay Black of Jay and the Americans is 82. Actor Stefanie Powers is 78. Singer-actor J.D. Souther (“Nashville”) is 75. Actor Kate Linder (“The
Young and the Restless”) is 73. Drummer Carter Beauford of the Dave Matthews Band is 62. Actor Peter Mullan (“Trainspotting”) is 61. Singer k.d. lang is 59. Bassist Bobby Dall of Poison is 57. Actor Jenny Robertson (“Bull Durham”) is 57. Actor Lauren Velez (“Dexter”) is 56. Actor David Schwimmer (“Friends”) is 54. Singer Alvin Chea of Take 6 is 53. Jazz singer
Kurt Elling is 53. Bassist
Fieldy of Korn is 51. Actor
Meta Golding (“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”) is 49. Singer-guitarist
John Hampson of Nine Days is 49. Actor Marisol Nichols (“Riverdale”) is 49. Singer Timothy Christian Riley of Tony! Toni! Tone! is 46. Rapper Nelly is 46. Actor Danny Cooksey (“Diff’rent Strokes”) is 45.