{"id":29482,"date":"2016-11-02T09:26:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T14:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=29482"},"modified":"2016-11-02T09:27:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T14:27:13","slug":"today-in-history-284","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=29482","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
Today in History: Wednesday, November\u00a0 02, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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AP Highlight in History:<\/span>
\nOn Nov. 2, 1948, President Harry S. Truman narrowly won re-election over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.
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1783<\/td>\nGen. George Washington issued his farewell address to the Army near Princeton, N.J.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1795<\/td>\nJames K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, was born in Mecklenburg County, N.C.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1865<\/td>\nWarren G. Harding, the 29th president of the United States, was born near Corsica, Ohio.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1889<\/td>\nNorth Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1917<\/td>\nBritish Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a national home for the Jews of Palestine in what became known as the Balfour Declaration.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1947<\/td>\nHoward Hughes piloted his huge wooden airplane, the Spruce Goose, on its only flight, which lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1959<\/td>\nCharles Van Doren admitted to a House subcommittee that he had the questions and answers in advance of his appearances on the TV game show “Twenty-One.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1963<\/td>\nSouth Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1976<\/td>\nFormer Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter defeated Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford, becoming the first U.S. president from the Deep South since the Civil War.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1983<\/td>\nPresident Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nPresident George W. Bush was elected to a second term.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nThe Rev. Ted Haggard resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals after a man said they had had sexual trysts together.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nAfghanistan’s election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country’s tumultuous ballot, canceling a planned runoff.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nRepublicans won control of the House of Representatives, picking up 63 seats in midterm elections, while Democrats retained a majority in the Senate; Republican governors outnumbered Democrats after gaining six states.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nCalifornians rejected a ballot measure that would have made their state the first to legalize marijuana for recreational use.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker turns 49 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Patrick J. Buchanan<\/td>\nPolitical commentator<\/td>\n78<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stefanie Powers<\/td>\nActress (“Hart to Hart”)<\/td>\n74<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shere Hite<\/td>\nAuthor<\/td>\n74<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Keith Emerson<\/td>\nRock musician (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)<\/td>\n72<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
J.D. Souther<\/td>\nCountry singer, songwriter<\/td>\n71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
k.d. lang<\/td>\nSinger<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lynn Nottage<\/td>\nPlaywright (“Ruined”)<\/td>\n52<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nelly<\/td>\nRapper<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chris Walla<\/td>\nRock musician (Death Cab for Cutie)<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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