Today is Saturday, Nov. 2, the 306th day of 2002. There are 59 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Nov. 2, the 306th day of 2002. There are 59 days left in the year. On this date in 1948, President Truman surprises the experts by being re-elected in a narrow upset over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.
In 1783, Gen. George Washington issues his "Farewell Address to the Army" near Princeton, N.J. In 1795, the 11th president of the United States, James Knox Polk, is born in Mecklenburg County, N. C. In 1865, the 29th president of the United States, Warren Gamaliel Harding, is born near Corsica, Ohio. In 1889, North Dakota and South Dakota become the 39th and 40th states. In 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expresses support for a "national home" for the Jews of Palestine in what comes to be known as "The Balfour Declaration." In 1930, Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia. In 1947, Howard Hughes pilots his huge wooden airplane, known as the "Spruce Goose," on its only flight, which lasts about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California. In 1976, former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter becomes the first candidate from the Deep South since the Civil War to be elected president as he defeats incumbent Gerald R. Ford. In 1986, kidnappers in Lebanon release American hospital administrator David Jacobsen after holding him for 17 months. In 2000, an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts becomes the first residents of the international space station, christening it "Alpha" at the start of their four-month mission.
November 2, 1977: Reflecting a dramatic improvement in performance, GF Business Equipment Inc. sets quarterly and nine-month record sales and high earnings.
The blaze that swept through the main floor of David Anderson High School Oct. 25, destroying the library and study hall, caused damage amounting to $500,000, Principal Scott Blackburn reports.
November 2, 1962: Gambling operations in four Youngstown taverns bring four more Youngstown men before U.S. Commissioner Henry Robinson on charges of failure to obtain a federal gambling tax stamp.
The Youngstown Board of Education will consider "as soon as possible" the question of using school funds to hire extra safety patrolman, city council is told by Superintendent J. Harry Wanamaker.
The price of milk paid producers during September in the Youngstown-Warren Federal Market order was $4.54 per hundredweight, compared to $4.49 a year earlier and $4.51 in August, before the federal order went into effect.
November 2, 1952: The Ohio Sesquicentennial Commission approves special corporation limit highway signs that will designate Youngstown as the boyhood home of William Holmes McGuffey, author of the McGuffey Readers.
Striking Youngstown bus drivers overrule their union negotiating team and refuse to vote on a company contract proposal.
November 2, 1927: Two Youngstown mayoral candidates, James B. Compton and Owen E. James, drop out of the race, leaving five men vying to succeed Youngstown Mayor Raymond Schreiber.
Griff Clarke, a 43-year-old recluse who lived a mile north of Cortland, is kicked by a cow and dies almost instantly. His body was found by his mother, who lived nearby.
Hundreds of people throng the streets of Newton Falls for the Halloween celebration., which is moved into the high school when a cold rain begins to fall.