Today is Tuesday, Nov. 2, the 307th day of 2004. There are 59 days left in the year. This is

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 2, the 307th day of 2004. There are 59 days left in the year. This is Election Day. 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 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. In 1959, game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a House subcommittee that he'd been given questions and answers in advance when he appeared on the NBC TV program "Twenty-One." 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 1979, black militant Joanne Chesimard escapes from a New Jersey prison, where she'd been serving a life sentence for the 1973 slaying of a New Jersey state trooper. (Chesimard, who has taken the name Assata Shakur, now lives in Cuba.) In 1984, Velma Barfield, convicted of the poisoning death of her boyfriend, is put to death by injection in Raleigh, N.C., becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
November 2, 1979: Attorney General William J. Brown threatens the Hooker Chemical & amp; Plastics Corp. with legal action unless it begins the immediate removal of 11,700 gallons of hazardous chemicals it disposed of at the Deerfield dump in Southeastern Portage County.
Three Mahoning County subdivision -- Campbell, Struthers and Sebring -- have become eligible to receive Urban Development Action Grants because of new population and employment figures.
November 2, 1964: A Wampum, Pa., man is accidentally killed on the first day of hunting season in Pennsylvania. Charles L. Price, 52, dies instantly when his double-barreled shotgun discharges as he climbs through a barbed wire fence.
Youngstown's Planning and Urban Renewal departments, long lodged in the cellar of City Hall, are moving on up -- to remodeled and spacious quarters on the 7th floor.
November 2, 1954: An Election Day recess delays a decision on whether a juror who, it has been learned, is a convicted sex offender should be removed from the jury in the Sam Sheppard murder trial.
A Defense Department report says that all Negro units have been abolished within the military and that the integration has been carried out ahead of schedule.
November 2, 1929: A 14-year-old boy is being held for juvenile court after his admission that he was driving a stolen auto that struck and killed 3-year-old Teddy Duran of Cypress St., Youngstown.
Following questions about the cause of death of William L. Coale, a wealthy banker and real estate promoter in Warren, a group of prominent surgeons conduct an autopsy with Trumbull County Coroner J.C. Henshaw. They determine that Coale died of a blood clot that developed in his leg after he collided with another player in a Sept. 13,baseball game and that the clot traveled to his lung.