Today is Wednesday, Nov. 2, the 306th day of 2005. There are 59 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 2, the 306th day of 2005. There are 59 days left in the year. On this date in 1947, Howard Hughes pilots his huge wooden flying boat, the Hughes H-4 Hercules (popularly known as the "Spruce Goose"), on its only flight, which lasts about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California.
In 1783, Gen. George Washington issues his Farewell Address to the Army near Princeton, N.J. 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 1948, President Truman surprises the experts by being re-elected in a narrow upset over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey. 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 1994, a jury in Pensacola, Fla., convicts Paul Hill of murder for the shotgun slayings of an abortion provider and his bodyguard; Hill is executed in September 2003. In 2003, in Durham, N.H., V. Gene Robinson is consecrated as the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church.
November 2, 1980: The Youngstown-Warren area faces a six-month withdrawal from unemployment compensation benefits and Trade Readjustment Assistance payments and state and federal aid to jobless workers begin to expire.
Commuter Aircraft Corp.'s projected aircraft assembly factory at Youngstown Municipal Airport will help the United States recapture an important share of the $1.1 billion market for midsized airliners, CAC executives say.
November 2, 1965: Julius Deml, principal of Princeton Junior High School, is named supervisor of federal programs by the Youngstown Board of Education. Howard Friend will be Princeton's new principal.
Two Youngstown men, Mario Guerrieri and Walter Bass, are named in a suit filed by the Securities & amp; Exchange Commission to stop further sales involving an $82.5 million industrial bond issued for a new color TV tube. The SEC says the worth of the bonds is falsely described.
November 2, 1955: Youngstown opens its heart with a new record of giving when the Community Chest's 37th annual drive for $889,296 goes over the top by 1,127.
Esther Hamilton, Vindicator columnist, is awarded the Frank Purnell Memorial Award for outstanding service to the community by the Youngstown Junior Chamber of Commerce.
A four-state coalition appears in the making to push a Lake Erie-Ohio River canal in the next session of Congress. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan says it is about time Pennsylvania and Ohio stop battling each other over water projects.
General Motors will distribute $640 million in year-end dividends among its stockholders. Dividends for the year will total $1.5 billion.
November 2, 1930: Under a new plan adopted by the Mahoning County Board of Elections for counting the ballots after the polls close, it is hoped that results will be available more quickly. Precinct judges and clerks in all 307 precincts have been instructed to relay the results of each ticket counted to the board by messenger or telephone as soon as the count is completed.
Nearly every Protestant pastor in Youngstown will speak on the duties of good citizenship and the need of church people to support candidates who favor Prohibition on Christian Citizenship Sunday.