Today is Sunday, Nov. 2, the 307th day of 2008. There are 59 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, Nov. 2, the 307th day of 2008. There are 59 days left in the year. On this date in 1948, President Truman surprises the experts by winning a narrow upset over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.

In 1783, Gen. George Washington issues his Farewell Orders to the Armies of the United States 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 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issues a declaration expressing support for a “national home” for the Jews in Palestine. In 1947, Howard Hughes pilots his huge wooden flying boat, the Hughes H-4 Hercules (dubbed the “Spruce Goose” by detractors), on its only flight, which lasts about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California. In 1963, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem is assassinated in a military coup. 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 1983, President Reagan signs a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

November 2, 1983: Pennsylvania joins 42 other states in passing a law that requires that young children be buckled up while riding in their parents’ car.

Two Mahoning County officeholders, the clerk of courts and treasurer, have overspent their 1983 salary appropriations and will have to lay off most of their employees for the remainder of the year.

November 2, 1968: Bishop James W. Malone of the Youngstown Catholic Diocese and the Rev. Norman M. Parr, executive director of the Youngstown Council of Churches, have endorsed the 12-mill operating levy for Youngstown public schools.

The mayor, chamber of commerce and business leaders have offered their services to help break the deadlock in the United Steelworkers of America strike at General Fireproofing Co., but settlement of the six-week strike is still far away, says Atty. Richard P. McLaughlin, general counsel for the U.S. Mediation and Conciliation Service.

November 2, 1958: A two-year improvement program costing more than $50 million to revamp Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s 79-inch hot strip mill in Campbell, is announced by A.S. Glossbrenner, company president.

A record off-year turnout of 115,000 voters is expected in Mahoning County.

Steilo Dubbiosi, a native of Italy, comes to Youngstown to serve as organist at the new St. Columba Cathedral. He will play an organ that has 2,700 pipes ranging from 3‚Ñ4 of an inch to 16-feet high, arranged in seven tiers.

November 2, 1933: Clyde Osborne, an advocate for repeal of Youngstown’s charter, and Martin Dunn, a real estate agent, clash after a debate between Osborne and Atty. J.P. Wilson in Plymouth Congregational Church. The confrontation between Osborne and Dunn begins in an exchange of profanity and nearly ends in blows .

Miss Ohio, Corrine Porter of Youngstown, announces her engagement of three months standing to Dale James, a 25-year-old Chicago hotel clerk. They will be married in Chicago and will live there.

The Monday Musical Club has canceled its 1933-34 concert course due to an insufficient sale of tickets to meet expenses for the program.

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