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Today is Sunday, Nov. 2, the 306th day of 2014. There are 59 days left in the year.

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1783: Gen. George Washington issues his Farewell Orders to the Armies of the United States near Princeton, N.J.

1795: The 11th president of the United States, James Knox Polk, is born in Mecklenburg County, N.C.

1865: The 29th president of the United States, Warren Gamaliel Harding, is born near Marion, Ohio.

1889: North Dakota and South Dakota become the 39th and 40th states with the signing of proclamations by President Benjamin Harrison.

1914: During World War I, Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

1936: The British Broadcasting Corp. inaugurates “high-definition” TV service from Alexandra Palace in London.

1948: President Harry S. Truman surprises the experts by winning a narrow upset over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.

1950: Playwright George Bernard Shaw, 94, dies in Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England.

1963: South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem is assassinated in a military coup.

1984: Velma Barfield, convicted of fatally poisoning boyfriend Stuart Taylor, is put to death by injection in Raleigh, N.C., becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.

1994: A jury in Pensa- cola, Fla., convicts Paul Hill of murder for the shotgun slayings of abortion provider Dr. John Britton and Britton’s bodyguard; Hill was executed in September 2003.

2004: President George W. Bush is elected to a second term as Republicans strengthens their grip on Congress.

2009: A suicide bomber kills 35 people outside a bank near Pakistan’s military headquarters in Rawalpindi.

Afghanistan’s election commission proclaims President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country’s tumultuous ballot, canceling a planned runoff.

The Philadelphia Phillies stave off elimination from the World Series with an 8-6 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 5.

World Boxing Hall of Famer Lou Filippo, 83, dies in Downey, Calif.

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1989: Niles lawmakers and the Steelworkers union are planning legal action against Amweld Building Products for using non-union replacement workers during a strike, which violates a city ordinance.

Burglars strip the home of Delorise Jackson at 1527 Ford Ave. in Youngstown, taking a five-piece dinette, a 10-piece living room set, three televisions, a video recorder, dishes and jewelry.

Jerry Olsavsky, a Chaney High School graduate, a rookie for the Pittsburgh Steelers, gets the starting linebacker job after Hardy Nickerson is injured.

1974: Liberty Township police, who had been working with MAT undercover agents for two months, arrest nine adults and four juveniles in drug raids.

The Youngstown Area United Appeal exceeds its $1.9 million goal by $6,925, which is the largest amount ever raised.

Baby Jane Doe, who started life from the recesses of an airplane toilet bowl at Youngstown Municipal Airport, is reported doing fine with an eastern state family that is adopting her.

1964: Miss Martha Dennison, former Youngstowner who was active in Youngstown and national YWCA work, dies in Lakeland, Fla.

Central Michigan snaps Youngstown University’s five-game winning streak, defeating the Penguins, 25-20.

The excitement of being bound and gagged by three hold-up men apparently led to the death by heart attack of John Earl, 70, a night watchman at the Pike Plaza motel about 10 miles west of Warren.

1939: Three of the four Republican candidates for Youngstown mayor who were asked by the party’s central committee to drop out of the race refuse to do so. The fourth could not be reached for comment.

Several steel production records for the Youngstown district were broken in October, payrolls reached a near record high and retail business showed healthy gains, Vindicator business writer Ernest Nemenyi reports.

The Austintown Fitch football team bounces back from a loss to Hubbard with a 34-7 walloping of Newell, W. Va., High. Although reserves played all but 10 minutes of the game, Fitch piled up an 18-4 edge in first downs.