Today is Wednesday, Nov. 2, the 307th day of 2016

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 2, the 307th day of 2016. There are 59 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

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.

1936: The British Broadcasting Corp. inaugurated “high-definition” television 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.

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

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.

1994: A jury in Pensacola, Florida, 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.

2006: The Rev. Ted Haggard resigns as president of the National Association of Evangelicals after a man said they’d had sexual trysts together (Haggard later confessed he was guilty of sexual immorality).

2015: President Barack Obama tours a drug rehabilitation center and meets with former inmates in Newark, where he calls on the nation to ensure those regaining their freedom get a second chance instead of a return ticket to prison.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: Hasam Halaweh, 34, of Boardman is shot to death during a robbery at the Quick Pick Food Mart that he operated at 2204 Market St. His is the 52nd homicide in Youngstown in 1991.

1976: Youngstown State University’s fall enrollment sets a school record of 15,898 students in the undergraduate and graduate schools, President John J. Coffelt announces.

Two robbers invade the home of William James at 125 W. Marion Ave., leave him bound and gagged in the basement and flee with $72 in cash and a television set.

William H. Hipkens, 55, of Warren is crushed to death in the hydraulic mechanism of a Freeman’s Garbage Collection Co. truck on Adrian Circle in Liberty Township.

1966: Four Cortland residents file suit in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court in an effort to block the sale of acreage in the southwest section of the village to the state of Ohio for development as a public park. The suit claims that deed restrictions prohibit the proposed park.

Traffic is moving over 12 miles of the first section of the Keystone Shortway (Interstate 80) after Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton cuts a steel ribbon.

General American Transportation Corp. will spend $3 million in an expansion and modernization of its Sharon Works in Masury, which could create 400 jobs.

Members of the New Century Club in Niles meet at the home of Mrs. Howard Eaton on Sayers Avenue.

1941: Mildred Marino, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.E. Marino of 136 Broadway, Youngstown, a Rayen School graduate, is elected junior homecoming queen at Knox College.

The extensive use of the inland waterway system by Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., a principal competitor of Youngstown steel companies, is told in a double-page ad published by the company in Newsweek and Time magazines.

The number of people in Mahoning County who die of tuberculosis each year may increase if the proposed half-mill levy for the TB Sanatorium is not approved.

Richard Thomas of Youngstown, a YMCA group leader since 1934, is leaving for the Army Air Corps.