YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 2

Today is Thursday, Nov. 2, the 306th day of 2017. There are 59 days left in the year.

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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.

1947: Howard Hughes pilots his huge wooden flying boat, the Hughes H-4 Hercules (derisively dubbed the “Spruce Goose” by detractors), on its only flight, which lasts about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California.

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

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.

2012: Four days before Election Day, President Barack Obama accuses Mitt Romney of scaring voters with lies, while the Republican challenger warns grimly of political paralysis and another recession if Obama reclaims the White House.

2016: Ending a championship drought that has lasted since 1908, the Chicago Cubs win the World Series, defeating the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in extra innings at Progressive Field.

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1992: Socrates Kolitsos and Rose DeGise, two Youngstown Board of Education members who voted in July to hire Alfred Tutela as superintendent in a 5-2 vote, say they would not vote for him now.

A police report of an Oct. 18 shooting that was not released until The Vindicator demanded it, shows that Detective Sgt. Robert Davis fired at a burglary suspect after the man jumped into a squad car after a foot chase. The 35-year-old Cassius Avenue man is in South Side Hospital in satisfactory condition.

1977: William B. Klee, chairman of the Avalon Corp. board, says Stouffer Hotels and Inns will take over operation of the Avalon Inn near Warren.

The County Board of Visitors rates care at the Mahoning County Nursing Home as “excellent” in 12 of 14 areas inspected.

Reflecting a dramatic improvement in performance, GF Business Equipment Inc. sets a third-quarter record with sales of $39.5 million, compared with $1.9 million for the same period in 1991.

1967: An attempt to obtain labor representation on the Canfield Fair Board failed, with six incumbents being re-elected: Eldon Groves, Hugh Bowman, G. Thomas Jordan, Ralph Courtney, Herman Grove and Harold Brown.

A military funeral with full honors takes place at St. Charles Church for Navy Lt. John J. Rhodes, 28, of Boardman, the first Navy Seabee officer to be killed in Vietnam.

Spec. 4 Curtis Williams Jr. of Canfield Township is killed in Vietnam, the 43rd Mahoning County man to die in the war.

1942: Surprised by Sheriff Ralph E. Elser’s charges that slot machines are being operated in Youngstown, Police Chief Andrew Przelomski orders the city vice squad to make an immediate investigation.

The seven Youngstown high-school teams competing for $250 in prizes collect 121,525 pounds of scrap on the West Side. The campaign will move to the East Side.

Anastasia Ryan, fever therapist at St. Elizabeth Hospital for three years and a nurse there for 15 years, is called to Chicago to aid in establishing the Department of Fever Therapy Research, a unit of the Army.