Today is Friday, Nov. 2, the 306th day of 2018. There are 59 days left in the year.

Today is Friday, Nov. 2, the 306th day of 2018. There are 59 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1783: Gen. George Washington issues his Farewell Address to the Army near Princeton, N.J.

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

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.”

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.

2000: American astronaut Bill Shepherd and two Russian cosmonauts, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, become the first residents of the international space station.

2017: President Donald Trump taps Jerome Powell to replace Janet Yellen as Federal Reserve leader at the end of her term in February.

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1993: Lordstown Village Council approves a 50-percent real and personal property tax abatement for a $10.2 million Lear Seating Co. plant on 11 acres off Ellsworth Bailey Road.

Warren police say Margaret Harrison, 95, who fired several shots at a 34-year-old intruder and held him for police until they arrived at her Second Street home is refusing to testify against the man out of fear of retribution.

The 11th District Court of Appeals suspends a jail sentence for Tribune Chronicle of Warren reporter Lisa Abraham pending her appeal of Judge John Stuard’s contempt-of-court finding because she would not testify before the Trumbull County grand jury investigating the remodeling of Trumbull Engineer James Fiorenzo’s office.

1978: James Brown and Floyd Brown, both 17, of Youngstown are sentenced to life in prison for the June 1977 murder of Joseph DeLisio.

Heaton House, a 50-unit, federally subsidized apartment complex for the elderly operated by the Trumbull Metropolitan Housing Authority on North Road, is dedicated. The $1.1 million structure has a twin, West Park Manor, at 601 W. Park Ave. in Hubbard.

When Notre Dame meets Navy at Cleveland Municipal Stadium, two Mahoning Valley standouts will be playing for the Irish: Mike Calhoun of Austintown Fitch at defensive tackle and Ross Browner of Warren Western Reserve at safety.

1968: The Most Rev. James W. Malone, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, and the Rev. Norman M. Parr, D.D., executive director of the Youngstown Council of Churches, endorse passage of the 12-mill operating levy for Youngstown public schools.

A request for $600,000 to recruit and prepare 400 disadvantaged high-school students for college is submitted by Youngstown University to the Ohio Board of Regents.

More than 5,000 chanting, clapping supporters greet Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey at the Youngstown Municipal Airport as the Democratic presidential candidate arrives for a major address at Stambaugh Auditorium.

1943: Three hundred employees of the Mac-Kenzie Muffler Co. on North Meridian Road walk out, refusing to work with six Negro women who reported for duty on the 3 p.m. shift. The company, which is doing defense work, paid the women for a full shift and sent them home; the other employees returned to work.

The Rev. Harvey Holt, interim minister of First Presbyterian Church in Mount Vernon, is selected executive secretary of the Federated Churches in Youngstown and Mahoning County.

Youngstown registers the hottest Nov. 1 on record with thermometers hitting 76 degrees, four degrees higher than the record set in 1929.