On this day in History: On November 2 Harry S Truman, Kennedy, MLK, Reagan,......

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This Day in History

On November 2

1783 General George Washington gave his "Farewell Address to the Army" near Princeton, NJ.

1889 North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted into the union as the 39th and 40th states.

1921 Margaret Sanger's National Birth Control League combined with Mary Ware Denett's Voluntary Parenthood League to form the American Birth Control League.

1948 Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. Presidency. The Chicago Tribune published an early edition that had the headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN."

1959 Charles Van Doren, a game show contestant on the NBC-TV program "Twenty-One," admitted that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

1962 President Kennedy announced that the U.S.S.R. was dismantling the missile sites in Cuba.

1983 President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

1986 The 12-by-16-inch celluloid of a poison apple from Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was purchased for $30,800.

1986 American hostage David Jacobson was released after being held in Lebanon for 17 months by Shiite Muslims kidnappers.

1989 Carmen Fasanella retired after 68 years and 243 days of taxicab service in Princeton, NJ.

1992 Magic Johnson retired from the NBA again, this time for good because of fear due to his HIV infection.

1993 The U.S. Senate called for full disclosure of Senator Bob Packwood's diaries in a sexual harassment probe.

1993 Christie Todd Whitman was elected the first woman governor of New Jersey.

1995 The play "Sacrilege" opened.

1995 The U.S. expelled Daiwa Bank Ltd. for allegedly covering up $1.1 billion in trading losses.

1998 U.S. President Clinton gave his first in-depth interview since the White House sex scandal to Black Entertainment Television talk show host and political commentator Tavis Smiley on the network's "BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley."

2001 The computer-animated movie "Monsters, Inc." opened. The film recorded the best debut ever for an animated film and the 6th best of all time.

2003 In the U.S., the Episcopal Church diocese consecrated the church's first openly gay bishop.

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