Jody Victor : Here's what happened through history on this day November 2nd!
1783 - Gen. George washington issued his farewell address to the Army near Princeton, N.J.
1795 - James K. Polk, the 11th President of the United states, was born in Mecklenburg County, N.C.
1865 - Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States, was born near Corsica, Ohio
1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states.
1917 - British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a national home for the Jews of Palestine in what became known as the Balfour Declaration.
1947 - Howard Hughes piloted his huge wooden airplane, the Spruce Goose, on its only flight, which lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California.
1948 - President Harry S. Truman narrowly won re-election over republican challenger thomas E. Dewey.
1959 - Charles Van Doren admitted to a House subcommittee that he had the questions and answers in advance of his appearances on the TV game show "Twenty-One."
1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.
1976 - Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter defeated Republican incumbent Gerald R. ford, becoming the first U.S. president from the Deep South since the Civil War.
1983 President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
2004 - President George W. Bush was elected to a second term as Republicans strengthened their grip on Congress.