Today In History - November 2 1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states. 1895 – The first gasoline-powered race in the United States; first prize is $2,000. 1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team. 1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. 1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920. 1936 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis powers. 1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the worlds first regular, high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day. 1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built. 1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance. 1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. 2004 – Dutch film director Theo van Gogh, whose film Submission was critical of the treatment of women in Islam, was assassinated by Mohammed Bouyeri.
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