GOOD MORNING - TODAY IS SUNDAY, November 02, the 306th day of 2014 with 59 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 6:18 and sunset is @ 4:37. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are stars are Jupiter and Mercury. The evening stars are Mars, Neptune, Uranus & Venus. ON THIS DAY IN: 1721 - Peter the Great, the czar of Russia, changed his title to emperor to be more in line with European thinking. He also founded the new Russian capital of St. Petersburg. 1772 - The first Committees of Correspondence were formed under Samuel Adams in Massachusetts. 1776 - William Demont became the first traitor of the American Revolution. 1783 - General George Washington issued his Farewell Address to the Army, near Princeton, New Jersey. 1862 - Mary Todd Lincoln corresponded with her husband, advising him of popular sentiment against General in Chief of the Federal Army George B. McClellan. Shortly after receiving this letter, Abraham Lincoln removed McClellan from his command. 1871 - The Rogues Gallery was started, when photographs of all prisoners in Britain were first taken. 1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states. 1903 - Londons Daily Mirror newspaper was first published. 1914 - Russia declared war on Turkey. 1917 - British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a national home for the Jews of Palestine. This became known as the Balfour Declaration. 1920 - The first radio broadcast of presidential election returns was done by KDKA of Pittsburgh. 1920 - Warren G. Harding was elected President of the United States of America. 1921 - Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett formed the American Birth Control League. 1930 - Ras Tafari, King of Ethiopia, was crowned emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. 1947 - Howard Hughes proved the airworthiness of the Spruce Goose, but the aircraft never flew again. It was designed to take 700 men to war, but the war ended before the plane was completed. 1948 - In a great upset, Harry S. Truman narrowly beat Republican challenger Thomas E. Deweyand surprised many, including the Chicago Tribune editors who had prematurely printed news of Deweys win. 1959 - Game show contestant Charles Van Doren admitted to a U.S. House subcommittee that he had been fed questions and answers prior to appearing on the TV show Twenty-One. 1960 - A British jury acquitted Penguin Books of obscenity for publishing D.H. Lawrences Lady Chatterleys Lover. 1963 - During an army coup in South Vietnam, President Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated. He was succeeded by General Duong Van Minh. 1976 - James Earl Carter was elected 39th President of the United States of America, defeating Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford. 1983 - President Ronald Reagan signed the bill designating a federal holiday (third Monday in January) in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1984 - Margie Velma Barfield, a convicted murderer, became the first woman to be executed in the modern era of the death penalty, in North Carolina. 1990 - Ivana Trump filed for divorce from US millionaire Donald Trump. 2000 - The first crew arrives at the International Space Station. 2004 - President George W. Bush was elected to a second term as president.
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