November 2
1783 - Gen. George Washington issued his farewell address to the Army near Princeton, New Jersey.
1795 - James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
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, respectively.
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.
1920 - White mobs rampaged through the Florida citrus town of Ocoee, setting fire to Black-owned homes and businesses, after a Black man, Mose Norman, showed up at the polls to vote on Election Day; some historians estimate as many as 60 people were killed.
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 defeated Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey to the surprise of pollsters and newspapers, in the greatest presidential upset in history.
1959 - Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admitted that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.
1976 - Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter defeated incumbent President Gerald Ford to be elected the 39th president of the United States and the first 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.
1984 - Velma Margie Barfield, a convicted murderer, became the first woman to be executed since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.
1994 - A jury in Pensacola, Florida, convicted Paul Hill of murder for the shotgun slayings of an abortion provider and his escort; Hill was executed in September 2003.
2000 - American astronaut Bill Shepherd and two Russian cosmonauts, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, became the first residents of the International Space Station.
2003 - V. Gene Robinson was consecrated as a bishop by the U.S. Episcopal Church, becoming the first openly gay bishop in the church.
2004 - President George W. Bush was elected to a second-term in office over Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry.
2006 - The Rev. Ted Haggard resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals after a man said they had had sexual trysts together.
2007 - British college student Meredith Kercher, 21, was found slain in her bedroom in Perugia, Italy; her roommate, American Amanda Knox and Knox’s Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were convicted of killing Hercher, but both were later exonerated. (Rudy Guede, a petty criminal who was convicted separately in the case, is serving a 16-year sentence.)
2009 - Afghanistan's election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country's tumultuous ballot, canceling a planned runoff.
2010 - Republicans won control of the House of Representatives, picking up 63 seats in midterm elections, while Democrats retained a majority in the Senate; Republican governors outnumbered Democrats after gaining six states.
2010 - Californians rejected a ballot measure that would have made their state the first to legalize marijuana for recreational use.
2011 - The Congressional Gold Medal was awarded to some 19,000 Japanese-Americans who’d served in the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the Military Intelligence Service.
2016 - In Cockeye, Des Moines Police Sgt. Anthony Beminio and Urbandale Officer Justin Martin were shot and killed while sitting in their patrol cars in separate attacks about 2 miles apart; suspect Scott Michael Greene later pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to consecutive life prison terms.
Birthdays
23 - Brielle Barbusca (actress)
30 - Jimmy Garoppolo (football player)
31 - Kendall Schmidt (actor/singer)
35 - Erika Jo (country singer)
44 - Reshma Shetty (actress)
46 - Danny Cooksey (actor)
47 - Nelly (rapper)
50 - Marisol Nichols (actor)
54 - Kurt Elling (singer)
55 - David Schwimmer (actor)
55 - Sean Kanan (actor)
57 - Lauren Velez (actress)
58 - Jenny Robertson (actress)
62 - Peter Mullan (actor)
74 - Kate Linder (actor)
79 - Stefanie Powers (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 2
1895 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 12-10.
1901 - Wisconsin defeats Nebraska 18-0.
1907 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 10-9.
1912 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 7-0.
1920 - Nebraska defeats Rutgers 28-0.
1929 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 12-6.
1935 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 19-6.
1938 - It was announced that George Herman "Babe" Ruth had applied for the job of Manager of the St. Louis Browns after being released as a coach from the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1940 - #12 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 13-0.
1946 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 21-20.
1957 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 14-12.
1963 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 13-12.
1964 - CBS purchases an 80% stake in the New York Yankees for $11.2 million.
1968 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 24-13.
1969 - Quarterbacks Billy Kilmer of New Orleans and St Louis' Charlie Johnson each pass for 6 touchdowns for combined NFL record of 12 passing TDs in a game; Saints beat Cardinals, 51-42.
1974 - The Atlanta Braves trade home run king Hank Aaron to the Milwaukee Brewers for outfielder Dave May.
1974 - #9 Nebraska defeats Colorado 31-15.
1978 - Wayne Gretzky is sold to the Edmonton Oilers after just eight games with the Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Association.
1985 - #5 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 41-3.
1985 - Tulsa's Gordon Brown (214) and Steve Gage (206) set an NCAA football record for combined rushing yards in one game for two teammates in a 42-26 win at Wichita State.
1990 - The Phoenix Suns defeat the Utah Jazz 119-96 in Tokyo, Japan in the first game played outside of North America by any major North American professional sports league.
1991 - #9 Nebraska and #15 Colorado play to a 19-19 tie.
1991 - Nevada makes the biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-point third quarter deficit to defeat Weber State 55-49.
1992 - Magic Johnson retired from the NBA again, this time for good because of fear due to his HIV infection.
1996 - Pat Riley becomes the eighth coach in NBA history to win 800 games and reached the mark faster than any other coach in league history.
1996 - #5 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 73-21.
1997 - Eric Metcalf (San Diego Chargers) set an NFL record when he ran back two kicks for touchdowns. The two returns gave him the league record with 10 in his career.
2002 - #7 Texas defeats Nebraska 27-24.
2013 - Nebraska defeats Northwestern 27-24.
2016 - The Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians in seven games to win their first World Series in 108 years (1908).
2019 - Purdue defeats Nebraska 31-27.
1783 - Gen. George Washington issued his farewell address to the Army near Princeton, New Jersey.
1795 - James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
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, respectively.
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.
1920 - White mobs rampaged through the Florida citrus town of Ocoee, setting fire to Black-owned homes and businesses, after a Black man, Mose Norman, showed up at the polls to vote on Election Day; some historians estimate as many as 60 people were killed.
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 defeated Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey to the surprise of pollsters and newspapers, in the greatest presidential upset in history.
1959 - Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admitted that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.
1976 - Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter defeated incumbent President Gerald Ford to be elected the 39th president of the United States and the first 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.
1984 - Velma Margie Barfield, a convicted murderer, became the first woman to be executed since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.
1994 - A jury in Pensacola, Florida, convicted Paul Hill of murder for the shotgun slayings of an abortion provider and his escort; Hill was executed in September 2003.
2000 - American astronaut Bill Shepherd and two Russian cosmonauts, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, became the first residents of the International Space Station.
2003 - V. Gene Robinson was consecrated as a bishop by the U.S. Episcopal Church, becoming the first openly gay bishop in the church.
2004 - President George W. Bush was elected to a second-term in office over Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry.
2006 - The Rev. Ted Haggard resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals after a man said they had had sexual trysts together.
2007 - British college student Meredith Kercher, 21, was found slain in her bedroom in Perugia, Italy; her roommate, American Amanda Knox and Knox’s Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were convicted of killing Hercher, but both were later exonerated. (Rudy Guede, a petty criminal who was convicted separately in the case, is serving a 16-year sentence.)
2009 - Afghanistan's election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country's tumultuous ballot, canceling a planned runoff.
2010 - Republicans won control of the House of Representatives, picking up 63 seats in midterm elections, while Democrats retained a majority in the Senate; Republican governors outnumbered Democrats after gaining six states.
2010 - Californians rejected a ballot measure that would have made their state the first to legalize marijuana for recreational use.
2011 - The Congressional Gold Medal was awarded to some 19,000 Japanese-Americans who’d served in the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the Military Intelligence Service.
2016 - In Cockeye, Des Moines Police Sgt. Anthony Beminio and Urbandale Officer Justin Martin were shot and killed while sitting in their patrol cars in separate attacks about 2 miles apart; suspect Scott Michael Greene later pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to consecutive life prison terms.
Birthdays
23 - Brielle Barbusca (actress)
30 - Jimmy Garoppolo (football player)
31 - Kendall Schmidt (actor/singer)
35 - Erika Jo (country singer)
44 - Reshma Shetty (actress)
46 - Danny Cooksey (actor)
47 - Nelly (rapper)
50 - Marisol Nichols (actor)
54 - Kurt Elling (singer)
55 - David Schwimmer (actor)
55 - Sean Kanan (actor)
57 - Lauren Velez (actress)
58 - Jenny Robertson (actress)
62 - Peter Mullan (actor)
74 - Kate Linder (actor)
79 - Stefanie Powers (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 2
1895 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 12-10.
1901 - Wisconsin defeats Nebraska 18-0.
1907 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 10-9.
1912 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 7-0.
1920 - Nebraska defeats Rutgers 28-0.
1929 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 12-6.
1935 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 19-6.
1938 - It was announced that George Herman "Babe" Ruth had applied for the job of Manager of the St. Louis Browns after being released as a coach from the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1940 - #12 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 13-0.
1946 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 21-20.
1957 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 14-12.
1963 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 13-12.
1964 - CBS purchases an 80% stake in the New York Yankees for $11.2 million.
1968 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 24-13.
1969 - Quarterbacks Billy Kilmer of New Orleans and St Louis' Charlie Johnson each pass for 6 touchdowns for combined NFL record of 12 passing TDs in a game; Saints beat Cardinals, 51-42.
1974 - The Atlanta Braves trade home run king Hank Aaron to the Milwaukee Brewers for outfielder Dave May.
1974 - #9 Nebraska defeats Colorado 31-15.
1978 - Wayne Gretzky is sold to the Edmonton Oilers after just eight games with the Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Association.
1985 - #5 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 41-3.
1985 - Tulsa's Gordon Brown (214) and Steve Gage (206) set an NCAA football record for combined rushing yards in one game for two teammates in a 42-26 win at Wichita State.
1990 - The Phoenix Suns defeat the Utah Jazz 119-96 in Tokyo, Japan in the first game played outside of North America by any major North American professional sports league.
1991 - #9 Nebraska and #15 Colorado play to a 19-19 tie.
1991 - Nevada makes the biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-point third quarter deficit to defeat Weber State 55-49.
1992 - Magic Johnson retired from the NBA again, this time for good because of fear due to his HIV infection.
1996 - Pat Riley becomes the eighth coach in NBA history to win 800 games and reached the mark faster than any other coach in league history.
1996 - #5 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 73-21.
1997 - Eric Metcalf (San Diego Chargers) set an NFL record when he ran back two kicks for touchdowns. The two returns gave him the league record with 10 in his career.
2002 - #7 Texas defeats Nebraska 27-24.
2013 - Nebraska defeats Northwestern 27-24.
2016 - The Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians in seven games to win their first World Series in 108 years (1908).
2019 - Purdue defeats Nebraska 31-27.