- 1947] Taking Off: Howard Hughes pilots his huge wooden airplane, the Spruce Goose, on its only flight, which lasts about a minute over Long Beach Harbor (CA)...
- 1948] Chicago Tribune street cred is questioned: The front page of the Chicago Tribune screamed 'DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN'. Too bad it was the other way. Truman defeated Dewey...
- 1959] The birth of payola: "Twenty-One" contestant Charles Van Doren tells a House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight that he was given questions and answers in advance of his appearances. The committee starts radio investigations as part of their probe. Uh-oh...
- 1964] SOLD: CBS Inc. purchases 80% of the New York Yankees for $11 million. They buy the remaining shares eventually. CBS actually loses money when they sell the team to the George Steinbrenner-led Cleveland group 9 years later...
- 1976] From peanuts to president: Former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter defeats Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford to become the first president from the deep south since the Civil War. Texas is in the southwest so LBJ doesn't qualify...
- 1983] On the dotted line: President Ronald Reagan signs a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr...
- 1984] Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the U.S. since 1962...
- 1988] Wormy: The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention is launched from MIT...
- 2004] Re-upped: President George W. Bush is elected to a second term as Republicans strengthen their hold on Congress...
- 2006] Hanky spanky: The Rev. Ted Haggard resigns as president of the National Association of Evangelicals after a man says they had had sexual trysts together...For more on November 2:
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