NOVEMBER 2
1948:Contrary to the predictions of most polls and political analysts, President Harry Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey in the U.S. presidential election. The upset produces the famously incorrect Chicago Daily Tribune headline “Dewey Defeats Truman,” printed before the final election results had come in.
1917: British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour sends a letter to Baron Walter Rothschild announcing his government’s intention to promote a Jewish homeland in Palestine, a document that comes to be known as the Balfour Declaration.
1983: President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., to be observed on the third Monday in January, close to King’s birthday on Jan. 15.
1917: British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour sends a letter to Baron Walter Rothschild announcing his government’s intention to promote a Jewish homeland in Palestine, a document that comes to be known as the Balfour Declaration.
1983: President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., to be observed on the third Monday in January, close to King’s birthday on Jan. 15.
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