Today is Wednesday, November 2, the 307th day of 2016. There are 59 days left in the year.
676 — Donus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1648 — 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol, Podlia
1783 — Gen Washington bids farewell to his army
1824 — Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J.Q. Adams
1904 — British newspaper “Daily Mirror” begins publishing
1915 — First U.S. election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio
1917 — First U.S. soldiers killed in combat in WW I
1917 — Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
1920 — KDKA (Pittsburgh) goes on the air as first commercial radio station