Today is Friday, November 2, the 306th day of 2018. There are 59 days left in the year.
1648 — 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol, Podlia
1783 — General Washington bids farewell to his army
1841 — Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
1889 — North Dakota becomes 39th & South Dakota becomes the 40th state
1898 — Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem
1904 — British newspaper "Daily Mirror" begins publishing
1917 — Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
1917 — Lansing-Ishii Agreement; U.S. recognizes Japan’s privileges in China